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Voice of the Labour Movement Established 1988 Issue No: 237 MAY 2019 Registered at the GPO as a Ne w spaper Workers count Dynamos chickens out their losses of championship race PAGE 2 PAGE 8 STATE SECURITY CRACKDOWN Zim back on ILO radar over labour violations IMBABWE is back on the International Labour Organisation Z(ILO) radar as it has reverted to its infamous labour violations settings characterised by the arrests, detention and disruption of legitimate trade union activities. Over the years Harare's handling of labour issues has been atrocious with serious interference from senior political leaders whose mandates are nowhere near the labour purview. The violations peaked with the arrest and detention of ZCTU leaders over the 11 October 2018 demonstration and the 14-16 January 2019 stay away. 's placement on the ILO radar was a result of ITUC-Africa's recommendation after the country was placed second among Africa's top 10 labour violators. The African labour body met in Kigali Rwanda and recommended that Zimbabwe be shortlisted and be placed on a special paragraph for violations around Convention 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise owing to the gravity of violations that that include arresting and detention of trade union leaders. Ethiopia leads the pack on violations and the other countries are , , Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ghana respectively. The ZCTU has since filed a complaint to the ILO over the violent state security clampdown October 11 2018 on trade unionists and citizens over the stay away. The complaint is the second within a Police bundle Japhet Moyo into a truck year following another one that was filed in killed, obstructed, harassed, intimidated, Amnakwa was in the country on a solidarity October last year following another brutal “During the disconnection period the assaulted and detained several protestors visit after the stayaway. suppression of a workers demonstration military and the police intensified their following a peaceful protest against the rising The ZCTU argued that the Government of against the monetary and fiscal policies brutality against the people of Zimbabwe by cost of living called by the ZCTU, some of Zimbabwe violated its own constitution that announced by authorities. following people in their homes and brutalised the arrested included the ZCTU Secretary provides for the right to life as the crackdown ZCTU Secretary General Japhet Moyo them as well as arresting them,” reads the General Japhet Moyo and President Peter left 17 people dead and said the arrests and submitted a dossier detailing how the complaint. Mutasa,” reads Moyo's letter to the ILO. detentions violated the principles of freedom government of Zimbabwe was violating the The complaint also details how Moyo and Moyo and Mutasa are being charged for of association and instil fear in them and deny Convention on Freedom of Association and Mutasa were arrested, detained and granted attempting to subvert a constitutionally them their right to associate with the ZCTU. Protection of the Right to Organise. bail. elected government, a crime that carries the Briefing the ITUC-Africa delegation “The ZCTU hereby submits a complaint Other violations noted in the complaint death sentence or alternatively inciting which was in the country in March, Media against the government of Zimbabwe for include the crackdown on civic and opposition violence. Institute of Southern Africa (MISA- violating article 3 of the convention on political party leaders, harassment of ITUC- The ZCTU has detailed to the ILO how the Zimbabwe) director, Tabani Moyo said the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Africa Secretary General Kwesi Adu government sought to hide the state security government viewed the ZCTU and other civic Right to Organise. The violations relate to the Amankwa who was dragged from a local hotel atrocities by disconnecting the internet during society organisations as enemies of the state incidents of 14-16 January 2019 from which and was saved from deportation after the the stayaway. the government of Zimbabwe with impunity ZCTU had filled an urgent court application. To page 5

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04-2928375/0712747808 Page 2 The Worker, MAY 2019 Growing calls for realistic wages as inflation savages earnings BY STAFF REPORTER The ZCTU has since written to the Minister of Labour Sekai alls for improved Nzenza demanding that puts in salaries and wages motions processes towards the introduction of the minimum wage. Ccontinue to grow as “Following an outcry from our inflation has ravaged earnings membership over the price hikes with prices of basic commodities and the erosion of their salaries and surging by more than 300 percent wages by inflation, the ZCTU General Council met on 23 March in the last month alone. 2019 to deliberate on the issues. Workers earnings heavily The outcome was that the ZCTU depreciated following the was mandated to discuss with announcement of the monetary fellow social partners on the need policy which depreciated the RTGS to restore a minimum wage. It is in against the US$ but failed to this vein that we write to you hon. realign wages accordingly. The Minister to convene a meeting of move left workers at the mercy of social partners to discuss this business which adjusted prices to issue,” reads a letter by the then catch up with the interbank rates Acting Secretary General Sylvester resulting in the prices of virtually all Mutindindi. basic commodities and services The labour body said it was the shooting beyond the affordability of government's obligation to cushion many. workers and citizens from the The ZCTU has demanded that biting economic hardship and a government re-introduces a realistic minimum wage would be minimum wage to cushion workers the starting point. moulders which will now see the from the biting economic hardships against the US dollar. We need a holistic approach so that The ZCTU is also demanding lowest paid grade earning $155-00 spurred by austerity measures Apex Council secretary- we can find a solution," he said. for urgent Tripartite Negotiating a month, up from $143-00. recently adopted by government. general David Dzatsunga said they National Employment Councils Forum meetings to be held so that The agriculture industry also The labour body has proposed a were planning to renew wage talks (NEC) have also awarded marginal solutions to the prevailing awarded a 15 percent salary USD600-00 or alternatively 1800 with their employer since their wage increments that fall far short economic challenges can be increment with effect from RTGS as national minimum increment had been eroded. of the Poverty Datum Line (PDL). deliberated on. November 1 2018. The increment wage in line with the Poverty Datum "Our agreement with govt was While not committing In trying to respond to the crisis will see the lowest grade getting Line. based on the situation, which was themselves to blanket annual the private sector has awarded $121-00 with the highest grade at The ZCTU's highest decision on the ground during that time. increases, most NEC's settled for nominal wage increments while the $239-00. making body, the General Council, However, prices are increasing and periodic reviews and cost of living government workers are planning Engineering industry has met at Harare on 23 March 2019 we want to go back to the cushions to guard against to get back to the table despite settled for a 27 percent wage and after receiving reports from negotiating table with the govt. It inflationary uncertainties. getting a $129-00 cushion that saw increment, Sugar industry awarded affiliate unions as well as monetary is now clear that the salary The Security Industry settled the least paid civil servant earning 60 percent from $180-00, Food policy analysis from its research increment is null and void. We had for a flat $62-00 hardship 600 RTGS dollars. processing sector 36 percent from arm the Labour and Economic agreed that we were going to sit allowance across the board with However, in the last few weeks, $264-00, Banking sector 46 Development Research Institute of down in June and assess the effect from 1st March which shall prices of basic commodities have percent, mining industry is at 80 Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ) resolved to performance of the economy be reviewed after 6 months. gone up sharply, making it difficult percent. set the national minimum wage at for many to survive, as the local against civil servants' salaries. The government approved a USD600 or 1800 RTGS dollars. continues to lose value Inflation has eroded our salaries. $12-00 wage increase for brick ZCTU leaders acquitted over October SATUCC calls for dialogue, dropping of charges against arrested ZCTU leaders demonstration, still face treason charges on trade union government relations BY STAFF REPORTER that:- The urgent need to immediately BY STAFF REPORTER he Southern Africa Trade restore the national social dialogue Union Coordination SEVEN members of the mechanism in consultation and Council (SATUCC) mission Zimbabwe Congress of Trades T participation of social partners which was on a solidarity mission to (workers and employers Union (ZCTU) including the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade President Peter Mutasa and organizations). Unions has urged the Zimbabwe Meaningful social dialogue can Secretary General Japhet Moyo government to prioritise only happen when all parties to the who were being charged for meaningful dialogue instead of dialogue are free and none is being inciting the October 2018 suppressing the trade union when it persecuted. As such the cases demonstration over the two raises genuine issues. involving the ZCTU and its percent transactional tax and The call was made following the leadership currently in court must be high cost of living, were government clampdown on union dropped to allow the government and acquitted by a Harare leaders and citizens by the social partners resolve matters within magistrate at the close of the government following the 14-16 the framework of social dialogue. January stayaway. The Mission met The Government to do everything State case. civic society leaders, the Employers' The seven including, Simon in its powers to stop all forms of Confederation of Zimbabwe, the interference in trade union works and Mutasa, Munashe Chirovamari Ministry of Labour and the Benice Maluleke, Prescilla Jonhi, activities through criminalizing trade ZCTU Secretary General Japhet Moyo (centre) is joined by colleagues upon International labour Organisation union actions, use of fear, harassment and Ezekiel Matema who were his release from Chikurubi Maximum Prison after a two-week ordeal. with whom it sought to get a full and intimidation. charged with committing public appreciation of the obtaining country ZCTU offices intending to SATUCC said the mission was a violence as defined in section police testimonies that it was not any situation. process and not an event which shall 37(1)(a) of the Criminal Law one of them who fired missiles or demonstrate against the imposition The mission said the level of require follow-up and continuous (Codification and Reform) Act for threw bricks but street kids who were of a 2 percent tax on all electronic mistrusts between the government prodding of the Zimbabwe allegedly participating in a close by. No one of the accused was transfers by Finance Minister, Mthuli and the trade union was disturbing. Government on its commitments to gathering with intent to promote seen trying to be violent. As such, all Ncube, the high cost of living and the “It was clear from the brief with social dialogue. public violence and breaches of the accused are hereby found not general economic collapse. ZCTU leadership that the “The TNF Bill process must Government of Zimbabwe under the peace or bigotry were acquitted by guilty and acquitted at the close of At the time of going to print labour involve all social partners and agreed State case,” said the magistrate. activists in Mutare who were arrested regime of President Emmerson by consensus before enactment. The magistrate Rumbidzai Mnangagwa treats the ZCTU as an Mugwagwa, who ruled that the All the three state witnesses who on the same charges were set to ZCTU shall continue to update on this opposition to its rule and is perceived development. SATUCC shall follow state had failed to prove a case are police officers failed to nail the appear before the courts while the to be working beyond its labour and seven to the case. They disowned state would proceed by way of with keen interests the persecution against them. industrial relations boundary. This and trials of the ZCTU and its “The defence managed to prove some of the contents of the state summons in a matter relating to those was reiterated during the Mission arrested in Masvingo and Gweru. leadership at the same time continue that the accused did not gather outline one of the police officers meeting with the Minister of Public to lobby for a fast trial and dropping of with an intent to incite public Oscar Matope told the court that his There were no arrests in Chinhoyi Services, Labour and Social Welfare the charges unconditionally and give violence but that they intended to statement was handwritten and and Bulawayo. and the Deputy Minister and said that social dialogue a chance to resolve embark on a peaceful signed while the court records have Mutasa and Moyo are still facing ZCTU had taken its mandate beyond differences among social partners and demonstration. Also important to a typed statement. other charges of seeking to subvert a the labour boundary as such state Government. SATUC shall continue note is that no one among the The group was represented by top constitutionally-elected government security and law enforcement had to to monitor human and trade union intervene leading to the arrest of trade accused was spotted holding a human rights lawyer, Alec relating to the January fuel price hike rights situation in Zimbabwe Muchadehama while Shambidzeni protests. union leaders,' reads the SATUCC including likely complaints that placard and they did not disturb statement. free movement of people as Fungura represented for the State. maybe in pipeline to be brought to the The mission has proposed a three attention of the ILO supervisory alleged,” ruled the magistrate. The seven were arrested at the point request to address the impasse mechanism,” reads the report. “It has also emerged from the 2019 MAY The Worker Page 3 Gloomy May Day as workers’ plight further deteriorates

BY ADMORE MARAMBANYIKA gains in independent Zimbabwe shows a dull picture of regression. orkers Day is a day Zimbabwe at independence when workers are moved to craft worker Wsupposed to celebrate protectionists policies culminating their gains and achievements in the Labour Relations Act and over the years but in Zimbabwe the introduction of the minimum the worker on this particular wage to cushion the least day would be reflecting on the employees. reversal of such achievements Over the years wages have and counting losses. been systematically eroded While at the inception the day without adequate redress. The was an indication of victory over government used to set wages that long working hours from as much were commensurate with the cost as 16 hours to the current 8 hour of living. Then collective working day. bargaining was informed by These long working hours prevailing economic trends but triggered workers to focus on that has since been abandoned. winning a shorter eight-hour work Further collective bargaining is day and securing more days off constrained due to poor economics and reducing the workweek to just and unsustainable policies six days. These early organizers compounded by strained relations clearly won their demands as the and mistrust among social average employee now works a partners. The early independent 2015 WORKERS DAY @ GWANZURA STADIUM bit over 40 hours a week and for Zimbabwean politicians and five days a week. since they now own the means of Michael Kandukutu said the after a carnage that left over 30 business owners were actually in production while the economy has period from 1990 has seen a While these working hours favour of giving an ear to workers 000 workers jobless as employers apply to many a worker in drifted from welfare to liberal. systematic erosion of workers fired workers on notice basing on issues but that has since changed ZCTU national organiser gains and achievements. Zimbabwe reflecting the workers' as politicians have joined business a common law principle. “We note that there has been a Labour law lawyer Caleb systematic reduction in the Mucheche described the quality of lives for workers, amendment as “a half-hearted ZCTU on a diplomatic offensive reduced purchasing power parity approach to the protection of of workers' salaries, widening employees against arbitrary salaries and wages disparities, dismissal by employers. Instead of increased inequalities and expressly abolishing an selective application of the law in employer's common law industrial relations that has been prerogative to terminate a contract aided by judicial activism as of employment on notice, the judicial officers have become legislature simply cosmetically employers,” he said. changed the same common law Labour legislation has been right to become a statutory right in mutated several times over the a typical smearing of lipstick on a years mutating the gains and frog. Effectively, employees are achievements and to this day the still at the whim and caprice of Labour Act now has little or no some unscrupulous employers protection to the worker. who can abuse the statutory right The Labour Relations Act of to terminate a contract on notice. 1984 was replaced with the The concept of job security in Labour Relations Amendment Zimbabwe has been destroyed and Act, 1992 (No. 12 of 1992), employees should brace up for Labour Relations Amendment tough times ahead unless the Act, 2000 (H.B. 24 of 2000), labour legislation is urgently Labour Relations Amendment amended to address the Act, 2002, 2005 and the Labour shortcomings highlighted in this Amendment Act, 2015 (No.5 0f paper”. 2015) which came into effect

ZCTU delegation after a meeting with the Swedish Ambassador Sofia Calltrop ZCTU.” to publish a political report BY STAFF REPORTER ambassadors and are set to meet foreign missions have been getting several embassies. briefings from government and BY STAFF REPORTER he Zimbabwe Congress ZCTU Secretary General Japhet other stakeholders and we have not of Trade Unions has Moyo said the initiative to meet been engaging them to share our The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is in the process Tembarked on a ambassadors was informed by the views,” he said. of compiling a political report document detailing developments diplomatic offensive meeting need to appraise them of the Moyo said the engagements had from 2000 -2019. ambassadors accredited to obtaining situation from a labour been fruitful with ambassadors The publication which succeeds the 2001 publication The Harare as it seeks new avenues perspective. pushing for holistic dialogue. “Workers Driven”; and “People Centred' Development Process for for a lasting solution to the crisis “We are meeting ambassadors “From our engagements do far, Zimbabwe popularly known as the Raw Data which covered political affecting Zimbabwe. because they are an important dialogue has been central. The developments for the period June 1996 to February 2000. The engagement process has constituency in the matrix of ambassadors are of the view that it The report seeks to explain the Zimbabwe policy and political seen ZCTU leaders meeting the solving Zimbabwe's problems. We is the only way out of our context, the state of the social contract and the political systems which Australian and Swedish have noted that most of these problems,” he said. prevailed, the ZCTU and political party relationship, power matrix in relation to the systems of governance, the implementation of the policy dialogue development strategy, its environment, achievements and challenges, the labour internal dynamics and trade union development NUMAIZ forces NEC to hold any urgent meetings stages. It would also focus evaluating Trade Union leadership capacity BY JAMES MUTASA take legal action against them 537 of 1983. building. without further notice," Stephen The employees in the industry The Trade Union political report frames the workers' story in a way he National Union of Dhliwayo the deputy General last got an NEC salary increment in that helps its stakeholders relate to the experiences, situations and Metal and Allied Secretary. 2009, a move which has incited decisions and the impacts thereof in their quench to change the world of Industries in Zimbabwe T "To us," Dhliwayo added, "it NUMAIZ to take action. work for the better through worker driven and people centered (NUMAIZ) has issued an seems the NEC and Employers Aurthur Mhondo, General development processes in Zimbabwe. ultimatum to the National Association have caused Secretary of the NEC confirmed By undertaking this process the ZCTU seeks to offer a general Employment Council for the irreparable harm to employees who that he had received a letter dubbed theory of institutional legitimacy as the leading federation on labour motor industry to resume are denied basic labour rights and as, 'final demand' from NUMAIZ to matters by coming up with literature aimed at achieving consensus, meetings despite claims that the NUMAIZ is going to set that wrong call any urgent NEC meeting. coercion and collaboration on issues of interest to the working people council was dissolved in 2012. doing right." Mhondo also said that the NEC of Zimbabwe. The union has demanded that The stubborn refusal by was never dissolved though the The report will also interrogate the ZCTU activities from 2000 to the NEC starts to hold urgent employers in the Motor employers association which check if it had been following the political and socio-economic meetings to address issues affecting Manufacturing sector to be part of comprises of Quest Motor directions prescribed in the Raw Data. The evaluation will seek to find workers in the motor the NEC collective bargaining Manufacturing (Pvt), Willowvale the reasons for Moving towards core values or gliding from core values manufacturing industry. meetings bore a negative impact to Mazda Industry (Pvt) Ltd and AVM and come up with prescription going forward. "We gave the NEC any employees who are still using an Africa (Pvt) Ltd attempted to ultimatum to call an urgent NEC outdated statutory instrument, SI disband it in 2012. meeting failure of which we will Page 4 The Worker, MAY 2019 The

Voice of the Labour Movement Comment Welcome back ESAP and dictatorship! hen President took over power, he promised an economic boom and better Wgovernance. But the economic outlook in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate despite promises by the so-called “New Dispensation” that things would improve. In fact, the country is all back to the most despised Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) of the 1990s that brought immense suffering to the people of Zimbabwe. At the same time, Mnangagwa has done shoddy work on governance issues. After all the hype that was brought in by the appointment of Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube, reality is setting in. His austerity measures are hurting people. Prices are rising everyday while salaries and wages remain stagnant. Almost everyone is struggling to survive on meagre earnings. While inflation was in the negative two years ago, we have entered a period of . At one time the exchange rate was 1:1 with the , now is 1:5 on the parallel market. Everything has gone haywire! Beside promising economic boom, the “New Dispensation” also promised freedoms to everyone. But events of 11 October 2018 when the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade unions (ZCTU) called for a demonstration against the 2 percent taxation on The Origins of May Day every dollar transacted as well as the episodes that followed the stayaway that was called by the ZCTU to protest against By Eric Chase With the involvement of the anarchists, there seemed to price hikes shows that we a dealing with a deadly monster of a be an infusion of greater issues than the 8-hour day. There government. n the late nineteenth century, the working class grew a sense of a greater social revolution beyond the more There was clamp down and arbitrary arrest of trade was in constant struggle to gain the 8-hour work immediate gains of shortened hours, but a drastic change in unions, civic leaders and opposition Members of Parliament. Iday. Working conditions were severe and it was the economic structure of capitalism. As a matter of fact, the number of persons being persecuted quite common to work 10 to 16 hour days in unsafe In a proclamation printed just before May 1, 1886, one for crimes of treason far surpassed those arrested during conditions. publisher appealed to working people with this plea: former President Robert Mugabe's 37 year dictatorship. Death and injury were commonplace at many work places Workingmen to Arms! It is clear that state security agents have been pouncing on and inspired such books as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and War to the Palace, Peace to the Cottage, and Death to opposition Members of Parliament, Civil Society and Trade Jack London's The Iron Heel. As early as the 1860's, LUXURIOUS IDLENESS. working people agitated to shorten the workday without a Union leaders at the instigation of President Emmerson The wage system is the only cause of the World's cut in pay, but it wasn't until the late 1880's that organized Mnangagwa after he was quoted at a “Thank You Rally” that misery. It is supported by the rich classes, and to destroy labour was able to garner enough strength to declare the 8- it, they must be either made to work or DIE. “we will sort them out”. Such words are unacceptable coming hour workday. This proclamation was without consent of One pound of DYNAMITE is better than a bushel of from the Head of State who is supposed to be a unifier. employers, yet demanded by many of the working class. BALLOTS! Most of those arrested are facing charges of plotting to At this time, socialism was a new and attractive idea to MAKE YOUR DEMAND FOR EIGHT HOURS with overthrow the government. Indeed, this 'New Dispensation” working people, many of whom were drawn to its ideology weapons in your hands to meet the capitalistic has become more dangerous than the notorious racist of working class control over the production and bloodhounds, police, and militia in proper manner. Rhodesian regime of Ian Smith. It has become too paranoid distribution of all goods and services. Workers had seen Not surprisingly the entire city was prepared for mass that it is even afraid of its own shadows. first-hand that Capitalism benefited only their bosses, bloodshed, reminiscent of the railroad strike a decade Zimbabweans must strongly condemn the state actions trading workers' lives for profit. earlier when police and soldiers gunned down hundreds of that are contrary to the Constitution of Zimbabwe that Thousands of men, women and children were dying striking workers. guarantees freedom of expression. There must be an needlessly every year in the workplace, with life On May 1, 1886, more than 300,000 workers in 13,000 environment conducive for freedom of expression where expectancy as low as their early twenties in some businesses across the United States walked off their jobs in every Zimbabwean can discharge his or her duties without industries, and little hope but death of rising out of their the first May Day celebration in history. In Chicago, the destitution. Socialism offered another option. epicenter for the 8-hour day agitators, 40,000 went out on fear of being arrested. A variety of socialist organizations sprung up For 39 years now, Zimbabweans continue to yearn for strike with the anarchists in the forefront of the public's throughout the later half of the 19th century, ranging from eye. peace and prosperity that has been elusive for that long. political parties to choir groups. In fact, many socialists With their fiery speeches and revolutionary ideology of It is sad that our liberators have become our tormentors. were elected into governmental office by their direct action, anarchists and anarchism became respected Workers pockets have been hit hard to an extent that it is no constituency. and embraced by the working people and despised by the longer worthwhile to work. It's time for workers to rise and But again, many of these socialists were ham-strung by capitalists. say NO to poverty and dictatorship. We have to liberate the political process which was so evidently controlled by The names of many - Albert Parsons, Johann Most, ourselves. big business and the bi-partisan political machine. Tens of August Spies and Louis Lingg - became household words thousands of socialists broke ranks from their parties, in Chicago and throughout the country. Parades, bands and rebuffed the entire political process, which was seen as tens of thousands of demonstrators in the streets nothing more than protection for the wealthy, and created exemplified the workers' strength and unity, yet didn't anarchist groups throughout the country. become violent as the newspapers and authorities Literally thousands of working people embraced the predicted. ideals of anarchism, which sought to put an end to all More and more workers continued to walk off their jobs hierarchical structures (including government), until the numbers swelled to nearly 100,000, yet peace emphasized worker controlled industry, and valued direct prevailed. It was not until two days later, May 3, 1886, that action over the bureaucratic political process. It is violence broke out at the McCormick Reaper Works inaccurate to say that labour unions were "taken over" by between police and strikers. anarchists and socialists, but rather anarchists and socialist The For six months, armed Pinkerton agents and the police made up the labour unions. harassed and beat locked-out steelworkers as they At its national convention in Chicago, held in 1884, the picketed. Most of these workers belonged to the Federation of Organized Trades and Labour Unions "anarchist-dominated" Metal Workers' Union. During a The Worker is published by the (which later became the American Federation of Labour), speech near the McCormick plant, some two hundred proclaimed that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's demonstrators joined the steelworkers on the picket line. Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions labour from and after May 1, 1886." Beatings with police clubs escalated into rock throwing 2nd Floor, Gorlon House, The following year, the FOTLU, backed by many by the strikers which the police responded to with gunfire. 7 Jason Moyo Ave Knights of u locals, reiterated their proclamation stating At least two strikers were killed and an unknown number P.O Box 3549, Harare that it would be supported by strikes and demonstrations. were wounded. At first, most radicals and anarchists regarded this demand Full of rage, a public meeting was called by some of the TEL/FAX 04-749256 as too reformist, failing to strike "at the root of the evil." anarchists for the following day in Haymarket Square to www.theworkerzimbabwe.com A year before the Haymarket Massacre, Samuel Fielden discuss the police brutality. Due to bad weather and short pointed out in the anarchist newspaper, The Alarm, that notice, only about 3000 of the tens of thousands of people EDITOR "whether a man works eight hours a day or ten hours a day, showed up from the day before. This affair included he is still a slave." LAST TARABUKU families with children and the mayor of Chicago himself. Despite the misgivings of many of the anarchists, an [email protected] Later, the mayor would testify that the crowd remained estimated quarter million workers in the Chicago area calm and orderly and that speaker August Spies made "no became directly involved in the crusade to implement the suggestion... for immediate use of force or violence toward REPORTER eight hour work day, including the Trades and Labour any person..." ADMORE MARAMBANYIKA Assembly, the Socialistic Labour Party and local Knights As the speech wound down, two detectives rushed to [email protected] of Labour. As more and more of the workforce mobilized the main body of police, reporting that a speaker was using against the employers, these radicals conceded to fight for inflammatory language, inciting the police to march on the the 8-hour day, realizing that "the tide of opinion and speakers' wagon. As the police began to disperse the determination of most wage-workers was set in this direction." To Page 7 Page 5 The Worker, MAY 2019 ZUCWU holds successful 7th Congress Huge potential for unions (ZCTU) Information Officer. vowed to fight for the rights and BY STAFF REPORTER BY DICKSON CHAERUKA The National President's Position interests of the country's urban councils rade unions in Zimbabwe have a potential to recruit he Zimbabwe Urban was won by Marxwell Takavingofa workers. Kimbini from Mutare Branch whilst ''Our main thrust is to facilitate a huge membership as over a million workers remain Councils Workers Union ununionised, a recent labour publication “building (ZUCWU) has successfully Precious Mukwena from Beitbridge robust engagement of stakeholders T T Branch landed the Deputy President's from the rubbles,” has indicated. held its 7th National Congress. which are local authorities, local The congress took place on the 2nd position. General Secretary's Position government and the pension fund to The publication which analysed the performance of ZCTU of March at the Bulawayo School of was won by Kudakwashe Munengiwa better the lives of current and retired affiliates from 2006 to 2017 reveals a serious decline of union Hospitality. who is also the regional chairperson for council workers who are already density dropping from 25.7 percent in 2006 to 7.5 percent in A total of 131 delegates drawn from the ZCTU Central region from Gweru bearing the brunt of economic 2017. The study compares union member figures against the union's 26 branches across the Branch whilst Sabina Kumwenda from hardships as well as a host of unfair employees contributing to the compulsory National Social country attended the congress which Hwange Branch became the Deputy labor practices.'' Security Authority (NSSA). was facilitated under the theme: The General Secretary. Edmund Chatira of In his acceptance keynote address, While the details are not conclusive since it only covers Kwekwe Branch was elected Treasurer Value of Membership is Priceless ZUCWU new President, Kimbini unions affiliated to the ZCTU, it reveals serious shortcomings in and Tongai Kuzoraunye from Kadoma towards Rebranding ZUCWU. stated that the fundamental principles terms of recruitment as there is a wide gap. Branch landed the union's trustee of unity, democracy and The well organized congress Commenting on the declining union density ZCTU National ushered in a new leadership under position. constitutionalism were paramount Newly elected General Secretary, towards scaling the union to the organiser Michael Kandukutu said unions were not doing intensely contested positions in an enough to harness membership. election which was presided by the Mungengiwa who replaces Moses national, regional and international “Company closures, retrenchments and downsizing has Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Mahlangu who retired in December, heights. affected union numbers over the years. Workers are also disenfranchised by unions because some of the core functions of Zimbabwe sugar workers demand 100-percent increment trade unions like collective bargaining are not bringing in positive results. Workers have gone for years without getting WORKERS in Zimbabwe's sugar “We want a 100 percent salary Ester Nyoni, a worker at Hippo Valley industry are demanding that their increment which will see the least paid Estates, said the salary hikes were salary increases and yet they expect trade unions to be salaries be doubled in line with the person getting 700 Zimbabwean bond necessary since inflation rendered the negotiating on their behalf,” he said. rising cost of living. notes. This is not even enough,” they bond notes worthless. He added that some companies have also relocated to Unions have cited the escalating added. “These bond notes have lost value. The countries within the region and some of the companies advise inflation rate, which rose to over 59 While the country maintains that it is issue of salary increments is therefore their former workers to follow to the country of relocation if they percent during the month of April. still using the multiple currency system inevitable,” she said. want jobs thereby depleting union numbers. Unions in the industry have tabled a adopted in 2009 at the demise of the The sugar industry employs about 18 100 percent salary increment which local dollar, most Zimbabweans are 000 workers in Zimbabwe. would see the lowest paid worker using bond notes currently trading at 4 Tongaat Hulett employs most of the ILO invests in environmentally earning about $700 Zimbabwean bond bond notes to the US dollar. workers. notes. Prices of goods and services have gone Sydney Mutsambiwa, Tongaat Hulett Currently, the least paid worker in the up lately as industries claim they were group chief executive, said he had not friendly business projects sugar industry gets about 350 buying the US dollar on the parallel received a proposal from the workers. BY OWN CORRESPONDENT Zimbabwean bond notes, which is market. “I have not seen anything from the equivalent to only US$100. The Workers in the sugar sector welcomed workers so I cannot comment, but, NTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation in partnership workers are said to be the lowest paid in moves by unions to call for salary remember these collective bargaining the region, where workers are paid with Sweden has committed to support the best 27 increases. issues are very sensitive,” Mutsambiwa environmentally friendly business project proposals between $400 and $480. “We want to live a decent life and be said. I which were selected through a rigorous adjudication process “We last got an increment about two able to send our children to school. A In 2017, the workers embarked on a under the Green Enterprise Innovation project. years ago. Considering the inflationary 100 percent salary increment would strike which paralysed operations at the pressures in the country, workers are cushion us from the current economic company's two mills in Triangle and The 27 business proposals were selected out of over 90 finding it difficult to survive,” said hardships,” James Mutsamvi, a worker Hippo Valley in Chiredzi, southeast submitted project proposals by participants from the country's workers in the industry. at Triangle Limited, said. Zimbabwe.(CAJ News) ten provinces. Speaking at the event Sweden Embassy's, Matte Sunnergren said her government had availed funds to support the transformation of the proposed projects into viable businesses. AAWUZ members defect to NUMAIZ “My government has availed US$2.8 million for the Green Notphah Janhi, Tawanda Chikukwa Enterprize Innovation Project which kicked off in 2018. The BY JAMES MUTASA it has mandate to represent Taurayi Zulu, Timothy Chidzikwe, Charles and Tafadzwa Jukwa alleging that their three year program will see these winners receiving a year's ight members of the Matshatsha, Simon Mutigi, Karakadzai 3 months fixed term contract of support to set up their businesses,” she said. Automotive and Allied Karasau, Gracious Hwapunga, Kiri employment has expired but they had She said that the support will enable the nurtured businesses to EWorkers Union of Makanidzana, and Netsai Hundi," Zulu all but continuously served the create jobs and employ young Zimbabweans who in turn, will Zimbabwe, (AAWUZ) dumped the said in a letter addressed to a Mutare Halfway-Selouse based company for support their families as well. union to join the National Union of labour office G Mhovha. over 37 months each without signing a Also speaking at the same occasion, ILO country director, Metal and Allied Industries in "We categorically state here that 3 months fixed term contract of Hopolang Phororo said that the project aims at preserving the employment as charged by their Zimbabwe (NUMAIZ) after being none of our members have sought environment through encouraging young people to come up with deprived of benefits. assistance from NUMAIZ," he added. employer. Ironically for the smelting company, business proposals that are preserve the environment. The workers who are employees of Quest refused to pay employees She explained that the second part of the project looks at the Quest Manufacturing (Pvt) Ltd had cited in Zulu's letter arguing that they the illegal dismal of the 3 employees skills development in order to see how greening issues can be their names withdrawn from an were not part to the claim as they are not who were tipped to lead the workers underpayments claim filed by members of NUMAIZ despite an order committee spurred the other addressed in the country. NUMAIZ and were eventually by Mhovha for Quest to pay the employees into electing workers “So we are working with a number of vocational training prejudiced. affected employees' under payments. committee. centres to make sure that when young people graduate they will Quest had sent its employees on The actions by quest resulted in the "We want to improve working be sensitive to issues of the environment. short time work without following the affected employees dumping AAWUZ conditions at Afrochine through the “The last part of it is then to look at Small to Medium required procedures, a move which in favour of NUMAIZ. newly elected workers committee," Enterprises or even bigger enterprises to see how they can come angered NUMAIZ who in turn Meanwhile the union is piling said NUMAIZ General Secretary up with green policies and other strategies which will sustain the challenged that illegal decision. pressure on Afrochine Smelting Private Henry Tarumbira who added that, environment…so this is really thought that the program is The workers are now up in arms with Limited to force it to allow its "NUMAIZ will not sleep while its important,” said Phororo. their former branch chairperson employees to elect a workers members are unjustly treated. Green Enter Prize and Innovation Development project seeks Taurayi Zulu, who had written to a committee. The company had been "We demand the immediate the to contribute to solving a series of inter-related development labour officer withdrawing their names victimizing potential workers unconditional reinstatement of Janhi and 2 others." problems, such as high levels of youth employment, low levels of to the claim. “It has been brought to our committee members in its bid to stall formal and growth oriented entrepreneurship with a bias towards election progress. It dismissed attention that NUMAIZ is claiming that the sustainability of the environment. Zim back on ILO radar over violations From page 1 for engaging on a strike. the government of Zimbabwe to the right to draw up their violence and torture by the security and the January Stay away was an The current complaint is a follow withdraw all pending cases against constitutions and rules, to elect their forces against trade unionists that opportunity for the government to up to another one filed in November the trade unionist so arrested, pay representatives in full freedom, to coincide with ZCTU nationwide flex its muscle and instil fear. last year after the police arrested compensation to all victims it organise their administration and events, indicating that there has been “The ZCTU is accused of labour activists in Harare (7) Mutare deliberately and unlawfully activities and to formulate their some centralized direction to the organising, the Movement for (19) Masvingo (13) Gweru (4), detained and stop its union bashing programmes. 2. The public security forces to take such action.” Democratic Change is accused of detained 26 ZCTU employees and policy and respect labour rights and authorities shall refrain from any The 2009 COI also flagged out mobilising and the Crisis Coalition is other activists in their offices and human rights. interference which would restrict that “there was another clear pattern accused of funding the protests. The picked up other regional leaders for “By blocking, arresting, this right or impede the lawful of control over ZCTU trade union situation in the country is tense and if questioning over the October 11 brutalising, intimidating, harassing, exercise thereof'. gatherings, be they internal meetings the state succeeds in taming trade demonstrations. detaining and sending to prison The ZCTU reminded the ILO or public demonstrations through the unions and civic society the country All the arrested were charged for trade union leaders and their that Zimbabwe was a habitual trade application of the POSA” and that is doomed,” he said. 'participating in a gathering with members for exercising their union rights violator since it was “detentions and targeted violence Of late the government has been intent to promote public violence, legitimate trade union activity forced to receive an ILO have been used to intimidate both on the edge as it is failing to contain breaches of the peace or bigotry as guaranteed by law, the government Commission of Inquiry (COI) in leaders and rank and file members of workers' demands and has resorted defined by section 37 (1) (a) of the of Zimbabwe is in breach of article 3 2009 which found damning the trade union in a systematic and to intimidation and threats. Doctors Criminal Law (codification and (1) (2) of convention 87 of 1948 violations that were of a systematic systemic manner.” and nurses were arbitrarily fired and Reform) Act Chapter 9.23'. which provides that 'Workers' and and systemic nature. It “sees a clear teachers had their leave days docked The ZCTU wants the ILO to order employers' organisations shall have pattern of arrests, detentions, 2019 MAY, The Worker Page 6 New safety and health issues emerge as work changes A new report on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), published ahead of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April, reviews the ILO's 100 years of achievements, and reveals some of the emerging challenges and opportunities in creating better working environments.

ENEVA (ILO News) – s a y s . . Changes in working “As well as more effective Gpractices, prevention for established risks, demographics, technology and we are seeing profound changes the environment are creating in our places and ways of new occupational safety and working. We need safety and health (OSH) concerns, health structures that reflect this, according to a new report from alongside a general culture of the International Labour prevention that creates shared Organization (ILO). responsibility,” said Manal Azzi, Growing challenges include ILO Technical Specialist on psychosocial risks, work- Occupational Safety and Health. related stress and non- “As well as the economic cost communicable diseases, we must recognize the notably circulatory and immeasurable human suffering respiratory diseases, and such illnesses and accidents cancers. cause. These are all-the-more The report, Safety and Health tragic because they are largely at the heart of the Future of Work: preventable." Building on 100 years of Manal Azzi, ILO Technical experience, is being published Specialist on Occupational ahead of the World Day for Safety and Health Safety and Health at Work, which Looking to the future, the © Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto is marked on April 28th. It report highlights four major reviews the ILO's 100 years of transformative forces driving inspections. disorders. people to enter the labour force, work on OSH issues, and changes. It points out that all also Demographic shifts are Thirdly, development and but may also lead to psychosocial highlights emerging health and offer opportunities for important because young climate change give rise to risks issues (for example, insecurity, safety issues in the world of improvements. workers have significantly high such as air pollution, heat stress, compromised privacy and rest w o r k .First, technology, such as occupational injury rates, while emerging diseases, shifting time, or inadequate OSH and Currently, more than 374 million digitization, robotics, and older workers need adaptive weather and temperature patterns social protections) and excessive people are injured or made ill nanotechology, can also affect practices and equipment to work that can bring job losses. Equally, work hours. every year through work-related psycho-social health and safely. Women – who are new jobs will be created through Approximately 36 per cent of accidents. introduce new materials with entering the workforce in sustainable development and the the world's workforce currently It is estimated that work days unmeasured health hazards. increasing numbers – are more green economy. works excessive hours (more lost to OSH-related causes Correctly applied it can also help likely to have non-standard work Finally, changes in the than 48 hours per week). represent almost 4 per cent of reduce hazardous exposures, arrangements and have a higher organization of work can bring global GDP, in some countries as facilitate training and labour much as 6 per cent, the Report risk of musculoskeletal flexibility that allows more Migrant in South Africa uses art to fight women's abuse South Africa has one of the highest incidences of rape and domestic violence in the world single-handily raising children work to encourage young girls to Many women activists believe without fathers in a cosmopolitan be strong, independent and know various forms of communication city like Johannesburg. that women are as equal as men in aimed at discouraging violence He said life in Johannesburg, society,” he said. against women including like many other big cities, is Seruwu says he will soon start paintings, films, newspaper ads expensive. sharing some of his art proceeds and articles and seminars can “Some people succeed in this with shelters for abused women help reduce the high statistics of city, but many more struggle to and organizations helping rape violence. make ends meet. survivors in South Africa. “The tough life conditions in big cities give an opportunity to dubious people to take advantage ZCTU to donate to Cyclone Idai survivors and abuse many vulnerable women economically, physically, BY STAFF REPORTER sexually and emotionally,” he said. HE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is set to Hassan Isilow are raped and then murdered in “I always wanted to highlight make a donation to survivors of the deadly Cyclone Idai JOHANNESBUG South Africa annually compared to these struggles and the plight of Twhich left hundreds dead in parts of Manicaland and such women, and art has given me Masvingo provinces. t is the crack of dawn in the United States. According to a police crime a good platform.” The ZCTU donation would be boosted by a brotherly hand from downtown Johannesburg, In 2017, Seruwu made the workers in Botswana through their National federation the Botswana and Patrick Seruwu, a statistics report released on March I 31, 2018, at least 40,035 rape cases decision to start practicing art as a Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU) which is set to hand over its migrant from Uganda, is just were reported that year nationwide. profession. donation on 1 May. starting work in his art studio at He said he was motivated by his The ZCTU Secretary General Japhet Moyo has appealed to workers August House. Seruwu said his art is inspired by the environment he was raised in as late friend, legendary artist Benon and well wishers to send their donations through the ZCTU affiliate and Dressed in an apron, he begins Lutaaya, who died Sunday from regional offices for onward submission to the intended beneficiaries. splashing paint on a sketch of a a young boy. “I was raised up by a single brain cancer. “The ZCTU extends its heartfelt condolences to the families of the depressed looking woman drawn “I began using my paintings to victims and wishes those injured a speedy recovery. It is disheartening on canvas. mother and several sisters. I grew up witnessing violence against expose the silent, painful to note that the country continues to lose its citizens to such avoidable “My paintings focus on violence disasters,” he said in a statement. women in my neighborhood. It was emotions of women who cannot against women and the struggles of Moyo blamed the government for a lukewarm approach to disaster a painful experience,” he said. express themselves,” he said. their daily lives,” he told Anadolu issues and called upon it to review its disaster management systems to When he arrived in Despite being in the art industry Agency in an interview. avert loss of lives at such high magnitudes over issues they could have Johannesburg a couple of years for just two years, his artworks Seruwu says his artwork averted by simply relocating communities before disaster struck. ago, he first worked at a hair salon, have been sold across the world attempts to inspire people to join and exhibited at some of South “It is a fact that the authorities knew about the cyclone weeks before campaigns to end violence against where he used to plait women's it struck, but did absolutely nothing to prepare for its eventuality. We hair. Africa's top corporate entities, women and children. including RMB bank and would like to urge the government of Zimbabwe to seriously look into South Africa has one of the “Women used to share stories our state of disaster preparedness to avert loss of lives and minimizes about their personal lives while at FirstRand. highest incidences of rape and He is also currently working the effects of such disasters in future. Climate change is now a reality domestic violence against women the salon, and I could relate to their and the government must ensure that it must mainstream climate stories,'' he said. with the Lizamore & Associates in the world. art gallery in the Rosebank suburb change in all its programmes,” he said. South African NGO Rape Crisis Seruwu recalled that some of the As part of efforts to assist the ZCTU has sent an advance team to women spoke about domestic of Johannesburg. said in a recent report posted on its "I'm also starting to use my assess the situation on the ground and work on the modalities of website that 12 times more women violence and their daily struggle of channelling the donations. 2019 MAY, The Worker Page 7 From Cyclone IDAI to MDC Congress that was founded on the basis of Our government decided to worker democracy to practice ignore the early warning system to democracy. evacuate people. In fact, their action Unfortunately I did not get was typical of them. They always reliable information on what was wish problems away. The way the happening except for what was government failed to act before the being published in the papers and cyclone was tantamount to therefore it is difficult to give genocide. judgement. But when the donations for the If you are a reader of the Pravda affected people came, they started (The Herald) you would think there smiling from ear to ear! Even the were dead bodies scattered all over President could not hide his glee by as contestants murdered each. The celebrating the US dollars came other papers reported the opposite. from USA President Trump. Some This is how polarized then government officials helped newspapers have become. themselves to the donations. However, the biggest worry is Although some token arrests were that of infiltration. A lot of people done, I believe the majority got scot- that got into the party are in there to free. What a shame! cause havoc. There are a lot of the THESE few months, the talk Gabriel Chaibvas in the party and it around town was on the MDC is also almost impossible to weed Provincial Congress that were the them out. harbinger to the main Congress. There is a big cyclone in MDC There was talk of the good and the Chamisa and Mwonzora and if its leaders are not prepared to bad. Chigumura has always deal with it, it's another IDAI that Morgan Tsvangirai, yes we are all against oppression? Are followed the 'goings on' in the party IMBABWEANS are will clear the city of Beira. I am out scavenging to survive. Early this Zimbabweans not prepared to die for obvious reasons. I expect a party arguably one of the of here!! most resilient specie in year, people tried to revolt against for a better future? Are we cowards? Z the high cost of living and the State's Surely, in other nations, people the world. They have gone through hell for nearly 40 response was savage. It brutalised cannot be abused for so long and years, but they continue to anyone found taking part in any keep quiet. Well Chigumura has no soldier on. If there is anything action. It was brutality of the answers! that Former President Robert AS if that was not enough, then Mugabe must get credit for, it is CHIGUMURA came in Cyclone IDAI. Chigumura making Zimbabweans survive commiserates with hundreds of under difficult conditions. fellow countrymen and Just look around you, there is countrywomen who lost their lives despair everywhere. Things are to this deadly phenomenon. The hard. Prices have shot out of the cyclone piled more misery on the roof over the past few months. already miserable Zimbabweans. From transport, bread, fuel, What was more disturbing was that school fees, medicines you can our government knew long back that name it, they have become highest order by the security forces. there was going to be a cyclone, but unreachable for the ordinary About 17 innocent Zimbabweans did absolutely nothing about it. In person, but Zimbabweans remain were shot dead. Proportionate to the devastation that steadfast in their scavenging for a The questions among other happened in Mozambique, living. nations are Zimbabweans so timid Zimbabwe was not expected to lose Now I agree with the late that they cannot sustain a fight so much lives. The Brief Origins of May Day From Page 4 for their actions, of which all of were "Law and Order Day" on May 1. the WTO and FTAA demonstrations. innocent, but for their political and homes with families in them were already thinning crowd, a bomb was We can draw many parallels Words stronger than any I could social beliefs. On November 11, between the events of 1886 and write are engraved on the Haymarket burned to the ground so we could thrown into the police ranks. 1887, after many failed appeals, have Saturday as part of the No one knows who threw the today. We still have locked out Monument: Parsons, Spies, Engel and Fisher steelworkers struggling for justice. THE DAY WILL COME WHEN weekend; when we recall 8-year old bomb, but speculations varied from were hung to death. victims of industrial accidents who blaming any one of the anarchists, to We still have voices of freedom OUR SILENCE WILL BE MORE Louis Lingg, in his final protest behind bars as in the cases of Mumia POWERFUL THAN THE VOICES marched in the streets protesting an agent provocateur working for the of the state's claim of authority and working conditions and child labour police. Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier. YOU ARE THROTTLING TODAY. punishment, took his own life the We still had the ability to Truly, history has a lot to teach us only to be beat down by the police Enraged, the police fired into the night before with an explosive and company thugs, we understand crowd. The exact number of mobilize tens of thousands of people about the roots of our radicalism. device in his mouth. in the streets of a major city to When we remember that people that our current condition cannot be civilians killed or wounded was The remaining organizers, taken for granted - people fought for never determined, but an estimated proclaim "THIS IS WHAT were shot so we could have the 8- Fielden, Neebe and Schwab, were DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!" at hour day; if we acknowledge that the rights and dignities we enjoy seven or eight civilians died, and up pardoned six years later by to forty were wounded. Governor Altgeld, who publicly One officer died immediately and lambasted the judge on a travesty of another seven died in the following justice. Tripartite partners urged to manage 50 million tonnes of e-waste produced globally weeks. Later evidence indicated that Immediately after the Haymarket only one of the police deaths could the environment. opportunity in the e-waste sector”, Massacre, big business and BY ALOIS VINGA said employer vice-chairperson, be attributed to the bomb and that all government conducted what some “Workers handling e-waste have no the other police fatalities had or voice, no bargaining power and Patrick Van den Bossche, “We need say was the very first "Red Scare" in THE International Labour could have had been due to their own they are breaking hazardous to step up our efforts in creating this country. Spun by mainstream Organisation (ILO) has called for indiscriminate gun fire. Aside from materials by their hands,” said decent and sustainable jobs, media, anarchism became urgent action to better manage the the bomb thrower, who was never worker vice-chairperson, James fostering an enabling environment synonymous with bomb throwing toxic flood of electric and identified, it was the police, not the Towers. “Moreover, these workers for sustainable enterprises, offering and socialism became un-American. electronic waste produced around anarchists, who perpetrated the are unaware of the many risks new products and new services, and The common image of an the world, so it can be turned into violence. associated with handling e-waste”. adding value through enhancing the anarchist became a bearded, eastern a valuable source of decent work. Eight anarchists - Albert Parsons, Only 20 per cent of e-waste is circular economy”. European immigrant with a bomb in Statistics at hand indicate that the August Spies, Samuel Fielden, formally recycled, even though it is “In my own country, Nigeria, and in one hand and a dagger in the other. world produces as much as 50 Oscar Neebe, Michael Schwab, valued at €55 billion. several other African countries, e- Today we see tens of thousands of million tonnes of e-waste a year. George Engel, Adolph Fischer and Nikhil Seth, Chair, ILO Global waste is littering our landscape,” activists embracing the ideals of the Representatives of governments, Louis Lingg - were arrested and Dialogue Forum on Decent Work in said government vice-chairperson, Haymarket Martyrs and those who workers' and employers' convicted of murder, though only the Management of Electrical and Aniefiok Etim Essah. Yet, he added, established May Day as an organizations agreed at a recent three were even present at Electronic Waste (E-waste) said E- “Our youth possesses the creativity International Workers' Day. meeting at the ILO in Geneva that Haymarket and those three were in waste is becoming an increasingly and potential for learning skills to Ironically, May Day is an official governments should “increase and full view of all when the bombing important resource for informal manage e-waste, giving us the holiday in 66 countries and promote investments in waste occurred. workers along the e-waste value opportunity to increase youth unofficially celebrated in many management infrastructure and The jury in their trial was chain who recover, repair, employment.” more, but rarely is it recognized in systems at all levels, as appropriate, comprised of business leaders in a refurbish, re-use, repurpose and The ILO is a member of the UN E- this country where it began. to manage the rapidly growing flows gross mockery of justice similar to recycle electrical and electronic Waste Coalition, formed to increase Over one hundred years have of e-waste in ways that advance the Sacco-Vanzetti case thirty years equipment, bring innovative collaboration, build partnerships passed since that first May Day. In decent work.” later, or the trials of AIM and Black services and products to the market and more efficiently provide support the earlier part of the 20th century, They also agreed on the urgency Panther members in the seventies. and facilitate a transition to the to help states address the e-waste the US government tried to curb the of protecting people working with e- The entire world watched as these circular economy. c h a l l e n g e . celebration and further wipe it from waste, which is toxic and hazardous eight organizers were convicted, not “There is great business the public's memory by establishing and negatively affects workers and Page 8 The Worker, MAY 2019 Dembare chickens out of 2019 PSL title race

YNAMOS football among the top teams,” club have ruled Mupfurutsa said. themselves out of the Dynamos, who are D Zimbabwe's most successful side 2019 Premier Soccer League with 21 domestic titles to their (PSL) title race after just four name, had a nightmarish 2018 games and have resigned to season which saw them flirt with build a team that would relegation for the better part of challenge for honours next the season. In fact, DeMbare only season. confirmed their 2019 Dembare have failed to take premiership status with only inspiration from the three games to go to eventually Monomotapa side of 2008 which finish in 11th place. went on to win the league after After signing several new losing their first four matches players including the foreign trio under the tutelage of Norman of Robert Sackey, Herve Vincent Mapeza. Mbega and Ngahan Claude Club chairperson Isaiah Junior and some bold promises Mupfurutsa has ruled the from the previous coach, there struggling Harare giants out of were high hopes that Dynamos the race for the 2019 Castle Lager would challenge for honours this Premier Soccer League title season. season despite the appointment However, Mupfurutsa, who of Tonderai Ndiraya as the club's took over the club's chairmanship new coach. in July last year, maintained that The Harare club fired their the club's leadership was aware coach Lloyd Chigove after seven [AFP] of the need to rebuild the side months at the helm following a Good old days! The 1994 Dynamos outfit that clinched the championship before they can challenge for the disastrous start to the season in title. period of time to fight for top which they have lost three of their “Like I have always said we honours in the next few years,” four matches. are not talking about winning the he said. Speaking during Ndiraya's championship when we're Meanwhile, Ndiraya also unveiling; Mupfurutsa said the rebuilding, if you have listened to appealed for patience from the new coach had been given the the different interviews that I club's stakeholders as he embarks mandate to build a team capable have held before I didn't commit on his bid to turnaround the club's of challenging for top honours in to any championship this year but faltering fortunes. the future. I said we are rebuilding and our “Building a team is a process, I “In terms of the target for the intention is to finish among the think we must be very clear about coach I think we all agreed that top teams. So the issue of that and naturally I'm going to be Dynamos is still in a rebuilding winning the championship is not working with the players who are exercise and what we are looking one of our objectives at the there but I think we have an for at the moment is we have just moment especially during this opportunity during the window brought in our new coach and our current season. I think you can to add some more quality and expectation is that he's going to also recall that most of the boys make sure that we compete with work on the team so that we that we signed we gave them long the top teams like what the recover and at the end of the term contracts and the intension chairman has alluded to,” he said. season we just expect to finish for us was to build a squad over a (Newzimbabwe.com) Axed Lloyd ‘MaBalnyo’ Chigove AFCON 2019: African managers want to avoid hosts Egypt Durban to host the 2019 COSAFA Cup he Council of Southern Africa held in the first week of May. The format of Football Associations (COSAFA) the competition remains unchanged and will Tannounced that its 2019 feature 14 teams. tournament will be staged in Durban, The 2019 COSAFA Cup is the first of six South Africa, from May 25-June 8 after tournaments scheduled to be hosted by the Zimbabwe pulled out. regional body this year. The tournament will be hosted in a Zimbabwe is the tournament's defending partnership between the South African champions and holds the record for the most Football Association and the eThekwini titles won (6). Municipality. Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) The semi-final and final of the tournament announced that its 2019 tournament will be will be played at the Moses Mabhida staged in Durban, South Africa, from May 25- Stadium. June 8 after Zimbabwe pulled out at the last COSAFA says the tournament will serve minute citing resource constraints. as an ideal preparation for countries that will The tournament will be hosted in a feature at the 2019 the Africa Cup of Nations. partnership between the South African Egypt hosts the 2019 AFCON from June 21 to Football Association and the eThekwini Mohamed Salah the Egypt and Liverpool forward is set to July 19. Municipality. South African Football Association give defenders a torrid time during the tournament The semi-final and final of the tournament President Danny Jordaan expressed his will be played at the Moses Mabhida Stadium. ome African coaches have time in their history, also did not hide his gratitude to Mayor Zandile Gumede and the COSAFA says the tournament will serve as expressed that they want to worry about facing the seven-time municipality for stepping in to host the an ideal preparation for countries that will Savoid facing hosts Egypt ahead African champions. tournament. Jordaan said the move proved feature at the 2019 the Africa Cup of Nations. of the 2019 African Cup of Nations. “Egypt is host but there is also , Durban's readiness to stage world-class Egypt hosts the 2019 AFCON from June 21 to “I want to avoid the Egyptian team. which is the best team at the moment. events at short notice. July 19. It would be difficult to play against Côte d'Ivoire has always impressed me, “I am lost for words to describe how much South African Football Association the Pharaohs in front of their not to mention Herve Renard's Morocco the South African Football Association feel President Danny Jordaan expressed his audience,” 's manager or Nigeria,” Nicolas Dupui said. indebted to you and appreciate your valued gratitude to Mayor Zandile Gumede and the Ricardo Manetti told cafonline.com. Egypt will be eying a record-extending friendship and support. You are a true, municipality for stepping in to host the Madagascar's coach, whose team eighth African title when they host the treasured partner,” Jordaan said. tournament.(Online) have qualified to the finals for the first top-flight competition this summer. COSAFA says the draw for the first-round group stage of the 2019 Cup is likely to be