Chinotimba’s security company in court for failing to pay worker
By Violet Gonda
5 June 2007

Joseph Chinotimba, the self-styled war veteran and leader of the farm invasions, is making headlines again and as usual for the wrong reasons. It’s reported a company owned by the Chinotimba, who is the Vice President of the state sponsored Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions, was hauled before the courts recently for failing to pay one of his workers.

Chinotimba, who is also the ruling party’s chairman for Harare province, has in the past called for better salaries for workers but failed to pay ZW$14 000 in wages and leave arrears to a guard who had worked at his security company for two months.

The company, Smash Security, which is accused of breaching sections of the Labour Relations Act, was remanded to June 18.