Zimbabwe: Untangling the Mess At ZBC Essential

27 December 2013
editorial

Among those going without pay or bonuses this festive holiday will be the staff of ZBC and their families -- although the bosses will be comfortable -- since they have yet to be paid for more than six months.

Yet within the next eight weeks something between US$10 million and US$15 million will flow into ZBC's coffers, thanks to Zinara enforcing the law at their tollgates and the police enforcing the law at their road blocks and both making sure all vehicles on the road with a radio, and almost all vehicles now have these, even if they do not work, carry the radio licence disc. A rough idea of the sort of money about to become available can be done through a simple calculation: 400 000 vehicles at US$30 each comes to US$12 million.

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