Teachers, doctors and nurses in Zimbabwe began a strike over unpaid salaries on Tuesday, a day after police used force against protesting taxi drivers in the capital Harare amid a deteriorating economic situation. It looks like this (strike) will go on until July 14," the head of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association, Fortune Nyamande, said. The government has said it will pay doctors and nurses their June salaries on July 14 and the teachers on July 7. Zimbabwe is battling its worst drought in a quarter of a century, while the economy is beset by cash shortages, prompting small, spontaneous protests over the past month. At most state schools around Harare, students could be seen playing at sports fields in the morning because teachers did not come to work.

Source: The Star July 05, 2016 13:07 UTC