Around 5,000 teachers did not get their pay after they were removed from the payroll when government started demanding national identity cards to process civil servant salaries.
That measure was introduced by the southern African country in July last year in a bid to get rid of so-called ghost workers - people falsely included on the payroll."The problem is that there were hitches in the system... which resulted in some of the IDs being rejected" TUM president Willie Malimba told AFP.
In the cities of Blantyre, Zomba and Dedza, thousands of teachers were joined by pupils to march against the delay. Chanting and waving placards, they blocked access to main roads and gathered at the education ministry district offices.
This happened in Lesotho last year
Imagine merging with these sh'tholes, our situation is not this bad yet but if no intervention takes place soonest, we'll also get to this point.
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