Govt warns TUM over u-turn on calling off teachers strike

Government has issued a stern warning to Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) against going back on agreement to end the two week teachers strike which has crippled education in public schools.

Dakamau: Issue warning

Ministry of Education principal secretary responsible for administration Kiswell Dakamau said TUM cannot withdraw its Thursday endorsement calling off the teachers’ nationwide strike.

Dakamau said that the meetings, which informed the agreement, were done in an honest and transparent manner.

He has since described any TUM plan to depart from the agreement as mere internal politics.

TUM has made a sudden U-turn and now remains defiant that the nationwide teachers’ strike is still on until government addresses their COVID-19 risk allowance concerns.

Ironically, a communique jointly signed by TUM President Willy Malimba and Dakamau said the two sides had agreed to end the strike.

But Malimba’s latest statement has given government conditions for resumption of work including provision of a minimum of K35 000 risk allowance monthly for every six months subject to review.

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36 replies on “Govt warns TUM over u-turn on calling off teachers strike”

  1. Pa MIKOZI with the girl uja akuti sukuluzi akapanda kutsekulila iwo atenga zimimba.mwina sindikuvetsa ndine .kodi boma linatseka sukulu?
    comwe ndikudziwa ine ndi coti boma lalamula kuti anathuwa ayambe kupita ku school. ngati ndizotseka sukulu nde ndaaphuzitsi Malimba etc.
    tisasokoneze ana athu with poor information.

  2. The teachers are highly exposed to convid therefore they deserve to receive risk allowance. The government is busy with cash transfers to some malawians and why removing teachers from the list of beneficiaries. Why do we treat teachers like half citizens

  3. To:The Government
    From:Mzakwacha Nixon

    Dear MG,/Min.Education,
    Teachers don’t deserve risk allowance at all….if you give them,we(Malawians all )will need risk allowances too because we as well go to schools for community works.

    Give medical personnel allowances,they are indeed at rust,not teachers.

    If they will not go to class,don’t pay them….please,remove their names on the pay roll,sakuyifuna ntchito.

    I request you give them PPEs,masks,sanitizers not allowances.

    If they will demonstrate,citizens will demo back,will meet on the streets.Asabweretse mupungwepungwe mdziko….

    Thanks
    DURBAN
    Kwazulu Natal

    +27724922299
    [email protected]

  4. The sad thing is that TUM seems not aware that govt is s mighty entity. Fighting against it is wasting time. Bottom line is that no allowance will be given no matter how many tons of ideas to the contrary.
    Just swallow your pride TUM and let kids in class.
    Akayamba mafumu ndi amipingo kukudzudzulani muluza shaini aphunzitsi.
    Mwagwa nayo apa pokha

  5. Since when did TUM know that teaching is a risky business. Yes teachers I’m the private schools are teaching. It is pure greed and selfishness that driving the whole thing. Every govt worker wants to take advantage of the situation. Why do you just leave the profession and find another one that you know it is not risky.

  6. Ok teacher’s are at risk??
    The solution to this problem is vaccine, vaccinate all teachers because allowance can’t immunise them….

  7. Why shud a teacher deserve risk allowance? Risk to what?
    Why teacher? Why not a police officer who is forced to go work in crowded places to maintain law and order? Why not agriculture extension workers who directly face and interact with farming communities without even PPE? Between teachers and medical/health workers, wht is in common in terms of their work, for the two proffesions of all to deserve risk allowance?
    Aphunzitsi osaapatsa risk allowance. Risk allowance ya chani?
    We have data yoonetsa kuti achipatala atenga matenda a covid dir ali mkati mosamalira odwala. Tht is ok, they deserve risk allowance. Nanga aphunzitsi, ndiangati atenga covid kuchokera kwa ana a sukulu?
    Evidence shows kuti ana are the lowest risk to covid and probably th teachers are a risk kwa anawo.

    Osaapatsa chili chonse amenewo. No apology even. Aisiye ntchitoyo, lembani ena

    1. I kind of understand you when it comes to secondary schools but definitely not primary schools. A standard one teacher in Malawi is teacher even 90 students at once. police officers ( maybe not prison warders), extension workers have the ability to social distance. How on earth does once social distance when teaching 90 and the rains are not over. In the absence of giving them the required PPEs and decongesting the classes then by all means they deserve that allowance.

    2. You dont know what you are talking about. The Lilongwe Girls students that were found to be covid 19 positive were tested by Ministry of Health and not TUM. Teachers should continue to fight for this allowance. They have suffered so much.

    3. Bhc,
      I second you….don’t give them their salaries from March please.
      I have as well requested to remove their names on the pay roll.if they dare to demonstrate,I will gather citizens to demonstrate back and meet them on the roads,asabweretse mupungwe pungwe,allowance a ya chani….?
      If the you(Ministry ofEducatolion dare to give them),we citizens of Malawi will need allowances because we as well go to do community works at schools….

      No big No !!

      Mzakwacha Nixon,
      +27724922299

  8. Do not threaten the teachers sit down with them & try to find a common ground. If teachers are not at risk why everywhere the first thing to close are schools why???

  9. I personally support the teachers top bras always share the money other departments suffers

    1. Two wrongs do not make a right! Simply because other quarters are wrongfully and corruptly cashing in on the pandemic doesn’t justify teachers earning risk allowance. If teachers are at risk then let’s agree that the pupils too are at risk. So do the pupils qualify for any risk allowance? I appreciate that I am where I am in life coz of teachers but that doesn’t qualify them for any risk allowance. Sorry kapezeni kwina ntchito ngati munalowela ndarama.

  10. To be frank, this strike is useless and unnecessary. We are all at risk. A vaccine is already in the country to deal with your risk. If you were smart enough, you would have been striking for a salary raise, osati izi

    1. zoonadi.
      kodi aphuzitsiwa akhala pakhomo for this long. samalandila salary?? ndipo ena anali busy kutaka ndi ma geni. lelo akuona kuyabwa kuyamba nchito. all thats needed is

      madzi
      soap
      mask
      sanitizer pakhomo la class.
      try this and we see the number of cases .
      mmakomomu they have done lots of unprotected chores. lelo nde ma allowance..
      we are a laughing stoke. kumaiko kwina ma risk allowance kulibe. let alone a zipatala. ena muli ndi ma TV tinaona how hard mmaiko mwaazathu momwe ncito zinalili ku zipatala. pofika kumalephera kukhala ndi proper break for a drink/wee/food or rest .. No allowances or even payrise. THEY ARE ON THEIR NORMAL PAY. inde kwathu kuno basi ma oxygen cylinder omwewa here and there.Ambuye amatikonda. but we are misusing the supreme powers . overiding . winaso aphuzitsiwa ndi ulesitu. komaso komaso .Cadet is on the back bench inciting Malimba and Dakamau. takanani. therefore these TUM boses are failing to swallow their pride and drop the case for the fear will be called cowards. lets be honest on this.
      a Dakamau muziyan’gane bwino bwinooooo. muzisanthule bwino bwinooooooo and please just fuck off the bloody strike and let kids go back to school.
      zausilu zanuzi mumapanga ndi Pitala thats why you are this fat. you never stopped the funds misuse. now you are at the fore front inciting danger to the youth. siinu nomwe mumati ana akutenga zimimba coz of lockdown? lelo the coin is flipped kuti aphuzitsi ali pa cippsezo not ana.
      TOTAL INSANITY.

  11. Why is this stupid government quick to fund the useless MEC for useless bye-elections instead of listening to the plight of teachers? Why is Chakwera busy distributing K35,000.00 allowance per month to villagers and yet he is ignoring teachers? Are teachers more than villagers in terms of numbers in this country? If I was a teacher I would have turned violent already. Pupils in Lilongwe, please go and camp at the gate of statehouse in large numbers on Monday until Chakwera does the needful to our dear teachers.

    1. Teachers get paid to teach. If they are afraid of catching coronavirus, they can just quit and go study accounting and be accountants elsewhere.

  12. Akuyenela kupitiza mpakana boma litapeleka ndalamazonse,izi sizimakhala ndingpngole ayi , apaseni zawobasi mukuzikakamila bwinjikodi?kapenatu mwazigawana kale ndalamazo chochonde apaseni maphuzisi ndalamazawo sizowophyezana ayi

  13. I have listened to both Dakamau and Malimba. The latter was forced to sign the agreement and this does not represent the interests of Teachers nationwide. Mr. Dakamau, please desist from autocratic tendencies. Inu nchifukwa chake u DC unakukanikani kenaka anakupititsani ku Local Govt Ministry. Mwakalephera kumeneko then akutayirani ku Education. Where is Chokandano Mussa? Akuthawa chiyani iyeyo? She was a Secondary School teacher pa Likangala Secondary School in Zomba and she knows what teachers go through . Apatseni 35,000 Kwacha pa Mwezi aphunizitsi as risk allowance . Tawerenga press release from TUM President on Social Media and its clear that the strike is on. Aphunizitsi musatipondereze ai . Enough is enough

  14. Where is Chakwela and Chilima? Our children are suffering bevause of your poor leadership. A mall issue like this taking more than two weeks to resolve? But arresting your opponents is done within 24 hours. Failed leadership. Give the teachers their money or shame on you Chakwela and Chilima. Failed leadership!!!!

    1. Wa Youth iwe, ukhalila zomwezo mpaka 2025. Bloodshed failed man of God wakoyo apeleka ndalamazo afune or asafune.

      1. lets wait and see ngati ndalama zimene mutazidye makape inu…..who are teachers anyway, makape achabechabe…..kalata munasaina ija ikupwetekani mmimba…..olo ku court mukaluza simungawine

    2. Nawenso iwe ndi mbuzi ya chabechabe, u r asking a useless question,” allowance for what? ” Why did police, MDF, MRA and prison got covid allowance? Divu ask why? Osamaonetsa umbuli panic, kumaubisako if u don’t follow issues, stupid boy.

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