{"id":74502,"date":"2023-02-23T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T09:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/75-of-zimbabwean-teachers-experiencing-stress-related-challenges"},"modified":"2023-02-23T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:15:04","slug":"75-of-zimbabwean-teachers-experiencing-stress-related-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/75-of-zimbabwean-teachers-experiencing-stress-related-challenges","title":{"rendered":"\u201c75% Of Zimbabwean Teachers Experiencing Stress Related Challenges\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Three-quarters of Zimbabwean teachers are suffering from stress-related challenges due to poor salaries and working conditions, a report has shown.<\/p>\n

According to preliminary research findings by the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), at least 75% of Zimbabwean teachers are stressed.<\/p>\n

The findings further show that all teachers have mentally resigned from their jobs even though physically, they remain at their workplaces.<\/p>\n

PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou told NewsDay that the survey was conducted on a national level through zonal, district, and provincial discussions with several school representatives. Zhou said:<\/p>\n

Due to stress-related challenges, cases of conflict in schools have escalated, with 75% of teachers suffering from stress-related challenges leading to an increase in alcoholism and suicide cases.<\/p>\n

There is a need for urgent intervention by the government in order to protect the education system from total collapse and degeneration.<\/p>\n

Such a reprieve must ensure that teachers are paid a living wage as professionals.<\/p>\n

It is criminal to entrust the education system to angry, miserable and poorly-paid teachers.<\/p>\n

… The level of underpayment of teachers in Zimbabwe has reached an unprecedented scale.<\/p>\n

Teachers have fallen from grace to grass with monotonous regularity under the so-called new dispensation.<\/p>\n

Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president Obert Masaraure told NewsDay that a mental health crisis is brewing in the education sector. He said:<\/p>\n

Our schools are being manned by people who should be at rehabilitation centres.<\/p>\n

The surge in violence and drug abuse in schools is evidence of a deep-rooted mental health crisis.<\/p>\n

Teachers have been on sick leave from Monday to Wednesday nursing stress after the payday insult of February 17.<\/p>\n

Last year, teachers went on strike demanding the restoration of their pre-October 2018 salary of US$540 to make ends meet.<\/p>\n

According to the labour unions, teachers are currently earning below ZWL$50 000 and an additional US$200 in allowances.<\/p>\n

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