UNZA lecturers go on strike
UNZA is infamous for strikes and riots. This photo by Thomas Nsama was taken during one of the upheavals at the supposedly highest learning institution in Zambia
University of Zambia (UNZA) lectures have gone on strike.
The Lecturers and Researchers resolved to go on strike starting today, Monday June 29, 2009.
The University of Zambia has just opened for a new academic year.
UNZA Lecturers and Researchers Union (UNZALARU) president Fenstone Mwape announced in Lusaka that his members have rejected the little money government is offering as increment.
Dr. Mwape said that no lecturer will be expected to offer any lecture or academic work from now onwards.
He said the go slow will remain if force until all the demands are addressed.
Dr. Mwape said his union wants government and UNZA management to engage in serious negotiations.
Dr. Mwape also demanded that all outstanding bills to union members be paid immediately.
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The recurring student and staff unrest, and inadequate funding by government to the institution is impacting negatively on the reputation of the university operations across the globe. Please, save our university twakomba!!
hi people,
i happen to have an interest in the strikes going on at your institution and would like to have the issue discussed on a local tele.
firstly is the strike justified?
pop me a line or two thanks.
UNZA grounds are in desperate need of a facelift. What used to be a beautifully mowed tuft of green grass with accompanying aloe of flowers is now literally a bare Kalahari desert.
We monkeys are angry and we have shown it publicly by peeing on their leader and chasing one of his cronies who nearly drowned. The only university in the region with strikes.
We monkeys are angry and we have shown it publicly by peeing on the leader and chasing one of his cronies who nearly drowned.
Are they also going to threaten to fire UNZA lecturers and employee zimbabwean lecturers. Lets wait and see
Ala Chakupapa.
Firstly demonstrations are a democratic right and they happen everywhere in the world only in zambia where we think its not right to demostrate… secondly as a former student i kno that unza is stuck in the past. The way its managed is terrible so much that even our degrees are not recognised ie they are not accredited. and its true that the lecturers are busy making money for themselves and are not innovative enough to change the face of unza which could not really be their fault because of the beauracracy that exists at the institution….
Iwe chi photographer, what do you mean ‘supposedly’? The last time I checked, UNZA was still the highest institution of learning in the country unless the Govt has constructed a uni which we are not aware of. I am not talking about those two colleges which were converted
The worst is not yet. This is just a drop in the ocean. The time is comming when Zambian people will say enough is enough and that day will be on the election day. The wind of change is blowing. History has repeated it self during Kaunda era we experience more strike than now.Something is wrong with GOVT.
Zambia now is a country of strikes.
ZW Welcome back. Good to have your news, I will tell friends-you are back! once again, thanks.
what you possess can only be know when its taken away from you. Watchodg you are such and am proud of you. i could not find anywhere the near truth about Zambia and it was so boring to read the post alone without your blend. i tried lusaka times oh dear its another times and daily mail. it has also joined the ranks of zamnet and zambia.com besides znbc and statehouse. your come back is great and we are ready even to pay if it means that a we do with the post.
Let them go ahead with the strike these lazy chaps who are just chewing money without making a diffrence in terms research products. On Lusaka Times I commented that the school of engineering, agricultue and vet have the potential to raise money for the UNZA if at all there is innovative leadership. School of engineering could go into construction, while school of agric could go into farming, whose products could end up on the international market; that is if what these people teach would work for them. UNZA has farms which can sustain the institution even up to a point of making GRZ to reduce funding to the institution. But thesereasearchers first want to receive money then start thinking about how to spend it instead of thinking of how to make money out of projects they venture in.
Sata is involved… no doubt
NSENGO. RB trouble starts now, wake up the hour has come to pack and go. Nurses and teachers started, now Lectures who is next, Police and Soldiers. What a shame wapya munzi ……
These are the same characters who have teaching us about the global economic crunch. Now they want to use students as a bargaining chip. Why didn’t they go on strike when the students were on vacation?
Congratulations on a well revamped website. When a general surrounds himself with toy soldiers, he has dug his own grave, for battles are won, not by the strong or tough men and women but by thinkers. Judge for youselves.
Thats sad. RB is the worst failure of a president we have ever had. NCC and MPs Gratuity is what is annoying the people. The opposition is in this too coz their tuma MPs also voted for the 11%. Thats what is annoying the monkeys !!
Zambians are a defeated people, we can’t fight for that which belongs to us. It’s a Shame , even politicians know this for a fact .We are a docile nation. No wonder we are a collection of tribes which were running from wars from the north, south,east and west of Africa. We are Defeatists, that’s why our politicians in this country take advantage of us because they know that we are not Militants to push for that which belongs to us at any given time. Let’s be like Iranians who have refused to be intimidated by the Ayatollah, the supreme leader who is more powerful than our politicians in ZED.
Well, well, well….
lets see if shikasomething will threaten to fire you as well. It is very sad indeed to see how government has decided to turn a blind eye to the suffering of its people. That is why even the monkeys are upset!
Here we go again. Honestly were there negotiations and have these broken down? It’s like striking is the only way to get govt’s attention. When was the last time govt granted an increment without this unnecesary form of force?
The country without a president. That is what happens when there is no leadership