ZANEC board member Robert Shula who is in charge of skills and tertiary education said there is need to inculcate knowledge in students that stoning people’s vehicles every time they were aggrieved was not a solution to their academic challenges.
Mr Shula was speaking soon after a one day academic forum at Mulungushi University in Kabwe which was aimed at raising awareness on the operations of the NGO.
ZANEC which is a coalition of NGOs advocating for education, has been working with students unions through the Zambia National Students Union (ZANASU) since 2015 with the aim of enhancing academic freedoms.
“We have been working with ZANASU to encourage the students that there is no need to run to the road side each time they are not happy with the Government or the management.
“This is why we have been going round colleges and universities in Zambia to try and teach them on the values and norms, where they should start and where they should end.
Mr Shula expressed happiness with the response from both the Government and the students union to the academic forums that his organisation had been conducting throughout the country.
He said it was because of the working relationship between ZANEC and ZANASU that had seen students union apologized for unruly behaviour that had resulted into the closure of the University of Zambia (UNZA) and the Copperbelt University (CBU).
The students had realised that protests did not solve any problem and the only way forward was dialogue.
“They knew that you don’t find something good by stoning other people’s vehicles, and it is now on record that ZANASU felt sorry and apologized to the Government of Zambia and that it how the two universities were opened,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mulungushi University Union general secretary Patrick Hamwiita called on fellow students in all tertiary education institutions to desist from violence but embrace dialogue.
“All what we need is to speak with the office bearers, with the government as students in order to communicate our challenges in a right way,” he said.
Burnin’ and a-lootin’ tonight
(Say we gonna burn and loot)
Burnin’ and a-lootin’ tonight
(One more thing)
Burnin’ all pollution tonight
(Oh, yeah, yeah)
Burnin’ all illusion tonight
This morning I woke up in a Pf curfew
Edgar Lungu last night took to the dance floor to display some of his DUNUNA REVERSE dancing skills for Zambians based in New York.
As long as you have a violent party like Pf this will not stop
Why is it only common in two of the many Universities in Zambia? My feeling is that FREE things never arouse a sense of responsibility over them in most cases.
Where is Kaingu, the F**ker who attempted to remove bursaries UNCONSTITUTIONALLY.
The burger had his lodge in Choma (UPND country) burnt and then he lost his Mwandi seat (UPND Country).
The ***** should know better than to mess around with student funds. PF BE WARNED!
While other leaders are busy with sideline bilateral meetings on how to better their countries, Lungu chartered a high cost jet just in order to go and dance dununa reverse in America using tax payers money!!