Students union expresses disappointment by the govt's negligence of responsibility

In regard to the call by the Zimbabwe State Universities Union of Academics (ZSUUA) for the teaching and non-teaching staff to go on strike university students are deeply incarnated with a feeling of betrayal by the government accentuated by explicitly paying little attention to the Educational Sector as testified by its dismal failure to honour the promises made to state institution lecturers to receive bonuses and salaries annually in time.

It is a highly handed miscarriage of justice by the state to the university students whom the majority of them are victims of abject poverty that despite the students battling with the exorbitant fees in any way possible, it fails to respect and honour the sacrifice made by the vulnerable students in an attempt to acquire education by not cooperating through the provision of all materials imperative in assuring academic excellence with lecturers being the most essential part whom the state is failing to recognise their significance by not paying accordingly.

As that is not enough, the fast deteriorating learning conditions and the unpropotioned levels of the shortages of resources is not catching up with the exorbitant fees levied upon poverty stricken students. With such unattended issues at hand this has turned university learning into a burden.

Perhaps what disillusions and disheartens most university is the failure of the government to sympathise with students in terms of fees payment, the fact that the government had turned down the part payment of fees unearths the insensitive attitude of the government towards university students who are living in an hostile economic environment which ironically stands in shrill contrast with the unfair fees levied on students. This also uncovers that the government is not concerned with the welfare of students but with fattening its pocket with funds that are supposed to be efficiently used to counter the day to day predicaments faced by students.

Therefore as the Envisioned Students Union Of Zimbabwe we put a petition and a demand upon the government to be rational and sensitive enough through the provision of services such as teaching stuff, accommodation, enough computers and above all we call for reduction of the the unfair fees levied upon the struggling students.

Thank you.