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Original Post Date: 2006-01-17 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[I like this a lot! There is hope yet… if only the opposition were not so disunited and could come together. Jan]
The Zimbabwean army and police service have been hit by huge desertions of exasperated junior and middle-ranking officers, some of whom are turning to crime for survival. Runaway inflation of 585 percent has meant the buying power of many Zimbabweans, including poorly paid junior and army officers, has been severely eroded. But unlike the rest of the civil service, where people can easily quit their jobs and jump borders to seek greener pastures in regional countries, it is much harder to resign from the army and police. It is authoritatively understood that at least 2 176 junior army officers have submitted their letters of resignation from the Zimbabwe National Army in the past 12 weeks, while 719 junior officers handed in their letters of resignation from the police in the same period. The army employs 33 000 soldiers, while the Zimbabwe Republic Police is about 20 000-strong. A junior army officer, who preferred to be identified only as Amos, said he had deserted his job with Two Brigade battalion six months after submitting his letter of resignation, having initially received no response.
“They called me and grilled me on why I was leaving… They accused me of wanting to quit national service to work with enemies of Zimbabwe… They even insinuated I was going to join the British army, which was all nonsense,” Amos said en route to joining relatives in the United Kingdom. He related a series of problems in the army that made working unbearable. There were serious shortages of food, transport and equipment in the barracks apart from “starvation wages”. At one stage, soldiers were asked to bring their own food from home to certain barracks because of shortages. But with many of the junior soldiers and police officers earning about Z$3-million – R200 at the more realistic parallel market exchange rate – and unable to provide for their families, this was a tall order. Amos said morale had never been so low in the Zimbabwe army and police. The opposite was the case with senior members of the army and police, whom he said were well looked after and regularly diverted scarce army resources for private use on huge tracts of land they had been allocated. Sources in the army and police said commanders were sitting on at least 2 176 resignation requests from the army and 719 from police submitted in the past three months. Efforts to get official comment failed as calls to army and police officials were not returned.
From The Mercury (SA), 17 January
By: Basildon Peta
Source: WWW.ZwNews.Com