By Own Correspondent| Finance minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has encouraged Zimbabweans to continue working hard adding that the current austerity measures are necessary and will soon bear fruit.

Ncube said this in an interview with the State media.

He said:

Things are certainly going to get better as we go. The changes that we are making, the reforms that we are implementing are necessary. There has been such a long time actually 20 years where there has been incredible indiscipline in the economy and there has to be a change and these changes are costly. We keep saying that these are changes that are needed when a patient is down and out and you need to resuscitate them and give them medication and that is the only way they can survive but that medication can be painful so we are going through that phase.