WHAT relevant authorities are doing is not just, it is not right according to our ethos.
Why are they marginalising the weakest and pampering those who are privileged.
Why should war veterans, widows and orphans of war veterans, war victims and other pensioners be the last to be paid, by the middle of the next month?
They are not even notified when they should expect their pensions until the end of the month it is due.
For August the notice was a tiny thing tucked somewhere in The Herald of August 29 to say they would be paid on September 8 and 11.
And anyway, how many people have access to the newspaper or radio.
How are they supposed to plan their lives, the assumption is that they have no worthwhile lives to plan.
As for this staggering of payments, I am not impressed.
Relevant ministries are not telling the truth that there is no money.
These things were budgeted for.
At any rate, if money runs out, it is the ministers who should be paid last.
They have enough to last them until the middle of the following month.
They can also buy cheaper cars not Mercedes Benz.
Legislators can stay at cheaper hotels, not the Crown Plaza.
If there is no money, austerity should apply across the board.
A nation’s greatness is judged by the way it treats its weakest, the orphans and the widows.

Raviro
Harare