HARARE - With the Ministry of Higher Education reneging on promises made by the Minister of Finance Tendai Biti that the government would reintroduce college grants, the MDC-T Youth Assembly has joined with ZINASU to blast the Minister of Higher Education Stan MudengeIn his budget presentation last year, Minister of Finance Tendai Biti said that he had set aside US$15 million for students grants, however, Zimbabwe National Students Association (ZINASU) representatives said that Mudenge was now claiming that the Finance owed his Ministry US$14 million from the cadetship scheme.
We are shocked that a learned Minister like Mudenge wants to deny students education on the basis that they do not have money, the Assembly Secretary General, Solomon Madzore, said.
When Biti announced last year that the government was reintroducing the grants many students were relieved, however, the money has still not materialised.
Education in the country has become a preserve for the rich, but that should not be the case as it is every Zimbabweans right to have education. If Mudenge does not release the funds then he is condemning the poor who do not have the money to pay for college, said Madzore.
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