This is after the state journalists filed a notice to go on strike over poor salaries.
“We are so poorly paid that we are failing to feed ourselves and our families,” a journalist said.
They are paid an average of $7bill to $11bill, a salary which can buy only a bar of soap.
They want an increase in their salaries to at least $100. State security agents have foiled the strike by threatening the journalists. The CIO approached the Zimpapers committee members, ordering them to attend their meeting on June 20 where they threatened to deal with them if the strike went ahead.
No comment could be obtained be obtained from the Zimpapers general manager Sithembile Ncube. She was quoted as having no money to award the journalists the salaries they are demanding.
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