All workers should be paid in foreign currency

Teachers are demanding that they be paid US$1 200. Awarding salary
increments in local currency is no longer an option given the
dollarization of the Zimbabwean economy. The education sector has been
adversely affected by skills flight as a result of low remuneration.
Our children have not been going to school since third term started but
those in Grade 7, O' level and those doing Advanced level were required
to write examinations despite the fact that they have not been learning
since the beginning of the year. 

Teachers have been on indefinite strike but there has been a deafening
silence from government' and only piecemeal solutions are being
offered. The ZCTU demands that all workers, teachers included, be paid
their wages in foreign currency as the shops that workers buy from,
sell their good in US$.  

Workers from all industries will soon join teachers, nurses and doctors
in national action as the situation has become unbearable. The ZCTU
demands that all wages be paid in forex or the foreign currency shops
are done away with, forthwith. Workers should prepare for national
action, as we are now saying enough is enough!

Wellington Chibebe