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problem happening at St Augustine’s,” said Bishop Jakazi, who heads the diocese in Manicaland, said in an interview yesterday.
He said he will meet with the Secretary for Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, Mrs Constance Chigwamba, in Harare today to find a solution to the problems at the Anglican-run mission school.
“I am consulting with the Ministry of Education (Sport, Arts and Culture). I work in partnership with the ministry and we follow the Education Act,” Bishop Jakazi said.
He said it was the responsibility of the authority to establish a School Development Committee not what was being claimed by “the self-appointed parents’ representative Mr Admire Mpofu”.
Bishop Jakazi said parents had no mandate to run the school through an SDC because it was disbanded in 2009 after failing to account for US$6 000.
“Mpofu does not belong to the church, we don’t even know which church he goes to,” he said.
“This is a mission school run by a board of directors and according to Anglican Church ethics. So, what they are saying that the school should be run separately is unheard of.
“You can ask even the Roman Catholic or Methodist churches on how they run their schools. We employ the bursars because we are the authority.”
Bishop Jakazi said the Anglican Church was trying to run the school in a professional manner and provide excellent education to children.
“So, this thing about an SDC is all politics. What some people are trying to do is misinform the public,” he said.
“They are trying to incite the public and we are going to prove this.”
Mr Mpofu last week claimed that he was the parent’s representative and that the parents wanted the school to establish an SDC.
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