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Harare Bureau
ZANU-PF is set to hold high-level meetings this week starting with a Politburo meeting today, Central Committee meeting on Friday and the National Consultative Assembly on Saturday.

President Robert Mugabe will chair all the meetings that come on the backdrop of the on-going wanton dismissal of workers by companies following a recent Supreme Court ruling permitting employers to fire workers upon giving three months notice.

Workers have been calling on the revolutionary party for salvation with party first secretary and President Mugabe recently describing the law as an ass.

Officially opening the Global Small and Medium Enterprises Expo in Harare last week, the President said workers should not be treated as if they were in colonial Rhodesia where they were wantonly dismissed without any benefits.

The President said the law must serve the people and not the people to serve the law adding the government will soon amend it.

Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration, Cde Ignatius Chombo, revealed the itinerary in an invite to all members of the three arms of the ruling party yesterday.

“The Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration, Cde I M C Chombo, is inviting all members of the Politburo to attend the 290th Ordinary Session of the Politburo on Wednesday August 5th, 2015 at Zanu-PF HQ. Members should be seated by 0900hours.

“Cde I M C Chombo is also inviting all members of the Central Committee (CC) to a meeting to be held on Friday 7th August at the Zanu-PF HQ Hall. Members should be seated by 0900hours.

“Furthermore, the Secretary for Administration, Cde I M C Chombo, is inviting all members of the National Consultative Assembly (NCA) to attend a meeting on Saturday, August 8, 2015 in the Zanu-PF HQ Hall. Members should be seated by 0900hours,” he said.

The sackings have seen 48 companies sending 18,000 workers home since the July 17 Supreme Court ruling.