Month: March 2021 Posts

TUM settles for K10,000 allowance

Mar 09, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) has reportedly accepted K10,000 in Covid-19 allowances for each teacher. The union led a two week nationwide teachers’ strike, demanding K35,000 monthly risk allowance for each teacher. This would have… ...

Teachers call off strike

Mar 08, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) has suspended teachers' strike and has asked teachers to resume their work tomorrow. Teachers in the country had been on strike for two weeks as they demanded Malawi Government to… ...

Teachers’ ‘Impossible Demand’ headline lands Times in hot soup

Mar 08, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Times Group has come under fire over its ‘Impossible Demand’ headline which suggests that Government cannot afford to pay Malawi teachers K35,000 each in Covid-19 allowances. The Daily Times newspaper published by Times today carried… ...

Teachers’ strike: Parents endorse CDEDI demos

Mar 08, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Parents of learners in public schools have endorsed peaceful demonstrations that Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has organized to support teachers' demand for allowances . The organization has organized the demonstrations to… ...

Teachers’ stay away enters third week

Mar 08, 2021 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

Teachers in the country are proceeding with their stay away which is aimed at forcing the Malawi Government to start giving them K35,000 a month as Covid-19 risk allowance. Last week, the teachers through their… ...

CDEDI to hold demos over teachers’ allowances

Mar 06, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) says that if the current standoff between teachers and government remain unresolved by March 10, the organisation will be forced to lead Malawians of goodwill in demonstrations… ...

Malawi teachers’ strike continue

Mar 05, 2021 Thula Chisamba 0 &

A day after the Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) called off the industrial action that aimed at pressurizing government to give them K35,000 risk allowance per teacher, the union has announced a U-turn saying that… ...