Teachers deserve better

THE arrest of at least 15 teachers for protesting poor salaries in Harare on Wednesday has once again cast the spotlight on the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to effectively address the perennial problem of poor working conditions for its workers.

The teachers, who are members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, were picked up while picketing in the city centre demanding to be paid United States dollar salaries.

This sorry episode comes as Zimbabwean teachers working in neighbouring South Africa this week applied for the South African Educators Council certificate as they desperately seek to extend their stay in the neighbouring country where their services are better appreciated and remunerated.

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