Zimbabwe. Rhodesian pensioners in SA ‘turn destitute’ as Mugabe govt ‘scraps payouts’
Zimbabwean pensioners who served under the Rhodesian government before relocating to South Africa have reportedly turned destitute after President Robert Mugabe’s government “scrapped their payouts without explanation”.
According to NewsDay, an organisation set up to keep track of the affected pensioners and their welfare, Flame Lily Foundation, said its 300 members aged between 78 and 101 had been “dumped” by the Zimbabwean government.
The pensioners were said to have relocated to South Africa at independence in 1980.
“We established a project to assist those who were destitute and whose only income was a South African state welfare grant,” Flame Lily Foundation national secretary John Redfern was quoted as saying.
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