CIVIL SERVANTS REJECT GOVT PAY OFFER

CIVIL servants, through the Apex Council, yesterday rejected government’s pay offer of a 50% raise and US$75 allowance for three months as doctors and nurses declared a full-blown strike. Protests by nurses started at Parirenyatwa Hospital and later spread to Mpilo Central in Bulawayo, Chinhoyi Hospital and Sally Mugabe Hospital, among others. Police were called in the morning to disperse