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"Fresh start by 2011" gets overwhelming support
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
October 01, 2010

Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) has concluded the first step of the "fresh start by 2011" campaign which seeks to close all tertiary institutions until and after solemn reforms are ushered in the troubled education sector. The first step has proven beyond doubt that the students of Zimbabwe are willing and able to execute the generational mandate of pushing for the sanitisation of the education sector.

The revolutionary team of President Obert Masaraure, Vice President Tafadzwa Kutya, and Gender and Human Rights Secretary Kundai Chambara was in the Midlands Province today where they met students from Mkoba Teachers College, Gweru Polytechnic College, Midlands State University, Mlezu College of Agriculture, Kaguvi Training Centre and Kwekwe Polytechnic College. The students unanimously declared that they subscribe to the noble campaign and are impatiently waiting for the dates of the indefinite National Boycott from lectures. The President of Mkoba Teachers Cde Moses Maruka had this to say, "The challenges bedevilling our institution are not peculiar to us since they emanate from government policy, so this collective move will definitely emancipate the student fraternity". The ZINASU Gender and Human Rights Secretary was however harassed by security details at Gweru Polytechnic College while addressing female students.

ZINASU Bulawayo Chapter echoed the same sentiments with their counterparts in all other provinces, with the President of the Zimbabwe School of Mines saying, "Our challenges as a private institution are not the same with state institutions but we are more than willing to extend a hand of active solidarity with other students across the country"

ZINASU National Executive Council is going to sit over the weekend and declare the date for the indefinite disengagement from lectures and all academic activities until the plight of the students is addressed

Meanwhile, the state has been shaken by the campaign and has started to victimise progressive ZINASU activists. The duo of Samson Nxumalo (NUST) and Archiford Mudzengi (School of Mines) has been illegally thrown into remand prison by Bulawayo magistrate court to the 16th of October 2010 for trumped up charges.

ZINASU will not be shaken by any form of victimisation and will remain focused guided by our desire to see a robust and just Education sector. "The revolution is underway stand up and be counted."

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