Harare(ZimEye)-Grade one pupils are being punished for failing to draw President Robert Mugabe’s portrait and congratulatory massages below it.
ZimEye witnessed some grade one pupils at Admiral Tait Primary school in Harare being ordered by their teachers to draw the aging President’s portrait and inscribe: ‘21st Movement, happy birthday to you’ below the portrait.
Infants who fail to do the assignment are being delayed from their early breaking time. The teachers said the directive was coming from the Ministry Education that every grade one child should do the assignment which would be sent back to the ministry before Friday this week as Robert Mugabe’s 21st February birthday celebrations draw near.
“We were just told that we should make them draw the portrait and submit the drawings to the ministry this week. They said it’s a running competition,” answered one teacher who pleaded not to be named after ZimEye had asked the reason why the minors were being delayed.
In an interview on Thursday Education Arts Sports and Culture
Minister David Coltart said politicians should leave the education sector.
“I have said consistently that schools should not be political battle grounds in any form or fashion, that is why I put bans on any political party using schools for political rallies; its illegal and unwarranted for politicians to coerce teachers, headmasters and worse still school children to provide money for any political party activities.
“I have always said this contradicts our fundamental educational policy,” he said.
ZANU (PF) youths teachers in Harare are also reportedly forcing teachers through their headmasters that they should leave at least two days a week for lessons about the liberation struggle.
The teachers said most headmasters who ignored the order were being victimised by the youths who went from school to school asking whether the children were, in fact, being taught about their party instead of being educated on Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle.
The teachers were also being forced to donate cash and in kind for President Robert Mugabe’s 87th birthday bash under the banner of the “21st February Movement”.
The movement was formed by the current Minister of Information and Publicity, Webster Shamu, and is meant to honour and praise the ailing President Mugabe annually. (ZimEye, Zimbabwe)
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Kusoro torture vana nekuva drawesa Chikwambo chechiZimbabwe. Wangu mwana handibvume kuti aitwe izvozvo
haiwawo ngava drawe apa, they must be caught while young kuti vazive history yavo mhani.
ANONYMOUS u make this fora a joy, uve some humour and i like that, ihurukuro inenge gakava, thanx. agreeing to the fact that majority of those nationalists have relinquished power. i wld want to bring to your fore that i support ZANU not any individual. im equally incensed with the succesion issue in the party and u wld echoe that it has bn left t late and the political events r unfavourable currently. it has actually become more tactical t kp the oldman in office due t internal issues. it’s not an excuse at al but a fact, baba havangarairi nhaka musha une urwere, nzara, mhosva etc.
i only used e.gs to explain the kids’ mentality and the infiltration of anti-imperialism. it’s their respect and honour for the president and nothing t d with force, fear or stress. PELE akadrawiwa wani and that was due t mabasa ake mupitch and thus RG MUGABE must b doing gd for the kids.
handisi bofu zvangu asi mabatire andaiita basa mchimurenga akandiwanisa zita iroro wena.
iwe MTHUNZI, here we go again netribalism, wats wrong with u lot??bob never killed ndebeles, he sent a brigade to deal with a possible threat to national security in his capacity as the president. it’s surprising those who were caught on the wrong side were of a particular tribe and region. agree they were up to no gd and their actions deserved drastic, ruthless and decisive measures, vakamama vakafa!!a lesson was taught and learnt, hakna dissident kana mwana waro achamkazve, lafunda the harderway.
Cde Bofuratsikamwana, with all due respect to you, vose avo manyora mazita avo, i.e. SA=> MANDELA, in MOZA=>MACHEL, in TANZANIA=>NYERERE, in NAMIBIA=>NUJOMA, in ZAMBIA=>KAUNDA and in ENGLAND=>CHURCHILL – vakasiya zvigaro, and majority yavo vachiri vapenyu.
Vakasiira utongi kune vechidiki vavo kutivaone zvinhu with new & fresh eyes; & vamwe vacho who took over were from different parties. Vose ava hapana akaitwa zvekutandaniswa sa Mr. Mubarak, kana kufira pachigaro, kunze kwaMachel who was assisinated, & except Churchill of course who was from the Colonizing country.
Nyika dzavo vakatora neChimurenga from Colonialists, just like Zim.
They were not torturing, killing, intimidating or brutalizing their people; they were not rigging elections; they were not plundering assetts and ruling by vilolence; havana kurambira muzvigaro, asi vakadzadzisa zviye zvinotaurwa paChishona pedu kuti” Gudo guru peta muswe kuti vapwere vagokuremekedza” not bullying and brutalizing your own subjects and citizens. School-Kids from these countries dzamareva are drawings their former heroes/presidents’ pictures thru love & respect, & not through force, being coerced & fear or under duress or stress.
Ko imwiwo hondo yenyu iyo makarwa yeChimurenga isinga peri yakasiyana nedzevamwe ava vamareva pamusoro apa ihondo rudziiko? Sekuru venyu ava vamurikuti varambe vachitonga vakasiyaneiko navana Nyerere, Nujoma, Kenyatta, Kaunda, Banda(akazofa zvake but anga abva pachigaro thru elections), Chisano, Masire, Mandela, Mbeki, naZuma who very soon will do the right thing and step down to pave way for democracy.
Asi muri bofu chairo here ndosaka murukutsika vana venyu muZimbabwe varikutambura; plus hamusikuona kuchembera muviri nepfungwa kwaita Sekuru Mugabe at 87 vachingori pachigaro? Tiudzeiwo zvirimupfungwa dzenyu, sezvo musingaone.
If ny child is told to draw MUGABE HE WILL HAVE NO PROBLERM BECOZ i TAUGHT LONG BACK .hE DRWAS A DRACULA ..COMANDER OF GUKURAHUNDI….taking Pamire’s children and killing those of NDEBELE ORIGIN.
be told and nyatsoteerera iwe XO, some of us TINOTAURA and KHULUMA futi. takazvara nawo magero echindex, we dont draw the line anymore, thats bng out of touch mngani wami. ZAMBEZI-LIMPOPO ngelakho, ngelami ilizwe leli, ndeyedu tose zim hatichadi zvamanyala izvozvo. you r the bad apples which divert the agenda and spoil image yenew-ZAPU, we cant identify a party tribally. BANG!! OUT OF ORDER FELLAH even BOB knows tnoswera takonana naye veZANU.
however vana are drawing their inspiration and media reports took an opportunity to try and tarnish ZANU as usuall. kids actions only symbolises kuti zimhodzi reanti-imperialism ratandira and it’s unstoppable. that’s emotional investment by the political guarantors of tmoro. in SA they draw MANDELA, in MOZA=MACHEL, in TANZANIA=NYERERE, in NAMIBIA=NUJOMA, in ZAMBIA=KAUNDA and in ENGLAND=CHURCHILL. so wats the mata here as they show allegiance, loyalty, admiration, commitment etc to the great man.
LONG LIVE MDARA!!!
Spare us woman/girl, so called Xolani.
It is neither important nor beneficial in any diplomatical, intuitive or emotional intelligent aspect to identify your name on this forumn. We are neither addressing people nor attacking each other, but addressing and attacking facts as thay are given out, perceived, or as they actually come out. These concern the political, social & economic fabric of our society, communities & neighbourhoods, now in shreds & shambles.
This is not a place yekutsvaga identity dzevanhu & anaylzing kuti ndiyani and ati chii. Don’t be so cheap & stupid.
Please, spare us too, the use of the race-card, that is used by people of less or limited knowledge, who lack depth and content. Please, grow up & go back to school fast.
Everybody in Zimbabwe is suffering – Zezuru, Karanga, Kalanga, Korekore, Manyika, Ndau, Ndebele, etc. So butt off Bimbo, with your worn-out race-card.
Why lie to the fora, when you butted by someone with good sense. This thing of purity of race or tribe does not exist moreso in Zimbabwe because if you in deep mashona territory you hear often ane dzviti. What exactly that means is anosvikirwa neshave redzviti. Dzviti chii, kuchiva shave remazulu kana mandevere here kana kuti una sekuru kana mbuya waive dzviti hence the spirit coming out as such. Go for dna tests maybe some of you can spend the day disowning that blood that you seem to hate but ndapota musatinyaudza ne race card rakabuda mufashion. Lets all fight as Zimbabweans not start again dividing pipo kuti ava ndovanokwanisa kuita chimurenga ava havagone we all are frothing around the mouth with anger, I find it frustrating kuti ndine magestsi neinternet but cant contribute to debates on this fora nenyaya yemadofo asingabetseri chiro mazizanu thugs.
too many Anonymous, who is who here then? Please be sensible MaShona!
Anonymous above, I posed the rhetoric so you could qualify the statement. I could not have written what you just said any better. But why, considering all you have said, the revolution has not occured? It appears the only revolutionary Zimbabweans are Mlimo (1894) of the Ndebele uprising and others of the 1st Chimurenga like Murenga himself and those of the 2nd Chimurenga. The other ones to liberate us are not yet born.
Responding to your comment “Anonymous on Fri, 11th Feb 2011 9:10 pm” – “why the Revolution in Egypt is not possible in Zim;–Here in Zimbabwe it’s not possible because Zanu PF is the people’s choice. ”
Excatly which & who are these people are you talking about who made that choice of keeping an ailing psycho in power for more than 30 frightening $ gruesome years? If such people do exist, why did the govt. had to killl, rape & torture in order to rig votes in 2008? Why even at places like Police HQ stations in downtown Harare, Zanu was getting as low as 2 or 3 votes from these pollling stations? Why was the govt. refusing to release election results (they were busy doctoring them to come up with realistic rigged nos.)if such “people’s choice” existed?
Why are you terrorising & intimidating the nation, forcing people to think and act against their will, politically, if such a “people’s choice” really existed? Isn’t it only a “people’s choice” written on placards and on paper, while these people have their hearts and choice elsewhere?
With all due respect, why do we still have people who are blind and sick like you to that level in 2011, who are willfully or unwillfully twisting issues to that extent?
And lastly but not least, to what extent is the govt. at home propping you up & cushioning you & your brood, kith & kin to escape or shield you from the economic & social decay, even religious decay that has scathed all honest, hardworking and morally-sound people of Zimbabwe? Honestly, I would like to know, maybe I will understand what is going on inside the contents housed by your skull.
THANK GOD VANGU VANA VAKURA,IMAGINE A FRUSTRATED TEACHER DUE to a low salary, too many kids to attend to, personal problems, no teaching aids , top it up with having to take undemocratic orders from dull zanu pf .. another generation destroyed.
thank you ‘new low’for your smartness,i dont know who you are but you are ‘just’homeboy.it seems to me that these zanu-pf fools think that the world revolves around them.i promise you that when mugabe dies zimbabwe will change.these assdicks think that its all good for kids to art someone they have no clue about.to them mugabe is a god but to me the only GOD i know is the ALMIGHTY CREATOR JAHOVAH,mugabe will meet him soon and he will get slapped so hard we will hear it in zim.
This is a new low even for Zanu PF. Anyone who does not see a problem with grade 1 pupils drawing the picture of a dictator who has been in power for three decades is simply an IDIOT. Actually, anyone who doesn’t see why Mugabe should go is an IDIOT.
What hypocrisy! Every gvt office and public buildings including Coltart’s has a huge picture of His Excellency, the President, Head of State and the Commander In Chief Of The Deffense Forces of The Republic of Zimbabwe, right up the wall opposite the entrance where everyone of them salutes him every morning, when they report for duty.
Only stupid people will buy this rubish.
If they all fight among them for positions that afford them the opportunity to work closer to the President Mugabe, whats wrong with children having similar enthusiasm towards The Great Leader?
it actually isnt a lie but rather a reversed truth. kids are drawing the president’s face out of interests. their books or anywhere comfy they r jst excited not forced, who dsnt know that’s politically detrimental. whether published or not it’s disastrous to force vana to do that, vakawudzwa history vakainzwisisa bedzi. they t the future and thus ZANU shall live for long and ever. they r inspired, isu tai-drawer MAO,SEKURU CHAMINUKA, KAGUVI naNEHANDA wani and we managed to finish basa ravakanga vatanga. these kids r likely to be those in the new resettlements, very appreciative of their icon, now that he has secured their future as far as LAND as a resource is concerned.
hapana anoziva or kudrawer TSVANGTIONS else they ridicule him as CHAMATAMA chinounza nzara. full decade in opposition and no proper rains, varume vadzimu vasemeswa nembudzi idzi.
LONG LIVE CDE!!!
Hosni Mubäraki has resigned after the people of Egypty continued to demand real democracy. What a revolution. Here in Zimbabwe it’s not possible because Zanu PF is the people’s choice. The Head of state and government and Commander in Chief of the defence forces does not know that some mischievous elements are providing canon fodder for independent editorial policy. Please think many times. You yourself were you able to reproduce someone’s face when you were in grade 1? This is just some irresponsible journalism whose slant shows a very high degree of desperation.
you brainwashed men.1 What is wrong with teaching kids about their leader.
2. On what grounds do you say Mugabe is doing the “Wrong ” thing.
wats wrong with teaching kids about their leader ? moda kuti vadzidze nezvaSmith here ? nxa-a-a-a-a !!!!!
the kids in the pic are so beautiful…i love the children of zimbabwe.
certainly child abuse as far as i am concerned,mugabe is far from kingship or lordship..hey i would never draw his face in my mind.please correct me if i’m wrong but the last time i checked it was the ‘republic of zimbabwe’ not zanu-pf.my good friends egypt and tunisia are on the way to political and economic freedom and mubarak’s assets have been frozen in switzerland.zimbabwe will be free from these zanu-pf cio murderes.i bet when the revolution begins all these zanu-pf asshole will play dumb and have amnesia.’VIVA ZIMBABWE’
Iwe Panyanga (panyasi pako futi), what are the real news you want to read on this forumn? and iwewe nani? Who are you to tell the Editor on what to publish and not? This is not your site, this is not your papaer – certainly not Zimpapers-and this is not your forumn.
Kwana sechange yeET or yemabhazi asisiriko kumusha becoz of vanhu vakadai semwi.
Iwe PF Panyanga, what are you trying to say to the Editors? WHat is your real contribution to this subject? Are you saying this is not true or what? I may not be ZANU PF but i think many in Mugabe’s party do not think.the brains went with Dr Simba Makoni
IF there’s nothing to write about Mr Editor, do you mind waiting for real news?
IS this ZIMBABWE or NORTH KOREA??Sometimes you cant even tell the difference between the two.There is little difference between “Dear Leader” KIM-JONG-IL and Robert Mugabe.Both try to force porpaganda down the throats of young kids to indoctrinate them into “nationalism” etc…..Brati shiti mhani.
THANK GOD FOR SANCTIONS!VIVA SANCTIONS!We the people of Zimbabwe FULLY SUPPORT THE SANCTIONS ON ZIMBABWE AND LONG MAY THEY LIVE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS or untill Mugabe dies!