adminMorris Mtisi
It is my pleasure to publish some of the sentiments expressed by my followers on this page:
I live next to another male nurse like you ,mr lenard rupare.Continue the immunisation of the killer disease, common errors till all zimbos, politicians, teachers and journalists become proficient writers and speakers of English: writes Munyaradzi of Manica Bridge.
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Thank you Munya.
How can I access some of your articles on common errors in English Mr Mtisi? I’m desperately in need of them for use with my class. My name is Zuka Phillimon and currently I’m teaching at Mbeure Primary School in Chipinge.
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You will access the book I am publishing on Common Errors. Don’t you worry Mr Zuka. . .chereni ririkuri baba?
hallo sir. . . I am a teacher at Batanai Torwood Kwekwe.i am teaching upper 6 literature.i very much want yr help in ppr 4.hw best can yu assist me?i am madam muzamhindo-makunike.i have benefited greatly frm some of yr articles that yu post on the nwsppr.
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I’m glad you find my articles useful. Let’s talk more. You have my numbers. . . right? Let’s keep in touch.
Richard Chauke from Beitbridge writes:
Sir, I kindly request you to look at this scenario. Today we have pupils taught in Shangaan, Venda etc from Grade 1-7. This is a good development but from form 1-6, it is a different story. Depending on region, our children switch to either Ndebele or Shona. Great Zim University offers degrees in Shangaan, Venda, Sotho, etc. Good development too.
Of interest, I highlight Education structure with foundation and suspended roof. Our children in form one will be left to do elementary Shona or Ndebele first to be at par with other pupils privileged to sail in their languages, considered an inalienable right but on our part such violation is not considered as such. We cannot be told of resource constraints when we have enough to impose other languages. The extinction of one African language weakens the rest to follow suit. That is why people rarely speak purely in their languages today.— R. M Chauke
My Bro. You once raised this before in pursuit of national interests we should be careful on what we call colonial philosophy at times. We changed Salisbury to become Harare without destroying its foundation, walls and roofs. We still marvel at the architecture and civil engineering of the Sunshine City. You will never change what was completely perfectly done.
If Grade 7, ZJC, ‘O’ level are irrelevant, we should stop giving birth certificates as well. These school certificates carry the academic history and performance after school, but now the Commission of Ommission on Education is searching for something which they don’t know and when it will be found. This is sad indeed. People are trying to be eventful, yet destroying what created them to be and denying our children the same on false philosophical thinking that is theoretically unsound. Stop ‘vendoring’ our Education.— Richard Mahuhushe Chauke
Chauke continues. . .
Good Afternoon Sir. On the concept of hunhu/ubuntu, the major part is for parents and communities. Charity begins at home. Schools integrally seam. You have a good project on the Hero who chose death to save teachers and pupils.
The smartest hero ever. A total hero of angelic nature. Where are they to fund your project? A project of historical importance, in the context of our struggles to independence and of international significance to conscientise the world on bloody war-fares that we had our own hero, who chose fate, rather than swim on children’s blood to safety. Instead, they tell our children to fill their school bags with condoms not books.
They import films we don’t understand and our children go haywire, they blame our teachers for failing to instil discipline. Thank you. — Chauke
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Thank you Richard Chauke. You are my most interactive follower of my columns. Look forward to my answer to your sentiments next week. Meanwhile enjoy a free one-month offer of The Manica Post, courtesy of yours truly MM. Tell me where you want to collect your newspapers.
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