Workers Fired For Refusing To Wear "Witchcraft" Uniforms
With local shops now fully stocked, competition amongst manufacturers of goods in Zimbabwe is very stiff, as they chase the few dollars that people have. Some of these companies are now resorting to unorthodox means to increase sales, such as the use of traditional healers (or witches, put bluntly). This has to a revolt by the sales of one Zimbabwean company that workers suspected had used witchcraft on new uniforms in order to guarantee sales. The revolting workers were told to leave the company. Fired, basically. Harare, Zimbabwe, 23 November 2009 Forty-eight workers at Matonjeni, a manufacturer of soft drinks and beverages here in Zimbabwe have been fired for refusing to work in uniforms they say were taken to a witch (traditional healer in the politically correct local parlance) and "sorted out" in order to increase business. The uniforms were launched at Holiday Inn Harare and workers at the hotel say they were also amazed at the way the ceremony to launch the uniforms w...