Go hang, govt tells striking workers

In a press statement issued late Tuesday, permanent secretary to the President Eric Molale said that government "considers it unreasonable for the strike to continue considering that it has made the economic case very clear before and during the strike, on the reasons why the strike demands cannot be met".

"Therefore, for the strike to be continuing indefinitely, as it as it is, although by a small minority is unreasonable," he said. Molale said that unions and opposition parties have hijacked the strike and it is no longer about public service wages, but the strike has become a political campaign and a platform for unlawful statements and actions.