Opinion / Columnist
MRP will not allow Zanu-PF destroy our Mthwakazi education
03 Sep 2016 at 09:41hrs | Views
Its only a week before Zimbabwe's primary and secondary schools reopen for their third term yet our demands for the removal of Shona speaking teachers is yet to be answered, sambeni sibone. In Zimbabwe, third term is very important because thus where school children write their end of year examinations, and its meant to evaluate students performance and their pass rates guarantees them a next level in their educational endeavours. School students in both primary and secondary schools are suppose to be taught by their teachers who are very very important in the education sector, from January to October before they write their examination to evaluate them for the next level. But how do students write examinations after spending a year without a teacher?
Part of the vital tool for teaching is communication. So how does teachers and students communicate effectively where there is language barrier? We warn you we are aware of your shenanigans and we are ready to resist that by any means possible.
As Mthwkazi Republic Party we are therefore very worried by the behaviour of Minister of primary and secondary education Dr Lazarus Dokora towards Matabeleland students. how can he ignore the calls in the region to remove his grand plan implementers in our schools musquarading as teachers? Our investigations in most of rural Mthwakazi reveal that;
Most schools have no science, and maths teachers, that also explains why only a few students benefited from the program being championed by Minister of Higher education Professor Jonathan Moyo meant to promote Science and technology subjects in A level where government pledged to pay for such students.
We further established that there is a deliberate ploy by the tribalistic ZANU PF government to systematically side line our Mthwakazi qualified teachers who are well versed with local languages in order to fulfill their 1979 Grand plan which is meant to destroy Mthwakazi, they bring in Shona speaking teachers who can't speak local languages to teach at infantry level as plans to destroy local Mthwakazi culture. It will not work.
The Zimbabwe government through its Collage principals is deliberately sidelining Mthwakazi students who want to enrol as teachers in local teachers Collages, United teachers Collage and Hillside teachers Collages managements are some of the worst tribalists we have ever witnessed in recent times. At these two institutions Mthwakazi students are frustrated denied access, some of our people's applications are not even responded to, in some cases they demand higher pass rates from students from Mthwakazi in order to eliminate and minimise the Ndebele students. The situation is so bad such that the two collages hardly enrols 20% of our people, yet they are in the heart of Mthwakazi Bulawayo.
On the other hand Shona students connected to ZANU PF officials are enrolled year in year out without having to struggle even with not so good pass rates as demanded from our people.
Over the past two days we watched curiously on ztv news as Minister of Information in the Zimbabwe government who is also an executive director of Robert Gabriel Mugabe's Presidential Scholarship, Christopher Mushowe sending about 50 Shona connected students to China to study in different disciplines at the expense of our own Mthwakazi people as if that is not enough.
We are aware that 95 percent of students on Scholarships in South Africa are Shona speaking mostly connected to ZANU PF officials and government workers deliberately sidelining our people despite the fact that those Scholarships are funded by tax payers money which also as Mthwakazi people we are forcefully asked to pay yet our people don't get anything from the National cake as development is only concentrated to Mashonaland and mostly Harare. Where the government have so far built two dormitory towns Chitungwiza and Norton and are now in the process of building a third town in Harare called Mount Hampden all at the expense of Mthwakazi and Bulawayo in particular which was last developed before 1980.
We would like to take this opportunity to strongly warn ZANU PF from undermining us, refrain from any further attack to Mthwakazi. All those evil deeds of yours only save to confirm that these are two separate states which can not co exist. We have struggled , we have been subjected to many inhumane deeds but we say enough is enough, we resist any further effort meant to undermine us. We say never again shall we be killed in silence, never again shall Gukurahundi genocide take place in our land, never again shall Shona suprimists teachers freely destroy our children's efforts. We shall resist that. Never again shall our Rights be trampled on without a challenge, never again. We warn all those Shona teachers currently deployed in Mthwakazi to destroy our education to rethink again and consider relocating, (okucweba indlebe ngowakho) because its no longer business as usually in Mthwakazi as we now seek to correct all the errors. Mthwakazi omuhle ondlela zimhlophe please standup and be counted together we shall make it. Remember united we stand decided we fall.
MRP FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN OUR LIFE TIME.
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Source - Mthwakazi
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