crucial resource.
They should be fairly compensated for their efforts. Many of them earn around Z$3 million a month – just enough to buy 10 litres of petrol. This is an insult.
Mugabe’s recent decree under the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Act, under which salary and price increases are banned, is not only insane – it is immoral. During the two months or so since the decree, Mugabe’s own salary has been increased from Z$62 million to Z$1.4 billion.
If Mugabe finds it difficult to survive on less than a billion a month – how does he expect teachers, and indeed most other Zimbabweans who are lucky enough to be employed, to survive on Z$3 million?
Workers anywhere in the world have the right to withdraw their labour and for the government, in the person of Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi, to threaten them with violence as has happened in the past is despicable.
Workers in Zimbabwe should unite and rally behind the ZCTU call for a two-day stayaway on September 19 and 20. What do they have to lose?
We need a new constitution
Zimbabwe’s much amended constitution is being tinkered with for the 18th time. As has been the case in the past, Zimbabweans were never consulted. They made no input and they will be faced with a rubber-stamped result that will serve to further entrench Mugabe as a dictator.
What Zimbabwe needs is a new constitution that will provide for a modern democracy – not a re-write of a substantially flawed instrument that has outlived its usefulness.
South Africa has a constitution that is respected throughout the world for its democratic provisions. That would be a good start.
Word:
“But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ – even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no-one can boast.” Ephesians 2: 4-10
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