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Bubi Villagers Protest Deputy Minister’s Sacking

8 months agoMon, 08 Jul 2024 14:22:32 GMT
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Bubi Villagers Protest Deputy Minister’s Sacking

Villagers in Bubi Constituency, Matabeleland North Province, have strongly decried the sacking of their Member of Parliament, Simelisizwe Sibanda, from his position as Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science, and Technology Development.

The dismissal was reportedly linked to Sibanda’s remarks against the deployment of a non-Ndebele-speaking teacher in the area.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week fired Sibanda after the MP allegedly demanded the transfer of a Shona-speaking Early Childhood Education (ECD) teacher who did not speak Ndebele, the primary language used by the majority of people in the constituency.

While Mnangagwa did not provide official reasons for dismissing Sibanda, it appears that the MP’s remarks on the language issue led to his sacking from the ministerial post.

As reported by Southern Eye, on Wednesday, villagers in Sibanda’s constituency pleaded with Mnangagwa to reinstate the MP, arguing that his expulsion was an excessively harsh decision that does not serve the best interests of the local community.

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The villagers made the remarks during a meeting they had at the Inyathi business centre. One villager, Max Mnkandla said:

Why did the president not call him for a disciplinary hearing and reprimand him?

While he may have violated protocols, we cannot run away from this issue as it has been a matter of concern for years.

The government must address this issue of teacher deployments in Matabeleland because it’s not the first time it has come up and certainly not the last time we are going to hear about it.

The villagers said they were preparing to submit a formal petition to the ruling ZANU PF party and Mnangagwa, seeking to present their case regarding Sibanda’s dismissal and the alleged unfair deployments of civil servants, particularly teachers, in their region.

Another resident, Senzeni Ndlovu, asserted that the government must address the issues that were raised by Sibanda before his removal from the Deputy Minister position.

Villager Davie Dube expressed concern that Sibanda’s expulsion from office could make other elected officials from the Matabeleland region hesitant to raise critical issues affecting their communities, for fear of facing similar repercussions. Said Dube:

We have the issue of Bulawayo- Nkayi road, which is in a bad state. There is no development in the region…

The government is failing to address all those issues, and when our elected representatives get fired for raising those matters, it raises concerns about the political will of the government to address such matters.

Our MPs will fear to ask for help out of fear of being fired.

Sibanda was fired after demanding the transfer of ECD teacher, Winnet Mharadze from Clonmore Primary School in Bubi Constituency, allegedly for not being proficient in the local language, Ndebele.

The ZANU PF MP had gone to donate uniforms to learners at the school, 55 km out of Bulawayo, off Harare Road near Gloag High School on June 24, 2024.

During a meeting attended by teachers, parents, and hundreds of learners, Sibanda directly confronted Mharadze by questioning why she had been deployed to the Matabeleland region and testing her language skills by asking her to define the Ndebele term “uqethu”.

As reported by CITE, uqethu means grass, and it is part of a common tongue twister among IsiNdebele speakers that goes “Qum’ qethu, ‘gecu ‘qethu,” which simply means cut the grass.

This was not the first instance of Sibanda criticizing Shona teachers in Bubi. Reports indicate that Bubi District education officials alleged the MP stirred controversy previously at Mbembeswana 1 Primary, where he also reprimanded Shona teachers who could not speak the local language.

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72 Comments

👀 · 8 months ago
In Sindebele they too have some difficulty like pronunciation of Kudakwashe they say KuTakwashi Rudo==Ruto, Tadiwa==Tatiwa no one is supreme even in the King Charles land Scots Irish scouse have different tone of londoner
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
They are not deployed in Mashonaland as GradeR teachers. Stop your nonsense
Hard Mashona Type · 8 months ago
Some peace loving senior progressive Ndebele politicians must reprimand Sibanda. This issue is very sensitive and can easily trigger a civil war. It does not start as the whole Shona tribe attacking the Ndebele. It only takes me, an equally mentally unstable Shona tribalist, the opposite of Sibanda, to eliminate Sibanda. Then all hell breaks loose. The likes of me and Sibanda need to be put on leashes.
Gunz · 8 months ago
Ask Lt General Sanyatwe for his opinion 🤣🤣🤣
Anonymous · 8 months ago
You are doing this for the likes. You know deep down you are not capable of doing what you have raised. Msnu weShona
· 8 months ago
So it yourself then @anonymous
· 8 months ago
Try me
ED · 8 months ago
ndiri kuuya neshamhu inemunyu plus gukurahundi party2
🥸 · 8 months ago
An unnecessary comment 💯
Mbada family · 8 months ago
Ahunyepi kungomirira kukura oyenda kuchigweja apa kuda zvehonhondo
· 8 months ago
Mandebele haadi kudzidza saka mateacher echindewere Acho anozobva kupi . Kungosvika grade six twakuramba chikoro twoyenda kuchikorokoza .
🧐 · 8 months ago
Ichi ndo chokwadi chiriko, ikozvino ndiri kuona kaskana(15) yr hakagoni kunyora asi ka kuitiswa basa remumba ukukanongoda fon what's app audio chete neizvi emoji ndekungo player music yemazulu, apa tribalism anoseva nayo havadi kunzwa nezve Chishona kwayi handi ku funda caricula yevechishona, zvese izvo munhu 1 here
zulu · 8 months ago
volume down here in manicaland we have teachers from matebeleland but takanyara wani
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Mundeshon · 8 months ago
If Simelisizwe does not reform, he will be recalled from parly. If he persists, I will surely pay him a visit to teach him. Not in Ndebele though.
🧐 · 8 months ago
Mubvunzo wangu umwechete I repeat even ngesindebele sakhona,sibone, utitsshala kambe engaya emzansi, kulamapedi amasotho amavenda akusamelanga yini efundise ngenxa yokuti kazazi lezo ndimi, na? Ngumbuzo lowo lina omthwakazindini, Teaching does not recognise bounderies just like doctors or nurses the " antidotes" is the same so it's really irresponsible for an adult to spew tribal connotations in that form worse from a respectable government official worse still ADeputy Minister of worst worse Education He surely misfired, and apologising was the worst he could but simpler should vow to step down may ED would assign him to other ministry, ED is one of greatest est lawyers and knows of such implications hence the decision he made
Justice · 8 months ago
I was in agreement with you until you said that that ED is one of the greatest lawyers. How fake. Can you give me one case which he has defended in his 81 years of life? He is no lawyer.
gonogoto · 8 months ago
I have vazukuru who went to SA speaking chishona but now coz of the environment they are fluen in in isizulu, isindebele, engl
Lovemore Pfumojena · 8 months ago
These people from Matebeleland seem to think that they are so special that they can dictate as to who should be employed where? They forget that the ndebele teachers are everywhere in Mashonaland and they can not even speak a broken sentence in shona they speak in English but we have never made any noise about it. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans . We should feel free to work anywhere in the country. For this tribalism Sibanda the firing was the only remedy available. Ukaita tribalism tinokudzinga basa.
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qwerty · 8 months ago
i second you. we should not create boundaries as if we are not Zimbabweans. funny thing is, these people accept other nationality except shona.
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gonogoto · 8 months ago
I
Proudly Zimbabwean · 8 months ago
Haaaa🤔@ Elder d ayiwa mandikuwadza nemabayo
elder d · 8 months ago
with the minister's tribalism mentality we are slowly going nowhere. his utterances have proven why Ingutsheni is located where it is
Anonymous · 8 months ago
He is not a Zanu pf member but a card holder with the agenda of destroying the part from within. He is applying the join and beat them from within. This is a second offense of the same nature and doesn't deserve a 2 ND reprimand. A similar offense if repeated it falls under the category of a serious, punishable offense, dismissal or suspension without pay for 5 years. Kkkkkkk
Dyoo nemo-nemo · 8 months ago
😃😃😃😃😃...ummmm I surrender. elder D
👀👀 · 8 months ago
ma ndebee akandionesa nhamo ndasangana nawoJorburg University,vakati havatizive (shona speaking)and vakati they belong there,and ndakanzi dont come back again,vanokutaurira ne ndebele or Zulu yavanoziva kt haunzwe,am glad kut vashoma vanhu ava coz dai vakawanda kupfuura **** ,dai tirikutaura zvimwe,
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Very true the moment he is on the SA side he is no longer Zimbabwean. When coming to Zim from SA side at BB he thinks he is South African only to find he just posseses a permit not even ,PR. Kukaita zrnophobia hanzi vanomhanya kutsvaga **** vachipisa. Zvinongoda isu ana Mhanduwe tiridii zvedu kwamutoko kusina zvakadaro, mbanje tinosvuta kubva Kuna sekuru, mbuya ana neazukuru. Toseredzera nekachasu kemasau. Ungatidiii
Anonymous · 8 months ago
If we can have 100 people with the mind of this MP, it will be easy to Tutsi/hutsi war. We don't deserve person like him. He wanted to to make people happy by undressing an innocent teacher now he was undressed by the President. Now you want to feel for him. As a education minister he was suppose to address this problem
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
True Rwanda genocide was caused by such speeches from leaders. Leaders are supposed to unite people not divide
nherera · 8 months ago
Mp Sibanda was elected by people but was appointed as deputy minister by His Excellence so people should understand that
Zimbabwean · 8 months ago
Sibanda needs to be reminded of the Hutu/Tutsi conflict that destabilised Rwanda. We don't want to go that way. We don't want a situation where the **** say that Sibanda is not welcome in Mashonaland. He must open his own parliament in Bubi. **** are not docile, but peaceful and harmonious. Let's not allow Sibanda and his fellow tribalists force us to act out of character. We don't want strife between tribes.
general · 8 months ago
ungumpentsho
how much ? · 8 months ago
Simelisizwe Sibanda probably paid these c-l-o-w-ns to "protest
· 8 months ago
Command Protests? 🤣🤣🤣
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huchi · 8 months ago
ngazvieeeendeee.
KG · 8 months ago
THE PRESIDENT HAS THE POWER TO SHUFFLE, TO HIRE, TO FIRE WITHOUT CONSULTING ANYBODY, ITS HIS PREROGATIVE. SO THOSE VILLAGERS MUST NOT ACT AS IF THEY MADE THE PRESIDENT TO PROMOTE THAT FORMER DEPUTY IN THE FIRST PLACE. WE HAVE HAD MANY MINISTERS FIRED SINCE 1980 AND THE BUBI CDE IS NO EXCEPTION UNLESS IF THESE MISGUIDED PARTY MEMBERS TAKE THE ISSUE ON TRIBALIST LINES, THEN IT BECOMES A DIFFERENT THING ALTOGETHER. MINISTERS ARE SACKED ANY TIME ASK J MOYO,HERBERT USHEHWEKUNZE, TO NAME A FEW.
jo · 8 months ago
President is right pakumubvisa. Kwasara ivo kubviswa.
· 8 months ago
Atset
Zvokwadihaivurai · 8 months ago
Mwana wamai venyu here wamochemera.Zvakaitwa neMukuru wenyika ndizvo chaizvo.Hooo iye ndiye munhu and has the authority yekurotomoka zvaanoda,imwii musadaroba.Saka moti hatina kurwadziwa nemashoko akapiwa umwe wedu.Tisu tinozvi deploya here isu.Siyai ayende uyo,kwaari ndiko kwaakafanira.
Gunvosta · 8 months ago
village idhiyotsi
🧐 · 8 months ago
, Vanhu we ngwarai, vukaninini kumbe ngithi alikeni liphaphame DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME ukuthi a qualified teacher cannot even get employed even in Botswana, Mzansi, Mozambique and or The UK because he's not affluent with the native language, come on, Teaching is a profession and they know how to straddle those shores of nativity, hee you mean to tell me those that went to teach in Rwanda can speak hutuish or Tutsish, Bantu besi ndebeleni inzondo le is uncalled for and the President is 💯 % good to sack suck bull crap mouthing
Tshaka · 8 months ago
Uk that why the test u English before u get an employment Visa
🧐 · 8 months ago
You can't be a teacher in Zim if you are not good in English either
🧐 · 8 months ago
Same as here in Zim, you can't do teaching or be a Teacher or spe****ed Ndebele Teacher without English entry
Antman · 8 months ago
There is a deferent between teaching ECD and grade 7 sir/madam
Saddam Hussein · 8 months ago
Matebeleland Matebeleland what so special about you. You will get what you are looking for
madabula · 8 months ago
weeena
Freedom · 8 months ago
Most of the comments about the sacking of the TRIBALIST deputy minister are correct.I am very pleased that people can analyse issues so we'll.You are great people I am proud of you.Keep it up
nherera · 8 months ago
Zanupf members don't protest against His Excellence s decision the President appointmented him and has disappointed him
𝕞𝕦𝕛𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠 · 8 months ago
ⁿᵍᵃᶻᵛⁱᵉⁿᵈᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉʳ
Non Tribal · 8 months ago
Anybody with five senses knows that this man was championing a tribal agenda. He victimised an innocent woman in order to please his fellow tribalists in the crowd. He succeeded because that woman can no longer safely work in that neighborhood.
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june · 8 months ago
munhu anoita zvizomera povho chete
nherera · 8 months ago
being mp and minister he should have solved with his education officer because teachers don't deployed them selves now he using villages Tobe rebels
patz · 8 months ago
✔️
patz · 8 months ago
He erred by confronting and humiliating the teacher head-on. Being an MP and Deputy minister he should have done better

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