This is Munyaradzi Gwisai addressing university lecturers, including professors at the University of Zimbabwe today in Harare. He is the legal advisor for the Association of University Teachers at the University of Zimbabwe and also a law lecturer at the same university. Gwisai said the strike by the academics... is not just about the lecturers, who earn US$230 (R4,181) a month, but also about the underpaid working class of Zimbabwe. RETWEET if you support their cause and strike!show more

Sorry to respond abstractly...thoughtmof dropping this by.....

Imagine if all the working class do this nationwide. The regime has to be brought down to its knees , while the Wicknells are busy stealing and benefiting from gvt facilitated corruption ,professionals are suffering.

This is good for society. Allow people to articulate their grievances 👌🏾 That's the only avenue through which forward movement is attained.

Meet Liam. School officials punished Liam for wearing a shirt that challenged the government’s narrative—a troubling example of free speech being censored. Don’t let your rights slip away. Get our FREE “Know Your Rights” guide and stand firm in your convictions.

If lecturers are earning that little what more Primary School teachers. Honestly asking how do people get by in Zimbabwe?

This is Dean of the Faculty of Law Dr Innocent Maja. He wrote to Law Lecturers discouraging them from participating in the Strike simply coz he is benefiting. He is one of the Deans who doesn’t want to be disturbed because he is getting “fuel allowances etc”. Shame on such men.

Back in 2004/5 when I was still at Chinhoyi University of Technology he represented us, members of the Workers' union for free after we had been summoned for disciplinary hearing

@MakomboreroH Yeah. Let's not just sit around! This is a call to action we need. Let's DEMAND what we WANT

If the professors are getting $230, I shudder to think what non-academic staff are getting. Being a former staffer my heart breaks 💔💔

I shout power 💪💪💪 . kare zvaidadisa mhani kunzi mwana waTeacher . I remember 2008 takanhonga navo wheat mumapurazi mateacher aya.

Eish!! Let’s be clear: no curriculum reform, however ambitious, can work when the conditions of the intellectual labourers—lecturers and researchers—are so degraded. You cannot expect innovation from hungry scholars. You cannot build a knowledge economy on broken spirits. You cannot preach “Education 5.0” while paying its champions less than a living wage. Gwisai is right—this is not just about salaries. It’s about the systemic undervaluing of the knowledge sector and the continued extraction of intellectual labor without investment. Without fair pay, academic freedom, research support, and professional dignity, Education 5.0 will remain a paper dream. You can’t industrialize with demoralized minds. You can’t innovate in institutions that are structurally starved. Before we talk about 5.0, let’s fix 1.0—basic justice for those who teach, think, and build.