RTUZ 200KM UPDATE- DAY 3
17 August 2016 :22 00 hrs
ZARANYIKA (60KM COVERED) – After the barbaric and desparate attempts by state security agents in Uzumba to scuttle the RTUZ advocacy walk for the betterment of rural education, the Union is finally out of the violent and fear infested area of U.M.P.
Today (17 August 2016) at 2100hrs RTUZ leadership reached Zaranyika Primary School in Murewa to signal the start of the March on Murewa District Education Offices where a petition will be handed on Friday, 19 August 2016 .
What is apparent in the challenges and security risks of the last 3 days which confronted the union, speak to the deplorable state of infrastructure in the rural areas.
Most schools that the RTUZ leadership visited hardly had a library and let alone a science laboratory.This state of affairs exposes the Government’s much hyped STEM program to be a fallacy and further proves that rural schools are not ready for the total implementation of the new curriculum.
It therefore follows that rural schools will not benefit a cent from the so called STEM monies and more precariously mean that rural schools will be left far behind on the implementation of the new curriculum which will result in the further disenfranchisement of rural pupils and teachers.
The so called 20 million gorvenment schools infrastructure bond proposed in the 2016 budget statement has been proved once again part of the many lies and chicenary which the Gorvenment is deliberately playing to confuse and mislead the ordinary masses and other stakeholders.
Even the general public infrastructure which is meant to improve the quality of life of rural areas is in a deplorable state.The internet and general network for mobile phones is either super slow or completely inaccessable in most areas.
This means the life of being a rural teacher is a life of being left out of the broader information world.
It is therefore against this background that the RTUZ leadership marched through the dry forest plains of Uzumba under one of the demands of the Union’s petition which is for Infrastructural development in rural schools and communities.
Released by;
RTUZ Information Dept