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Parents vow to make children boycott classes until Shona headmistress is removed
25 Jun 2016 at 15:52hrs | Views
Parents for children learning at Mlamuli primary school in Lupane have reportedly vowed to make their children boycott schooling until a shona headmistress is removed from the school .
The parents in the area are in a stand-off with the ministry of primary and secondary education for deploying Shona teachers and headmistress Bonyongwe at the school.
Mthwakazi Republic Party Lupani district member Mpiyezwe Zwelethu Mnconywa said the party and villagers were pleased that their effort to have the Shona headmistress removed from the school were going to yield fruits as they push on with the authorities.
"We are pleased to announce that Bonyongwe is finally going to leave Mlamuli for good after a resolution was made on Thursday the 23rd of June at a full parents meeting. The parents resolved that as from Monday the 27th of June they will not be any lessons at the school and unanimously agreed not to send their children to school until Bonyongwe ceases to masquerade as the head of this school," Mnconywa said.
"It has been a long struggle to remove Miss Bonyongwe from the School since January 2016. Miss Bonyongwe a suspected CIO has been working hand in gloves with Mr Simplicio Gwanoya the Lupane District Education Officer (DEO) whose government mandate is to destroy Mthwakazi education system and leave a trail of destruction in Matabeleland."
He said as this is part of the Satanic 1979 Grand Plan and he quote page 10 of the 14 page document, which he claims reads"
"The resistance to the teaching of Shona in all schools in Matabeleland will soon fizzle out. More and more teachings post are being taken up by Shona collage graduates and appointments of Shona school heads has already been won. Students/pupils in all schools in that part of the country will, in the not too distant future be mostly Shona" he said.
"We must not forget what Nathan Shamuyarira once observed in the 1979 Grand Plan. " The only way to weaken the Ndebele is to deprive him of an education". Shona is fought in all teachers collages country wide but Ndebele is confined to Matabeleland Collages and pressure must continue to be applied to limit the teaching of Ndebele to those few who happened to be enrolled."
Mnconywa said Miss Bonyongwe brags that she is well connected to government and the security sector of this Country her mother and brothers are CIOs.
"True to her word we have seen Dr Dokora also working tirelessly to protect Miss Bonyongwe against the Lupane community" he said.
"In one of the SDC and parents meetings ZRP Police in uniform and CIOs introduced as President's office attended the meeting basically to intimidate the parents."
Mnconywa said Lupane is one of the worst Gukurahundi affected areas therefore people are too sensitive and the behaviour of Bonyongwe is so suspicious it actually proves that she is not an ordinary teacher but a CIO too, judging from her arrogance.
"One will be forgiven to think that Bonyongwe is very educated that she is irreplaceable, yet she is only but a cook and a dress maker nothing more, we wonder why is it so difficult to find another School for her in Manyikaland?" He said.
"If you want to put your CIOs in Matabeleland why not put Locals? Why deploy people against our will? It has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Gwanoya and Bonyongwe are agents of the Satanic 1979 Grand Plan, in Lupane who are bent on destroying and infiltrating Mthwakazi. Gwanoya only recruits Shona people in all Schools under his jurisdiction, Ndebeles are not welcome in Lupane the few that are there remain frustrated, no promotion Shonas come and go and most of the time they are deployed just to get a good CV before they are deployed to Bulawayo at the expense of locals."
Mnconywa said as MRP they support the resolution taken by the Lupane community to suspend School lessons until government remove Bonyongwe at Mlamuli Secondary School and are keen to see whether the government through the ministry of education will continue protecting Bonyonge at the expense of the parents and their children who are not benefitting positively on the presence of her at this school.
"Chief Mabhikwa is on record complaining about the deployment of non- Ndebele speaking teachers deployed in his area, Chief Ndiweni is also on record, in Matopo people are up in arms against the deployment of Mashingaidze there, the list is endless everyone in Mthwakazi is angry over government conduct of undermining Matabeleland people. If government is serious about solving issues amicably and avoid confrontation and violence it should act now" he said .
"Meanwhile the ban on goods from south Africa is a non-starter government should immediately reconsider their decision before it's too late, such kind of law cannot be passed because its meant to destroy Mthwakazi people who are reliant on South Africa for everything since all most every family in Mthwakazi receives groceries from SA every month mostly because our working class people are in South Africa where they are employed."
He said the cross border business which has been thriving with over 50 000 people directly employed in that sector benefiting out of it cannot destroyed overnight. Zimbabwean government must understand that some its laws which are inapplicable in Matabeleland.
"Therefore for the avoidance of violent confrontations and maintaining of peace all the time we must be respected' he said.
The parents in the area are in a stand-off with the ministry of primary and secondary education for deploying Shona teachers and headmistress Bonyongwe at the school.
Mthwakazi Republic Party Lupani district member Mpiyezwe Zwelethu Mnconywa said the party and villagers were pleased that their effort to have the Shona headmistress removed from the school were going to yield fruits as they push on with the authorities.
"We are pleased to announce that Bonyongwe is finally going to leave Mlamuli for good after a resolution was made on Thursday the 23rd of June at a full parents meeting. The parents resolved that as from Monday the 27th of June they will not be any lessons at the school and unanimously agreed not to send their children to school until Bonyongwe ceases to masquerade as the head of this school," Mnconywa said.
"It has been a long struggle to remove Miss Bonyongwe from the School since January 2016. Miss Bonyongwe a suspected CIO has been working hand in gloves with Mr Simplicio Gwanoya the Lupane District Education Officer (DEO) whose government mandate is to destroy Mthwakazi education system and leave a trail of destruction in Matabeleland."
He said as this is part of the Satanic 1979 Grand Plan and he quote page 10 of the 14 page document, which he claims reads"
"The resistance to the teaching of Shona in all schools in Matabeleland will soon fizzle out. More and more teachings post are being taken up by Shona collage graduates and appointments of Shona school heads has already been won. Students/pupils in all schools in that part of the country will, in the not too distant future be mostly Shona" he said.
"We must not forget what Nathan Shamuyarira once observed in the 1979 Grand Plan. " The only way to weaken the Ndebele is to deprive him of an education". Shona is fought in all teachers collages country wide but Ndebele is confined to Matabeleland Collages and pressure must continue to be applied to limit the teaching of Ndebele to those few who happened to be enrolled."
Mnconywa said Miss Bonyongwe brags that she is well connected to government and the security sector of this Country her mother and brothers are CIOs.
"True to her word we have seen Dr Dokora also working tirelessly to protect Miss Bonyongwe against the Lupane community" he said.
"In one of the SDC and parents meetings ZRP Police in uniform and CIOs introduced as President's office attended the meeting basically to intimidate the parents."
Mnconywa said Lupane is one of the worst Gukurahundi affected areas therefore people are too sensitive and the behaviour of Bonyongwe is so suspicious it actually proves that she is not an ordinary teacher but a CIO too, judging from her arrogance.
"One will be forgiven to think that Bonyongwe is very educated that she is irreplaceable, yet she is only but a cook and a dress maker nothing more, we wonder why is it so difficult to find another School for her in Manyikaland?" He said.
"If you want to put your CIOs in Matabeleland why not put Locals? Why deploy people against our will? It has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Gwanoya and Bonyongwe are agents of the Satanic 1979 Grand Plan, in Lupane who are bent on destroying and infiltrating Mthwakazi. Gwanoya only recruits Shona people in all Schools under his jurisdiction, Ndebeles are not welcome in Lupane the few that are there remain frustrated, no promotion Shonas come and go and most of the time they are deployed just to get a good CV before they are deployed to Bulawayo at the expense of locals."
Mnconywa said as MRP they support the resolution taken by the Lupane community to suspend School lessons until government remove Bonyongwe at Mlamuli Secondary School and are keen to see whether the government through the ministry of education will continue protecting Bonyonge at the expense of the parents and their children who are not benefitting positively on the presence of her at this school.
"Chief Mabhikwa is on record complaining about the deployment of non- Ndebele speaking teachers deployed in his area, Chief Ndiweni is also on record, in Matopo people are up in arms against the deployment of Mashingaidze there, the list is endless everyone in Mthwakazi is angry over government conduct of undermining Matabeleland people. If government is serious about solving issues amicably and avoid confrontation and violence it should act now" he said .
"Meanwhile the ban on goods from south Africa is a non-starter government should immediately reconsider their decision before it's too late, such kind of law cannot be passed because its meant to destroy Mthwakazi people who are reliant on South Africa for everything since all most every family in Mthwakazi receives groceries from SA every month mostly because our working class people are in South Africa where they are employed."
He said the cross border business which has been thriving with over 50 000 people directly employed in that sector benefiting out of it cannot destroyed overnight. Zimbabwean government must understand that some its laws which are inapplicable in Matabeleland.
"Therefore for the avoidance of violent confrontations and maintaining of peace all the time we must be respected' he said.
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