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ZINASU submitting petitions tomorrow
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
September 05, 2006

ZINASU will tomorrow go ahead with the submission of more than six million signatures(which are more than the votes Mugabe got in 2002) that are of the view that Government must make education affordable and worthy its value.Our teams are finalising logistics in terms of mobilising people that will be part of the protesters that will submit the petitions to various Headmasters, Principals,and Vice Chancellors who are in turn expected to submit these petitions to the respective Ministries of Education. ZINASU would like to warn the Government to act upon the petitions as expeditiously as possible as we are giving them only two weeks to respond failure of which we will be embarking on massive street and other forms of protests.

We would also like to warn the police not to over react and unnecessarily injure students that will be genuinely protesting against unaffordable fees.We wish to assure all the forces,parents and the nation at large that this is the beggining of a bitter and protracted road whose final outcome must and will final and corrective.We have long tried to engage the government through dialogue and the petitions are the last opportunity they will get to resolve the education crisis without altercation with the students and the nation at large.The Government has persistently refused to co-operate.

We wish to take this opportunity to further lament the continued and deliberate neglect of students and education in general.The government of Zimbabwe continues to treat education with less and less importance preferring to prioritise things like defence and intelligence which do not add any value to the livelihood and posterity of this country but which further entrench ZANU PF stay in power and continue to compound repression ,supression and oppresion of the people`s aspirations.We insist that in order for this country to regain hope and energy for it to move forwad education must be given the priority it deserves as espoused in the Millenium Development Goals.

Attempts by Minister Chigwedere and Mudenge respctively to pre-empty the students struggles by claiming that no student will be expelled for failing to pay fees are doomed to the dust bins of failure.The people are clever than then ,you have fooled the country for too long. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.The people will rise as planned at the lapse of two weeks should no satisfactory answer be forth coming from Government and ZINASU will lead that historic struggle.

Promise Mkwananzi
President

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