Source: news24.com
Addressing a May Day rally, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said the government he formed with veteran President Robert Mugabe in February to try to end a political and economic crisis that has brought Zimbabwe to ruin would maintain the current $100 it is paying its workers a month.
“This government is broke, and we are only able to pay the $100 allowance, but when things improve, we want this allowance to graduate into a proper salary,” he said.
The unity government has appealed for billions of dollars from the West to help revive Zimbabwe’s shattered economy, but Western donors such as Britain want to see further progress in implementing a power-sharing agreement before considering large-scale aid for the shattered country.
