Wed 04 September 2019:
Zimbabwean doctors on Tuesday went on strike after rejecting a 60 per cent salary increment offered by the government.
The strike, the second this year by the medics, follows months of protracted salary negotiations between civil servants and government for better pay and conditions.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is struggling to contain runaway inflation caused by currency reforms that saw the country ending the decade long dollarisation of the economy in June.
It offered the rest of civil service a 76 per cent salary increase in a bid to avert crippling strikes by state workers.
The review would see the lowest paid worker earning $1,023 Zimbabwean dollars (about $100).
Doctors said they could no longer afford to report to work because their salaries had been eroded by inflation.
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