{"id":197407,"date":"2025-05-04T23:53:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chamisa-decries-lecturers-paltry-salaries-promises-a-pro-workers-govt\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T23:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T21:53:40","slug":"zimbabwe-chamisa-decries-lecturers-paltry-salaries-promises-a-pro-workers-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chamisa-decries-lecturers-paltry-salaries-promises-a-pro-workers-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chamisa Decries Lecturers&#8217; Paltry Salaries, Promises a Pro-Workers Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">OPPOSITION politician Nelson Chamisa has bemoaned the meagre salaries given to university lecturers, vowing to prioritise workers&#8217; issues once he takes charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturers have downed tools demanding a decent salary. A junior lecturer is taking home as little as $230 a month, which is not enough to cater for basic needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Poor remuneration is not only in the lecturers fraternity, as many of the country&#8217;s professionals are earning not more than US$300 per month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505020016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPPOSITION politician Nelson Chamisa has bemoaned the meagre salaries given to university lecturers, vowing to prioritise workers&#8217; issues once he takes charge. University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturers have downed tools demanding a decent salary. A junior lecturer is taking home as little as $230 a month, which is not enough to cater for basic needs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,17330,10717,4357,16804,257,34656,9343,51280,19058,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-197407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chamisa","tag-decries","tag-govt","tag-lecturers","tag-news","tag-paltry","tag-proworkers","tag-salaries","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}