ARTUZ Media Statement|The Amalgameted Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ, yesterday joined other unions and associations in the street demonstration called for by the Apex Council. Protesters sang and danced with talking placards in the 100m stretch road. Speech after speech and contented labour slogans were order of the day.

The all -day long protest kept the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) armed -to -the teeth side on feet throughout the day. ARTUZ notes with great disgust over the deployment of armed security who were equivalent to the demonstrators, the abuse and sanctioing of the demonstration by the ZRP. The demonstration was a result of poor living conditions of the government employees as a result of employer’s failure to handle the untouchable hyperinflation which has subsequently eroded civil servans’ salaries.

All goods and services have since adopted the inter-bank pricing system but the salaries remained stagnant. It’s disappointing that the workers who fund the country’s revenue are disassociated from the economy at one end. Workers are suffering on the input side and the situation worsening at the output part. The malpractices by irresponsible Mnangagwa led government and captured Mthuli Ncube have already sent a heat wave of oversized prices on underaged salaries.

We’re, therefore, still warning the ZRP to be non-partisinal in discharging their duties. We’re all civil servants who will benefit from the struggle of a living wage. We don’t have guns but our right to demonstrate and deliver pettition to the employer. To the government, we’re merely your employees who are not power hungry, unarmed and don’t have any knowledge on to conduct a coup. We’re just fighting for a living wage: politics dzedumbu- incapacitation is on the increase.

Long live the struggle of a living wage
Shunga mushandi. Qina musebenzi.

ARTUZ MASH EAST INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
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