{"id":14788,"date":"2019-10-15T19:59:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T17:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2019-10-15T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T17:59:23","slug":"govt-still-consulting-on-civil-servants-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/govt-still-consulting-on-civil-servants-bonuses","title":{"rendered":"Govt still consulting on civil servants bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE Ministry of Finance yesterday told Parliament that government had not yet made a decision on whether civil servants will be paid bonuses this year as they needed to consult workers\u2019 representatives first.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was disclosed by Finance ministry officials when they appeared before the Felix Mhona-chaired Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance to speak on their ministry\u2019s 2020 budget bids.<\/p>\n

The issue of bonuses arose when director of finance in the Finance Ministry, Ignatius Mvere told Parliament that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube<\/a> would approach Parliament seeking condonation after the ministry was allocated $12,5 million for unallocated reserves, but the ministry spent $1,3 billion instead.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur original budget for unallocated reserves (2019) was $12 571 000, but on August 1, 2019, Ncube presented a supplementary budget of $580 million, but as at the end of August \u2014 out of that $580 million the ministry had transferred $1,3 billion which means that we overspent by $778 million and I want to believe that this amount will be regularised before the end of the year,\u201d Mvere said.<\/p>\n

This did not augur well with MPs who then asked him to explain how the $778 million spent without parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n

Acting secretary of the Ministry of Finance Pfungwa Kunaka told MPs that the unauthorised expenditure of $778 million was spent on salaries of civil servants which kept increasing due to inflation.<\/p>\n

Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole then asked him to explain if the changes in the wage bill also meant that civil servants were going to get their bonuses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are operating under austerity measures and what are your plans on civil servants bonuses?\u201d asked Sithole.<\/p>\n

The response came from another Ministry of Finance official Hazvineyi Churu who said government did not have a clear position as yet on civil servants bonuses, a month before they are due.
\nThis is despite Ncube in August promising to pay in full the bonuses in November, claiming government had recorded a budgetary surplus.<\/p>\n

The MPs then grilled the Ministry of Finance officials over claims that there was a budget surplus in 2019 when Zimbabweans were reeling in poverty.
\nThe legislators also queried the Ministry of Finance\u2019s budget projections saying they did not make sense, and that if the ministry was not careful they will end up bringing a Zimbabwe dollar budget to Parliament which will be eroded by inflation in three months, forcing the ministry to bring a supplementary budget.
\nMhona said actually inflation was around 1 200%, stating that for ordinary Zimbabweans the budget surplus claimed by the Ministry of Finance did not make sense if bread which used to cost $0,90 cents now costs $15 a loaf.
\nBulawayo Central MP Nicola Watson added: \u201cHow do you even claim that you will stabilise the economy with electricity costs that have gone up by 588%? You are claiming that your revenue is going up, yet ordinary citizens are staring at starvation and bread has gone up to $15 and transport and electricity costs keep rising.\u201d
\nMvere then told the committee that for 2020, the Ministry of Finance wants an allocation of $3,8 billion, but Treasury had only promised to allocate them $655 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE Ministry of Finance yesterday told Parliament that government had not yet made a decision on whether civil servants will be paid bonuses this year as they needed to consult workers\u2019 representatives first. 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