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By Linda Tsungirirai Masarira

We note the reported salary adjustments for ZANU-PF party workers under the leadership of Emmerson Mnangagwa. In the same spirit of leaving no one and no place behind, we implore the President to extend this consideration to civil servants and parastatal workers who carry the daily burden of saving and serving the nation.

Beyond party structures stand the backbone of Zimbabwe: doctors and nurses keeping hospitals open against all odds; teachers shaping future generations; social workers protecting the most vulnerable; civil registry staff safeguarding national identity; engineers, technicians, water and power workers sustaining essential services; and thousands of parastatal employees ensuring continuity in transport, energy, communications, and food security.

Equity and national cohesion demand consistency. If fiscal space exists to adjust party salaries, then justice requires parallel relief for public servants whose real wages have been eroded by inflation and currency instability. Morale, productivity, and service delivery are inseparable from dignified pay.

We therefore call for:

1. Immediate, across-the-board salary reviews for civil servants and parastatal workers, benchmarked to the cost of living.

2. Transparent timelines and a public implementation framework to avoid selective application.

3. Sustainable remuneration reforms, including periodic indexation, so workers are not perpetually chasing prices.

Zimbabwe can not be rebuilt on selective upliftment. Nation-building is powered by those who teach, heal, protect, register, engineer, and serve—every single day. Apply the same resolve shown to party workers to the servants of the people, and let fairness be the policy.

For the dignity of work. For the dignity of service. For a Zimbabwe that truly leaves no one behind.

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