Teachers' Demands In 2020

Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe have issued a statement reiterating on the issues which the government has to address for them to effectively execute their duties and responsibilities.

Part of the statement which was posted on Facebook reads:

• Interbank pegged salaries using our old United States dollar salaries as benchmark
• A substantive rural retention attraction allowance to incentivize rural teachers
• An education equalization fund to enhance access to quality education for marginalized communities
• Fully Paid study leave for all teachers
• Restoration of the legally provided vacation leave
• Review of the new curriculum
• Devolution of education planning and management
• Expanding of social security to cover health care by a more transparent and accountable National Social Security Authority.
• The scrapping of the opaque pension contribution replaced with a more transparent system.
• Employment of more teachers to resolve the crisis of staff shortages.

The statement is issued when schools are reopening within a few weeks. Other teachers’ unions have since announced that they will not be going to work since they are incapacitated.