![]() ![]() The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The Student Solidarity Trust continues to lobby the inclusive government to institute reforms in the education sector to allow students to enjoy their rights. Students from a Norwegian based Students and Academics International Help Fund (SAIH) congratulated the students who have completed their studies against all odds. Khumalo recollected on victimization accounts she regularly receives from students from her constituency. Speaking at the same occasion JOMIC member and member of Parliament for Bulawayo East, a constituency where National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Hillside Teachers Training College and School of Mines are located, Honorable Thabitha Khumalo emphasized that students should not lose direction and the objective of going to school despite having been expelled from their respective institutions of higher learning. Chamisa after being expelled from Harare Polytechnic enrolled with the Institute of Marketing Management and later completed an undergraduate degree and masters degree with the University of Zimbabwe where he has also undertaken a second undergraduate degree. The Minister lamented on the lack of government support in the education sector stating that the government should act as an enabler to students wishing to pursue further education. “I am not boasting but I can proudly say it today that we have acquired education against odds after being expelled”, the minister said. Speaking at the 2012 AAO ceremony the minister reflected on the challenges students of his era faced and the protests they staged to press for academic freedoms and better learning conditions which resulted in his expulsion from Harare Polytechnic College. Minister of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) Nelson Chamisa who was once expelled from Harare Polytechnic College and Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (JOMIC) member Thabitha Khumalo urged students expelled or suspended from institutions of higher learning in the past decade not to despair and to complete their studies against all odds. The outstanding individuals included Honorable Thabitha Khumalo, Crisis in Zimbabwe Director and former coordinator of SST McDonald Lewanika, YET Director Lucy Mazingi, civil society leaders Itai Zimunya, Sizani Weza and Otto Saki. Also present at the ceremony were outstanding individuals who have contributed immensely to the students’ movement through various services such as legal representation at disciplinary hearings and courts and through moral and material support to students. ![]() The other participants included the students still receiving support from SST who are yet to complete their education against all odds. The AAO ceremony had over hundred students attending. Most students were arrested, tortured, had their results withheld and were evicted from halls of residence before being expelled or suspended. The students’ rights over the decade were trampled upon by administrations at institutions of higher learning and by law enforcement agents at the height of the near demise of the education delivery system in a bid to keep the institutions going in face of students’ protests. The students were expelled or suspended mainly for exercising their students’ rights at their respective institutions. ![]()
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