{"id":1272,"date":"2019-01-08T16:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:25:49","slug":"pay-civil-servants-in-us-dollars-muzorewa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pay-civil-servants-in-us-dollars-muzorewa","title":{"rendered":"Pay civil servants in US dollars: Muzorewa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition United African National Council (UANC) leader Gwinyai Muzorewa has called on government to pay civil servants in United States dollars if they are to achieve President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s Vision 2030.<span id=\"more-3096224744010808\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In his New Year statement, Muzorewa, who is also a cleric, said civil servants were right in demanding salaries in foreign currency and that government should stop enforcing the 2% tax on electronic transactions on poor workers given the current economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe teachers, nurses and doctors are the lifeline of our nation. Their minimum salaries must not be less than $500 in genuine US dollars if they are to put food on the table and live just above the poverty datum line. The President\u2019s target of creating a middle-class economy by 2030, will only happen if the nation\u2019s professionals receive equitable salaries,\u201d Muzorewa said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsd-982908257\" class=\"newsd-2nd-advert-incontent\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/UANC-presidential-candidate-Gwinyai-Muzorewa-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/UANC-presidential-candidate-Gwinyai-Muzorewa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/UANC-presidential-candidate-Gwinyai-Muzorewa.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, the Minister of Finance [Mthuli Ncube] is having to collect tax [2%] even from unemployed people, out of desperation. The government should pay all civil servants handsome salaries, then tax the middle-class, and not tax people who are below the poverty datum line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unethical to tax the poor, who are sending EcoCash to other poor people so that they may both survive. The ruling party must first provide a favourable economic environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Government is currently underfire from civil servants, who are lobbying to get their salaries in foreign currency, resisting the real time gross settlement system to cushion themselves from the economic meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>In December, junior doctors embarked on a strike, which has since crippled the health sector. Teachers are also threatening to down tools today if their demands for improved working conditions and salaries in US dollars are not met.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the biggest employer in Zimbabwe, the government ought to pay all civil servants equitable salaries and in US dollars, because the private sector is now demanding payment in US dollars. I hope that the private sector is paying their taxes in US dollars, not the bond notes,\u201d Muzorewa added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsd-1170628591\" class=\"newsd-2nd-advert-incontent-250\">\n<p>The cleric, who failed to contest in the last election after he could not secure a birth certificate in time, is trying to revive the UANC, which was led by the late Bishop Abel Muzorewa from the 1970s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relpost-thumb-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition United African National Council (UANC) leader Gwinyai Muzorewa has called on government to pay civil servants in United States dollars if they are to achieve President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s Vision 2030. In his New Year statement, Muzorewa, who is also a cleric, said civil servants were right in demanding salaries in foreign currency and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[258,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-1272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"category-head-lines","10":"tag-civil-servants","11":"tag-dollar","12":"tag-payment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pay civil servants in US dollars: Muzorewa - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pay-civil-servants-in-us-dollars-muzorewa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pay civil servants in US dollars: Muzorewa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opposition United African National Council (UANC) leader Gwinyai Muzorewa has called on government to pay civil servants in United States dollars if they are to achieve President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s Vision 2030. 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