{"id":15527,"date":"2019-11-04T19:46:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=15527"},"modified":"2019-11-04T19:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:46:01","slug":"mthuli-ncube-is-a-madman-he-needs-a-mental-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mthuli-ncube-is-a-madman-he-needs-a-mental-examination","title":{"rendered":"Mthuli Ncube Is A Madman, He Needs A Mental Examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MDC vice president\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Tendai_Biti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tendai Biti<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0says Finance Minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Mthuli_Ncube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mthuli Ncube<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0requires a mental examination following his remarks that he will be able to pay civil servants\u2019 annual bonus \u201cthanks to austerity measures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Biti maintained that giving civil servants bonuses will not alleviate their suffering as they are already being paid \u201cnothing\u201d. He said:<\/p>\n<p>The Professor is mad. He needs mental examination. He can\u2019t say thanks to austerity he will be paying a bonus when civil servants were actually getting bonuses all along.<\/p>\n<p>There is no bonus as long as he is paying them in devalued local currency. It\u2019s nothing. If you add nothing to nothing, you get nothing. The only way to adequately compensate workers is to pay them in US dollar. You can\u2019t pay people inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDC vice president\u00a0Tendai Biti\u00a0says Finance Minister\u00a0Mthuli Ncube\u00a0requires a mental examination following his remarks that he will be able to pay civil servants\u2019 annual bonus \u201cthanks to austerity measures\u201d. Biti maintained that giving civil servants bonuses will not alleviate their suffering as they are already being paid \u201cnothing\u201d. He said: The Professor is mad. 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