Hear the women in Hwange please

THE demonstrating women at Hwange colliery Company have said it all. Current and ex-workers are suffering at Hwange Colliery.

This is due to extreme cruel treatment imposed by the inefficient and corrupt management mostly promoted and appointed on nepotism.

I think not only the managing director should be sent packing, but also his inefficient management cronies.

To sum it all, the suspended managing director victimised most of the capable managerial employees and forced them out of Hwange Colliery somehow so as to appoint bootlickers, who are yes man.

These people are not able to make Hwange Colliery recover but are only there to bully workers and ex-workers using company resources.

As the wives said, the scheme must be revisited and must be in such a way that those with less money have their arrears cleared in a shorter period, not the current scenario which is nonsense.

As such, those who got most of the scheme money must expect to miss scheme payments in the future so that those paid very little so far can catch up.

Preferably, there should be equal division of available scheme money to all that are owed.

As for house evictions, as the women are saying, no one must be evicted against his or her will before full payment of owed money.

Current workers do support this position because they know the suffering of the ex-workers, most of whom were victims of the managing director’s purging. If the company needs houses, then they should buy out the ex-employees through negotiation or putting an upfront lump sum payment offer of arrears for those who want to evacuate the houses. Kuzola via email.