The pay dispute goes back to October 2018, when the government stopped paying civil servants in U.S. dollars, switching to the reintroduced Zimbabwean dollar. The new currency has steadily lost value, effectively reducing teacher wages to about $100 a month. The teachers want the $540 a month they were getting in 2018. 
Nkhani ya malipiro ikuchokera mu October chaka cha 2018 pamene boma linasiya kulipira ogwira ntchito m'boma kudzera mu ndalama za kunja za U.S dollar kubwerera ku ndalama ya ku Zimbabwe ya Zimbawean dollar. Ndalama yatsopanoyi yakhala ikutsika mphamvu pang'ono ndi pang'ono, zomwe zinapangitsa kuti ndalama yomwe aphunzitsi amalandira itsike kufikira pa $100 pa mwezi. Aphunzitsiwa akufuna adzilandira $540 yomwe ankalandira mu chaka cha 2018