{"id":692025,"date":"2019-08-26T13:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) who were arrested on Friday were on Saturday granted bail by a Harare Magistrate after spending a night in police holding "},"modified":"2019-08-26T13:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:19:17","slug":"zimbabwe-artuz-protestors-granted-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/26\/zimbabwe-artuz-protestors-granted-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Artuz Protestors Granted Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers&#8217; Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) who were arrested on Friday were on Saturday granted bail by a Harare Magistrate after spending a night in police holding cells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The unionists, who included human rights lawyer Douglas Coltart who says he was mistaken for a protester and beaten was among those who were granted $50 bail each with conditions attached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">ARTUZ organised the picketing in protests against poor salaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Government is in negotiations with the Apex Council the body that represents all civil servants and last week offered a 76% salary increase that would take the lowest paid government worker to just over $1000 a month far below what is being demanded.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Civil servants want the lowest paid worker to get the equivalence of US$475 monthly salary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Police reportedly wanted the accused to pay $20 fine for criminal nuisance but Magistrate Nyasha Vhitorini ruled that the suspects will appear in court on October 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Police on Friday morning arrested nine ARTUZ members including its president Obert Masaraure as well as NewZimbabwe.com reporter Leopold Munhende who was later released without charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The teachers were dressed in black as they said were &#8220;mourning the deaths of their salaries&#8221; which they argue has been eroded by inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Apex Council in a statement Friday said it would consult its members on the offer by government. Reports however indicated government has adopted a take-it-or-leave it stance regarding the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">A meeting of the National Joint Negotiating Forum at which government representatives meet workers is likely to decide matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Teachers have threatened to withdraw labour before the opening of the third term which could jeophardise examination classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">There have been media reports that government is mulling roping in the army as invigilators.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers&#8217; Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) who were arrested on Friday were on Saturday granted bail by a Harare Magistrate after spending a night in police holding cells. 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