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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Teachers\u2019 unions have rejected claims by ZANU PF that they were being funded by \u201chostile\u201d embassies to destabilise the country\u2019s education system.<\/p>\n

A report by the ZANU PF central committee submitted to the party\u2019s 7th National People\u2019s Congress held recently claimed that teachers were being paid by \u201chostile\u201d embassies to continue with strikes.<\/p>\n

However, unions representing teachers have hit back at ZANU PF, saying the ruling party was trying to find a scapegoat for its alleged failures.<\/p>\n

Over the past few years, teachers and other civil servants have been pressing the government to restore the pre-October 2018 salary of US$540.<\/p>\n

Speaking to NewsDay<\/b>, Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president Obert Masaraure said:<\/p>\n

ZANU PF has no solutions to the education crisis and it is desperately trying to scapegoat unions for its failures.<\/p>\n

At ARTUZ, we are seized with coming up with solutions to the education crisis. We recently published an alternative financing model for public education.<\/p>\n

We hope the ruling party will engage with the document and we won\u2019t be dragged into ZANU PF\u2019s shadowboxing.<\/p>\n

The country is desperate for leadership and the party should stop complaining about foreigners and start leading.<\/p>\n

Educators Union of Zimbabwe president Tafadzwa Munodawafa said ZANU PF was misinformed. Said Munodawafa:<\/p>\n

We do not know who misinforms ZANU PF as a party and we refuse to be drawn into politics.<\/p>\n

We are not worried about who the ruling party of this country is. What we do, as unions, is to represent the issues that affect our members.<\/p>\n

We are a professional body whose members simply want the employer to pay us a living wage and to stop inflicting labour rights abuses thereby setting the correct example to all employers in the industry in general.<\/p>\n

My advice is that those responsible for information dissemination to all organisations, departments, or individuals on issues that concern educators have the responsibility of doing the proper thing as education is a sensitive nerve of any country.<\/p>\n

It should be treated with utmost sincerity as we risk killing this profession for future generations.<\/p>\n

The children we are teaching right now don\u2019t desire to become teachers based on how the profession is being treated.<\/p>\n

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