It is not only at AirZim that this injustice has taken place. It becomes even heavier if one works for over two decades, only to be forsaken when things go wrong. It is a huge national assignment with so many sacrifices. Working for a national airline like AirZim carries with it huge responsibilities. They didn’t work for 30 years to be paid packages that are so cynically humiliating. AirZim is not the only African airline in this predicament many have collapsed, but creditors and workers were treated fairly. Ways of protecting both sides should have been devised instead of unleashing draconian SIs that will hurt generations. There should be no excuse for ill treating Zimbabweans in such a brazenly unfair way. It wanted to protect companies, pension funds and insurance firms that held US dollar savings for workers, not the workers that had toiled under difficult circumstances to save. If anyone was in any doubt that the 2019 currency reforms created avenues for social injustice, it is now very clear what the government wanted to achieve. It is opening the floodgates for corporate injustice because it will have no moral ground to stop companies from doing the same. No well meaning government would allow such madness to prevail, but the Zimbabwe government has set a bad precedent by treating its former workers and creditors with such contempt. Workers who were owed US$40 000 in terminal benefits will receive ZW$40 000 (US$470 at the prevailing exchange rate), which is not enough to buy two months’ basics for an average family of five. The SI has empowered the government and the AirZim administrator to pay creditors at a rate of US$1:ZW$1. The Statutory Instruments (SIs) that the government has invoked to give it legal authority to pay creditors in Zimbabwe dollars for debts incurred in United States dollars demonstrates just how dishonest a government purportedly meant to serve the people can be. The settlement plan sent out to creditors last week is replete with dishonesty, manipulation and a clear strategy to shortchange the creditors by paying them peanuts and silencing them using a law specifically crafted to punish the working class and defend the elites who are mostly the politicians running big corporations and swathes of prime land. The act of contemning a treating with contempt, slight or disdain.WHEN everyone thought the government was sincere in its decision to settle over US$340 million in debts owed to Air Zimbabwe (AirZim)’s creditors, including over 300 former workers, it throws a bombshell that must have sent a chill down the spine of anyone who has been keenly following this saga. Holding in great contempt despising disdaining. In Scripture, holding religion in contempt treating with disdain religion and the dispensations of God. Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun.ģ. Th' enamor'd deity the scornful damsel shuns. Contemptuous disdainful entertaining scorn insolent. Extremely contemned or despised disdained. To scorn at, to scoff at to treat with contumely, derision or reproach. This my long suff'rance and my day of grace, those who neglect and scorn, shall never taste.
3.įame that delights around the world to stray, scorns not to take our Argos in her way. Surely he scorneth the scorner but he giveth grace to the lowly. to hold in extreme contempt to despise to contemn to disdain. To laugh to scorn, to deride to make a mock of to ridicule as contemptible.ġ. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us. A subject of extreme contempt, disdain or derision that which is treated with contempt. Esther 3.Įvery sullen frown and bitter scorn but fann'd the fuel that too fast did burn.Ģ.
He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.
Extreme contempt that disdain which springs from a person's opinion of the meanness of an object, and a consciousness or belief of his own superiority or worth.
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