Today marks 100 days since University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturers embarked on an indefinite strike since April, protesting against low salaries – US$230 month (about R4000) for a whole professor – and poor working conditions at the country’s premier institution of higher learning In a development which further exposes government’s warped priorities and failure to attend to critical issues that really matter, UZ lecturers, under the leadership of the Association of University Teachers (AUT), have been pleading for dialogue to address the deteriorating issue which has crippled UZ The strike has seen temporary lecturers being hired for half-baked teaching sessions amid an emergence of academic fraud and corrupt activities Under Vice-chancellor Professor Paul Mapfumo, who was appointed in 2018 ahead of better candidates for the job – a scandal in itself, the UZ has been on a free-fall
The strike is a manifestation of a deep-seated crisis at the university, itself a reflection of national failure Originally published on NewsHawks
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