No bonus for Zim civil servants

ZIMBABWE yesterday said it had scrapped payment of bonuses to civil servants, with the Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa citing constrained revenue generation by the state owing to a struggling economy that has resulted in subdued tax payments by companies. The announcement comes after a state visit to South Africa by President Robert Mugabe and a team of cabinet ministers and business people. Chinamasa announced that bonus payments were weighing down the state’s stretched obligations. – Tawanda Karombo