{"id":199922,"date":"2025-06-11T01:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-uz-lecturers-job-action-reaches-day-56-state-universities-to-join\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T01:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:13:49","slug":"zimbabwe-uz-lecturers-job-action-reaches-day-56-state-universities-to-join","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-uz-lecturers-job-action-reaches-day-56-state-universities-to-join\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: UZ Lecturers&#8217; Job Action Reaches Day 56, State Universities to Join"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">ALL state universities across Zimbabwe are set to join the ongoing University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturers&#8217; industrial action if salary demands are not met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The indefinite strike by UZ academic staff, which began on April 16, reached its 56th day on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The striking lecturers held their fifth demonstration on campus, vowing to continue the industrial action until their grievances are addressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">UZ lecturers are demanding a return to their pre-2018 salaries, when a junior lecturer earned US$2,250&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506100047.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>ALL state universities across Zimbabwe are set to join the ongoing University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturers&#8217; industrial action if salary demands are not met. The indefinite strike by UZ academic staff, which began on April 16, reached its 56th day on Monday. The striking lecturers held their fifth demonstration on campus, vowing to continue the [&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":[6394,258,256,7165,9679,7107,16804,257,6259,254,6017,18368,4686,421],"class_list":["post-199922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-day","tag-job","tag-join","tag-lecturers","tag-news","tag-reaches","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-universities","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199922","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=199922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199922\/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=199922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}