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THE private sector has been accused of practising “modern slavery”, with companies employing mostly interns and underpaying them to save on costs.<\/p>\n
Marondera Central MP Caston Matewu raised this issue on a point of national interest in Parliament this Tuesday, describing the situation as “new day modern slavery”.<\/p>\n
Matewu told Speaker Jacob Mudenda that the private sector, particularly in the hospitality and tourism industry, was not rewarding interns.<\/p>\n
The legislator alleged that most private…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> THE private sector has been accused of practising “modern slavery”, with companies employing mostly interns and underpaying them to save on costs. Marondera Central MP Caston Matewu raised this issue on a point of national interest in Parliament this Tuesday, describing the situation as “new day modern slavery”. Matewu told Speaker Jacob Mudenda that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7422,10109,33427,8361,12698,257,2412,51402,5990,5991,13815,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-198532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cheap","tag-hiring","tag-interns","tag-labour","tag-modern","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-practising","tag-private","tag-sector","tag-slavery","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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