Educators remain incapacitated

ARTUZ notes that members and other educators have remained practically resolute in the face of incapacitation. We note some brazen threats and innuendo from the employer and some excitable misguided community members. Our position is clear. We are not on strike. This is not an industrial action. We are simply and realistically incapacitated. It is simply a physical and financial impossibility for us to function. That is the reality on the ground. Government is therefore advised to channel its energy towards finding a lasting solution to the predicament we find ourselves in. Threats and vindictiveness is not going to capacitate anyone. It is dubious and defective for the government to expect fear to capacitate us. We are afraid of hunger, indignity and poverty. We are certainly not afraid of our employer. We are not slaves.

Some misguided politicians like one Killer Zivhu are using our plight for their political objectives. Teachers can never be charity cases. Neither can we be turned into fishermen. Zivhu’s contempt of educators is however understandable considering his dismal performance in everything and anything academic. We advise Zivhu to consider checking in at the nearest mental healthcare centre if he honestly reckons that teachers are going to accept working on the basis of his misplaced philanthropy.

The Minister had promised to table our issue in cabinet. We have not heard anything material from him except to see him fast asleep on television in the said meeting. So cdes, we remain clear that we are incapacitated and we will not take any minute longer than is necessary to go back to the classroom as soon as we are capacitated.

The struggle continues.

Cde Robson Nikita Chere.