Members of the Apex Council — the voice of the civil servants — remained adamant that their employer should pay their salaries in the elusive foreign currency or face a crippling industrial action. Members of the Apex Council — the voice of the civil servants — remained adamant that their employer should pay their salaries in the elusive foreign currency or face a crippling industrial action.
Progressive Teachers Union in Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe said it was disappointing that teachers left the meeting empty handed.
“All we did was raising our issues — the teachers concerns and government cannot blame us for not showing up,” said the militant PTUZ boss.
“All they could tell us was that dialogue will continue but we have had dialogue for too long a time hence our most important point that we are putting across is that teachers are too incapacitated to return and turn up for duty (today).
“So as far as we are concerned, the workers will decide the way forward as the meeting was just promises, promises and the lectures that we have always had from the Reserve Bank and economic departments of the ministries and nothing concrete,” fumed Majongwe.
There is a limit to how much deceitful bluffing one can do and get away with it. In Zimbabwe, that limit was reached a long time ago. Teachers are getting 500 Bond Notes a month convert that to US$ at 3:1 gives US$166. So to get the teachers to the poverty datum line of US$650 per month government will have to pay them another US$484. A 291% salary increase for the civil servants is unlikely.
Zanu PF will never admit that is has failed and has no clue what to do to get the nation out of the mess. All the party knows is how to rig elections and stay in power regardless of the democratic wishes of the people. We need to do is put our foot down and demand the restoration of the people’s meaningful vote. It is wholly unacceptable that Zanu PF should hold the nation to ransom.
“This is not about a Zanu PF or government issue alone. It is about all Zimbabweans having to put our heads together to get the country going. The workers who are striking are not demanding to be paid by Zanu PF but by government and the employer is engaging them now so it will be unfair to say government has failed now. We cannot pre-empt what the outcome will be,” Simon Khaya Moyo, the ruling party’s spokesperson, told the Daily News yesterday. Poor Khaya-Moyo the reality that Zanu PF has failed and cannot think of the way out is finally dawning on him! He once boasted that Zanu PF will rule until donkeys have horns and now that is looking increasingly unlikely!
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Poor Africa how can we make progress on anything when we cannot even make progress on something as basic as the holding of free, fair and credible elections!
Zimbabwe is stuck with a corrupt anf tyrannical regime, and has been for the last 38 years, because of the failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF has rigged elections in the past and the nation, fearful of the regime's violent reaction has never dared to challenge the vote rigging and opted to appease the regime by letting the party rule. It was a big mistake and the nation has paid dearly for it.
Zanu PF greed for power and wealth has been insatiable and brought economic ruin to the nation. Today the nation stands on the very edge of the abyss with unemployment a nauseating 90%, basic services such as clean running water and health care all but collapsed and 75% of the population living on US$1.00 or less.
To get out of the political and economic mess Zimbabwe is in the nation needs to revisit the issue of elections and insist on the restoration of the people's freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote. We must say no to rigged elections and mean it.
Zanu PF rigged last year's elections, the party has no mandate to govern and it must step down!
Mr Charamba said Cde Mnangagwa, who is the ambassador for maternal and child health, has been involved in humanitarian work for a long time and no amount of name-calling will change her unique character.
Zimbabwe is facing total economic meltdown because of 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule. Auxilia Mnangagwa is First Lady only because her husband rigged the elections and not for the first time. Of course, she knows that her husband and Zanu PF have been rigging elections and even killed over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain the Zanu Pf dictatorship.
Zimbabwe’s health care has all but collapsed; the Mnangagwas and all the other chefs have stopped using the local hospitals and clinics for their health care needs a long, long time ago. How ironic that Zanu PF is rigging the elections, denying the people a meaningful vote on who will rule the country and who will be the First Lady, for the purpose of imposing Auxilia Mnangagwa as First Lady and Ambassador of a collapsed maternal and child health service!
Recently, ZESA revealed that theft and vandalism has cost the power utility a total of $4.5 million since August last year.
Measured daily, at least three transformers were being stolen every night.
As a result, the country needed to replace a total of 4 000 transformers lost and damaged due to vandalism.
The country’s leaders are the biggest vandals and they have gone scot free all these years. With unemployment at 90% it is little surprise that some people have now turned to vandalism as a way of life and, no doubt, in the view of graduating and become a Zanu PF or MDC leader some day!
GOVERNMENT’S much-awaited meeting with civil servants representative groups on Monday failed to yield any meaningful outcome with some union leaders who were part of the indaba saying the event was turned into a boring lecture on economics by their employer.
The economic environment is not right for any meaningful economic recovery; there is corruptio, the country is still a pariah state, etc.; and whilst the economic meltdown remains on the cards there is little the government can do to improve anyone's life! It is no surprise that nothing meaningful came out of the meeting.
Members of the Apex Council — the voice of the civil servants — remained adamant that their employer should pay their salaries in the elusive foreign currency or face a crippling industrial action. Members of the Apex Council — the voice of the civil servants — remained adamant that their employer should pay their salaries in the elusive foreign currency or face a crippling industrial action.
ReplyDeleteProgressive Teachers Union in Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe said it was disappointing that teachers left the meeting empty handed.
“All we did was raising our issues — the teachers concerns and government cannot blame us for not showing up,” said the militant PTUZ boss.
“All they could tell us was that dialogue will continue but we have had dialogue for too long a time hence our most important point that we are putting across is that teachers are too incapacitated to return and turn up for duty (today).
“So as far as we are concerned, the workers will decide the way forward as the meeting was just promises, promises and the lectures that we have always had from the Reserve Bank and economic departments of the ministries and nothing concrete,” fumed Majongwe.
There is a limit to how much deceitful bluffing one can do and get away with it. In Zimbabwe, that limit was reached a long time ago. Teachers are getting 500 Bond Notes a month convert that to US$ at 3:1 gives US$166. So to get the teachers to the poverty datum line of US$650 per month government will have to pay them another US$484. A 291% salary increase for the civil servants is unlikely.
Zanu PF will never admit that is has failed and has no clue what to do to get the nation out of the mess. All the party knows is how to rig elections and stay in power regardless of the democratic wishes of the people. We need to do is put our foot down and demand the restoration of the people’s meaningful vote. It is wholly unacceptable that Zanu PF should hold the nation to ransom.
“This is not about a Zanu PF or government issue alone. It is about all Zimbabweans having to put our heads together to get the country going. The workers who are striking are not demanding to be paid by Zanu PF but by government and the employer is engaging them now so it will be unfair to say government has failed now. We cannot pre-empt what the outcome will be,” Simon Khaya Moyo, the ruling party’s spokesperson, told the Daily News yesterday.
ReplyDeletePoor Khaya-Moyo the reality that Zanu PF has failed and cannot think of the way out is finally dawning on him! He once boasted that Zanu PF will rule until donkeys have horns and now that is looking increasingly unlikely!
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ReplyDeletePoor Africa how can we make progress on anything when we cannot even make progress on something as basic as the holding of free, fair and credible elections!
Zimbabwe is stuck with a corrupt anf tyrannical regime, and has been for the last 38 years, because of the failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF has rigged elections in the past and the nation, fearful of the regime's violent reaction has never dared to challenge the vote rigging and opted to appease the regime by letting the party rule. It was a big mistake and the nation has paid dearly for it.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF greed for power and wealth has been insatiable and brought economic ruin to the nation. Today the nation stands on the very edge of the abyss with unemployment a nauseating 90%, basic services such as clean running water and health care all but collapsed and 75% of the population living on US$1.00 or less.
To get out of the political and economic mess Zimbabwe is in the nation needs to revisit the issue of elections and insist on the restoration of the people's freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote. We must say no to rigged elections and mean it.
Zanu PF rigged last year's elections, the party has no mandate to govern and it must step down!
Mr Charamba said Cde Mnangagwa, who is the ambassador for maternal and child health, has been involved in humanitarian work for a long time and no amount of name-calling will change her unique character.
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe is facing total economic meltdown because of 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule. Auxilia Mnangagwa is First Lady only because her husband rigged the elections and not for the first time. Of course, she knows that her husband and Zanu PF have been rigging elections and even killed over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain the Zanu Pf dictatorship.
Zimbabwe’s health care has all but collapsed; the Mnangagwas and all the other chefs have stopped using the local hospitals and clinics for their health care needs a long, long time ago. How ironic that Zanu PF is rigging the elections, denying the people a meaningful vote on who will rule the country and who will be the First Lady, for the purpose of imposing Auxilia Mnangagwa as First Lady and Ambassador of a collapsed maternal and child health service!
Recently, ZESA revealed that theft and vandalism has cost the power utility a total of $4.5 million since August last year.
ReplyDeleteMeasured daily, at least three transformers were being stolen every night.
As a result, the country needed to replace a total of 4 000 transformers lost and damaged due to vandalism.
The country’s leaders are the biggest vandals and they have gone scot free all these years. With unemployment at 90% it is little surprise that some people have now turned to vandalism as a way of life and, no doubt, in the view of graduating and become a Zanu PF or MDC leader some day!
GOVERNMENT’S much-awaited meeting with civil servants representative groups on Monday failed to yield any meaningful outcome with some union leaders who were part of the indaba saying the event was turned into a boring lecture on economics by their employer.
ReplyDeleteThe economic environment is not right for any meaningful economic recovery; there is corruptio, the country is still a pariah state, etc.; and whilst the economic meltdown remains on the cards there is little the government can do to improve anyone's life! It is no surprise that nothing meaningful came out of the meeting.