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ZINASU letter to Mugabe ahead of the 2008 General Elections
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
February 01, 2008

The Chancellor (All State Universities)
State President of Zimbabwe
Robert. G. Mugabe

Dear R. G Mugabe

RE: ZINASU Bi- Annual Congress Declaration (2008- 2010)

Zimbabwe National Students' Union (ZINASU) held its Bi-Annual Congress in Harare, on the 19th of January 2008. Forty-four Institutions of Higher Learning were represented at the Congress totalling 168 delegates, where a new leadership was elected and mandated to the Congress Declaration.

ZINASU brings to your attention, with great concern, the continued and unabated fall in the standards of education in the country. This, mainly due to the shortage of learning and teaching facilities, massive exodus of qualified teaching personnel, is a culmination of your government's ill prioritisation of state resources and failing to accord education the priority it deserves.

ZINASU is disappointed by your conduct, lack of seriousness and urgency in the purported on-going SADC mediation process meant to resolve the current multi-faceted crisis our country finds itself in. Your attitude towards the initiative facilitated by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, leaves a lot to be desired, especially considering the fact that you proceeded to announce the election dates before the conclusion of the mediation process.

We further put to you that the students of Zimbabwe will not accept an election outcome from a flawed election process. We strongly and unequivocally warn you and your cronies that the country will be ungovernable if you steal the people's vote.

We also want to refer you to the pre-independence demands by General Josiah Magama Tongogara, of free and fair elections where international observers oversee.

Regards

Clever Bere
ZINASU President

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