Posted by HARARE — Zimbabwe’s civil servants, including teachers and doctors, went on strike Friday to demand an increase to their monthly salaries of 150 dollars (110 euros), their unions said.
“Our members have declared that they are not going to work from today,” Cecilia Alexander, president of the Public Service Association, an umbrella body for the civil servants’ unions.
Doctors and nurses demonstrate in Harare in December 2008
The government has proposed increases of between seven and 21 dollars for civil servants, who say their wages do not cover even basic living expenses.
“They say they will not come back to work until government gives them something meaningful, some reasonable, something acceptable,” Alexander said.
After Zimbabwe’s unity government took office nearly one year ago, the local currency was abandoned and civil servants were awarded flat salaries of 150 US dollars.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti had repeatedly said that the cash-strapped government simply does not have the money to pay them more, as the country struggles to pull itself out of a decade of economic collapse.
Ko imi mari dzamurikugalavantisa all over the world murikudzitorepi,give pple money.Even the talks have been suspended several times coz so and so are out of the country every week,but u can’t pay civil servants.
Right now there is a report that says all these politicians are forking out more than 86 000 000 in rands to educate their children overseas,where are they getting all that money from if u say they earn the same as everybody.
This is one reason that caused a lot of corruption among civil servants coz they were being paid pea-nuts whilst they were in key positions.The politicians always pay themselves huge allowances at the expense of hard-working front-line workers.
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The Gorvenment is broke, why they insist on paying millions of Dollars educating their children outside zimbabwe leaves one wondering if the care at all about the education in Zimbabwe. They could use that amount to booast our own univesties.
However, They may spend that much on their kids and on themselves, I dont think if they stop they have enough to pay the civil servants what they are asking to be paid.
I think the civil sevants should be DEMANDING that the government MUST implement thr GNU. So bussiness would at least start to return to some normality in Zimbabwe. If they are paid what they demand where is it gonna come from if zanu insists on staying in power when nobody will work with them? THEY SHOULD FORCE ZANU TO AT LEAST IMPLEMENT THR GNU. That would open even more doors for money to start coming into the county.
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Biti,here is a little advice;1)cut all the expenses that are being incurred by yo fellow politicians,2)sell all those luxurious 4by4 vehicles allocated to politicians,3)have only a president and a primeminister,4)cut the deputy ministers positions,5)trim the cabinet to only 14 or15 ministries,6)do away with the senate and y do we need governors when we have so many MPs representing provinces,7)cut all those foreign trips and remain with needy ones only,8)stop paying ghosts and green bombers,9)cut that too-big-for-nothing army and trim the police force to a professional small-but-effective-one,10)do away with yo useless C1O.
U now have diamonds and toll gates raking in millions each month,u can’t go wrong.If u can’t implement the above then pay up.
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