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5th September 2020
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says it will petition government over failure to address outstanding terminal benefits owed to 400 000 ex-commercial farm workers.
This comes after government has agreed on a US$3,5 billion compensation deal with white former commercial farmers who lost their land during the country’s violent land reform process inside the last two decades.
Under the Global Compensation Deed, government pledged to pay the former landowners for improvements made on the land when they were still doing commercial farming.
The agreement, which seeks to end a prolonged impasse between government and the farmers, is however silent on any plans to compensate black workers who toiled on the same farms and also lost livelihoods.
But speaking to NewZimbabwe.com Thursday, ZCTU president Peter Mutasa expressed disappointment over the development.
Mutasa vowed to pursue the matter with government. – newzimbabwe
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