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Teachers being forced to pay US$50 for Zanu PF event
Zhou argued that union business is voluntary and should not be mandatory.
By Lorraine Muromo
Sep. 28, 2025
Govt fails to release funds to recruit teachers
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister, Edgar Moyo, told Parliament last week that the Treasury has not released any funding to recruit teachers.
By Harriet Chikandiwa
Aug. 3, 2025
5 000 teachers quit in 2023: Ministry
PTUZ recently sent a delegation to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office requesting his intervention over salaries and other challenges bedevilling the education sector.
By Silas Nkala
Jun. 5, 2025
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Teachers plot to doorstep Mthuli
The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), which is organising the march, said educators were earning poverty wages and were incapacitated to report for work.
By Lorraine Muromo
May. 9, 2025
Govt shuns crucial teachers’ talks
PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou said government had ignored calls for dialogue to amicably resolve the impasse.
By Miriam Mangwaya and Nhau Mangirazi
Jan. 14, 2025
60% of pupils hungry, feel El Niño pinch
Most schools have been struggling to raise money to transport grain from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots as well as money to process the
grain.
By Lorraine Muromo
Oct. 1, 2024
Teachers divided over job action.
The Fozeu have declared industrial action when schools open tomorrow to press the government to pay teachers a minimum wage of US$1 260.
By Miriam Mangwaya
May. 5, 2024
Teachers reject meagre salary adjustment
Progressive Teacher’s Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe accused the government of disregarding the harsh realities faced by teachers.
By Sharon Buwerimwe
Mar. 16, 2024
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Govt fees policy chokes schools
NewsDay has established that schools had instituted various other unorthodox measures to force parents to pay fees which, however, violated children’s rights.
By Miriam Mangwaya
Jan. 12, 2024
