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The country requires 30 000 people to conduct the exercise.
Acting Finance Ministers Gorden Moyo confirmed the development in an interview with our Harare Bureau yesterday.
“We had suspended the training of enumerators yesterday (Monday) but we are continuing tomorrow (Wednesday),” he said.
The exercise will be conducted from 17 August.
Added Minister Moyo: “Tomorrow (Wednesday) we are registering 30 000 enumerators across the country and they will start training those who will meet our criteria.”
He said those who would be recruited must be holders of diplomas or degrees as the process involves the use of complicated questionnaires.
Minister Moyo claimed the security forces, who were also civil servants, had requested to be enumerators.
Minister Moyo, however, said enumerators from the security services would also take part in the actual counting of people but in barracks, police stations and prisons.
Minister Moyo said Zimbabwe had been a “shining example of how to run a credible population census”.
He said the country’s history on the conduct of census also showed it complied with United Nations standards.
The minister confirmed that this year’s population census had a false start following disagreement among civil servants on the composition of who should partake in the process.
Yesterday in Harare riot police sealed off venues were training of enumerators was supposed to take place after Government had suspended the exercise.
No official comment could be obtained from the police last night.
Online Reporter