Fuel price hike in Zimbabwe

Despite repeated police harassment and physical attacks on the union’s president, members of ARTUZ will carry their struggle forward

Since the introduction of salary payments in a quasi-currency pegged to USD in October last year, wages of the lowest paid civil servants have fallen from the equivalent of USD 475 to USD 47.

As the rumours of a military coup persists, government attempts to confine soldiers to barracks which are rumoured to have run out of food.

Ngqabutho Mabhena, general secretary of Zimbabwe Communist Party, says the government is seeking to resolve the economic crisis by reducing the workers’ real wages as well as the budgetary allocation, and using the costs thus extracted to service foreign debts