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Teachers appeal for wages above poverty line
TEACHERS unions, represented by the Zimbabwe Teachers' Union (Zimta) and the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), yesterday demanded that government pays salaries above the poverty datum li...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 13:56hrs | 1421 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to engage in a crippling strike
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has resolved to engage in a massive job action to protest the low wages that teachers are getting. In a press statement released on Mon...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 07:36hrs | 4457 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Teachers reject $129 salary deal
TEACHERS unions yesterday angrily rejected the $400 million deal struck by government and the Apex Council, accusing their representative body of being compromised and working against the improvement ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:35hrs | 2767 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over move to gag teachers
TEACHERS unions have reacted angrily to plans by government to create the Teaching Profession Council (TPC) that will see teachers apply for an annually renewable teaching practicing certificate, sayi...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 05:54hrs | 1751 | by Staff reporter
Professional rules for teachers on cards
Government is working on establishing a Teaching Profession Council (TPC) under which teachers will apply for registration before being issued with a teaching practice certificate. The propose...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Teachers Union demands of 3K salary an utopian demand
It is undeniable that the cost of living for an ordinary Zimbabwean is increasingly becoming expensive, but the latest 3k salary demand by Teachers' Unions is astonishing to say the least.I fo...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 09:45hrs | 3018 | by Brightface Mutema
Mnangagwa's govt refuses to meet teachers
GOVERNMENT has snubbed further salary talks with teachers' unions, saying it had no plans to directly engage the combative unions.In a response dated February 18, addressed to the Progressive ...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:02hrs | 507 | by Staf reporter
Teachers strike called off
The government committed itself to continue implementing non-monetary incentives to civil servants, with teachers now having called of the strike which was planned to begin tomorrow, the 5th of Februa...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1523 | by Staff reporter
+13 people injured during Zimbabwe fuel rise protests
Police fired teargas as angry protesters barricaded roads with burning tyres and rocks in Zimbabwe on Monday, after the government more than doubled the price of fuel over the weekend.At least...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 22:06hrs | 626 | by AFP
Teachers group hires street kids to boost wage demo
TEACHERS under the firebrand Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) Friday hired street kids to blow vuvuzelas and also bang pots as they continued pressing for US dollar wages outside F...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:44hrs | 732 | by newzimbabwe
Govt, Apex Council continue wage talks
Government will today meet the Apex Council to review civil servants' salaries at the National Joint Negotiations Council (NJNC) at Kaguvi Building.This comes after civil servants demanded to ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:18hrs | 1411 | by Staff reporter
No deal!
Talk between government and its employees produced nothing tangible yesterday, heightening tensions between the two sides.After a marathon meeting called by government yesterday to calm restiv...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 20:59hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Latest on teachers strike
The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting has announced that schools have opened and both the teachers and the learners pitched up in class. "Schools have re-opened today an...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 10:20hrs | 6485 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Meeting won't stop strike, says Teachers
GOVERNMENT will today face off with its restive workers in a last-minute ditch to stifle a proposed nationwide civil servants' strike, but teachers unions yesterday vowed to go ahead with the industri...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:37hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to hold crunch meeting with govt
GOVERNMENT will tomorrow hold a crunch meeting with the statutory body representing its employees to discuss salaries and working conditions, amid positive signs teachers await the indaba to map the w...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:41hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Government's final statement on USD salary demands
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services has issued a statement saying the demands by teachers and other civic servants to be paid in United States D...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 07:56hrs | 9956 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bloodless coup against ZANU PF government just started
In October 2018, I wrote a piece claiming that the ZANU PF government will collapse within six months if the controversial President ED Mnangagwa is not going to form an inclusive government with Nels...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 07:50hrs | 24419 | by Don Chigumba
New Zimsec regulations, a nightmare for grade 7 exams
The just ended Grade seven examinations started on a chaotic note following new regulations from the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) which caused logistical problems in the transportation...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:11hrs | 3587 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers unions call for schools closure over cholera
Faced with a nationwide cholera outbreak that has claimed 31 lives and left thousands others infected, two leading teachers' unions have called for the closure of all schools until the disease is cont...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:27hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Human rights defenders at risk as elections approach
Preliminary findings of a field missionPARIS, France - Ahead of Zimbabwe's much anticipated general elections scheduled on July 30, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:20hrs | 938 | by FIDH
Letter to the Editor Teacher should reconsider their mass action
Dear Editor, Teachers are some of the hard working people under some of the most difficult conditions. They are known to be the learned people in our society and community and due respect shou...Published: 14 May 2018 at 13:25hrs | 465 | by Concerned Parent Gift Mashoko
Teachers dismiss salary hike reports
TEACHERS have dismissed reports that the government haS awarded them a salary hike, and vowed to go ahead with their planned strike action when schools open for the second term tomorrow.In a s...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:33hrs | 3328 | by Staff reporter
Teachers dig in on strike action
TEACHERS Unions yesterday vowed to disregard the threat by government on their intended strike, claiming no amount of bullying will force them to cower unless their employer agrees to engage and discu...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:26hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Damning human rights report on Mugabe
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has released a damning report exposing Zanu PF's abuse of school children during its political activities.ZHRC called on Parliament and the Justice ...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 08:29hrs | 1361 | by Staf reporter
Great mistake and mischief in rush to implement new curriculum
Sometime in the late 1997, the government of Zimbabwe, through its two ministries of Education resolved to conduct an inquiry into the then Education and Training System. A commission of inquiry lead ...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 20:09hrs | 3220 | by Luke Mbune Chakaza correspondent
Outrage over Zimsec scandal
Education sector stakeholders have called for the immediate resignation of Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) management after the shameful leakage of a November 2017 English Language exami...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:52hrs | 1820 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education
REF: Dokora axing-a close look While the official version is saying Dokora's sacking as Minister of Primary and Secondary Education has to d...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 11:54hrs | 3332 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
Another teachers' union born
Another teachers union the Zimbabwe National Educators Union (ZNEU) has been born, a senior official has announced.The revelations were made by Enock Paradzayi the secretary general of the uni...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 07:00hrs | 820 | by Enock Paradzayi (SG)
'2 300 new teachers to start work by September'
Primary and Secondary education minister Lazarus Dokora has said 2 300 new teachers are set to start work by September this year.Government had frozen the recruitment of new workers, including...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 13:01hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Setting up of Teaching Professions Council Noble
Government's proposal for the setting up of a Teaching Professions Council is highly commendable as the move will bring sanity to one of the country's oldest professions and restore the profession's l...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 17:26hrs | 893 | by Tendai Guta
Mberengwa roads turned into gullies after heavy rains- Zhou
Progressive Teachers Unions of Zimbabwe Dr Takavafira Zhou has warned that most of the roads in Mberengwa have become gullies after heavy rains hit the area leaving quite a trail of destruction....Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 05:42hrs | 865 | by Stephen Jakes
Lack of funds hits new education curriculum
THE implementation of the new education curriculum which came into effect this school term is facing teething problems due to lack of funding, teachers unions have said.Zimbabwe Teachers' ...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 05:58hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Teachers on leave recalled
THE government has ordered all teachers on leave to immediately return to work, a directive teachers unions say is illegal and would be challenged in court.Provincial Education Directors (PEDS...Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 05:41hrs | 3003 | by Auxilia Katongomara
PTUZ seeking relevance in the press
It is a disgrace that Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) President, Takavafira Zhou is making noise in the private media trying to seek relevance especially from opposition political parti...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 13:23hrs | 979 | by Peacemaker Zano
14,000 Zimbabweans apply for Diaspora jobs
Government has received over 14 000 applications from graduates of tertiary institutions seeking possible employment in several African countries, with the export of labour starting once Cabinet endor...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 05:07hrs | 2153 | by Felex Share
Teachers unions to stage demo on Monday
The Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe RTUZ in conjunction with Zimbabwe Activist Alliance (ZAA), Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) and progresive citizens have announced that they will be havin...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 08:29hrs | 1953 | by Stephen Jakes
Furore over scrapping of O Level exams
Weeks after educationist Caiphus Nziramasanga re-affirmed his assertion that Grade 7 and O' Level examinations should be scrapped, the issue has sparked heated debate among parents, teachers union...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 07:54hrs | 6617 | by Staff reporter
Teachers in limbo
MORE than 13,000 teachers who are holders of non-teaching degrees and diplomas face an uncertain future after the government resolved to gradually not renew their contracts citing that they are not qu...Published: 10 Jan 2015 at 08:50hrs | 2920 | by Oswell Moyo
Teachers demand incentives
TEACHERS unions are demanding that the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education should allow parents to pay teachers' incentives as a way of cushioning their salaries amid reports that school devel...Published: 21 Sep 2014 at 11:12hrs | 2380 | by Lungile Tshuma and Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Lazarus Dokora blamed for low pass rate
Teachers unions have attributed the low pass rate recorded in the June Ordinary and Advanced level examinations to government's decision to ban extra lessons and the removal of incentives for teac...Published: 14 Aug 2014 at 19:56hrs | 3281 | by Staff reporter
Teachers cry foul
Teachers unions have called on government to stop operating "as if they are in a military banker" and find a lasting solution to the raging salary dispute with the country's educators.The ca...Published: 07 Mar 2014 at 09:19hrs | 5089 | by Staff reporter
Maziwisa supports Govt's paltry salary increase for Civil Servants
ZANU-PF Deputy Director of Information Psychology Maziwisa has applauded the Public Service Commission for awarding lowly paid civil servants a salary increase of 26.6%.Government granted...Published: 16 Jan 2014 at 11:45hrs | 4774 | by Staff Reporter
Unions' rivalry scuttles teachers' pay negotiations
Teachers unions are failing to come up with a unified position on salaries, with one union demanding $550 while another is pressing for a $1 000 basic salary amid intense politicking and bickering....Published: 08 Oct 2013 at 07:20hrs | 2490 | by Staff reporter
Greed affects teachers' negotiations
TEACHERS' unions in the country must join forces in their demand for better salaries and working conditions, a Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) official said yesterday.This comes after Z...Published: 06 Oct 2013 at 08:43hrs | 1497 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU warns of crippling labour protests
Zimbabwe's hard-pressed and poorly paid civil servants can now exploit some provisions in the country's new governance charter to stage crippling work boycotts as such action has now been legalized....Published: 27 Aug 2013 at 11:11hrs | 3196 | by Roy Chikara I RadioVOP
Civil servants urged to vote for Mugabe
The National Secretary General of the Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, Mr Ottoman Magaya has called on civil servants to vote for Zanu-PF in the forthcoming general elections.Mr Magaya's calls fol...Published: 23 Jun 2013 at 14:13hrs | 2639 | by Staff Reporter
Donated textbooks flood informal street market
THOUSANDS of textbooks donated to primary and secondary schools countrywide under the Education Transition Fund have flooded the informal market.There are reports that some officials involved...Published: 26 Mar 2012 at 21:48hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe school teachers go on strike
TEACHERS at government schools in Harare took part in a strike on Tuesday, demanding a salary increase of more than 50 per cent on what should have been the first school day of 2012."We are n...Published: 10 Jan 2012 at 17:36hrs | 1158 | by Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Teachers threaten a stay away at the beginning of the first term
The Zimbabwe Teacher unionists have told a local paper that their members will stay at home at the beginning of the first term that opens next week if government does not pay attention to their demand...Published: 05 Jan 2012 at 06:27hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
Rural teachers get new allowances
RURAL teachers will get 20 percent of their gross salaries as an allowance to cover incentives which their urban counterparts receive monthly from parents and guardians.Most rural teachers are...Published: 04 Jan 2012 at 22:14hrs | 1140 | by Staff reporter
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