The Chronicle

BULAWAYO, Friday, May 14, 1993 — A 66-year-old Mozambican and his family of five are appealing to the public for offers of accommodation and employment after their last employer terminated their services without notice and dumped them outside Entembeni Old People’s Home in Luveve on Tuesday.

Relating his ordeal yesterday, Mr Tembo Dube, who does not remember when he came from Mozambique, said he had been employed last year by a Bulawayo City Council employee, only known to him as Mr Ngwenya, whom he said owns a plot in the Ntabazinduna communal area.

He said: “Before getting the job at the plot, I had been employed as a domestic worker in Kumalo, Bulawayo. My employer, who is a doctor by profession, threw me out of employment in 1991 and I had to go and squat at an open space outside Makokoba market.

He said it was while staying at the open space next to the Makokoba market that Mr Ngwenya employed him.

“It came as a surprise on Tuesday when Mr Ngwenya told us that he no longer needed my services, loaded me, my family and our belongings into a car and dumped us outside Entembeni Old People’s Home in Luveve,” he said.

It was from this spot that police were contacted and they in turn contacted the Department of Social Welfare.

An official of the department, Mr Job Chiviru, who attended to the family, said the only immediate solution to the family’s problem was to appeal to the public for accommodation and employment offers.

He said once the family secured accommodation, the department would assist them with food and school fees for their sons, Pendukani (12) and David (7), who are presently not attending school.