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NUST lecturers must stop teaching in Shona
06 Apr 2011 at 14:08hrs | Views
THE BULAWAYO CICULAR: ISSUE TWO
Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor: National University of Science and Technology
Cc: The Chancellor: His Excellency The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe
Dear Sir,
SUBJECT: NUST LECTURERS MUST STOP TEACHING IN SHONA!
We refer to the above subject matter and duly advise as below:
No.1 The office of the CIO (Chief Information Officer) has received with great sadness that some lecturers at the National University of Science and Technology and other tertiary institutions are conducting their lessons in one vernacular language – Shona.
No.2 Whilst there is nothing wrong with speaking Shona, the CIO and all sane citizens of our fatherland know well that there are many languages in Zimbabwe and these include Ndebele, Xhosa, Nyanja, Pemba, Karanga to mention only four.
No.3 The only official known language of transacting business and education is English and English is not Shona or near Shona.
No.4 As such, the CIO wishes to remind your noble office that it is a fundamental right for any student in Zimbabwe to be taught in an official language that they hear and understand at the same level with co-learners.
No.5 The CIO thus wishes to state to you sir, that you have an obligation to reign on all lecturers that conduct lecturers in Shona only thus depriving other Nyanjas, Xhosas, Kalangas, and Ndebeles their fundamental right to hear and understand what they are taught.
No.6 In this regard, the CIO is wishes to inform your office that our office has a compilation of names of all Shona lecturers that have problems with teaching in English language and video and sound evidence of the foul they are committing on a daily basis.
No.7 It will be unfair at this stage for your office to be found busy negotiating for peace with many angry and agitated students that feel excluded during the learning process if this matter is not addressed on an extremely urgent basis.
No.8 The CIO is aware of the capacity of the angry students and the dent they can cause if their simple grievance is not urgently addressed – and also aware of what other special interest groups will do to aid, encourage and cause discomfort to the beneficiaries of Shona lessons.
No.9 The CIO wishes to also sincerely state that this is a promise of action and not a threat and must be attended to.
No.10 Further take note that the CIO has copied this letter to your superior so that he also reigns in on other lecturers in our institutions who pursue some undemocratic and unconstitutional exclusionist tendencies that are a complete reversal of the gains of the liberation struggle.
The CIO thus urgently waits to hear and see reform or non Shona students at all schools, colleges, universities and workplaces that suffer from the same prejudice will seek freedom from the language that they now view as a language of subjugation, whichever way possible
Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor: National University of Science and Technology
Cc: The Chancellor: His Excellency The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe
Dear Sir,
SUBJECT: NUST LECTURERS MUST STOP TEACHING IN SHONA!
We refer to the above subject matter and duly advise as below:
No.1 The office of the CIO (Chief Information Officer) has received with great sadness that some lecturers at the National University of Science and Technology and other tertiary institutions are conducting their lessons in one vernacular language – Shona.
No.2 Whilst there is nothing wrong with speaking Shona, the CIO and all sane citizens of our fatherland know well that there are many languages in Zimbabwe and these include Ndebele, Xhosa, Nyanja, Pemba, Karanga to mention only four.
No.3 The only official known language of transacting business and education is English and English is not Shona or near Shona.
No.4 As such, the CIO wishes to remind your noble office that it is a fundamental right for any student in Zimbabwe to be taught in an official language that they hear and understand at the same level with co-learners.
No.5 The CIO thus wishes to state to you sir, that you have an obligation to reign on all lecturers that conduct lecturers in Shona only thus depriving other Nyanjas, Xhosas, Kalangas, and Ndebeles their fundamental right to hear and understand what they are taught.
No.6 In this regard, the CIO is wishes to inform your office that our office has a compilation of names of all Shona lecturers that have problems with teaching in English language and video and sound evidence of the foul they are committing on a daily basis.
No.7 It will be unfair at this stage for your office to be found busy negotiating for peace with many angry and agitated students that feel excluded during the learning process if this matter is not addressed on an extremely urgent basis.
No.8 The CIO is aware of the capacity of the angry students and the dent they can cause if their simple grievance is not urgently addressed – and also aware of what other special interest groups will do to aid, encourage and cause discomfort to the beneficiaries of Shona lessons.
No.9 The CIO wishes to also sincerely state that this is a promise of action and not a threat and must be attended to.
No.10 Further take note that the CIO has copied this letter to your superior so that he also reigns in on other lecturers in our institutions who pursue some undemocratic and unconstitutional exclusionist tendencies that are a complete reversal of the gains of the liberation struggle.
The CIO thus urgently waits to hear and see reform or non Shona students at all schools, colleges, universities and workplaces that suffer from the same prejudice will seek freedom from the language that they now view as a language of subjugation, whichever way possible
Source - Bulawayo Chief Information Officer
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