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 (@Zinasuzim) April 4, 2022

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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The University of Zimbabwe unceremoniously increased the fees a few days before the start of the semester scheduled for the 21^st of March.

The protest was scheduled to start at 11 am but the police officers were already on the UZ premises by 6 am. As soon as the students came out of their hostels waving placards and chanting slogans, the police made their move and arrested them.

A political science student said to New Zimbabwe;

“The moment some students started to demonstrate at UZ around 11 am today the riot police was already there so they arrested them and from there they were taken to the security department.”

The arrested students were taken to Avondale police station. The university students had been complaining about various social media platforms about the fees increase. Given the economic situation in the country, many of them feel it is unfair for the university to increase its fees by 100% and expect them to pay it up within the next few days.

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According to the tweet by Joseph Nyamayaro, the fees were pegged at 22k and have been increased to 54k.

The university announced on their social media pages that the new semester will commence on Monday the 21str of March up to Friday the 1^st of July 2022. The university also encouraged students to pay the fees as reflected on their fees portals “pending the gazetting of the new fees ordinance.”

Many students have complained as they feel that the hike has been drastic and at the last minute. The 21^st is in a few days and the university expects students to be paid up by then. It is no secret that parents are struggling to pay fees because of the unstable economy in Zimbabwe.

In a stable economy, public education should be free and as the fees continue to increase every semester, there is no sign of free education on the horizon. The standards of the university are declining as well. Back in the day graduates from UZ were recognized in Africa and beyond but now the credibility is not the same as before. People are opting to send their children out of the country or have them study with foreign boards like UNISA.

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Some have to handle these tuition fees by themselves. They are having to balance out studies and their side hustles to make it work.

However, if you the parent, or you the student, have been saving for the following semester with a specific monetary goal that tallies with the current semester fees in mind, we’re sorry. Perhaps you were saving a little more extra to accommodate for any hikes in tuition costs, but, the increase in college tuition will catch you off-guard. It certainly caught us completely off-guard.

Not all universities have reported their new tuition costs for next semester, however the following universities have:

• Zimbabwe Open University(ZOU) : Undergraduates will pay $24 000, Postgraduates will pay $34 000, Masters will pay $49 000 and PHD’s $120 000
• The National University of Science and Technology (NUST): Undergraduate courses will be $32000, Postgraduates will pay $34000 and  Master’s $45 000
• Great Zimbabwe University (GZU): Undergraduates will pay between $25 960 and $30 060, Postgraduates will pay $34 445 and $39 655, Masters between $37 750 and $44 045 and finally PHDs will be paying $45 000 and $57 000

GZU has already updated their website with these, however NUST director for communication and marketing Thabani Mpofu has stated that the aforementioned NUST fees are not yet official.

These new costs are an increase from a mean average of approximately $9000 per semester. The hikes are generally being attributed to the current economic conditions. They are being taken as a way to combat this situation and ensure that these institutions continue to survive.

However, should these conditions improve in the near future, it must not be expected that university fees will be reduced resultantly. Minister of Higher and Tertiary education, Professor Amon Murwira had the following remarks:

“Once we agree on fees hikes at the beginning of the year even if the economy thrives, institutions are to maintain the proposed fees as the approvals are done annually”

What are your thoughts on this matter? Even when we take the economic situation into consideration, is this sharp surge of tuition costs justifiable?

Let us know what you think in the comment section below.

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For a long time bus termini have become a dread for many women, the menace is self imposed touts who invited themselves into our bus ranks across the country. They have become the mini-skirt prefects, nudeness meters and moral compasses for women.

Reports of women being undressed are rife, amongst many other oddities these derelicts are known for, for the most part they’ve managed get away with it, but in this latest case justice prevailed.

According to reports 1 Harare tout has just been sentenced to 4 months in jail for fondling a university student in the Harare’s central business ditrict.

Nigel Akimu plead not guilty to the charge however the court found him guilty.

It is the State’s case that on March 24 at around 3pm, the complainant was walking with her friend and on approaching the Leopold Takawira Street and Speke Avenue in Harare, Akimu approached her from the back and started fondling her and was seen by the complainant’s friend.

All this could have been avoided if he had kept his hands to himself, and minded his own business.

The truth is that many women are harassed by touts on a daily basis the difference with this case is that the victim was brave enough to report the matter to police.

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Maud who is also one of TelOne’s brand ambassadors, enrolled for university at only 14 years of age, let that sink in.

Maud is one of the very people in Africa, if not the world to achieve this fete at her age. She continues to lift the country’s flag high.

All we can say is Well Done Girl!

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