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Harare tertiary students storm the streets
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
October 31, 2007

More than 500 students from Harare's institutions of higher learning yesterday, 30 October 2007, took to the streets of Harare with a petition addressed to the Minister of Higher & Tertiary Education Dr. Stan Mudenge expressing displeasure over the deterioration of the education delivery system in Zimbabwe. Students marched along Fourth street into Samora Macheal avenue singing and chanting student revolutionary songs and slogans demanding attention and address to the education crisis. The peaceful protest led by the University of Zimbabwe students union president Lovemore Chinoputsa, was quickly disrupted by a brood of overzealous and armed anti-riot police officers who forcefully dispersed the students before the petition was handed over. Police, in the process, confisticated the petition and ZINASU banners

The students have vowed to continue expressing their grievances through all means possible until a state of normalcy is realised in all institutions of higher learning. The students' unrest emanates from the continued lack of delivery on the part of the lecturers who have been on a continuous go slow since the semester began. This has compromised the delivery of an effective education system .Due to a combination of the unavailability of adequate teaching staff, poor and inadequate learning materials, prohibitive tuition fees and the unavailability of decent and adequate accommodation institutions have been producing half baked graduates and this cheapens the education sector. At the University of Zimbabwe in particular, all the students commute to and fro campus creating serious transport problems and transport operators take advantage of the crisis to unjustifiably hike fares beyond the reach of students.

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