adminCharges against Walter Sibanda were that he and a colleague were tasked with ferrying examination papers to be shredded from Harare to Kadoma.
They were to witness destruction of the papers, and this was a very important assignment. Leakage of the papers would imperil the credibility of impending national examinations, hence the assignment of two security officers to oversee the whole process.
Sibanda and his colleague took the papers to Kadoma. However, at Kadoma, the duo unlocked the container for Kadoma Paper Mills staff to offload, then left them unguarded as they proceeded to get some lunch.
The food outlets were a distance from Kadoma Paper Mills and they were absent for 15 minutes.
In his written statement, Sibanda said that upon their return, they discovered the unshredded papers, which they put in the pulp machine.
However, some papers had been stolen and after finding the duo guilty, RBZ proceeded to impose the penalty of dismissal. The two were not asked to make any submissions in mitigation. Aggrieved by the dismissal,
Sibanda then lodged an appeal with the Labour Court seeking reinstatement. Sibanda argued that RBZ failed to show good cause to believe that he was guilty of any particular offence.
He submitted that he was not grossly incompetent or inefficient in the performance of his duties.
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