By Staff Reporter | Zimbabwe’s militant Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora, has announced that he wants a complete overhaul of textbooks countrywide.

He said he does not want to see any more textbooks written by foreigners.

From now on all textbooks should be re-written from scratch by local Zimbabweans, everything else thrown into the dust bin, and Zimbabwe start to have its own Child of The Soil textbooks.

ZANU PF is full of “brainy” politicians – it was at first: “Ivhu kuvanhu,” today it is Ivhu kuvana!” (at first the Dust to the people, now it is the Dust to the Children) during the period when the United Nations’ number 4 most powerful, prosperous food economy worldwide- Zimbabwe was reduced to a beggarly desert where people die daily.

ZANU PF through it’s Education Minister has offloaded another brilliant negative – to “burn down” every foreign authored textbook and start writing our own books.  Although the state media says this is a mere change of textbook printing, the same government media reveals that it is in fact a complete overhaul of the education system this time in the area of text book authoring.

Zimbabwe’s militant Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora has announced that he wants a complete overhaul of textbooks countrywide. He said he does not want to see any more textbooks written by foreigners. From now on all textbooks will be re-written from scratch by local Zimbabweans, everything else thrown into the bin, and Zimbabwe start to have its own Child of The Soil textbooks.

The state media reports that Dokora is determined to see his plan carried out in the same way he last year banned voluntary club Scripture Union (although this was later reversed), and overhauled the entire education curriculum so that it accommodates the Islamic religion he says was Zimbabwe’s first religion at independence.

The state’s full text says: Dokora has suggested that there be an overhaul of text books within the education sector. Dr Dokora whose ministry is currently implementing the newly adopted curriculum at primary and secondary school level says the import bill for text books written by foreign authors is unnecessarily high and the education sector should start using locally authored text books.

He added that under the current system, examination questions have become so predictable. He said such a situation has killed creativity on the part of teachers and students. Dr Dokora made the indication at Kutama College during an Arts Teachers Association of Zimbabwe third annual conference.

Meanwhile, arts teachers attending the conference raised concern over the sidelining of arts by school authorities and noted that most schools and authorities are failing to allocate resources for arts education. The conference was held under the theme ‘The New Curriculum- Arts Education Today and The Future’.