Teachers to boycott Zimsec examinations

TEACHERS have threatened to boycott both the invigilation and marking of public examinations if the government maintains its stance to suspend civil servants bonuses until 2017.

Progress Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou told Newsday yesterday that the government must get rid of ghost workers and find other means of increasing revenue.

He said the scrapping of civil servants' bonuses was the worst decision ever made in the country by the highest office.

Zhou insisted that the government could realise a lot of revenue if it got rid of ghost workers planted at various State institutions.

He also proposed reduction of provinces from 10 to five to reduce government expenditure.

He noted that the government was unnecessarily increasing the country's wage bill by having a high and unreasonable number of legislators.