CHIVHU - Zanu (PF) hooligans in Chikomba district began the school year by disrupting classes and trying to push out teachers who are alleged to support the MDC.
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe Secretary General, Raymond Majongwe, confirmed reports of staged demonstrations at Nhangambwe and Sadza Secondary schools and said that the union was gravely worried.
“We have heard reports of the demonstrations that are targeting innocent teachers. This is a cause for concern and should be stopped immediately,” said Majongwe.
The MP for Chikomba Central, Moses Jiri, told this paper that on Tuesday, Zanu (PF) thugs besieged Makuvimavi Primary School in Chivhu demanding that Edwin Mareve, a teacher there, be transferred because he is the MDC-T Organising Secretary. The marching crowds, led by Farai Watambwa, accused the grade seven teachers of teaching pupils to follow the MDC.
There is need for the police to act fast. Even though we reported the case to the police they just went to the school and observed as the hooligans abused the teacher. Classes were disrupted and parents seeking to register their grade one children failed to do so as the administration block was closed, said Jiri.
So rampant are the disruptions that there was no one at the District Education Office when Jiri went to report the case.
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