Former Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa has bemoaned the state of pensioners in Zimbabwe.
Taking to social media, Chamisa said pensioners in Zimbabwe are retiring into poverty due to ZANU PF’s failure to run the economy.
Chamisa said:
PENSIONERS RETIRING UNTO POVERTY…I was recently talking to a retired citizen about his pension.
After working for more than 40 years, and several of those years as a headmaster, his lumpsum pension payment is not enough to buy a Honda Fit from Victor.
I’m told this is the story for most of our civil servants and workers in general.
Just imagine that pensioners receive $30 per month from NSSA. After bank charges the payout is a paltry as $22. This is an atrocity- pure savagery.
This amount is hardly enough to pay for a month’s supply of diabetes or BP meds. And these are chronic conditions most senior citizens are living with.
This is the tragedy of broken politics and the current economic collapse. This, we must and will fix urgently. Pensioners must not be paupers!!
Our workers must have their dignity.
#ForEveryone
