Zanu PF rallies costing students and parents
This communique serves to express the unabated disgruntlement that is
bedevelling both students and parents over the perpertual and seemily
unending disturbances in education due to ZANU PF rallies continually
being staged across the country by Zanu Pf national secretary on a
nation wide tour to meet youths in what has been described as a
stratergic defacto mass mobilisation of youth voters.
Recognising the sacrosanctity of our constitution,we respect section
60,61 ,67 and other relevant sections and chapters, we respect the
right to political choice andparticipation by any individual and
political party on which ZANU PF is included.However in pursuance of
these rights, no individuals ,organisations,institutions or groups
should be prejudiced in the process.This article comes as a response
to the evident disturbances in education of students in both primary
and secondary and tertiary institutions accompanied by forced
donations of both resources and human labour by the above stated
institutions.
Amid preparations to host president Mugabe in Manicaland Province on
Friday 16 June,schools have been forced to submitt their newly bought
buses to be used for the transportation of party loyalists from all
over Manicaland,school teachers have been summoned to attend the
ceremony together with their students,this exhumes bad memories of
2008 that we had hidden in a tight compartment,memories of
pressganging crowds to attend political events.
At Mutare Polly ,Marrymount and Mutare Teachers' colleges lectures
were cut with effect from Wednesday and students channeled towards
sweeping streets in a bid to impress the president on his arrival in
the third largest city within the country.
NRZ was summoned to submitt trains which will be used to outsource
other people from around the country in efforts of meeting the
targeted 60 000 people by Kudzai Chipanga.I wish to remind ZANU PF
that party business should remain foreign to government business.The
move to frog march people especially students in efforts to impress
the 93 year old Zimbabwean premier is unwelcome,diabolic and
primitive,we therefore call upon the Ministry of Education Sports and
Culture together with Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education to
remain as proffesional as desired by section 200 of our national
constitution.
We call upon SDCs to stand toe to toe with any political party
hooligan who seek to treat schools as party or private property.The
right to education should be safeguarded and not subjected to any
conditions by anyone whatsoever irregardless of social standing or
political party affiliation for parents can not be used to sponsor
political party business either directly or indirectly.
Concerned Student
Basopo Basopo.
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