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HARARE – Vocal Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister Patrick Zhuwao has vowed to protect youth brigades — the ruling Zanu PF’s political shock troopers — under his ministry who constitute a significant number of the 75 000 ghost workers on the government payroll.
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has allayed fears that government was moving to retrench civil servants over 50 years of age, explaining that the ongoing civil service audit aims to slash the wage bill by weeding out “ghost workers”.
The long-awaited public service staff audit has now been completed in what marks the first step in government’s attempts to flush out ghost workers.