By Dr Takavafira Zhou
Zimbabwe. (News of The South) – Prof Mavima, the Minister of Public Service and Social Welfare, must forthwith stop behaving like a renegade Minister always negotiating in newspapers instead of engaging teacher representatives. In today’s Sunday mail he has pointed out that incapacitated teachers who would not report for work would not be paid their bonus.
We wonder why Minister Mavima chooses to go to a news paper instead of engaging teacher unions or at worst even taking it to the disgraceful NJNC. We want to remind Prof Mavima that he is fast becoming a liability than an asset, and that his behaviour must be consistent with that of a responsible Minister, let alone a Prof. *Dialogue is more productive than homiletic bellicose in news papers.
We want to remind Prof Mavima that he must stop trying to create unnecessary legal lacunas. It is gvt that incapacitated teachers and militating against their intention to report for work regularly. There is therefore no basis for failing to pay all incapacitated teachers their bonus. Prof Mavima must stand guided by fair labour practice not callousness and monumental Zimbabwean injustice.* Teachers will resist Prof Mavima’s commandist approach to labour issues* by all legal means possible.
Dr Takavafira M. Zhou (Ptuz President)
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