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Masaraure back in court for murder
HARARE magistrate Dennis Mangosi yesterday dismissed an application for refusal of further remand by Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe leader Obert Masaraure in a case in which he faces a m...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Artuz leader in court for 2016 'murder'
Harare police have announced that their investigation into the 2016 murder case involving Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union (Artuz) leader Obert Masaraure is still ongoing. Masaraure is accused of kill...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Artuz leader files for exception to obstruction charge
Obert Masaraure, the leader of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz), filed an application for an exception before Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka in a case involving the obstru...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 20:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CiZC pokes its nose into ZCTU affairs
The row between Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) over Obert Masaraure's suspension continued weekend with the pro-democracy group claiming the sanct...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 17:22hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Karoro, Masaraure cases deferred to 2023
FORMER Lands and Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro's theft case and that of teachers' union leader Obert Masaraure, who faces a charge of obstructing the course of justice, have been postpone...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Artuz leader granted $50 000 bail
AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) leader Obert Masaraure was yesterday granted $50 000 bail at the High Court in a case he faces charges of obstructing justice.Masaraure, wh...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Tortured and abused teacher wins compensation
A ZIMBABWEAN court has ordered authorities to pay $200 000 to a teacher who was arrested, tortured and abused by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers three years ago.Munyaradzi Masiyiw...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:41hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Masiyiwa wins $200 000 lawsuit against Kazembe Kazembe
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) is celebrating after its Deputy Secretary General Munyaradzi Masiyiwa was granted ZWL200 000 compensation fees by a Harare court for bein false...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:47hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jailed Artuz leader granted bail pending appeal
Sheila Chisirimhuru, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz)'s Masvingo provincial gender welfare secretary, who was sentenced to 16 months in prison over a peaceful salary protest he...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teacher jailed 16 months for salary protest
Human rights lawyers have filed a High Court bail appeal for a widowed primary school teacher sentenced to 16 months imprisonment after she was arrested for public violence during a "peaceful" protest...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Artuz leader jailed 16 months over salary protest
A MASVINGO magistrate yesterday jailed a teacher's union leader for 16 months over a peaceful salary protest which was held in July this year.Sheila Chisirimhuru, the Amalgamated Rural Teacher...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magistrate acquits ARTUZ leader, convicts another
A MASVINGO magistrate has acquitted Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president Obert Masaraure of violence charges but convicted the union's provincial gender and welfare secretary...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Police crush teachers' demo
POLICE yesterday ruthlessly crushed a demonstration organised by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) at Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's offices and arrested the union's eight top...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU denies hand in planned ShutDownZimbabwe protests
LABOUR federation, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), has dismissed messages circulating on social media linking it to a "shutdown" of the country on July 1.A pamphlet that has gone...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe.com
ARTUZ leader issued with warrant of arrest
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president Obert Masaraure, who is accused of trying to subvert a constitutionally-elected government by urging people to protests against the fuel ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers desert classrooms in protest against under-payment
Today is day one of phase 2 of teachers' job action against slave wages. The day coincides with Teachers' June pay day. The peanuts received by teachers have forced them to leave classrooms in protest...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 08:53hrs | | by ARTUZ
Mnangagwa's govt dismisses ARTUZ leader abduction claims
Government has dismissed as malicious and false, media reports that the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Association of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) leader Obert Masaraure was recently abducted from his home and tortur...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Abductions and torture on the rise
The MDC condemns in the strongest terms the abduction and brutalising of ARTUZ leader, Obert Masaraure by suspected state security operatives.A State which perpetrates violence on men and wome...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 12:39hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Fresh wave of arrests in Zimbabwe
A fresh wave of arrests has hit Zimbabwe after a group of teachers was rounded up by plain clothes police officers over the weekend. The arrested teachers namely Robson Chere, Jess Drury, Prec...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Abducted ARTUZ leaders dumped at police station
Four Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) leaders were on Saturday allegedly abducted in Harare by unidentified individuals suspected to be State security agents and later dumped at H...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt faces lawsuit for withholding Artuz leaders salaries
AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) leaders are preparing a lawsuit against government after they have gone for three months without salaries.The salaries were withheld by th...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland North schools ordered to hold vacation lessons
MATEBELELAND North education director Jabulani Mpofu has ordered all schools in remote areas that did not surpass the 30% pass rate at Grade 7 last year to conduct mandatory lessons during the April a...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teachers threaten fresh protests
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has resolved to embark on fresh protests at Public Service Commission district offices to push for the reversal of deductions made on leave day...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teachers clash over nationwide strike
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has slammed their counterparts the Zimbabwe Teachers Union (ZIMTA) and the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) for calling for the im...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 13:21hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Protesting teachers set free
NINE leaders of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) were on Monday 7 January 2019 set free after they were arrested by Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers as theyembarked ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 19:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Union fleeces teachers of thousands of dollars
Teachers who took part in a march from Mutare to Harare under the banner of Almagated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) had in fact, been promised US$100 each but have since not been given the...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:35hrs | | by Staffg reporter
Arrested teachers freed again
All arrested Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) protestors have been freed. State failed to prove beyond measure that any law was broken.Police in Harare Tuesday pounced and ...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 16:58hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe police charge protesting teachers with disorderly conduct and contravening POSA
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Wednesday 19 December 2018 charged 14 leaders and members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) with contravening the Public Order and ...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 13:34hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
ARTUZ teachers not charged, proceed with march
The state has declined to prosecute nine members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), who were arrested on Saturday while marching from Mutare to Harare.The teachers, w...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers in make or break meeting
Teachers head for tomorrow's crunch meeting with the Apex Council a divided front as the Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta), which has the largest number of teachers under its wings, saying it will...Published: 13 May 2018 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Teachers snub Mnangagwa
VARIOUS teachers' unions falling under the newly-formed Federation of Zimbabwe Educators' Unions (Fozeu) have snubbed a consultative meeting organised by the government to address their grievances, sa...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers to storm Mnangagwa's office
TEACHERS from various parts of the country and representing different unions have threatened to storm President Emmerson Mnangagwa's offices tomorrow demanding urgent address on their work-related gri...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lax systems cost Zimsec reputation, credibility
The Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) last week shocked the nation with an announcement that November 2017 English Paper 2 Ordinary Level has to be rewritten. This is the first time in the ...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe targets teacher union leaders
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's government has turned to strong-arm tactics in a bid to stop a planned demonstration led by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, (ARTUZ), it has been learnt....Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 11:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe faces probe for forcing pupils to rallies
THE ZIMBABWE Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) is once again pursuing the First Family for reportedly commandeering schoolchildren to attend their political events after the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' U...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rural teachers union to host Mash East Indaba
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) will tomorrow, 10 June 2017, host a Toda Kudyawo/ S'funa ukudla Teachers Forum in Marondera, Mashonaland East.Top on the agenda of the ...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 16:15hrs | | by ARTUZ
ARTUZ doing a disservice to teachers' cause
The public woke up to an announcement by the so-called Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) that it had given the Government through the Public Service Commission (PSC) a 14-day ultima...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 14:01hrs | 1 | by Tererai Danga
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