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Original Post Date: 2001-09-22 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 9/22/2001 10:25:37 PM
Zimbabwe University Students in running battles with Police
author/source:Daily News (Zimb)
published:Fri 21-Sep-2001
Riot police, armed with teargas canisters and batons, yesterday fought
running battles in the city centre with University of Zimbabwe students
Author: Zhean Gwaze
Riot police, armed with teargas canisters and batons, yesterday fought
running battles in the city centre with University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students
who besieged the offices of the Ministry of Higher Education and Technology’s
permanent secretary and Parliament building, demanding clarification on
government funding for their education. In the morning, the riot police
ordered out of the Old Mutual Centre 34 Students’ Executive Council (SEC)
members who had besieged the office of the permanent secretary, Michael
Mambo. He eventually held talks with nine students.
Tawanda Mangisi, the SEC treasurer, said Mambo told them his ministry was
still talking to the banks and the Ministry of Finance and Economic
Development to finalise the funding and fees policy. “Mambo said the
financing players were delaying the process, but he maintained the guarantor
would be the parent and I think most of the students will not like the idea,”
said Mangisi. The Students’ Representative Assembly vice-chairman, Otto Saki,
said after they were chased by the police, the students returned to the
campus for an emergency meeting with the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Levy Nyagura.
They later went to the offices of the UZ Council chairman, Gideon Gono, at
the Union Avenue branch of the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe, where Gono is the
managing director.
At first they were chased by the police, but later their representatives were
allowed to meet him. In an interview, Gono said he held a meeting with
Nyagura and three SEC representatives and it was agreed to give each student
a relief fund of $5000 from the university’s vocational training fund. Gono
said because the tuition and boarding fees at the university had been pegged
at market related figures, his office, together with that of the relevant
ministries, was mobilising financial resources to ensure the smooth running
of student affairs. But this was not acceptable to the students who held a
general meeting with the rest of their colleagues. The meeting agreed to
continue the protest and present their demands to Parliament.
The students then went to Parliament building where they demanded to see the
Speaker, Emmerson Mnangagwa, but they were again turned away by the police.
Fidelis Mhashu, the MDC shadow minister of education, addressed the students
briefly before they were again chased away by the baton-wielding police. The
government recently increased tuition fees at all its institutions by 3 000
percent. The fees will go up from $3 000 to $28 000 a semester, while
accommodation fees have shot up from $1 800 to $9 000. The government said
that it was negotiating with a number of banks to provide students with
loans. The students were angered by the slow progress in the negotiations.