Parly calls for urgent ZBC audit

Reporters are forced to resort to news sources for transport to gather news as they are given only five litres of fuel per day – at a time when the four top managers are buying themselves top-of-the-range vehicles worth over a million dollars for personal use. Chairperson Gift Chimanikire said corruption and abuse of resources was rife at the state-controlled broadcasting station. He said recent investigations by the committee had revealed that reporters were depending on news sources for transport, while managers were abusing resources that should be used for production.

“The whole committee is recommending an urgent audit of ZBC.

Of major concern is gross abuse of company property by senior managers. We discover that there are a number of managers who were given open-ended contracts and were fired after working for a short period. They are still being paid and using company resources. There are serious salary discrepancies of people in the same grades. ZBC is losing experienced personnel every day as a result of political victimisation and we have recommended a thorough independent audit to unearth these activities. Last week three Toyota Land Cruiser VX8 and a Mercedes Benz S class, valued over 1 million US dollars, were delivered to Tarzan Mandizvidza, News and Current Affairs General Manager, Retired Brigadier Elliot Kasu, GM HR and Admnistration, Allan Ndoro-Chiweshe, GM Radio and Programming and Hapison Muchechetere, CEO.

“We are not worried that they are buying themselves such cars, but what we need is improved working conditions. We cannot continue subsidising the company while the management is looting. We cannot remain beggars and continue compromising our credibility and work, “said one reporter who declined to be named. Efforts to get a comment from ZBC chief executive Hapison Muchechetere were fruitless.