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HON. RUTH MABOYI: LETS ADDRESS TEACHERS CONCERNS
HON. RUTH MABOYI: Hon. Speaker Sir, I am here to add my voice on the President’s speech on his SONA. He mentioned quite a lot of things in his address, but I want to speak about COVID first. @WiPSUZim @GMCZimbabwe @WCOZIMBABWE

HON. MABOYI: All I am saying is the President did a great job even though we did not have much as a country, he played a major role making sure it does not impact greatly in our country, taking into congnisance that we did not have enough resources.

HON. MABOYI: He made sure that people remained safe by staying at home. This helped us so much as a country to make sure that COVID19 does not give us great challenges.

HON. MABOYI: Still in the issue of COVID, there were quite a number of things that were sourced which things include sanitisers & masks which are the things that help us as a country. The President made sure that he played a major role in all this.Thank you so much Mr President.

HON. MABOYI: On this COVID issue which is under the
@MoHCCZim and as a representative of Beitbridge West Constituency, my plea to the President is that he needs to help us and make sure that we have a big hospital because we are a border town.

HON. MABOYI: We had a lot of people coming into the country through our town and we did not have so many hospitals. To make matters worse, a big hospital to take care of those people that tested positive and needed health care.

HON. MABOYI: As a border town, we need a big hospital since we are a border post that is greater than any other in this country. We need a general hospital to help people not only looking at COVID -there might be accidents or other outbreaks that might require major health care.

HON. MABOYI: Therefore, it is necessary that we have a big hospital in this border town. Secondly, I would also like to talk about Pfumvudza which is Intwasa in Ndebele and Digaudle in Venda. This Pfumvudza, Intwasa or Digaudle is done by people who have energy to dig.

HON. MABOYI: Let us look at old people, the aged. Who is going to help them? We have realised that its a good initiative, however we are saying the elderly need a program that will help them & in helping them, it will help us make sure everyone else gets
something to assist them.

HON. MABOYI: We will all grow to be elderly people and therefore, we need help. This programme helps quite a number people - but for the elderly, it is quite a challenge because they do not have the energy to dig.

HON. MABOYI: As representatives of these constituencies that we come from – how are we going to help these elderly people to make sure that they also take part in farming? The third issue is with regards to schools. The President said a lot about schools. @ProgressiveOf @zimta01

HON. MABOYI: We realise that there are quite a number of development programs that are being engaged in. There are quite a number of secondary schools that have been built and there are quite a
number of tertiary education facilities that have been put up. @ProgressiveOf

HON. MABOYI: However, right now quite a number of children are not doing anything at school because there are no teachers. Therefore, we are saying to @edmnangagwa there is need to make sure that we look into this Ministry of Education because right now children are not learning.

HON. MABOYI: We can say they have gone back to school but there is no learning taking place. There is absolutely nothing happening. @RMajongwe @OMasaraure @ARTUZ_teachers @Zinasuzim @zimta01 @WiPSUZim @WCOZIMBABWE @GMCZimbabwe

HON. MABOYI: Our President should make sure they talk to people that lead the Ministries to make sure
teachers go back to school & kids continue to learn because they are our future & our tomorrow. As we are here, we went through the same process of being taught by same teachers.

HON. MABOYI: We need to make sure that our children also get an opportunity to go to school and learn, but right now our children are not learning.

HON. MABOYI: We need to look into this issue Mr Speaker Sir. Children are not learning. Thank you so much for the few words that I have added on this
SONA.