By A Correspondent- Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube said Government has refused to pay civil servants in foreign currency and announced a meagre Zimbabwe dollar salary increased equating it with the US dollar.

Mthuli told the state media at the weekend that he had increased civil servants salaries with the least paid now earning about $17 000 translating to US$ 205.

“Government is doing a lot for civil servants. That is about US$205 equivalent in terms of their salaries for the lowest paid civil servants. Inflation is coming down and as it does so and as we continue as Government to push the wages up, which we will, you will find out that the plight of the civil servants will get better and better. We have awarded the civil servants 25 percent salary increment,” he said.

-State media