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Obstacles to progress

Realities

Zimbabwe (September 2020)
Miners' Wives Take On a Zimbabwe Coal Giant to Pay Up Forgotten Wages
"Miners' Wives Take On a Zimbabwe Coal Giant to Pay Up Forgotten Wages - Women's Media Center."
Accessed September 4, 2020.
https://womensmediacenter.com/women-under-siege/miners-wives-take-on-a-zimbabwe-coal-giant-to-
pay-up-forgotten-wages.
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Ghost Payrolls
The need to survive surely means that when there is a significant level of unpaid wages individuals

taking matters into their own hands. And when non-normal actions become normalised then all
manner of people become more willing to 'turn a blind eye to' or even abet what would otherwise be

considered a criminal act.
And soon even the institutions that you so much want to develop into robust institutions

become passive and sometimes active participants. After all many members of these institutions
will have family members, extended family members, who have been left helpless.

Survival will sometimes mean survival at any cost. And of course this creates fertile ground
for organised crime.
Ghost Employee

A ghost employee is a person who is on an employer's payroll, but who does not actually work
for the company. Someone in the payroll department creates and maintains a ghost employee

in the payroll system, and then intercepts and cashes the paychecks intended for this person.
The following are ways to create a ghost employee:
● An actual employee leaves the company and is then kept in the payroll records for several

additional pay periods, with the perpetrator intercepting the additional paychecks.

● An actual employee goes on leave, and is maintained in the payroll records during his
absence, again with paychecks being intercepted.
● An entirely fake employee is created and maintained in the system, with all related paychecks

being routed to the perpetrator.
AccountingTools. "Ghost Employee."
Accessed October 6, 2020.
https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/2018/2/4/ghost-employee.
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