Dear Colleagues

RE: NATIONAL EXECUTIVE DECISION ON ZIMTA MEMBERS’ DECLARATION ON INCAPACITATED EDUCATORS

Introduction

1. This circular statement serves to give clarity on ZIMTA’s official position on the status of incapacitation by educators.
2. It is therefore a report on the decision made by National Executive on its meeting of 19 to 20 January 2019.

2. Decision Points

• Having noted that teachers in Zimbabwe have not received any meaningful adjustment from their employer on their incomes;
• Disturbed by the paltry award stabilisation allowance awarded and clothed as “Presidential Award”;
• Considering that the employer has demonstrated unwillingness to pay immediately the cost of living adjustments (COLA);
• Taking into account that the suggested COLA is proposed for April 2019;
• Aware that incapacitation is a state of the individual educators’ “personal economy”, and,
• Cognisant of the facts that the state of incapacitation can be removed by positive adjustments, that remove the shackles of incapacitation;
• ZIMTA National Executive then resolved as follows:
• Incapacitation is a state of being and a visitation by poverty and therefore elicits involuntary response;
• Without meaningful adjustments to the salaries and allowances, educators remain incapacitated;
• National Executive therefore strongly advices Government to listen to this voice and remove the shackles of incapacitation.