{"id":202728,"date":"2025-07-18T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lawmakers-demand-urgent-salary-review-for-civil-servants\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:32:02","slug":"zimbabwe-lawmakers-demand-urgent-salary-review-for-civil-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lawmakers-demand-urgent-salary-review-for-civil-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Lawmakers Demand Urgent Salary Review for Civil Servants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Government is under mounting pressure to review civil servants&#8217; salaries and benefits as inflation continues to chip away at their purchasing power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">During a heated session in Parliament on Wednesday, several MPs raised concerns about the deteriorating livelihoods of public sector workers questioning the government&#8217;s willingness to cushion them against economic hardships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Leading the charge was Bulawayo North legislator Minenhle Gumede, asking what concrete policy measures were in place to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180237.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is under mounting pressure to review civil servants&#8217; salaries and benefits as inflation continues to chip away at their purchasing power. During a heated session in Parliament on Wednesday, several MPs raised concerns about the deteriorating livelihoods of public sector workers questioning the government&#8217;s willingness to cushion them against economic hardships. Leading the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8227,7617,14377,257,6399,8429,13295,254,11318,4686,421],"class_list":["post-202728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-civil","tag-demand","tag-lawmakers","tag-news","tag-review","tag-salary","tag-servants","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}