Zimbabwe to cut govt salaries to curb spending: minister
Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube presents his budget statement in the Parliament of Zimbabwe in Harare on November 22, 2018. Ncube announced a five-percent cut to senior government officials' salaries in a bid to mend the shattered economy. PHOTO | JEKESAI NJIKIZANA | AFP
Zimbabwe's new finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced a five-percent cut to senior government officials' salaries on Thursday in a bid to mend the shattered economy.
Ncube's budget also set out plans for the biometric registration of civil servants to weed out "ghost" workers who appear on the payroll without actually turning up to work.
