Bar deal torches storm
Michael Chideme and Elita Chikwati
RUFARO Marketing Private Limited workers besieged Town House and Nyaradzo Funeral Service offices in Harare yesterday to demonstrate against their employer’s decision to lease 25 of the beer utility’s 90 outlets to TN Holdings.
The placard-waving workers converged at Rufaro Marketing Board chairman Mr Phillip Mataranyika’s offices at Nyaradzo Funeral Services along Park Street, demanding his resignation.
They later went to Town House demanding to be addressed by officials.
But, Mr Mataranyika said he will not quit.
He said as a responsible ratepayer who also chaired Rufaro Marketing, he could not watch idly while the city’s bar
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