ZIM PHONES CUT OFF IN STRIKE

ZIMBABWE was cut off from the rest of the world for most of Tuesday and part of Wednesday after striking telephone engineers reportedly sabotaged the telephone system’s connections with external exchanges. It became almost impossible to make telephone calls to and receive calls from outside the country. E-mail and internet services were severely disrupted. Management of the state-run Posts and Telecommuncations Corporation warned that services would be disrupted because of sabotage by strikers. It is the second time in less that two weeks that the country’s telephone services have been disrupted by striking workers, who are demanding a 200% wage increase.

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