đThis is the public service broadcaster without salaries
Civil servants and PF cadres working as journalists for ZNBC and Times of Zambia are surviving on nkongole as they have not been paid there salaries.
ZNBC workers have not been paid since last month but they dutifully push government propaganda on empty stomachs. One of their favourite ânewsâ items is how the PF has developed Zambia through unprecedented development
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At Times of Zambia it is worse. Last Friday, Unionised workers at the PF newspaper went on work stoppage.
The workers who are owed up to eight months arrears have been angered by a plea from management to bear with them for the delay in paying salaries.
Management in a letter addressed to the workers said the company is facing liquidity problems as the money collected is not enough to meet all expenses such as salaries which take about 75 percent of total cash inflow per month.
Company Managing Director Beston Ngâonga said collection of money by debt collectors has been hard as most companies are facing serious liquidity problems adding that they are trying hard to meet their obligation to workers and with your support and patience will succeed.
âLet us see how much we collect by tomorrow, otherwise we will have no option but to implement batch payment. We are also proposing that money allowing we may have to pay you double salaries this month to avoid accumulating an arrear. this is just a proposal and depends on money collectedâ, the letter issued by Mr Ngâonga read in part.
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We are not paid at Daily Mail for months. Nobody talks about it.
If Government can not sort out problems of small organizations like ZNBC Times of Zambia, how can you expect them to manage the Zambian economy. It looks like the nation is on auto pilot.
Lungu and his corrupt PF have finally understood that pumping money in the unwatched ZNBC and the unread Times and Day Mail (both with a circulation of less than ten thousand copies – imagine) is a total waste of money; money that could have gone in their own pockets!
Hollow Horn is a paid agent of the south African Boers. He is a facilitator and conduit of money laundering from Zambia to biers and his accounts. A crook by nature, an elitist by nature, a swindler by Zambia wotchdoggy
Let us see how much we collect by tomorrow, otherwise we will have no option but to implement batch payment. We are also proposing that money allowing we may have to pay you double salaries this month to avoid accumulating an arrear.
Be reminded that you can’t rig the economy.
Serves these unimaginative charlatans right. These media provide nothing but manufactured ânewsâ.
Who cares, these institutions have value to the country.
Why donât they go on strike? They are not essential workers in any case. They should exercise their rights to strike.
Who listens or buys propaganda garbage by these public media outlets?
They cant learn a lesson no one watches ZNBC any more every single news item is Pf that pf this typical cadres cheap propaganda ,ZNBC iyaa bora mufetu futi kakulu ,
Very interesting indeed.The question is why are they not making a profit. Its either they are selling a product which has no value.All else they should cut down on redadunt staff.
Cadres also make poor managers.
By barring opposition ads and sponsored programmes to please their masters, ZNBC is also losing out on income.
I feel sorry for my fellow citizens who are going without pay all because of the Zambian weakness of not learning lessons until it’s too late. But according to Lubinda Habazoka and Margaret Mwanakatwe, Zambia has no financial crisis. Felix Mutati recognised the problem the first day he was in office as finance minister and wanted to deal with it. Why Mutati thought he could fit in PF chaotic govt after cutting his political teeth in the order and discipline of Mwanawasa’s govt is beyond me.