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2,000 civil servants retrenched

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Zimbabwe government on Tuesday laid off more than 2,000 civil servants in ongoing moves to streamline the public sector, according to the workers’ union. Thousands of workers from the education ministry were handed letters of termination when they turned up for work on Tuesday, AFP quoted the Government Workers Association (GWA) as saying.

    “At least 2,000 workers have been affected, but the actual number could be far greater than that,” Agrippa Munyaka, secretary general of the GWA said. The majority of the workers informed of their fate on Tuesday were from Zimbabwe’s two main cities of Harare and Bulawayo. Others from rural areas were still to receive their notices of retrenchment.

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