The government reportedly started processing the payments for the bonuses today. This is considered a huge improvement and departure from previous years where payment of bonuses was staggered with some payments stretching to the middle of the following year.
Civil servants have however expressed unhappiness in the manner in which this year’s bonuses will be calculated. The minister of Finance recently announced that the bonus will not include allowances.
Even quite insignificant and very scanty by regional and global standards the 13 th cheque is needed for all Zimbabweans not only civil servants [for it may sound very discriminative of one and the same people, race, Christians] as an honour to the Human Rights Code…it is like workers being thanked and not to advance the payments would be quite abusive to a nation already a great loser in almost every respect of a decent human life.