Government has committed to pay civil servant bonuses for 2017. Presenting the 2018 budget in Parliament on Thursday afternoon, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced that Government will pay the 2017 budget but the pay dates will be staggered as they have been for the past two years.
In September, Government through the then Public Service Minister Priscilla Mupfumira announced that they will pay civil servants their 2017 bonuses next year, with the first batch of workers set to be paid in February. In 2016 Chinamasa had proposed that Government should forgo civil servant salaries but the decision was reversed by former President Robert Mugabe.