Takavafira Zhou

Troubled escalating deductions on their payslips in an unfavourable economic environment, teachers have handed President Emmerson Mnangagwa a list of 16 loan sharks whom they allege are swindling them.
Read More...

Teachers have demanded payment from the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) for invigilating public examinations. Invigilation has always been deemed part of teachers’ duties so they have not been getting paid for it.
Read More...

Fearful teachers have claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has dispatched public service and education officials to schools across the country, whom they suspect to be intelligence officials on surveillance missions, ahead…
Read More...

The crisis meeting between government and teachers’ unions ended in deadlock yesterday after government only offered them a 10 percent increment against their demand of a 100 percent hike.
Read More...

Teachers’ unions have given their employer up to end of day today to hike their salaries and allowances as well as resolving other pending welfare issues or risk a crippling strike action tomorrow, the Daily News can report.
Read More...

Teachers have threatened to go on strike to force Government to rescind a decision that was taken in 2016 to withdraw vacation leave for educators as formal efforts to come up with a solution have failed.
Read More...

Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou has implored government to create content and material that is in all the 16 official languages recognised under the new Constitution.
Read More...

The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has approached the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to negotiate waiver of import duty on cars and goods bought outside the country by teachers living with disabilities.
Read More...

Three quarters of the 8 600 schools in Zimbabwe do not have electricity and computers, making it extremely difficult to implement the new education curriculum, a teachers’ union has said.
Read More...

Teachers are threatening to go on strike next week as they are accusing the Government of failing to come up with the exact date when they would be paid their 13th cheque.
Read More...