News:Police Block Protesters From Handing Over Petition To Dokora

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<vote /> Riot police yesterday barricaded Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora’s offices as Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) protesters tried to hand over to him a petition demanding free education.

Woza said according to international human rights standards, the government had an obligation to respect, protect and fulfil the right to education and as a signatory of the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights, the government had two years to make education free in the country.

Woza leader Jenni Williams said the government should find ways of financing education,

If they say they don’t have money to pay for free education, we will tell them to look for the $15 billion diamond revenue that they could not account for.

Woza also demanded tertiary fees to fall by 2017.

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