No pay for Mirror journalists

No pay for Mirror journalists

• Mirror journalists reap financial windfall

• Journalist quits Mirror over harassment

• CIO fails to pay Mirror journalists, again

• CIO suspends Daily Mirror journalists

• CIO fails to pay Mirror salaries

• Mandaza's return to Mirror short lived

• CIO to launch daily newspaper - source

• Gubbay bounces back to head Mirror panel

• Wallace Chuma: The real Ibbo Mandaza

• Mediagate: beyond Ibbo Mandaza

• CIO grills Mandaza over Murambatsvina

• Mandaza: CIO robbed me of my paper

• Defiant Mandaza takes fight to High Court

• Independent wary of CIO media infiltrators

• Mandaza suspended from Mirror

• Journalists targeted in CIOGATE

• Mandaza fires Mirror board

• Mandaza admits to CIO ownership

• Hollow tales full of sound and fury

• Parliament probes Mediagate

• Media scandal deepens

• CIOGATE: Mandaza muzzled

• Panic as Zim rocked by media scandal

• Newspapers sell their souls for survival

• Scandal rocks Zim media industry

By Staff Reporter

THE Zimbabwe Mirror Newspapers Group has failed to sustain a hefty pay hike awarded to workers as it emerged
that they had not been paid Monday, more than a week after pay day.

The Mirror, which was taken over by Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation in a publicly-funded covert operation, awarded the journalists and other staff salary increments of up
to 200 percent when workers in some media houses got as little as 50 percent.

Media analysts said the salaries were meant to pacify workers who were
becoming increasingly agitated by the CIO way of running the newspapers which has seen others losing jobs due to an ongoing purge.

Sources Monday said only workers who were account holders with the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ),
the financial institution which has come to the rescue of the company in difficult
times, had received their salaries.

“Only those who have an account with CBZ have been paid," said one journalist. "The rest of us, there is nothing. Indications are that there may be nothing even by the end of this week. Maybe they want all of us to abandon our respective banks and go to CBZ."

Sources said a junior reporter at the Mirror now earns more than $ 24 million from about $8million and bureau chiefs more than $30 million.

The posts of bureau chiefs were created this year.

Journalists and staff were granted a 200 percent pay rise. A similar percentage will be effected in July this year.

Following the CIO take-over, the Mirror's new bosses have initiated a purge to get rid of staff perceived to be aligned to suspended founder and Editor in Chief, Ibbotson Day Mandaza.

Of late, the CIO has been struggling to pay workers – constantly turning to CBZ to be bailed out.
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