College lecturers are caught up in the proverbial no-man's land.Educators in the Ministry of Education are members of ZIMTA which addresses all their labour and professional concerns. Most lecturers used to belong to ZIMTA before they moved to the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education.
To a large extent ZIMTA no longer addresses concerns of lecturers as the majority of its membership are teachers. Therefore, sector specific concerns of lecturers are ignored since lecturers do not have a vibrant union or organization to articulate their concerns.
The College Lecturers Association of Zimbabwe [COLAZ] on the other hand is meant to cover these lecturers. However, due to lack of transparency and accountability by the previous leadership, instead of growing the organization has been shunned by the very same people it is meant to represent. The association also suffered a leadership vacuum after the top leaders left the country for greener pastures. This shattered the already fragile reputation it had that lecturers still resort to ZIMTA even if it does not fully represent them.
It is therefore imperative that current efforts being made to resuscitate COLAZ address these issues so that it stands a chance of winning the trust of its intended constituencies and being a true representative of lecturers.
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