MICROFINANCE FIRMS IN TROUBLE AS GOVT OWES US$85M

The Government
is limping financially; for the last five months, it has not remitted US$85m it
deducted from civil servants’ salaries to service loans borrowed from
microfinance companies, Masvingo Mirror has established.

In addition to
the US$85m, th…

The Government is limping financially; for the last five months, it has not remitted US$85m it deducted from civil servants’ salaries to service loans borrowed from microfinance companies, Masvingo Mirror has established. In addition to the US$85m, there is a Zig component backlog which Masvingo Mirror could not establish. Stakeholders have called for government intervention to save the