Zimbabwe: Proposed NGO Law to Destroy 10,000 Jobs

Harare — ABOUT 10 000 people employed in the non-governmental organisation (NGO) sector risk losing their jobs if President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF forges ahead with a proposed law that seeks to restrict operations of the civic society groupings.

Officials in the NGO sector, a number of which are understood to be winding down their operations, confided to this newspaper that reality had finally sunk in that President Mugabe was serious about crippling many organisations deemed sympathetic to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

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