The Standard

3 March 2012

The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has failed to pay Ordinary and Advanced level examination markers due to serious cash flow problems, The Standard has been told.

One examiner last week said the failure by Zimsec to pay the allowances was inconveniencing the teachers who dedicated their time marking the examinations.

“We were told that we would get our money, seven days after marking the final papers, but it’s now a month after the results are out and most pupils have gone for Lower Sixth and we are still waiting,” the examiner said.

“We were given a few dollars a month after marking and no explanation has been given for the outstanding balance.”

The examiner said it was outrageous that Zimsec breached a contract, whose terms the organisation set without consulting the markers.

“We do not negotiate the contract, but just sign one they create unilaterally,” he said.

“One would think they could fulfill their own terms, but they have the impunity to breach the contract.”

The markers were supposed to be paid between 90 cents and US$1,20 per each paper they marked. Markers who were expecting between US$600 and US$700 but got only US$300.

Zimsec director Happy Ndanga said his organisation communicated its position to the examiners.

“We have communicated with them and do not know why we should talk to the newspaper,” Ndanga said. “They know why there is a delay and how they will be paid.”

The Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, David Coltart last week confirmed the non-payment of examiners adding that they were still waiting for funds from treasury.

“The failure to pay is part of a major cash crisis within Zimsec,” Coltart said. “Treasury has not released money for Zimsec to pay. Payment will be done once Zimsec gets the money.”

Coltart said the Ministry of Finance had not indicated when the money was likely to be availed.

By David Coltart

2 March 2012

Zimbabwe is approaching a critical point in her unique although checkered history. Frost and Sullivan report massive development in our mining sector, analysts have accounted for a strong return to Zimbabwean tourism, and our work to innovate education, culture, the arts and sport continues to raise eyebrows and intrigue around the globe. Though partnered with cautious optimism, we see before us a tangible and exciting roadmap for fundamental infrastructural progression.

With this outlook in mind, we and the international community have to now address that which has flown under the radar for much too long – the responsibility in newfound opportunity and what must be undertaken to encourage sustainable development.

We have to pay close attention to specific investments in the nation, ensuring corporate integration and commercial goals match a commitment to our own. For the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture in particular, our goals have been to enhance and exhilarate the athlete, artist and student experience in Zimbabwe, foster pillars of structural stability and slow the ‘talent drain’, seeping away our nation’s brightest and best. We must now, in an era of change, accept the certain realities that in past have hindered this occurring and increase attention to what can be done.

As fragile and imperfect as the rebuilding process is in Zimbabwe from the election violence of 2008, and though we still consider ourselves newly out of an absolute state of crisis, our political strides are the only avenue we have and the restructuring process from my sector has to be cognoscente of this.  We were once a beacon of African education; indeed it is tragic that today, we have but $5.00 USD to spend on every child’s education in Zimbabwe for the entire year and have received in total only $1 million USD of support from the United States over the last three. Increasing dropout rates, throughout the nation, perpetuate crime and amplify political strife. The truth is simply that if you invest in education, invest in health, you invest in human potential and indeed set the stage for economic capital. If we do so Zimbabwe will boom again.

However, although the Zimbabwean mining sector is expected to grow by 44 percent this year alone, buoyed by an increase in platinum, diamond, coal and ferrochrome output, western political capital and investment across the board has been notably low. Our network of partners and sponsors therefore play a pivotal role, one that requires political and social capital in order to amplify appropriately. Our goal is to increase the education budget, to innovate ‘learning as usual’ and revolutionize our schooling system. We are fighting for every child to receive a quality, contemporary education from qualified teachers nationwide.

The Government has received support to restore the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM), which assisted some 400,000 underprivileged children access education last year. In conjunction with UNICEF, we have provided 22 million textbooks to schoolchildren throughout Zimbabwe, allowing the ratio of student-to textbook-to reach 1:1, a tremendous precedent across most of the continent. Little is mentioned of these achievements abroad and the profound impact they are having on bringing about peaceful democratic transformation in Zimbabwe.

Though our Ministry has worked diligently with NGOs that continue to act, much more can be done in this climate. It is to this point, fair to say that shifting the international narrative on Zimbabwe is of the utmost importance.

We want to invite the world to see the changes we have accomplished, address the challenges we continue to face and help surpass the benchmarks we are working towards. In that light, we look to showcase a series of social media-disseminated case studies, interviews with Zimbabwe’s best of tomorrow and those that carry the flag proudly in their respective sects, such as our accomplished sports ambassadors. We look to document a modern Zimbabwe and in doing so, encourage openness, dialogue, and send a clear message worldwide as to what must be done to sustainably refill the once-breadbasket of Africa.

Zimbabwe’s growing prospects need effective oversight and indeed promotion to properly engage the international community.  With an eye on opportunity through the Education Transition Fund and a calculated investment in the foundation of Zimbabwe’s future, we can set a groundbreaking precedent and provide tangible change at an instrumental level, for the long-term.

News Day

By Conway Tutani

2 March 2012

Last year, eminent Ndebele historian Pathisa Nyathi said something profound.

He said arresting those who dared talk about the Gukurahundi massacres would not solve any problem but rather continue raising emotions.

He said the old wounds were still festering, people were boiling within. He added:

“You can arrest people but you can’t wish it away. They need to be very simple, humble, and honest and accept responsibility for the good of Zimbabwe, for us to have meaningful unity, for us to have genuine reconciliation.”

MDC secretary-general Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga was this week quoted in the Southern Edition of NewsDay as telling people at a campaign rally that the refusal by President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to recognise Welshman Ncube as one of the inclusive government principals was informed by tribal malice based on his Ndebele origins.

She said: “(The late Gibson) Sibanda was the president of the ZCTU (Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions), but when they saw things going (their way) they kicked out Gibson and chased away people from the party.”

I stand to be corrected, but is it not a fact that at the formation of the MDC in 1999, Sibanda agreed to step down in favour of Tsvangirai for the same reason that Ncube approached Mutambara in 2005 to lead his breakaway faction of the MDC after being reportedly turned down by Tendai Biti as the conventional wisdom at that time was that a party with a Shona at the helm stood a better chance of national appeal?

To say Tsvangirai pushed Sibanda aside is historically incorrect. It’s possible some people were uncomfortable with that set-up, but they did not publicly say so then. Let’s stay true to the background to this.

“Mugabe removed Joshua (Nkomo), Tsvangirai removed Sibanda . . . ,” she continued.

If she is referring to Mugabe’s axeing of Nkomo from the Cabinet in 1983, then it’s correct that Mugabe removed Nkomo.

But if it’s in reference to Mugabe’s eventual ascendancy to the Presidency in 1980 through Zanu PF after he and others broke away from the Nkomo-led Zapu to form Zanu, then that’s highly misleading. How could Nkomo be removed from a party to which he never belonged?

What informs this overreadiness to overread into events?

Misihairabwi-Mushonga said even in Cabinet, Ncube was attacked “left, right and centre, sitting in front of people and those that come from here (Matabeleland) have not defended him. Out of all those who come from here, it’s only I who at times comes to his defence.”

Is this the correct interpretation of the Cabinet goings-on or she completely misreads the situation? I ask so because, by her own admission, even ministers from her own party, by “not defending” Ncube, do not see things the way she sees them.

Is she implying that David Coltart and Moses Mzila-Ndlovu read the situation fundamentally differently from her? It’s strange indeed. Does she miss this irony?

“They should tell the truth that they hate Ndebeles. We started seeing their hatred of the Ndebele by their unanimous stance that they do not want Ncube to be DPM (Deputy Prime Minister).”

Has she has fallen into the trap of Tafataona Mahoso who thinks everything is determined by race? In her case, it’s tribal determinism to the exclusion of other factors; to her everything hinges on tribe, but life is not as simple as that.

She must avoid becoming a fanatic, defined by British statesman Winston Churchill as “one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject”. People at the top must take responsibility for what happens after what they say.

Yes, there are a lot of things to be angry about in our nation. But people need to control anger before it controls them because the pain and backlash we inflict on others during anger are harder forgotten. Anger usually does not change or improve the situation.

That said, people should avoid prejudice. Pre-judging means you have already made up your mind ahead of time, mostly without knowing all the facts.

You already has an opinion — a firm opinion — about someone or something or some event. We are all liable do it at one time or another.

Pre-judging can make a person blind to the facts — and what’s “true” may be in reality false. The thing with prejudice is to be aware and conscious of it. We all have biases, but let’s avoid such virulence.

Going back to the Gukurahundi issue, Nyathi said it was wrong for all Shonas to be accused of being responsible for the massacres as many had no clue as to what was happening.

“What is happening now is the same as during Gukurahundi where all Ndebeles were being accused of being dissidents,” he said. “It’s wrong to paint all Shonas with one brush and one wrong can’t correct another wrong.”

Mbuso Khuzwayo, secretary for Ibhetshu likaZulu, said while Shonas might have indirectly benefited from the atrocities of Gukurahundi, it was wrong to blame all of them for the genocide.

He said there were many Shonas that were as much victims as the Ndebeles.

It’s not all about Shonas as a tribe, but about an oppressive, corrupt system with tentacles all over the country – from Manicaland to Matabeleland.

The oppressive system was kept intact after independence in 1980 as the Law and Order (Maintenance) Act remained (now reincarnated as the Public Order and Security Act) and the State of Emergency was repackaged as the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Regulations. Samora Machel, not known as an intellectual, said the liberation wars in the region were not being waged against whites as a race, but the system.

“People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this spectre by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of ‘race’ or ‘gender’ alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favour for the identical reason.

Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things,” wrote journalist and historian Christopher Hitchens.

Perhaps, as our nation gets older, it will be enough for any citizen to say simply and with pride: “I am a Zimbabwean.”

SW Radio Africa

By Tererai Karimakwenda

29 February 2012

Several churches, civic groups and community organizations have joined in the search for missing human rights activist Paul Chizuze, who disappeared over three weeks ago after leaving his home in Bulawayo.

There is growing concern he may have been kidnapped or even murdered, as there has been no sign of his Nissan twin cab either, which he was driving when he was last seen on February 8th.

Education Minister and Senator David Coltart, who worked on projects with Chizuze in the late 80s and 90s, told SW Radio Africa on Wednesday that several churches, the Legal Resources Foundation and the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace have all joined in efforts to locate Chizuze.

“I also know that lawyers have been involved and family members have gone to rural areas. Other community activists have also been searching at police stations,” Coltart explained, adding that he was “deeply distressed” at the disappearance.

Coltart said what is worrying people the most is that “there is absolutely no leads whatsoever” after so much time. “You can understand how a person can go missing but it is really odd that something as big as a vehicle should go missing,” the legislator said.

Asked whether Chizuze might have uncovered something that threatened the security of top officials, Coltart said: “It could very well be, he has been working on issues that could be very embarrassing to hardliners.

Chizuze was a well-known grassroots activist who worked mostly as a paralegal with human rights and community groups in Bulawayo. According to Coltart, he did “groundbreaking work” and has a lot of information on the Gukurahundi massacres of the late eighties.

ZimEye

28 February 2012

There are fears that missing activist Paul Chizuze who is a colleague of Education minister David Coltart, may have been abducted in the same way Coltart’s election agent Paul Nabanyama who was abducted by state security agents and killed 12 years ago.

Chizuze has been missing for the past 20 days since the 8th February 2012, and this week, Coltart launched a international call for his whereabouts.

Nabanyama was twelve years ago abducted by 10 armed state operatives and never seen again and Coltart, now Education Minister, has used his Twitter page to say he was “distressed by disappearance of friend and human rights activist Paul Chizuze”.

A senior MDC member who declined to be named told ZimEye that Chizuze the party is increasing becoming worried over the disappearance: “This guy, because of the organisations he has worked for, people are now getting worried. ..He participated in actually breaking the silence on Gukurahundi,” she said.

Coltart (pictured) has known Chizuze for over 20 years and he was quoted stating Chizuze “was one of the first paralegals I employed as Director of the Bulawayo Legal Projects Centre in the late 1980’s.”

Coltart said Chizuze also worked with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace and was one of the researchers into the ‘Breaking the Silence’ report into the Gukurahundi Massacres.

Last year the wife of murdered MDC activist Patrick Nabanyama began suing the Attorney-General Johannes Tomana for refusing to prosecute the six war veterans and Zanu PF members who allegedly kidnapped and killed her husband 11 years before.

Pressure group Sokwanele posted an alert on its website saying Chizuze “Allegedly left his home around 8 pm on 8th February, and what happened after this remains a mystery. He may have been murdered, hijacked or abducted by parties unknown.” His car, a white twin cab Nissan Hardbody (registration ACJ 3446) is also missing.

“Over the last three decades, Paul has been either employed by, or active with, the Legal Resources Foundation, Amani Trust Matabeleland, The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, ZimRights, Churches in Bulawayo, CivNet, and Masakhaneni Trust,” a statement from his friends said.

His friends say he has worked tirelessly as a paralegal to track activists in jail and offer them support. Chizuze was part of the campaign to uncover the truth of what happened to Patrick Nabanyama, after his abduction and disappearance in 2000, and “has selflessly worked to expose human rights abuses in the last decade.”

VOA

By Ntungamili Nkomo and Jonga Kandemiiri 

28 February 2012

Ten organizations led by the Christian group Churches in Bulawayo and the Solidarity Peace Trust issued an appeal Tuesday saying they feared Chizuze may have been ‘murdered, hijacked or abducted’.

Zimbabwean human rights groups were searching for a prominent rights activist Tuesday who went missing three weeks ago, amid fears he may have been murdered.

Paul Chizuze, a paralegal who worked with civic organizations including the Amani Trust, is said to have left his Bulawayo house on February 8 driving a white Nissan truck and has not been seen by his associates since then.

Ten organizations led by the Christian group Churches in Bulawayo and the Solidarity Peace Trust issued an appeal on Tuesday saying they feared Chizuze may have been “murdered, hijacked or abducted.”

Chizuze worked closely with Education Minister David Coltart, who wrote on the social microblogging site Twitter: “I am very distressed about the disappearance of a good friend and colleague.”

Fellow activists said Chizuze was one of the many volunteers who led efforts to search for Coltart’s election agent, Patrick Nabanyama who disappeared at the height of political violence in 2000, and has never been found. He has since been declared dead.

Chief Executive Officer Dumisani Nkomo of Habakkuk Trust said the disappearance has sent shock waves through the human rights community.

“He has been documenting human rights violations over the years, and obviously he would have probably inconvenienced one or two people who may not have been happy with the kind of work he was doing,” Nkomo said. “So yes, somebody may have caused him harm.”

Elsewhere, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network said the country has made very little progress over the past three years in increasing the respect for human rights which it says is essential for the nation to hold new elections.

A ZESN report entitled “Analysis of the Human Rights Situation in Zimbabwe and Implications for Free and Fair Elections,” based on observations by 210 observers, said power sharing since 2009 “has not resulted in a change in… respect for human rights.”

ZESN Director Rindai Chipfunde-Vava told reporter Jonga Kandemiiri that substantial political reform still needed to be carried out as the country heads uncertainly toward a constitutional referendum, probably this year, followed by a general election.

New Zimbabwe

27 February 2012

A Minister has launched a desperate online plea for information about his political activist pal who left home on February 8 and never returned.

Education Minister David Coltart says Paul Chizuze – a paralegal activist who has worked with Amani Trust, ZimRights, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace among other organisations – left his Bulawayo home just after 8PM and was never seen again.

In messages posted on Twitter and Facebook, Coltart said: “I am very distressed about the disappearance of a good friend and colleague, Paul Chizuze.

“Paul was one of the first paralegals we trained at the Bulawayo Legal Projects Centre in the 1980s. He has been one of the most consistent human rights activists I know – a man of great compassion and integrity.”

Chizuze is said to have been driving a white twin cab Nissan Hardbody Reg Number ACJ 3446, and Coltart says finding the vehicle would help police focus their investigations.

Coltart said Chizuze had “selflessly worked to expose human rights abuses” by President Robert Mugabe’s government over the last decade.

Chizuze was among those who “maintained the campaign to uncover the truth of what happened to Patrick Nabanyama after his abduction and disappearance in 2000”, the minister added in a reference to his election agent who disappeared without trace.

Chizuze’s colleagues appealed to the police to “pursue all the possibilities” in the search, but they fear as the days pass, chances of finding him alive may be lessening.

SW Radio Africa

By Lance Guma

27 February 2012

Concern is building in Zimbabwe over the fate of a human rights activist who has been missing for 20 days. Paul Chizuze has been missing since the 8^th February and his friends and colleagues have launched a campaign on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, to try and find out where he is.

Pressure group Sokwanele posted an alert on its website saying Chizuze “Allegedly left his home around 8 pm on 8th February, and what happened after this remains a mystery. He may have been murdered, hijacked or abducted by parties unknown.” His car, a white twin cab Nissan Hardbody (registration ACJ 3446) is also missing.

“Over the last three decades, Paul has been either employed by, or active with, the Legal Resources Foundation, Amani Trust Matabeleland, The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, ZimRights, Churches in Bulawayo, CivNet, and Masakhaneni Trust,” a statement from his friends said.

His friends say he has worked tirelessly as a paralegal to track activists in jail and offer them support. Chizuze was part of the campaign to uncover the truth of what happened to Patrick Nabanyama, after his abduction and disappearance in 2000, and “has selflessly worked to expose human rights abuses in the last decade.”

Nabanyama, an election agent for MDC parliamentary candidate David Coltart, was abducted by 10 armed state operatives and never seen again. It was no surprise that Coltart, now Education Minister, used his twitter page to say he was “distressed by disappearance of friend and human rights activist Paul Chizuze”.

Coltart has known Chizuze for over 20 years and told SW Radio Africa that Chizuze “was one of the first paralegals I employed as Director of the Bulawayo Legal Projects Centre in the late 1980’s.”

Coltart said Chizuze also worked with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace and was one of the researchers into the ‘Breaking the Silence’ report into the Gukurahundi Massacres.

The Bulawayo24 website quoted Chizuze’s sister, Maxim Phiri, saying he had been visiting a brother and after he left in his car has not been seen since. “He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and khaki trousers. We are worried about his whereabouts and we appeal to members of the public to assist us to search for him.”

Sunday News Magazine

26 February- 3 March 2012

Since Zimbabwe achieved independence in 1980, sports lovers in the country have suffered a number of sporting heartaches because of the perennial failure by various national teams to do well on the international stage.

The biggest disappointment has been the most followed sport of football with the senior national team, the Warriors, having only appeared twice at the biennial Africa Cup of Nations- in 2004 and 2006. Zimbabwe have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup despite the country having produced some of the finest footballer in the continent such as Peter Ndlovu and Bruce Grobbelaar.

In cricket, the country only qualifies for the International Cricket Council World Cup by virtue of being one of 10 elite members of the ICC and has never really made a huge impression at the World Cup with their best showing being at the 1999 and 2003 events where they reached the Super Six stages. And surely if Zimbabwe had to qualify, they would surely find it tough against ICC associate countries like Ireland and Kenya.

Zimbabwe have since 1980 won medals at only three Olympic games, the gold medal by the women’s “Golden” hockey girls at the 1980 Moscow Olympics with swimmer Kirsty Coventry following with medals at the 2004 and 2008 editions.

In rugby, the Zimbabwe Sables are on the resurgence after winning all the five matches they played last year and have good chances of being at the 2015 International Rugby Board Rugby World Cup penciled for England.

In the event that they qualify, the Sables might find the going tough against the world’s elite teams such as South Africa, Australia, France and New Zealand unless the country manages to lure back some of its talented players who have chosen to seek better opportunities in Mzansi and overseas.

In the late 1990s Zimbabwe played amongst the best teams in tennis in the Davis Cup with the Black brothers Byron and Wayne and Kevin Ullyett putting the country on the World map. The retirement of the three played spelled doom for the country as Zimbabwe no longer competes with powerhouses in the game.

Hockey was another sport where the country used to perform well but deterioration of the artificial turf at Magamba and Khumalo stadiums saw the national teams not being able to host at home. When the turf at Khumalo was replaced last year, the long layoff affected both the women and the men’s national teams who performed dismally at the 2012 London Olympics hockey qualifiers. Both teams failed to put home advantage to full use and failed to qualify for the Olympics. By the look of things it will take Zimbabwe years to get back to where they were.

Countries with smaller populations like New Zealand and Uruguay have excelled in international sports. New Zealand are the reigning IRB Rugby World Cup champions, they are one of the top countries in both cricket and hockey. Uruguay have done well at the FIFA World Cup, winning the first edition way back in 1930 and made it into the semifinals in 2010. Closer to Zimbabwe “little” Botswana qualified for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations at the expense of our Warriors, who have flattened to deceive in recent years.

The failure to make an impact on the international arena by the different national teams in a country of over 10 million has left many wondering if the country is indeed a sporting nation.

Sunday News sought the opinion on what really is the cause of the agony inflicted upon the expectant nation by those representing the nation.

Sports and Recreation Commission chairman Joseph James bemoaned lack of funding for sport by Government and the administration problems as the factors inhibiting the growth of sport in Zimbabwe.

“Funding for sports from the Government is not enough but that is a problem found in all sectors in the country. For example the Botswana Football Association was given lots of money to develop soccer and that is why they qualified for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. Administration is another huge problem we have with our sports in Zimbabwe, there is almost stories about administration squabbles in various sporting associations daily in our newspapers,” said James.

Since 2003, the SRC has run the National Youth Games but there has not been any athlete who has come through the annual games. James said over the years the games were tainted with all sorts of allegations, which saw parents not willing to let their children take part in these games.

The SRC boss, however said last year’s edition of the annual games held in Matabeleland South were better organized and if there could be a repeat at this years edition then the games could be on the right track to start producing athletes who might go onto excel on the international stage.

Zimbabweans are known to excel academically with parents known to discourage their children from playing sport as they think this disturbs their studies but prominent lawyer James who played soccer while at the same time pursuing academic excellence says parents should let their children play sport. He also feels the tertiary education sector is not being tapped, as there are capable sportspersons in the country’s colleges and universities. James believes that Zimbabwe does have the potential to be a great sporting nation because there is a lot of talent in the country.

Minister of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture David Coltart said efforts were being made to integrate sports into the school syllabus. Coltart noted that Zimbabwe has done well in individual sports like tennis, swimming and golf yet struggle when it comes to team sports, which is an indication of administrative shortcomings.

Marathon runner Stephen Muzhingi has won three titles at the Comrades marathon in South Africa while golfer Nick Price flew the Zimbabwean flag high and at some stage reached the number one ranking in the official world golf-ranking.

“We have done exceptionally well in individual sports but we haven’t done so well in team sports which shows our sports administrators have failed. Teams perform to their highest expectations when they have the necessary support from the administrators,” said Coltart.

On Government support for sports, Coltart feels that funds set aside by the Government are not adequate enough. He said despite funding, the Government ought to accord sports associations freedom to run their affairs without much interference.

Zimbabwe has lost some of its budding rugby talent to countries with better resources. Tendai Mtawarira, Tonderai Chavhanga, Brian Mujati came through the Zimbabwe schools system but because of lack of professional opportunities at home, they chose to play international rugby for South Africa. Australian loose forward David Pocock and United States of America winger Takudzwa Ngwenya were the other Zimbabwean born players who have made a mark on the international rugby scene playing for adopted countries.

Coltart notes that there is a big gulf between South Africa and the rest of the African continent.

“Up until we professionalise our rugby there is no way we can retain some of our talent, the young players will keep leaving the country, we do not have the resources to compete with rich countries like South Africa, Australia and New Zealand,” said Coltart.

From the look of things, Zimbabweans will continue to endure heartbreaks caused by those who don national sporting colours until those who run the sports find the right antidote to the poor performance by the national teams in international competitions.

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