Monthly Archives: September 2011

Newsdzezimbabwe 28 September 2011 GOVERNMENT and teachers’ unions met in Harare yesterday and agreed that parents and guardians continue paying  incentives to the educators until a solution is hammered. The two parties agreed to convene an urgent all-stakeholders’ conference to determine whether or not to entirely abolish the incentives. The conference is slated for October […]

Sunday Independent  By Peta Thornycroft 28 September 2011 When Tendai Biti quips that he is a finance minister without any “finance”, his audience in a church hall in Harare nodded and smiled. They knew that when Biti went into the treasury for the first time as finance minister in 2009 he found his Zanu PF […]

VOA By Sithandekile Mhlanga in Washington 27 September 2011 Education Minister Coltart called the meeting after union leaders blamed him for maintaining a policy that produced inequality among teachers as those in rural areas do not receive incentives, and some parents can’t afford them Coltart said he hoped the stakeholders meeting on incentives will make recommendations […]

Newsday By Tangai Chipangura 27 September 2011 After exactly 28 years, I returned to my old school, Gokomere High School, last week. As I left the Harare-Masvingo Highway, driving up the gravel road to the school, the familiarity of the scenery gripped me so strongly it felt eerily like the clock had wound back 20 […]

Newsday Comment 26 September 2011 Zimbabwe’s teachers are among the least paid workers in the country and have, for years, fought losing battles for reconsideration and restoration of dignity to their profession. They earn around $300 per month, minus incentives – paid by parents and these benefit mostly teachers in urban areas. It is not only criminal […]

Herald By Felix Share 26 September 2011 EDUCATION, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart will tomorrow hold a crisis meeting with the three teachers’  unions to strike a “common ground” over the payment of incentives. Confirming the meeting yesterday, the minister dismissed claims by teachers’ unions that the incentive scheme was not a Public […]

If all our players had the lion heart of Tatenda Taibu we would be world beaters – took us within a whisker of beating Pakistan today # Methinks that Jonathan Moyo doth protest too much – about Wikileaks that is…what is said is said; what is done is done- just live with it # In […]

The Sunday Independent, South Africa By Peta Thornycroft 25 September 2011 When Tendai Biti quipped that he was finance minister without any “finance”, his audience in a church hall in Harare smiled knowingly. They knew that when Biti went into the treasury for the first time as finance minister in 2009, he found his Zanu-PF predecessor had […]

Sunday Mail By Itai Mazire 25 September 2011 THE Government has launched investigations into the operations and financial affairs of the country’s  three main teachers’ unions following allegations of misappropriation of US$7,6 million collected from teachers in membership fees annually. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart last week confirmed the launch of the […]

Herald 23 September 2011 THE introduction of incentives for teachers was a “serious miscalculation” by Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister, David Coltart, teachers’ unions have said. Unions officials yesterday said the incentives were not a Public Service Commission policy, but came as a result of Minister Coltart’s “insistence”. This comes as teachers in some […]