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Radical shift needed to save country spate of don's strikes

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As we predicted last year, the truce between the Ministry of Education and the universities’ academic staff was going to be short-lived.

Our contention that the underlying issues that triggered the withdrawal of labour by the University Academic Staff Union (Uasu) had not been tackled conclusively was valid. Even as they called off the strike after protracted talks, lecturers demanded that all the provisions of the 2013/2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement be finalised by the end of January.

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