Good, fast subbing skills essential. An eye for news and business news as well as experience in HTML and web development is a great advantage. Banks, major consumer outlets and factories shut down at the call of the powerful labor movement to protest government seizures of white-owned farms, which have sparked violence in the crucial agriculture sector. It was business as usual however in government offices both in the capital and in other cities such as Chinhoyi and Marondera, state radio said, while in Bulawayo few civil servants turned up to work.
Land redistribution is to go ahead despite the strike.
He added that resettlements in his province would begin on Thursday. Agricultural exports, particularly tobacco, bring in desperately needed foreign exchange. Journalists travelling through northeastern Mashonaland East Province said they saw no farming activity. The owner of a tobacco farm said operations were reduced to essential services such as watering seedbeds and sending out people to search for rustled cattle. The capital Harare was quiet, with most banks and many large stores closed while riot police patrolled the streets.