Teachers Warn Govt Over 'Anti-worker, Anti-people And Anti-poor' Budget

5 years agoSun, 25 Nov 2018 08:25:08 GMT

Teachers Warn Govt Over 'Anti-worker, Anti-people And Anti-poor' Budget

The Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (Zimta) has warned the government with unspecified action over the recently announced 2019 national budget. Zimta secretary general Tapson Nganunu Sibanda said that teachers were expecting Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube to raise their salaries and pay them in foreign currency. In an interview with the Standard, Sibanda said

There is nothing, therefore, to celebrate in this budget statement for teachers. The budget leads the country to a new trajectory of a neo-liberal economy… If these conditions of customs duty are meant for a certain section of the populace, who are neither teachers nor civil servants, it is this dualism that is of concern to us teachers.
Teachers are now demanding payment of their salaries in foreign currency, so as to maintain the stability of their income that is being eroded day in day out.

Teachers and other civil servants’ salaries are in RTGS, yet the budget statement proposes the payment of customs duty in US dollars, what a contradiction… Teachers and the rest of the civil servants can only convert their RTGS amounts to US dollars through the black market, an illegal exercise that attracts a jail term of 10 years.
This, in essence, means that this year’s festive season and beyond will be a nightmare for the already incapacitated teacher.
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