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UZ students pose a peaceful demo- ESUZ

by Hatis Kdzoreka
17 Mar 2015 at 16:50hrs | Views

Ahoi maUBA ahoi
Ahoi maUSA ahoi
The chant still ringing in my ears...

The lecturers as well as workers at the state owned, ran and controlled universities have not been given their rewards or salaries for quite a long time. According to a worker (preferring anonymity), their employer did not pay them any amount for at least two months now. This have posed a challenge to both the workers and the lecturers to go for work as they are no longer able to cover for their day to day costs especially the transport costs to and from work.

These people have been working without getting any salary for some time leading to them coming up with the resolution to go on massive national strike. Sources from UZ, MSU, CUT, GZU and NUST confirmed that no lectures were held today with the situation worse at UZ where the students staying on-campus failing to have their breakfast this morning.

Failure to attend lectures and having food were the immediate causes to the massive uprising of the already full of grievancies students at UZ among other conditions like the issue of full fees payment, poor learning conditions, poor as well as shortage of accommodation, inhuman laws and poor representation by the some other puppet leaders in both the SRC and SEC.

The students converged at VC Nyagura's office who is allegedly to have been quickly smuggled out of the institution by the GBs. The students' voice was clearly calling for the VC to come and address them himself and prove whether he was still the Vice Chancellor or the Vice Criminal. For this cause, the UZ students denied both the Pro-VC and the Dean of Students a chance to address them chanting "..toda Levi...."

Efforts to get the VC were unfruitful leaving the students with an option to go direct to the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education Minister's office to get clarity on their grivancies. The plan was unsuccessful as the BRUTAL and INHUMAN, Form four qualified, 6-month trained Zimbabwe Republic Police Anti-riot squad was sent to block the way of the students who were marching peacefully out of the UZ campus.

Leader Levi Nyagura and all the other VCs as well as the responsible Ministry and authorities note that the students pay their fees which are too high considering our down-sliding economy. The students want clarity on where their monies are going to. Of cause you drive the most expensive cars and stay in lavish mansions but still there is some change that is left supposed to:

*Pay the workers
*Offer adequate accommodation to the students
*Offer better meals to the students
*Improve the academic environment
*Remove the unnecessarily inhuman laws
*Give the students value-for-their-money education
*Bring back the grants and loans for the students
*etc
NB: the list is endless
 
We would like to thank all the organisers and players, ESUZ, SUF, PSU and ZINASU among other students unions and individuals who gave their support for the success of this historic event today. As the ESUZ family, we would like to comment on the solidarity shown by the students who were willing, as part of our vision states, to set aside any differences be it political, religious, racial, background and cultural among other differences for the restoration of our academic environment and the nation at large.

The students were forced to vacate from the campus with immediate effect for at least a week

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING!!!!!!!

FOR THE STUDENTS TODAY IS THE NATION TODAY AND TOMORROW


Source - Hatis Kdzoreka