OUTRAGE OVER US$500 FOR DEAD CIVIL SERVANTS

GOVERNMENT has extended an equivalent of US$500 as funeral assistance for its underpaid civil servants who would have passed on. The offer, which was confirmed by both Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana and Labour minister Paul Mavima, was approved by Cabinet yesterday. “Starting immediately, the government will pay an equivalent of US$500 in funeral assistance for any civil servant who