Zimbabwe public workers accept 140% pay hike, seek more

Zimbabwe's public sector workers have accepted a 140 per cent salary hike starting this month, a union official said on Wednesday, 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.