HARARE - Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabwe government workers can no longer afford to report for duty, their union said Tuesday, as the country's grinding economic crisis sends inflation soaring and renders their wages almost worthless.Zimbabwe's main public service union said the crisis was now preventing 300,000 government employees - a broad spectrum of workers from cleaners to office staff and teachers - from travelling to their jobs.
"Our salaries have been eroded from an average of US$500 in 2018 to only US$40 which is declining everyday," said Cecilia Alexander chairwoman of the Apex Council, the umbrella union representing most public sector workers outside the uniformed forces. The union has not characterised the move as a strike - but said the wage issue had rendered attendance impossible.
Mnangagwa had promised to woo back investors, generate growth and lift Zimbabwe from a cycle of economic hardship and mismanagement, a legacy of ex-president Robert Mugabe, who died in September.The national statistics agency on Tuesday said annual inflation last month accelerated to 290%, with shop prices rising daily.
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