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Five Church Leaders , Lead Protest March In Harare, Against Schools National Pledge

Posted on June 28, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Five church leaders in Harare yesterday led a protest march in the city centre, demanding government’s rescission of the national pledge imposed by Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora in May. The clergymen, operating under the Prayer Network of Zimbabwe (PNZ) banner, claimed it was unconstitutional to force pupils to recite the pledge and called on Dokora to resign over his contentious educational policies. The pledge, according to Dokora, is meant to…

Education Ministry Probes Schools Defying ‘National Pledge’

Posted on May 15, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education will investigate cases of schools that are reportedly resisting a directive to teach pupils to recite the National Schools Pledge, an official has said. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry Dr Sylvia Utete-Masango on Friday said although no official reports had been made, it had learnt through the media that some schools were not reciting the pledge. Sunday News reported that some church, trust and private schools around…

‘ Poisoned Mindset Of Civil Servants Calls For Patriotic ,Service Oriented Pledge’ Home Affairs Deputy Minister

Posted on May 6, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

A programme similar to the recently introduced national pledge in schools should be developed for civil servants so that they become patriotic and service oriented, Home Affairs Deputy Minister Cde Obedingwa Mguni said yesterday. He said the mindset of some civil servants had been poisoned by the 2008 economic hardships and needed to be socially re-engineered. “After that 2008 saga we see that some people within the Government sector — their mindset — is no…

Progressive Teachers` Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) Rejects National Pledge

Posted on May 2, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

The Progressive Teachers` Union of Zimbabwe after consulting parents, its membership and pupils in all the ten (10) provinces and other critical stakeholders in the whole country was left with no option, but to reject the National Pledge in its entirety, which the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora is expected to launch on May 3, 2016 as part of a raft of curriculum reforms and implementation expected soon. Raymond Majongwe (…

Accepting The National Pledge Is, Selling Our Freedom, And Birthright To Mugabe And His Zanu PF

Posted on April 29, 2016April 29, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Mugabe’s Zanu PF regime is pushing its luck by attempting to impose a National Pledge to be recited by all school children everyday at assembly. This is no different from the brainwashing behaviour of despot led regimes such as North Korea and should never be tolerated by our people. It is imperative that the Zimbabwe nation must with immediate effect and no compromise whatsoever rise up in defiance to the Zimbabwe Minister Of Education Lazarus…

Christian Organisations Condemn Schools National Pledge Of Allegiance As Removal Of The Lord’s Prayer

Posted on April 17, 2016April 17, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

CHRISTIAN organisations have castigated the Primary and Secondary Schools Ministry for imposing a national schools pledge without a prior consultation process, expressing fears that there could be an agenda to kick out the Lord’s Prayer recited by students during assemblies. The Lord’s Prayer is deduced from Matthew 6 and Luke 11 when Jesus Christ’s disciples asked him to teach them how to pray. The prayer has been a common feature at many public and missionary…

Constitutionally, The New ‘Minstry Of Education’s National Pledge Violates Children’s Rights’-PDP

Posted on March 27, 2016March 27, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

PDP statement on the National school pledge The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has introduced what it calls a ‘National Pledge’ which according to the Ministry officials should be recited by the students daily before they begin lessons ‘just as they recite the Lord’s Prayer and then sing the National Anthem’. The Ministry has also reported that this pledge shall begin on the opening of schools for 2016 second term and to show their…