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'Chevening creating future Zimbabwe leaders'
02 Sep 2014 at 03:11hrs | Views
Government is grateful to British funded scholarship,- Chevening, as it is nurturing the country's future leaders, deputy Justice minister Fortune Chasi said last week.
Chasi was guest of honour at a function to see off the latest group of beneficiaries of the fund administered by the British Embassy in Harare.
"We are grateful to the Chevening scholarship of which I am an alumni, having studied International Human Rights Law. I cannot over emphasise the fact that you are going to study and come back to apply the knowledge and expertise for the benefit of Zimbabwe. The future of Zimbabwe is going to be determined by young people like yourselves," said Chasi.
He said while Zimbabwe's education system was globally renowned, the country's youths were not normally associated with leadership.
"Normally, when people hear the word leadership, it conjures different images of lots of big powerful people in big cars, military commanders or corporate leaders. Our young people are not identified with leading and are not defined as leadership material," the deputy minister said.
Other well-known people to have benefited from the programme include deputy Information minister Supa Mandiwanzira, human rights lobbyist Okay Machisa and banker George Guvamatanga.
Chasi said the Chevening scholarship was helping the country groom future leaders who will need to take over the mantle from the current crop.
"We all have roles, we have people that fought for our country but there are others who must take over and champion the same cause, and drive Zimbabwe to even greater heights. Mbuya Nehanda was a human rights activist in her own way and our constitution now has a lot of rights, it is the basic law of the country and it is the law that we will want observed. It provides very strongly the rights to our people, including the freedoms to go about their businesses without molestation or coercion, but it needs young leaders to push for its adherence," Chasi told the beneficiaries, adding the constitution adopted at a referendum last year was a melting pot of Zimbabwean interests.
This year's beneficiaries are Rumbidzayi Zengeya, Masimba Nyamanhindi, Ronald Chari and Tendai Zihove.
Chasi was guest of honour at a function to see off the latest group of beneficiaries of the fund administered by the British Embassy in Harare.
"We are grateful to the Chevening scholarship of which I am an alumni, having studied International Human Rights Law. I cannot over emphasise the fact that you are going to study and come back to apply the knowledge and expertise for the benefit of Zimbabwe. The future of Zimbabwe is going to be determined by young people like yourselves," said Chasi.
He said while Zimbabwe's education system was globally renowned, the country's youths were not normally associated with leadership.
"Normally, when people hear the word leadership, it conjures different images of lots of big powerful people in big cars, military commanders or corporate leaders. Our young people are not identified with leading and are not defined as leadership material," the deputy minister said.
Other well-known people to have benefited from the programme include deputy Information minister Supa Mandiwanzira, human rights lobbyist Okay Machisa and banker George Guvamatanga.
Chasi said the Chevening scholarship was helping the country groom future leaders who will need to take over the mantle from the current crop.
"We all have roles, we have people that fought for our country but there are others who must take over and champion the same cause, and drive Zimbabwe to even greater heights. Mbuya Nehanda was a human rights activist in her own way and our constitution now has a lot of rights, it is the basic law of the country and it is the law that we will want observed. It provides very strongly the rights to our people, including the freedoms to go about their businesses without molestation or coercion, but it needs young leaders to push for its adherence," Chasi told the beneficiaries, adding the constitution adopted at a referendum last year was a melting pot of Zimbabwean interests.
This year's beneficiaries are Rumbidzayi Zengeya, Masimba Nyamanhindi, Ronald Chari and Tendai Zihove.
Source - Zim Mail
