Mat-South senator bemoans lack of development

Matabalelenad South Senator Bheki Sibanda has accused the government of always considering the universities and schools development programmes for Gwanda lastly after other areas have been prioritized.

Speaking in parliament, Sibanda said  if they were  to do a second round of universities, can we start with Gwanda because people were not happy to be always the last.

"Secondly, I believe that we must prepare fertile ground work in order to ensure that the engineering you have been talking about is realised in Matabeleland South," he said.  "The reason I am saying this is because I recently did a survey to establish the number of schools that have science facilities in one constituency and realised that there are only two schools out of about 15 schools that have adequate science facilities."

Sibanda said what that means is that they were establishing an Engineering Faculty in an area where science education is non-existent.

"So I am urging you as the Minister of Secondary and Tertiary Education to ensure that we have secondary schools with science facilities," he said.