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Mbuso Nkalakatha Chronicle Reporter
MINISTER of State for Provincial Affairs in Matabeleland North Cain Mathema has urged youths in Tsholotsho to complete their education first before they consider looking for employment in neighbouring countries. Speaking at a speech and prize giving day held on Friday last week at Mathula Secondary School in Tsholotsho district, he said many young people thought learning was laborious.
“They confuse study which is the methodical accumulation of facts with learning and they seek the easy way out to go to South Africa where they become slaves to another country’s resources,” said Cde Mathema.
He encouraged those not academically gifted to try other fields such as sports.
“We are proud as a nation of our sportsmen who never fail to compete with enthusiasm, spirit, good care, and who are leading respectful lives such as Peter Ndlovu, Benjani Mwaruwaru and Samukeliso Moyo who at one stage where students just like you and from very poor backgrounds like most of us. But look at them today they are achievers who have been panelled in Africa for the joy of the world,” said Cde Mathema.
He promised to help the school to have electricity, piped water and establish an irrigation scheme to supplement the school’s income.
Cde Mathema also pledged to assist the school build enough houses for teachers and a school hall.
School headmistress , Miss Siphephile Sithole, bemoaned the school’slow pass rate in Ordinary Level examinations which she said fell from 4,25 percent in 2011 to 2,25 in 2012.
“We are worried about this very low pass rate which seems to be getting worse and we have resolved to engage Ordinary Level examiners and markers so that they can help us identify where we are getting it wrong as we struggle to reach the district pass rate which is five percent,” said Miss Sithole.
The school which opened in 2001 has an enrolment of 366 pupils and a staff complement of 15 teachers and serves villages such as Madabu, Dogwe, Nata and Makhaza.
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