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Progressive Teachers Union, through its secretary-general <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Raymond_Majongwe">Raymond Majongwe</a> has said the government’s interference in the running of public schools imposing school fees caps etc has negatively affected the public education standards, Newsday reports.
Majongwe said the government interference was a silent assassination of public schools in favour of private schools:
<blockquote>There is a silent attempt to assassinate public education and putting on board clear privatisation. At the end of the day, the persons who lose out are the poor because they are the ones who are not going to be able to send their children to these quality private schools,
If you then engage the headmasters, they will tell you that the moment we keep fees stagnant because government has said fees are not going to go up, we are actually then killing the schools.
They can’t even spruce up the image of the schools, just simply cutting grass so that athletics takes place.</blockquote>
The government last week <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/01/09/watch-there-will-be-no-tuition-fee-increases-in-public-schools-prof-murwira/">announced that all public schools were not going to increase tuition fees</a>.
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2020/01/fees-policy-destroying-schools/">Newsday</a>

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Public Education Standards Have Plummeted Because Of Government Interference - PTUZ

Teachers, through the<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Progressive_Teachers_Union_of_Zimbabwe"> PTUZ</a> secretary-general <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Raymond_Majongwe">Raymond Majongwe</a> have said they are not on strike they are just incapacitated.
Majongwe was speaking in an interview with The Standard when he was asked if he was not afraid that the government will dismiss members of his union if they don’t show up for work same way the government has dismissed striking workers. He responded:
<blockquote>The most important position that we are stating is that we are not going on strike. Teachers are simply saying we are incapacitated and as far as the law says, we want to see whoever, because you don’t need a gun or a military man to tell us that you are going to fire us.
The most important point here is teachers are simply saying give us what is due to us and we will report for duty. We are not on strike, we are incapacitated.
The argument that government wants to use the reserve army, the reserve soldiers, the teachers who are unemployed out there, the most important point is that these teachers they will bring on board if ever they are going to, they will behave exactly like we are doing because it will only take them two months for them to realise that they are being taken for a ride.
We implore those teachers to refuse to be used as substitutes for a failed system. Teachers must realise they are worth something. They can’t honestly be told that they are going to replace people because they have been dismissed for crying out loud for better salaries.
Government must be made aware that they will be courting trouble if they proceed to dismiss teachers because they are asking for better salaries…</blockquote>
Civil <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/01/10/government-offer-civil-servants-97-salary-increment/">servants were given a 97% salary increment</a> which they rejected.
More: <a href="https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2020/01/12/salary-deadlock-teachers-threaten-stayaway/">The Standard</a>

We Are Not On Strike, We Are Incapacitated - Teachers

The <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Progressive_Teachers_Union_of_Zimbabwe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)</a> said that it invited both the ruling ZANU PF party and the opposition MDC to its 4th national congress at Belvedere Teachers’ Technical College in Harare held over the weekend.
PTUZ Secretary-general <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Raymond_Majongwe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Raymond Majongwe</a>, who was re-elected uncontested as the union’s secretary-general, said:
<blockquote>We invited two major (political) parties (Zanu PF and MDC) to our Congress currently underway.</blockquote>
Writing on microblogging site Twitter after the Congress, Majongwe further asserted:
<blockquote>Nhai @KMutisi [a supporter of government policies on Twitter] are you aware we invited Zanu PF to our Congress? You snubbed us now it’s a problem that MDC attended.
We really wanted you to come and meet the teachers. l know there were 6 officers from MID/ PISI/ CIO who attended so you were represented.</blockquote>
MDC president <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Nelson_Chamisa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nelson Chamisa</a> attended the congress and called upon the government to restore teachers’ dignity by paying them decent salaries.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/teachers-salaries-a-national-scandal-chamisa/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewZimbabwe.com</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/RMajongwe/status/1213905516948316160" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RMajongwe</a></h4>

ZANU PF Snubs Teachers' Union Congress

The <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_School_Examinations_Council" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC</a>) and teachers met on Monday and managed to break the impasse over the remuneration of examiners for both “O” and “A” Level public examinations.
<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Progressive_Teachers_Union_of_Zimbabwe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)</a> secretary-general <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Raymond_Majongwe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Raymond Majongwe</a> confirmed the development. He said:
<blockquote>Examiners in both residential and non-residential marking will claim a dinner amount of $57 as stated on the contract as well as the supplementary allowance of $20 per day.
There will be a concerted effort by Zimsec to ensure that non-residential markers will get transport to and from marking venues.</blockquote>
Teachers had threatened to boycott the marking of public examinations if their script rates were not adjusted.
Majongwe also revealed that an agreement was reached to pay the markers as soon as marking was finished for each subject, that is, not later than 10 days after the completion of marking.
<h4>More:<a href="https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2019/12/03/zimsec-examiners-find-each-other" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Daily News</a></h4>

ZIMSEC, O' & A' Level Exam Markers Strike Deal

Teachers have pleaded with the government to extend the biometric registration deadline as they cite that the deadline is too soon and impossible to work with. <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_Teachers_Association_(ZIMTA)">ZIMTA</a> Secretary-General Tapson Sibanda said this to the Daily News
<blockquote>The deadline is too near and impossible to work with. As a union, we do not understand what the government is trying to do.
We have engaged the government requesting that the deadline be extended beyond Monday (today) but we are not sure if they are going to respond positively to our request.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Progressive_Teachers_Union_of_Zimbabwe">PTUZ</a>‘s <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Raymond_Majongwe">Raymond Majongwe</a> also echoed ZIMTA’s sentiments when he said:
<blockquote>We also take great offence at the attempt to blackmail our members by threatening to cease their salaries. If any member’s salary is ceased unprocedurally, we will make it expensive for the Commission.</blockquote>
According to the publication, Majongwe viewed the short deadline as set “for no other reason than to terrify our members into reporting for work” even when they are incapacitated to do so due to underpayment.
Public Service Commission in a move to weed out <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2019/09/23/civil-servants-given-7-days-to-undergo-biometric-registration/">ghost workers urged all civil servants to register biometrically or risk being struck off the government payroll</a> by 30 September 2019.
More: The Daily News

Please Extend The Biometric Registration Deadline - Teachers Plead

The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), has demanded that the government pays its members salaries equivalent to the US$550.00 monthly salaries they earned before the return of hyperinflation.
The teachers have also demanded that the Apex Council, the board which represents civil servants, be dissolved forthwith.
PTUZ president, Takavafira Zhou, said that if the government fails to address the teachers’ concerns during the holidays, they will embark on industrial action in September. Said Zhou:
<blockquote>Failure to make inroads on these issues will see industrial action by teachers with effect from the beginning of the third term.
This is a message that the government must take seriously if it dreams of bringing stability in schools in particular and the country at large.
We have also been tasked with negotiating a reasonable rescue package over the holidays, provision of land for accommodation purposes, effecting a non-payment of tuition fees for at least three children of every teacher and dissolving the Apex Council and replacing it with a robust negotiation chamber in line with section 65 of the Constitution and ILO conventions 87 and 98, which Zimbabwe has ratified.
… Our members have been insisting on industrial action even this term, but after serious deliberations, we have been tasked with ensuring that government reviews the current salary in line with maintaining the purchasing value of the pre-inflationary US$550 monthly salary.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2019/08/teachers-make-new-threats/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewsDay</a></h4>

Teachers Make Fresh Demands, Give Govt Ultimatum

Officials from the Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (ZIMTA) and the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) on Monday called upon the government to raise teachers’ salaries above the poverty datum line (PDL).
The two union leaders were appearing before the joint sitting of the Priscilla Misihairabwi-led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Education and the Portfolio Committee on Public Service chaired by Emma Ncube to speak on their petition to Parliament.
While making a presentation on behalf of ZIMTA and PTUZ, ZIMTA president Paul Gundani said:
<blockquote>The April 2019 salary adjustments have been overtaken by runaway inflation which was 76%, but now it is around 900% and the State is failing to act constitutionally by adequately remunerating teachers and is thus violating the rights of teachers and students because teaching is no longer a decent job and falls way below standards because the salary is not commensurate with teachers as professionals.
We are saying (give) us poverty datum line salaries.</blockquote>
Gundani demanded that the government should pay teachers salaries with the interbank rates obtaining and at least US$200.
PTUZ secretary-general, Raymond Majongwe bemoaned indiscipline and drug abuse in schools. He said:
<blockquote>There is serious indiscipline at schools and drug abuse and we must be able to control our youths because children are now beating up teachers and this is not a laughing matter.
We do not want to be like South Africa where teachers are now coming to school armed because students do as they please.</blockquote>
Majongwe further claimed that teachers’ poor salaries have resulted in a spike in divorce rates as educators are now being denied conjugal rights because they do not bring anything home.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2019/07/teachers-appeal-for-wages-above-poverty-line/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NewsDay</a></h4>

Teachers Unions Demand Salaries Above Poverty Datum Line

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has been castigated by other Unions for dabbling into partisan politics and becoming an appendage of the MDC led by Nelson Chamisa.
The Zimbabwe Teachers’ Union (ZIMTA) recently announced that is was pulling out of the Union because the ZCTU has lost its way.
It has now been revealed that militant teachers’ union, the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe, (PTUZ) withdrew from the ZCTU in 2012.
Responding to Zimlive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu who had asked if PTUZ was pulling out of ZCTU as ZIMTA has just done, PTUZ secretary general Raymond Majongwe had this to say:
<blockquote>We left ZCTU in 2012 after falling out with Cdes there. I may not say more than that. We were the 2nd Civil Service Union to join ZCTU after CSEA. But joining a union has nothing to do with ZCTU politics.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, Majongwe has warned the government that teachers will down tools soon if the issue of their remuneration is not addressed. He said:
<blockquote>Teachers are bitter and angry. Salaries earned on Friday have been totally wiped out.
I see work stoppages on the horizon. Up to now Public Service Commission and the government pretend they cannot see the suffering of the workers.</blockquote>

PTUZ Left ZCTU In 2012 After A 'Falling Out' - Majongwe

Teacher Unions have admonished the government to deal with the issues affecting teachers urgently, saying that the situation has become unbearable.
Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary general, Raymond Majongwe warned that as the nations get hungrier, citizens will become angrier and ungovernable.
Speaking during NewZimbabwe.com’s The Agenda Programme on Monday, Majongwe said:
<blockquote>The government needs to realise that we can only be of service to the nation if workers are well remunerated.
I remember, when President Mnangagwa was inaugurated at the National Stadium (in November 2017), there was a traditional healer who came and said: ‘President, a hungry nation cannot be governed’. I want to repeat this because it was said on a public platform.
President, you can’t govern a nation of starving people properly. Your people are hungry. Your workers are hungry.
Make sure you give them enough money so that they can send their children to school. Make sure you make them happy, so they are able to serve this country.</blockquote>
Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA) chief executive officer Sifiso Ndlovu said that teachers had to take soft loans for them to be able to return to their work stations ahead of the second term. Said Ndlovu:
<blockquote>We have had to advance soft loans to teachers so they can get back to work. They have been impoverished and you don’t get such kind of dedication to duty from anywhere in the world.
Our members are ready to serve their country. The employer must meet their end of the bargain.
In terms of responsiveness, if we compare, I can say yes we have a more responsive government.
However, I must hasten to say it is no use or even more dangerous if we have a government that listens but then does nothing.</blockquote>
The ZIMTA boss was speaking on the same programme with Majongwe.
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You 'Listen' But Do Nothing, Teachers Warn Govt Of Dangers Ahead

The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe secretary-general Raymond Majongwe has called on the government to suspend school activities in areas that have been badly hit by Tropical Cyclone Idai. Said Majongwe:
<blockquote>The PTUZ requests the government to suspend all school activities in the Cyclone ldai hit areas. Devastated schools that have lost kids and buildings need time to recover. We also note some of the buildings are now very old putting kids at very high risk.</blockquote>
Some districts in Manicaland Province, particularly Chimanimani and Chipinge, as well as parts of Masvingo province have been badly affected by the cyclone.
31 people have been confirmed dead due to the weather hazard and scores are missing.
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PTUZ Urges Govt To Suspend School Activities In Tropical Idai Affected Areas

The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has warned the government that the first term will not end well if the latter fails to give in to the teachers’ demand that salaries should be hiked to $3 000.
PTUZ secretary general Raymond Majongwe said that teachers have now run out patience. Said Majongwe:
<blockquote>If they do not accede to this demand of $3 000, the government must realise that they are killing education because teachers will be moonlighting and doing other things, instead of teaching and definitely there will be another strike.
We can promise that this school term will not end on good terms if the government continues to bury its head in the sand and declares war on its workers. Teachers are suffering and they have been patriotic enough. Forewarned is forearmed.
We expect government and its functionaries to be humane, sober and honest. We did not suspend our strike from a position of weakness, and the government should not test our resolve. We have the capacity to cripple the education sector.</blockquote>
Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (ZIMTA) president Sifiso Ndlovu agreed with his PTUZ counterpart:
<blockquote>We deserve to have an increment and restoration of our purchasing power. This means we are now going back to the negotiation table with a figure of more than $3 000. We were told that in April, they will increase salaries by $120, which is not enough and will not motivate employees.</blockquote>
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This Term Will Not End On Good Terms - Teachers Warn Govt

Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe secretary-general Raymond Majongwe said that teachers should be paid $3 000 monthly salaries.
Majongwe castigated the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ), for pegging the family basket at $800 for a family of six. Said Majongwe:
<blockquote>If anything, the RTGS$ pegged at 1:2,5 has further impoverished teachers, and further, the current CCZ family of six bread basket pegged at $800 is a fraud. We feel, as a union, that the figure cannot be less than $2 000 after we made our calculations.
The truth is that six people cannot survive on $800 per month, and that is a scandal, which shows that the CCZ is dancing to the whims of government and is not telling the truth and is lying to the people.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2019/03/civil-servants-demand-3k-salary/">Newsday</a></h4>

Teachers Demand $3 000 Monthly Salaries

The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), says the move taken by the government to deduct from the leave days of teachers who took part in a week-long strike in January is in an attack on the educators.
PTUZ secretary general Raymond Majongwe had this to say:
<blockquote>Once again the government is bracing to launch an attack on teachers. The Apex Council gave a strike notice. We’re surprised the government is saying notice was not given.
Punishing these suffering teachers will negatively affect service delivery. The PTUZ position on this is very clear. The government is doing a public kangaroo hearing.
There’s what’s called due process. Instead of writing these statements, they should be discussing serious issues with unions. This they will never win. Teachers are not soldiers.</blockquote>
In a statement released on Wednesday, the Public Service Commission said:
<blockquote>The PSC has noted isolated cases of abscondment by about 10,200 teachers for durations ranging from one to four days between 5 and 8 February 2019. The PSC would like to advise all those who were absent from work without authority that deductions from their leave days using the principle of ‘no work, no pay’ will be affected.</blockquote>
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Unions Fume Over Govt Decison To Punish StrikingTeachers

The Public Service Commission (PSC) is set to deduct the leave days for about 10 200 teachers who embarked on industrial action earlier this month.
The teachers took part in a week-long industrial action called for by the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) and the Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA).
A statement released by the PSC reads as follows:
<blockquote>The Public Service Commission has noted isolated cases of abscondment by about 10 200 teachers for durations ranging from 1 to 4 days between 5 – 8 February 2019.
The Public Service Commission would like also to advise all teachers who were absent from work without authority that deductions from their leave days (of the offending individuals) using the principle of no work no pay will be affected.
The commission is treating the 10200 as first offenders and a repeat will attract more severe punishment.</blockquote>
ZIMTA chief executive officer, Sifiso Ndlovu said that the government should give teachers an opportunity to argue their case. He said:
<blockquote>It is within their purview to act as such, but it is also in the purview of the teachers to act in the manner they did. They have a right to be heard.
If their decision is just a statement, for now, let it remain one. The teachers must be found guilty first before they are penalized.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="http://www.cite.org.zw/govt-punishes-striking-teachers/">CITE</a></h4>

Govt To Deduct From Leave Days Of Striking Teachers

The Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) defended its decision to end the strike by teachers. It made the decision citing safety concerns for its members.
PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou told Southern Eye that the union’s members could have lost their February salaries if they had persisted with the strike. Said Zhou:
<blockquote>The purpose of a trade union is to advance the interests of members and defend any gains made.
Having advanced the interests of our members in a spirited two–days turn-up a week, one-day turn-up and four days stay away, the employer targeted our entrenched hardcore fighters for decimation.
The strategy was simply to withhold their February salaries. As much as we could have appealed to the courts against such a move, the wheels of justice do not turn so fast in Zimbabwe.
One of the reasons for suspending the industrial action was in order to protect our hardcore members, who were in their trenches and were about to be sprayed with poison gas.</blockquote>
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PTUZ Called Off Teachers' Strike For Fear Of Losing February Salaries

Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe secretary-general Raymond Majongwe has castigated The Herald for what he calls its tendency to “marinate” stories. Majongwe’s sentiments followed the PTUZ and the Zimbabwe Teachers’ Union’s (ZIMTA) decision to call off a trike that had been ongoing for a week.
Majongwe also said that the unions have a deal with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education which is outside the Apex Council, the union that represents all civil servants. He also hailed the newly-found togetherness between PTUZ and ZIMTA. Said Majongwe:
<blockquote>The Herald always marinates its stories. Truth is teachers will start work tomorrow. The government conceded there was a strike. We will now Dialogue as a Sector outside the Apex Council. We live to fight another day. Teachers’ lives were are risk out there. We never sold out.
… We have a deal with MOPSE, the PSC and the Ministry of Finance that there will be an urgent meeting this week to handle our issues as the education sector. Like all compromises, it leaves extremists on both sides dissatisfied. But as a Union, we are happy with the progress.
As the PTUZ, we maintain that the struggle has not been sold, nor has it been compromised. History will absolve us of any blame. Read our lips: the teaching profession will emerge from this stronger.
We are also happy with our newfound unity with ZIMTA. Our ideological unity is for keeps. Our disagreements belong in the past. The ideological unity of these two unions signifies the unity of teachers. Our opponent is cunning and cannot be fought by divided teachers.
If reports that the Public Service Commission intends to harass our members with half-baked charges, we can assure them that we will meet them halfway. Reneging on a deal won’t be tolerated now and in the future. We have a duty to protect our members by any means necessary.</blockquote>
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Teachers Have A Deal With Govt Outside The Apex Council - Majongwe

The government held crunch meetings with teachers on Friday night in a bid to end the week-long teachers’ strike. This comes as teachers unions claimed that over 80 per cent of their members were on strike.
Teachers have been on strike since February 5 over poor salaries. In meetings held previously, the government said that it had no capacity to pay salaries in US dollars or to raise them significantly.
Speaking to Newsday on Friday, Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe confirmed the meeting. He said:
<blockquote>Apparently, things have changed with regards to the future of our struggle. We are meeting with the government tonight.
The reason for the meeting is to see how best we can salvage this situation. We have been saying we want to engage the government and the fact that they have (agreed) to meet the education sector, which is on strike, the meeting will liberate ourselves.
We can’t pretend that things are right. Pupils need to learn yes, but teachers also need to be able to care for their families. We are saying time for dialogue is now.</blockquote>
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Govt, Teachers' Representatives In Crunch Meeting In Bid To End Strike

Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary general Raymond Majongwe bemoaned the harassment of teachers in different schools across the country.
Teachers have been on strike since the 5th of February and there have been reported threats of intimidation from state agents, Ministry of Education officials as well as party functionaries.
Writing on social media on Friday morning, Majongwe said;
<blockquote>I have hundreds of teachers raising issues of threats from the system. Once again our issues are labour based. Nothing political. Teachers are being threatened and bullied out there. It’s so unfair.</blockquote>
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Hundreds Of Teachers Threatened Countrywide Over Ongoing Strike - Majongwe

The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA) and the Progressive Teachers Union Of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) have issued a joint statement calling for the intensification of the strike which started on February 5.
The unions revealed that at least 80 per cent of their members are already on strike.
The unions have bemoaned the harassment of their members by Ministry functionaries and state security agents as well as by political activists.
The unions called for their members not to set foot at schools on February 8. The warned the government to stop intimidating teachers and threatened to take legal action against harassment.
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FULL TEXT: PTUZ, ZIMTA Call On Members To Intensify Strike On Friday, February 8

The Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) on Wednesday claimed that more teachers had joined the ongoing strike.
PTUZ secretary-general Raymond Majongwe said that despite a slow start, more teachers had now joined the strike. Said Majongwe:
<blockquote>The numbers have actually increased since yesterday (Tuesday).
More schools have joined in and our message is that if the government is really serious, they must come and talk.</blockquote>
Teachers Unions called on their membership to go on strike starting on February 5. There have been conflicting reports on the effectiveness of the strike with the government, on one hand, claiming that teachers had ignored the call while the unions claim that the majority of the teachers had heeded the call.
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More Teachers Join Ongoing Industrial Action - PTUZ

Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe president Takavafira Zhou told Newsday that youth and other political party functionaries have been moving around schools intimidating teachers. He said:
<blockquote>Youths and other political party functionaries are also visiting schools and demanding names of teachers absent from schools. We remind such rogue elements that schools are institutions of teaching and learning.
At any rate, no amount of threats or brutality will end the industrial action, but the sober engagement of union leaders by the government.
We also remind school heads that they have signed the Official Secrecy Act and are not allowed to release any information to anyone on the participation of teachers in the industrial action except Ministry of Education officials.</blockquote>
Teachers’ unions on Thursday resolved to embark on a nationwide strike to force the government to pay them in US dollars or alternatively to increase their salaries. The strike started on Monday (yesterday).
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Party Youths Moving Around Schools Intimidating Teachers - PTUZ President

Almost all teachers’ unions have declared that their members will today go on strike demanding a pay rise. The Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) said its members have been on strike since schools opened for the new term in January.
The two biggest teachers’ unions in the country, Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (ZIMTA) and the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) announced on Thursday that they will commence an industrial action on February 5 (today).
In a press statement on Monday, PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou said:
<blockquote>All teacher unions are embarking on strike starting tomorrow [today], minus Zinatu. We have received reports of intimidation by Zanu PF and some [Central Intelligence Organisation operatives] CIOs. We have people who are going to schools telling our teachers that if they don’t report for duty, they will be fired. But we are happy that the resolve among our people is very high.
Nine teachers’ unions, which fall under the Federation of Zimbabwe Educators’ Union — PTUZ, Zimta, Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union, Zimbabwe Democratic Teachers’ Union and Professional Educators’ Union of Zimbabwe are now on strike. We have been joined by Zimbabwe Rural Teachers’ Union and others.</blockquote>
Only one teachers’ union, the Zimbabwe National Teachers’ Union (ZINATU) has not indicated its intention to join the strike. 
The strike comes after talks between the government and teachers’ union broke down after the former had indicated that it will not raise its 10 per cent wage rise payable from April onwards.
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Teachers To Embark On Nationwide Strike Over Poor Salaries

Zimbabwe Teachers Union (ZIMTA) officials have been accused of forcing teachers in Binga and Tsholotsho to bunk lessons and join a strike set to start on February 5.
TheChroniclee reports that the move is politically motivated as suspected MDC officials are using the ZIMTA branded vehicles to intimidatte teachers to heed the call to go on strike.
Tsholotsho Rural District Council chairperson councillor Manger Sobane revealed that ZIMTA is indeed active in the area. He said:
<blockquote>Zimta deployed vehicles and personnel into the district and their mission was to close schools. On Wednesday these officials were forcing our teachers to stop teaching and go home.
What bothered us is we knew that Government was in talks with civil servants regarding their salaries, so we don’t expect these officials to act that way.</blockquote>
However, ZIMTA said that it was not coercing teachers to go on strike, but rather, moving around communicating the organisation’s plans to go on strike next week. ZIMTA chief executive officer Mr Sifiso Ndlovu had this to say:
<blockquote>I do not know of such allegations of our officials forcing teachers out of schools. I believe the visits could have been discussing memos signed by Zimta and PTUZ and passing on the message as discussed that we are going on industrial strike on the 5th of this month.</blockquote>
On Thursday the Zimbabwe Teachers’ union and the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe issued a joint statement announcing their intention to go on strike starting on February 5.
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ZIMTA Accused Of Forcing Teachers To Go On Strike

The Progressive Teachers’ Union Of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) and the Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (ZIMTA) issued a joint statement on Thursday stating their intention to go on strike.
They accused the government of failing to resolve their grievances after giving it ample time to do so. They rejected out of hand what they consider meagre salary adjustment and cushioning allowance. They termed it ‘a slap in the face’.
They resolved that starting from February 5 2019, members of the two unions will embark on collective job action. The unions added that form the date, their members will not be reporting for duty due to incapacitation.
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PTUZ, ZIMTA Announce Teachers' Strike Starting On February 5, 2019

Teachers’ Union leaders have reportedly received death threats from anonymous people as they push for a nationwide strike against poor working conditions.
In an interview with Newsday PTUZ president, Takavafira Zhou revealed that teachers have nothing to fear. He said:
<blockquote>The merchants of violence have resorted to threats directed against PTUZ leadership, with threats that they can burn us in our homes at night. Most of the threats are directed at secretary-general, Raymond Majongwe, with some such claiming to be untouchables. Our message is very clear, that we do not eat threats. We have nothing to fear except fear itself.</blockquote>
Raymond Majongwe, president of the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe had this to say:
<blockquote>Necessary measures have been taken to report the cases against the rogue elements, some of whom claim to be connected to a Chegutu notorious politician.
Let it be known that you don’t shoot at the messenger, but at the message. Our message is clear that teachers are starving. Anyone who doubts this must visit a teacher’s house and his/her children. No amount of threats and vilification will stop PTUZ leaders from amplifying the legitimate labour demands by teachers.</blockquote>
Teachers have resolved to break ranks with the rest of the civil service. While other government workers have developed cold feet over embarking on industrial action, teachers have decided to go on strike starting next week.
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'Merchants Of Violence' Issue Death Threats To  Teachers' Union Leaders Over Calls For Nationwide Strike

Firebrand trade unionist, secretary general of the  Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), Raymond Majongwe says that civil servants are now questioning themselves if it was a good idea supporting the ouster of former President Robert Mugabe in a popular military coup in November 2017. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday, Majongwe said:
<blockquote>As a country, the civil servants and everyone, we had hoped for a positive change. People are now questioning themselves whether it was the right decision they made.
None the less, history will not change; we remain positive about the future and we will continue to fight. We must fight to correct the situation we have found ourselves in
We really expect the change of political fortunes in 2023 but right now we are stuck with this government.</blockquote>
In November 2017, the military intervened directly in ZANU PF’s factional fights, resulting in the ouster of Mugabe. Mugabe’s ouster was cheered widely by the general citizenry but of late there has been nostalgia for the former President. The economy has nosedived in recent months as prices of goods and services have skyrocketed beyond the reach of many.
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