The Zimbabwe government is considering freezing salaries next year to keep prices down, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday.
President Robert Mugabe’s government has already imposed price controls on a wide variety of basic goods in a bid to control soaring prices.
”While the price freeze is in force, there is need for the government to look at how the cost of labour can be analysed and contained,” Labour Minister July Moyo was quoted as saying.
Zimbabwe is in the throes of its worst economic crisis since independence and the end of white minority rule in 1980, with inflation estimated at more than 144%. – Sapa-AFP