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Friday, October 13, 2017
From the moment he was unveiled as the BPC CEO last November, Schwarzfischer was branded as a professional restructurer and re-engineer of troubled firms who would take the lead in the utility’s ambitious Masa 2020 strategy. For workers and unions however, the terms “restructurer and re-engineer” were seen as business-speak for a corporate panga-man, an consummate professional who would cut jobs with as little emotion as a movie hitman.
That Schwarzfischer is German – a nation not globally renowned for being warm and fuzzy – only lent momentum to the panic that was slowly building among the Corporation’s 2,100-strong workforce.
The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...