PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister, Paul Mavima
yesterday said the government is looking for potential partners to construct 2
056 schools.
Officially launching the CBZ schools debate championship in
Harare, Mavima said the government also wanted to improve infrastructure at the
existing schools throughout the country.
“CBZ, if you can accord us $2 billion in order to develop
this infrastructure, we can offer you a very risk free payment programme on the
basis of an infrastructure fund that we are developing,” he said.
“We understand that infrastructure development is an
inter-generation pursuit. The current generation can benefit, but future
generations will be also be looking for it. Typically, a school can survive for
even 200 years, so there is no way in which the people of Zimbabwe would fail
to pay if you invest now into to the development of our infrastructure.”
Mavima also appealed for Information Communication
Technology gadgets to computerise schools across the country.
“I need to computerise our schools to 100% in the next
three to five years,” he said.
“I am looking for partners, who can give us money now and
then that can be recouped over a period of say three to four years when we need
to renew these gadgets.”
Mavima applauded CBZ Holdings and its partners, the
Institute of African Knowledge and National Association of Primary Heads for
launching the Schools Debate Champions, which was in line with the revised
curriculum, where there was emphasis on empowering scholars with practical
skills.
“Our curriculum framework 2015 to 2022 transforms the
further logical approach from being teacher centric to being leaner centric,
where the leaners should be inspired to discover and even generate own
knowledge rather than always been pull fed by the teacher.
“We urge the structuring of this debate to inspire this mode
of knowledge acquisition on issues that have currency globally and for our
transforming economy in society,” he said.
Mavima said moulding pupils should begin at an early age,
the age at which the mastering concept is easiest and at which one once positive
habit have been learnt becomes a part of the leaner for life.
CBZ acting group chief executive officer, Peter Zimunya, in
a speech read on his behalf by business banking divisional director, Molly
Dingani, said the financial institution was keen to partner with the community
in grooming future leaders. Newsday
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