Battle for control of St Augustine’s Mission rages on

school.
The shortages were attributed to in-fighting within the Anglican Church.
The Manicaland Anglican Diocese aligned to Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga runs the school while a fac­tion led by Bishop Chad Gandiya also claims authority over the school.
However, parents want Govern­ment intervention to bring sanity at the insti­tution. They are demanding the establish­ment of an SDC to over­see the trans­parent running of the school and administration of funds.
Manicaland provincial education director Mr Andrew Chigumira has ordered a meeting between parents and school authorities.
“I have received correspondence from the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture directing that the parents’ rep­resentatives of the above school arrange two dates to meet here,” Mr Chigumira said in a letter to the par­ents.
According to correspondence between the parties, the school authorities have refused to meet par­ents as agreed during a meet­ing last month.
“We had a meeting on the 17th August, 2012 with Reverend Matam­banadzo and Mr Masvikeni and sev­eral phone calls were made to their offices trying to contact the responsi­ble authority regarding this issue, but we are not welcomed.
“Since the per­manent secretary wanted to meet both parties before schools open we are appealing to the Ministry of Educa­tion to help us have a way forward for the betterment of our children’s wel­fare,” said a letter by par­ents’ represen­tative, Mr Admire Mpofu, to Manica­land provincial edu­cation director.
Mr Mpofu said parents indicated that they wanted church ethics to be separate from administration of the school. He also noted that church poli­tics should not affect children and teachers.