“Chiredzi South legislator Kalisto Gwanetsa last week called a meeting with all school heads in his constituency after it recorded poor results during the 2019 Grade 7, Ordinary Level and Advance Level Zimsec examinations” reported Newsday.
“Most of the schools performed dismally with some posting a 0% pass rate while others got 2% or 3%.”
"I have called this meeting because I am not happy with last year's results. I know things are difficult economically, but our results are pathetic. We have room to improve. We should be seen putting more effort to improve our pass rate,” said the Zanu PF MP Brigadier-General Kalisto Gwanetsa (Retired).
This is just political posturing from one with no clue what is going on much less how to fix it!
Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown, the root cause of the total collapse of the education service, is a result of 40 years of Zanu PF gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and rank lawless that have earned Zimbabwe the status of pariah state. No one likes to do business in a pariah state given all the chaos, the shortages, risks and headaches one has to face. And as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs there will be no meaningful economic recovery. None!
By blatantly rigging the July 2018 elections President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state regardless all the claims of “new dispensation and Second Republic that was open for business!”
As a Zanu PF member MP Gwanetsa owns his seat on the gravy train to the party’s vote rigging prowess and, no doubt will never criticise the de facto one-party dictatorship and its carte blanche vote rigging powers. The price for his gravy train seat is the economic meltdown, the thousands of children with no formal education, the thousands of sick of easily treatable ailment (many clinics and hospital in the constituency are barely functioning or are closed), etc.
If government is serious about reviving the country’s education and health care services then government must paid the teachers, doctors and nurses a living wage, must provide the funds to buy books, medicines, etc. After 40 years of Zanu PF misrule, it is clear that this Zanu PF government is not serious about reviving the economy and with it the public sector.
If the people of Zimbabwe are serious about making sure their children get a decent education, their sick are treated, etc. then they must demand the implementation of the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. As long as the nation is stuck with such leaders as MP Gwanetsa who have no clue what is going on the nation will never get out of the economic and political mess it is in.
It is not only the students who wrote and failed their grade 7, Form 2, “O” level and “A” level who were let down by the failed education system; all students across the board were affected, last year was a wasted year for all for they all learned 0% to 3%. The decline in our education system has been going on for decades now. The ruling elite have long stopped using local public education facilities because they are all in a deplorable state of rot and decay.
I shudder to think how I would have managed if I have missed even one year of my schooling.
A whole generation in Chiredzi has been deprived of a decent education for no fault of their own. The same is repeated right across the country. No nation can afford to be so careless and condemn a whole generation to ignorance. Write off a whole generation! And yet that is exactly what is happening here.
Zimbabwe is in this hell-on-earth economic and political mess because for 40 years we have allowed ourselves to be ruled by a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. The party has rigged elections to secure its continued rule. By neglecting the country’s education, health care, etc. the regime is digging the nation deeper and deeper into this hell-hole.
It is up to the people of Chiredzi to demand from MP Gwanetsa solutions to revive the education service, as it is the people’s duty to demand solutions from this Zanu PF government. It is only when the people hold their leaders to democratic account that there will be meaningful change.
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Deputy Defence And War Veterans Minister Victor Matemadanda comments saying the British government is responsible for Zimbabwe’s ongoing problems.
Zimbabwe was not the only country colonised, oppressed and exploited by outsiders. Many others nation suffered the same fate and had to fight a war of independence and have never looked back ever since.
Zimbabwe’s post independence performance has been a total disaster and instead of addressing the real cause of this; which are mismanagement, corruption and the dictatorship that has stifled debate, democracy and peace change; Zanu PF has sort to revisit the colonial days and blame the British for the nation’s ills. This is just hiding behind one’s finger!
Zanu PF blatantly rigged the July 2018 elections thus confirming the country’s status as a pariah state, a failed Banana Republic. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state the country will never achieve any meaningful economic recovery.
Let’s talk about the rigged elections and pariah state and forget this nonsense of blaming the British for our problems!
Mthuli: Zimbabwe Will Jump Out Of the Current Economic Problem
Mthuli Ncube has promised many, many things ever since his appointment in September 2018 including getting IMF and WB to bankroll Zimbabwe's economic recovery, getting investors to come to Zimbabwe, keeping inflation in single digit, etc. Most of his promised have never materialised.
Mthuli Ncube is one of those Zimbabweans who have joined this Zanu PF regime to help it sell its propaganda. He knew the regime rigged the elections and is therefore illegitimate but agreed to work for it for the sake of thirty pieces of silver. Zimbabwe has more than its fair share of sell-outs and hence the reason it has been near impossible to unseat this de facto one-party dictatorship.
Said Chamisa:”When dealing with the crocodile you have to be careful.You don’t have to venture into the river because it will attack you.
We will remain outside the pool -on dry ground and the crocodile will be rendered powerless.
We know how to tame the crocodile,” said Chamisa.
This is just the usual silver gorilla grandstanding and when push comes to shove turnout to be the bluffing of a paper tiger!
"MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections" Chamisa said before the 2018 elections. He had no such measures and Zanu PF went on to blatantly rig the elections landing us in this mess.
MDC will never stop Zanu PF rigging the 2023 elections and, worst of all, Chamisa will get into the river and participate in the flawed and illegal elections thus giving the process credibility! Zimbabwean must wake up to the reality MDC has abandoned the fight for free, fair and credible elections and is only bluffing to fool us all!
Reports coming from Malawi have confirmed that the Constitutional Court has dismissed all applications by President Peter Mutharika and the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to stay and suspend enforcement of the court ruling of February 3 which ordered that new elections should be held.
Holding of new election in Malawi is to cost Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) about US$60 million.
MEC chair, Jane Ansah had tried to tell the court that holding of the polls in July this year, as directed by the Constitutional Court, could be impossible, saying there is need to gather enough resources and preparations for it to be successful.
Of course, it is expensive but it will cost the nation even more to have an illegitimate regime in office.
The incoming government must order a thorough investigation on the rigged elections with the view of knowing the truth and also punishing those behind the rigging and thus set a precedence that the nation considers rigging elections a very serious crime, high treason!
AT least 60% of water sources in the country are unsafe, leaving most families at risk of diarrhoeal disease outbreaks, UNICEF has said.
In its latest update on the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe, UNICEF said over 1.9 million people were in urgent need of safe drinking water, sanitation and good hygiene.
“Almost 60 per cent of the water sources in the country do not provide access to safe water, leaving many families to depending on unsafe or contaminated sources, increasing the risk of diarrhoeal disease outbreaks,” it said.
The UN body said the situation in Zimbabwe was set to worsen in 2020.
How is it possible that anyone would still be drinking water from a shallow well in this day and age beggars belief! We do not need outsiders to tell us we should not be drinking from shallow wells much less their help to do something about it. Are we really that helpless!!!!!!!
MP Gwanetsa is just throwing his weight around, as the MP of the area he knows that the local school heads would not dare ignore his call to attend his meeting. Decades of poor funding have left many of these schools in a sorry state, with no book, no desks and very poorly paid teachers. Many students have stopped attending classes for many reasons but all to do with one thing - poverty. MP Gwanetsa has done nothing to address any of these teething problems and yet expects the school results to improve. How naive!
We cannot expect to address the nation's collapsed education and health care services without first fixing the country's broken economy. I agree, the people of Chiredzi must demand to meet MP Gwanetsa and ask him what is he and the Zanu PF government doing to revive the economy.
After 40 years of Zanu PF misrule the people have to wake up to the reality that they must get back their democratic right to have a meaningful say in who rules Zimbabwe. Zanu PF has clearly failed to improve the lives of the people and they should have the right to remove the party and replace it with someone else.
What indeed, is the point of free, fair and credible elections if one cannot exercise the full measure of that right - remove someone from office.
In February last year, Emmerson Mnangagwa gave Belarus 10 000 ha of land for agricultural production in Zimbabwe in a deal that was not apparently clearly exposed to the country.
Mnangagwa visited Belarus in January 2019. He invited Belarus President, Lukashenka to pay a visit to Zimbabwe in a surprise new cosy relationship.
The land deal could have been one of the bills that were signed when Zimbabwe and Belarus signed secretive deals worth US$350 million in September last year.
Mnangagwa witnessed the signing ceremony in Harare.
In return he received a paltry 300 buses a parallel report suggests.
Mnangagwa is so desperate to stay in power, he will do anything!
"There is a national dialogue involving Retired Judge, Justice Sello Nare and Margaret Sangarwe, the conveners of POLAD. The process is full proof. If Chamisa doesn't want to engage in POLAD nationally and is waiting for talks, he is 'Waiting for Godot' meaning he is waiting for something that will never arrive," he said.
He noted besides, Mbeki's coming to Zimbabwe was after a long outstanding invitation as a friend during the liberation war days.
"Mbeki came in response to that," Charamba said and also disclosed the government wanted to operationalise the decision by SADC in Dar Es Salam to campaign against sanctions.
"The sentiment was how a public showoff of anger of sanctions could be moved from the streets to the hallways of democracy and engage with America politically. Mbeki confessed he did not have any contacts with (US President Donald) Trump but did have with (former US President Barack) Obama. However, he indicated mechanisms could still be found.”
Zanu PF has 2/3 majority is parliament and senate plus a bloated cabinet. Why the President needs a 24 member strong President Advisory Council is a mystery. Why he needed to form this animal called Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), grouping all the candidates in the presidential race under him is not only a mystery it is down right undemocratic.
The principle purpose of the opposition in a healthy and functioning democracy is to hold the ruling party to democratic account. Mnangagwa wants all the opposition parties to channel all their ideas and criticism through POLAD which has no democratic or constitutional powers to demand a reply much less hold anyone to account.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess precisely because it is a de facto one party state and the formation of such bodies as POLAD will only weaken the the opposition even further.
Chamisa has been fighting for a cabinet position before he too joins POLAD or be it reconstituted to elevate him about the other actors!
Zimbabwe needs to implement the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections both Zanu PF and MDC have done nothing to get any reforms implemented; they are just wasting time on utterly pointless pursuits! We must now demand that Zanu PF steps down to allow the political space for the appointment of a competent body that will implement the reforms. Zimbabwe cannot afford to have yet another rigged elections in 2023!
@ Tengenenge
"Reforms won't vote for your useless party, just like your Zimvigil offlayer groupies."
Without reforms even the dead vote for Zanu PF!
Surely it is better to fight to ensure elections are free, fair and credible then participate in a flawed and illegal process whose result is pre-determined only to give the process credibility and thus help perpetuate it.
@ Mikis 4 sure
“I have a different opinion with Mr Mukori, first of all this guy PG admits existence of corruption even within judiciary secondly he suggests a solution ok he could be paying a lip service but the buck stops with whoever is a President who in this case seems to be part and parcel of the cartels. A chance to implement reforms was lost when Tsvangirai joined these thugs after winning the election. l think it’s time young people stood up united and stop these old thugs from looting and destroying their future after all age is catching up with them.”
Being corrupt and incompetent has nothing to do with one’s age. 40 years ago Mnangagwa was younger than Chamisa today, that did not stop the former from being corrupt and murdering the thousands in the Gukurahundi massacre.
You are right Tsvangirai and his MDC friends have wasted many golden opportunities to implement the reforms, especially during the GNU. Chamisa and company were all 10 years younger than they are today but they did not stop them selling out.
You should judge every one on the basis of the ideas they have put forward and what they have done and not on their age, gender, tribe, etc.!
@ Phunyukabemphethe
“What are you and your party doing in practical terms? Writing articles repeating the same message ad infinitum is not the solution to Zim's political problems. Get your hands dirty, and prove you can do better than the MDC!”
What has MDC accomplished in the last 20 years other than sell-out and failing to implement even one reform even when they had the golden opportunity to do so. As for Zanu PF, they have very dirty hands indeed from all that looting and cold blooded murders!
I am “writing articles repeating the same message ad infinitum” and am very proud of it. These are the messages the nation should hear and am repeating them ad infinitum because there are some braindead village idiots out there who think it a corrupt and murderous tyrant with blood dripping from his hands is a better leader than the one warning him of the tyrant!
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because we have people who will not stop and think but are happy blundering from pillar to post. Decades of mental inactivity has left their brains atrophied into utterly useless fatty tissue! You have no clue what I am talking about of course, you are brain dead!
@ Phunyukabemphethe
“Lies. It's the hero worshiping Shona voters who are the curse in Zim politics. Face the truth. Since 1980 they have never ceased worshipping at the alter of Gukurahundi ZANU PF because of ZANU Shona Nationalism politics of Nehanda and Kaguvi!!”
You hatred of the Shonas has blinded you to reason, truth and reality! You are just an empty drum making a lot of noise!
These Zanu PF MPs are just playing their usual role as village bullies. They are taking School Heads to task to improve the school results and yet they have said nothing to those responsible for the mess. 40 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have destroyed the country’s economy, there are no resources to fund important services such as education, health, etc.The MP is picking on the easy targets, the teachers, to blame for the mess when he should be confronting his fellow Zanu PF bosses!
"President Mbeki informed me he's still waiting for Mnangagwa, he is not returning his calls. Yes, I am man of God and I speak under oath. Mbeki had gone to Mnangagwa and he requested to say I need to consult my people so that we have a one on one with Chamisa but he has not gotten back to Mbeki. Mbeki has tried to get hold of Mnangagwa and he's been unavailable," Chamisa said at the Bulawayo Press Club recently.
Chamisa has been talking about having a dialogue with Mnangagwa “to sort out the legitimacy problem” but has never said how this will be done. He is just using the issue to force Mnangagwa to grant him and a few other MDC leaders cabinet positions.
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime are illegitimate because the July 2018 elections process had “numerous errors, it was not transparent, traceable and verifiable,” as the EU Election Mission Final Report stated. The idea that Chamisa can sell legitimacy in return for a share of the spoils of power is an outrage!
Worst of all, MDC’s selling out is keeping Zanu PF in office until 2023. Zanu PF will never implement an reforms and, no doubt, will go on to rig the 2023 elections. Rigged 2023 elections is a price too high to pay. Anything that does not get the reforms implemented and guarantee free, fair and credible 2023 elections is a waste of time.
2023 elections must be free, fair and credible - that is not negotiable!
The total collapse of our education service will be felt for generations to come. Chiredzi South constituency is not the only rural constituency where 90% plus of the students failed; this happened in almost all rural areas. Zimbabwe has gone from the most literate nation in Africa to the most illiterate nation in Africa in 20 years.
Just as we lost our priced accolade of being the bread basket of the region to be the basket case of a failed Banana Republic now dependent on food aid - too poor to pay for it.
Zimbabwe's economic recovery will be that much more difficult with an ill educated populous!
It is shocking that the ordinary Zimbabweans have allowed Zanu PF to rob them and their children of hope and the future and they have done nothing to stop the robbery. No human being can ever be that helpless, unless they chose to be helpless. Zimbabweans have chosen to be helpless!
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