THE Cold Storage Company (CSC)-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe has
dismissed messages circulating on social media suggesting that the firm has
embarked on a massive job recruitment drive.
The country’s largest meat processor and marketer is
planned for re-opening after Cabinet recently approved a joint venture
agreement between CSC and a United Kingdom investor, Boustead Beef.
The arrangement will result in the new investor injecting
US$400 million towards the revival of the firm that will re-open under a new
name, CSC-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe.
An official from Boustead Beef Zimbabwe who declined to be
named citing professional reasons said:
“The message circulating on social media suggesting that we
have embarked on a massive job recruitment is fake news, it’s very untrue as
there is nothing like that here at CSC-Boustead Beef.”
Efforts to get a comment from CSC-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe
managing director Mr Nick Havercroft as well as the firm’s consultant Mr
Reginald Shoko were fruitless as their mobile phone numbers were not going
through by the time of going to print yesterday.
According to the job advert that was circulating on social
media, CSC-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe was seeking to recruit over 400 workers and
these included qualified and experienced beef handlers and 55 general workers
for the company’s refurbished abattoirs in Bulawayo and Masvingo.
The said job advert also highlighted that the prospective
workers should have a minimum of five years experience with traceable
references and in return the company was offering a basic salary of ZW$3 800,
accommodation allowance of ZW$700, paid overtime, and free transport to and
from work.
Meanwhile, CSC-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe has announced that it
has started refurbishing its infrastructure and ranches across the country as
it prepares to resume full scale operations, which will create more than 600
jobs.
As part of its preparatory works to re-opening, the company
plans to install a 3MW solar plant at its headquarters in Bulawayo to the tune
of about US$9 million.
The company has taken delivery of the imported solar panels
and the installation exercise is yet to begin. Chronicle
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