Civil servants accept 140% pay hike, seek more

CIVIL servants have accepted a 140% salary hike starting this month, a union official said yesterday, averting a potential strike against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government.

Soaring inflation has eroded salaries and savings in the southern African nation, which is grappling with its worst economic crisis in a decade, marked by shortages of foreign exchange, food, fuel, electricity and medicines.

Earlier this month, the top public workers union Apex Council rejected a government offer to double pay for employees, saying it was too little.

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