imbabwe civil servants, mostly teachers and nurses will embark on strike starting Tuesday next week after the government failed to pay them their June salaries.

Apex council team leader Cecilia Alexander told a press conference Saturday that the unpaid workers will down tools due to incapacitation.

Government offered the workers an advance salary of 100 U.S. dollars for transport but they have refused it demanding their full salaries.

"We have unanimously agreed and we have come up with a statement that we as civil servants of Zimbabwe organized under the Apex Council pronounce that owing to incapacitation, our members shall not attend their duties from Tuesday," said Alexander.

The Apex Council brings together all civil servants unions.

The cash-strapped government only managed to pay members of the security forces last month while teachers and nurses would get their salaries on July 7 and 14, respectively.

The Zimbabwe government, which spends 80 percent of the national budget on salaries, has been struggling to pay its workers on time since last year due to dwindling revenue flows. Enditem

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