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Students union launches deposit your voice campaign
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) NTCC
September 15, 2011

We the students of all tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe

Worried with the reluctance of the government to substantially fund education,

Concerned with the number of our fellow talented students who are either dropping out or failing to enroll at institutions of higher learning,

Offended by the number of students who completed their studies but cannot access certificates because of outstanding fees,

Further offended by the inadequacies, poor and irresponsible management of the accommodation service at the colleges

Disturbed with the way students are engaging in the options of last resort i.e. prostitution, poorly paid manual labor, political servitude in a desperate bid to survive

Having realized that higher education has fallen victim to policy discord necessitated by lack of a clear and comprehensive National Education policy owing to parochial partisan interests of the parties in the chaotic inclusive government,

Noting that the shambolic cadetship scheme is unsustainable, selective, insufficient and repressive,

Troubled with the continued support for the costly and partisan Presidential Scholarship using national resources

Desirous of a just, equitable and robust education sector in Zimbabwe

Aware that our government has capacity to revive full funding for all students

We hereby launch this National Campaign, the Deposit Your Voice Campaign which seeks to afford the students and the nation at large an opportunity to speak out and demand a rethink in the discourse of the state of higher education in the country. This will be achieved through the collection and collation of various voices coming out from parents, students, workers, churches, media practitioners, academics, rights activists and the broader spectrum through various means of communication.

The campaign does not end at the point of collecting the voices; rather, it begins then, as the voices should be deposited to the relevant Ministries and government functionaries on daily and weekly basis. The campaign will take 45 days.

The Students Union expects the government to respond to these various voices within 14 working days after the completion of the campaign process, failure of which will attract corrective measures from the disgruntled students and various societies of Zimbabwe.

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