Schools opening dates: Clear pathway towards failure. 26 August 2021 Yesterday 25 August 2021, government nicodemously announced that schools will open on 30 August 2021. The announcement was backed by a claim that preparations for schools had been done extensively. The vague claim of preparations does not speak to teacher preparedness to teach, learner preparedness to learn, […]
Salary increment narrative: A ploy to rig fair wage perception. 24 July 2021 The government of Zimbabwe, under the fiscal management of Professor Mthuli Ncube, has developed a knack of manufacturing a non existent reality. A notion of economic improvement is consistently reinforced into people’s minds through both reengineering of facts and relentless propaganda. Unfortunately those who […]
14 May 2021 Cdes, members of the union I hope this correspondence finds you well. I write to you at a time when the conditions of service continue to deteriorate and the employer continues to renege on her responsibility of ensuring that Educators serve in an environment that is conducive and are well remunerated. It […]
09 February 2021 The 9.7% drop in the zimsec 2020 grade seven pass rate from the 46.9% in 2019 has raised a red flag on how our education system has delapidated, the analysis of the grade seven results reflects the level of depreciation being suffered by our education system. Indeed there is a crisis in […]
06 February 2021 ARTUZ notes with shock the irresponsible insinuation uttered by one Jamwanda whom we understand is George Charamba to the effect that teachers are responsible for some dismal Grade 7 results in some schools across the country. The fact that Mr Charamba does not understand the dynamics, ins and outs, intimacies and intricacies […]
06 February 2021 Education is the only key from misery to hope, from instability to stability, from poverty to success but the reflections from the recently published pass rate statistics of the grade seven results leaves a lot to be desired. The statistics reflect a dangerous precedent that has been set by the education ministry […]
28 January 2021. Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ in collaboration with Zimbabwe National Students Union, ZINASU and people’s movements People Power and the Poverty Liberation Movement, PLM has declared 29 January as day of action for education. Citizens across the world will be joining hands under the #SaveOurEducationZW campaign demanding solutions to the […]
28 January 2021 Revolutionary greetings comrades we are living in difficult, trying and abnormal times, Covid19 is causing so much distress to an already distressed society, the nation we call Zimbabwe, our pride and joy. Alas the pride that used to exist is no longer there just a memory and the joy has already deserted […]
05 February 2021 The need to cushion government employees is of immediate concern and importance as it serves to help in this current inflationary and unpredictable economic environment. However when it comes with a lot of disputable and unclear conditions then the civil servants deserves to speak out. The idea of making salary deductions compulsory […]
25 January 2020 The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe is shocked, appalled and dismayed by the high level of arrogance, ignorance and recklessness of the statement that emanated from the Zimta Offices issued by one Sifiso Ndlovu. This statement calling for the opening of schools when the country is undergoing a serious wave of […]
