{"id":45871,"date":"2021-08-30T20:45:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=45871"},"modified":"2021-08-30T18:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T16:34:55","slug":"teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called on the government to give teachers a financial rescue package that will sustain them until their next payday.<\/p>\n

In a statement this Monday, PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou said teachers are willing to report for duty but are financially incapacitated and therefore they cannot travel to their workstations. Said Zhou:<\/p>\n

As PTUZ, we appeal to Government to mellow down to a more constructive approach, permeable to reason and facts.<\/p>\n

Government must urgently offer teachers a rescue package that can take them to the next payday.<\/p>\n

However, by the end of a time-framed short period, Government can commit itself to provide a panacea to teachers\u2019 legitimate concern over the restoration of the purchasing power parity of their salaries.<\/p>\n

Without such an envisaged rescue package it will be mission impossible for many teachers to report for work.<\/p>\n

Teachers\u2019 incapacitation is real and government must bail out teachers.<\/p>\n

Zhou bemoaned the government\u2019s failure to restore the purchasing power parity of teachers\u2019 salaries since October 2018.<\/p>\n

Teachers want US$540 per month or its equivalent in Zimbabwe dollars, a demand government officials have consistently dismissed as unrealistic. Added Zhou:<\/p>\n

The November 2020 promises to redress teachers\u2019 salary anomalies by January 2021 were high sounding nothing, and even the extension of such promises to June 2021 failed to materialise.<\/p>\n

Teachers are parents too, and with some earning as little as $21000 this month, we wonder how government expect them to pay school fees as high as $62000 in government schools this term.<\/p>\n

Teachers are ready to report for work even if they are given a mere rescue package to enable them to function up to payday when we expect the government to holistically resolve the long-standing challenges facing teachers.<\/p>\n

The ball is, therefore, in Government\u2019s hands, to positively intervene, engage teacher unions, pay a rescue package and ensure the successful opening of schools.<\/p>\n

Schools opened their doors for examination classes, that is, Grade Seven, Form Four and Form Six, today and the rest will resume classes on 6 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called on the government to give teachers a financial rescue package that will sustain them until their next payday. In a statement this Monday, PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou said teachers are willing to report for duty but are financially incapacitated and therefore they cannot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":45870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,599,234,89,3379,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-45871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-ptuz","14":"tag-salaries","15":"tag-teachers","16":"tag-teachers-salaries","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nTeachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called on the government to give teachers a financial rescue packa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called on the government to give teachers a financial rescue packa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-30T18:45:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-30T16:34:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-612d08943af3c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt\",\"name\":\"Teachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-612d08943af3c.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-30T18:45:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-30T16:34:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\"},\"description\":\"The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called on the government to give teachers a financial rescue packa ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-612d08943af3c.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-612d08943af3c.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":750,\"caption\":\"Teachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Teachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Teachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt - zimbabwe","description":"The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called on the government to give teachers a financial rescue packa ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Teachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt","og_description":"The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called on the government to give teachers a financial rescue packa ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2021-08-30T18:45:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-08-30T16:34:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":750,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-612d08943af3c.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt","name":"Teachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-612d08943af3c.jpg","datePublished":"2021-08-30T18:45:44+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-30T16:34:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4"},"description":"The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called on the government to give teachers a financial rescue packa ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-612d08943af3c.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-612d08943af3c.jpg","width":1000,"height":750,"caption":"Teachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-request-for-a-rescue-package-from-govt#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Teachers Request For A Rescue Package From Govt"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}