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World Teachers Day: October 05
Student Solidarity Trust
October 01, 2008

The Student Solidarity Trust joins hands with the Progressive Teacher's Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) and other strategic labour organizations in celebrating World Teacher's Day with the rest of the world community, in recognition of their invaluable contribution towards the enlightenment of mankind.

It is rather unfortunate that this noble and momentous occasion comes at a time when our education system is at an advanced degree of collapse, which deterioration can be attributed to a couple of factors chief among which has been just sheer neglect and lack of competent management on the part of the government.

As we speak, the situation has simply become pathetic, as teachers are no longer attending to their core business and have been on strike since schools opened doors this term. The reason behind this job action has been the lack of adequate remuneration which has basically reduced these once high caliber persons to practical beggars.

The situation has been particularly unbearable in institutions of higher learning that have virtually been unable to open doors to students because of viability problems and lecturers, who ideally can be regarded as part of the teaching fraternity have simply not set foot back at their respective campuses in protest of low wages and poor working conditions.

This has created a hazardous situation on the ground which is threatening to blow out of containment if urgent action is not taken by the government to redress this plight. It is a sad scenario when teachers have to commemorate such an important day on their calendar and indeed for the broader populace when jubilation should be in the air.

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