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]]>UZ students are protesting against Fees Hike !!! Life in Zimbabwe is unaffordable #Fessmustfall by @WellenceMujuru pic.twitter.com/njLjPjOr8C
— Alistar Chibanda (@alistarchibanda) April 5, 2022
At the begging of the semester, UZ announced that fees were being increased just a few days before students were supposed to start attending lectures. Some students took to social media to complain about the sudden development and a few brave students protested but were arrested by riot police just as they left their dorms.
UZ.
This move of deploying riot police on Students that are demanding affordable fees is a wrong response. Which means the question will keep on coming over and over again.— Benon B Ncube
(@benon21b) April 4, 2022
The fees increments happened around the same time that the government and teachers were having a back and forth about teachers’ salaries.
Just in : thousands of students outside UZ administration demonstrating aganist fees increments. Increasing fees twice in a single semester is evil. Fees must fall shall remain the position of the union #Zinasulives pic.twitter.com/SfETlSLO2K
— ZINASU
Many students feel that the fees hikes are unfair given the current state of the economy. In their most recent protests, students were chanting “Fees must fall”. President ED Mnangagwa recently spoke about free education starting next year (2023). However, he only spoke about primary schools.
Prez @edmnangagwa, Yesterday UZ students were demonstrating against exorbitant fees and they have a question, last week demonstration erupted again and students were arrested. It's sad that we only see these headlines during campaign trail periods. Students are asking#HOWFAR? pic.twitter.com/qGkUs9dgaG
— ALLAN CHIPOYI (@AllanChipoyi) April 5, 2022
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]]>Due to the effects of Covid 19, many children have not been learning and some have even had to drop out of school. The pandemic took a toll on both the education system and the parents of schoolgoers.
Schools have been forced to adapt to e-learning and that is if they even have the resources to deliver. In the event that schools were able to deliver, many students could not afford the facility.
The President spoke about the number of school dropouts being the major motivator towards the decision to make education free for primary schools. He also said all children will receive tablets for e-learning purposes funded by the government.
While this is a great cause, how realistic is the 2023 target? As it stands government is failing to pay teachers well. The past couple of months has been spent negotiating with teachers to go to work even though the civil servants feel that their salaries are way below what they deserve.
How will the government manage to make extra funds available for running the schools without students paying school fees? How will it also buy tablets for students if it cannot buy tablets for teachers? We are already 3 months into the year 2022. This leaves the president 9 months to deliver on this promise.
Will the government in the next nine months manage to adjust teachers’ salaries and make a budget available to maintain schools without the need for school fees payments by parents…and also buy each primary scholar textbooks and a tablet? It seems like a mammoth task and the government will need a mammoth strategy to match.
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