By Own Correspondent- Secretary-General of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) Raymond Majongwe has warned that any nation that does not respect its teachers is doomed calling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to heed warnings issued by spirit mediums to ensure that the people are well fed.
He said this at a Headmasters conference held recently in Victoria Falls.
Majongwe said Mnangagwa was warned by a spirit medium that the nation will be ungovernable when people are hungry.
Said Majongwe:
“We need to know and carry the message to the president. I told him in his face on the 21st of December when I met him at his Monomotapa offices, that comrade president things are not well, and I repeat, I told him as well at the conference centre at the church meeting, at Celebration Centre.
“The truth of the matter when president Emmerson Mnangagwa was inaugurated as president there is a spirit medium who spoke to him and said, a country cannot be ruled while the people being lead are hungry. A country cannot be rude while the people being lead are hungry.
“Allow me to say I have come here to give a solidarity message to headmasters who are critical components of delivering proper education service delivery to this country.
“Any nation that does not respect its teachers does not deserve any respect. In 1981, Simon Vengesai Muzenda said, ” a nation that does not respect its teachers is doomed. I see doom in this nation.
Teachers have been relegated to vagrants. I have 4 reports of teachers who died this year because they were abusing alcohol. To get to the point where your wife refuses to sleep with you because you are contributing nothing.
Serious homes have collapsed because women are running away from teachers as husbands. How do you then make sure how do you inspire progress in the nation when you are a laughing stock? The underwear that you wearing is torn, the sock that you’re wearing is torn?
“Your stomach is empty; if there is a machine that I can scan your stomachs, all I see in there are small matembas… how do you inspire these children to be relevant in this country?
“When we sit to interrogate the destinies of Nations we must also sit to interrogate the people who are supposed to make those destinations viable, relevant and achievable. You can’t talk of a national vision 2030…”