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Takunda Maodza recently in BOCHA
THE government has dispatched a team to Mweyamutsvene Mission School to investigate why the headmaster’s wife Nyasha Rubende barred a Form Four pupil, Belvin Chibi, from sitting his final Zimsec examinations. Belvin, who had registered to write five subjects, was barred by Rubende from sitting for three papers — English (Paper 1 and 2) and Commerce — because he had no school shoes. The pupil is an orphan who stays with his 65-year-old grandmother, Edna Musagomba.
Belvin’s father is late while his mother, Chamwaita Chibi, is a vendor in South Africa.
Manicaland Provincial Education director Edward Shumba confirmed a team was dispatched to Mweyamutsvene Mission last Friday and investigations were underway. “We dispatched a team from the district office to carry out investigations on the matter. I’m expecting a report from them between today and tomorrow. However, preliminary results show the headmaster’s wife sent the boy away. We will put the member to his defence,” said Shumba.
He added: “The headmaster was not there at the scene but was within the school premises. What exactly was he doing which was more important than the examinations? It is like you are playing football and as you are attacking, your number nine chooses to go away.”
When told the headmaster, Abel Zebron Rubende, had later offered to pay for Belvin’s school fees next year if he repeats but Shumba said that did not exonerate him.
“That does not remove commission of the offence. That is mitigation,” he said. It has since emerged that Rubende had a misunderstanding with Belvin a week before the examinations and had vowed to fix him. It is alleged she told the pupil; “We shall see where you are going to sit for your exams.”
Rubende teaches Shona.
derick.khumalo