Post Tagged with: "Clever Bere"

Daniel Molokele joins ZINASU debate on BTH

Daniel Molokele joins ZINASU debate on BTH

Daniel Molokele, previously known as Fortune Mguni, was a founding member of the Zimbabwe National Students Union, serving as Vice President to the late Learnmore Jongwe in 1997 and 1998. This week he joins the debate on the factionalism rocking ZINASU and tells SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma that the students have lost their voice and have simply become pawns for the rival factions in civil society.

Clever Bere: Who is Who in Zimbabwe

Clever Bere: Who is Who in Zimbabwe

Cde Clever ‘Dada’ Tapiwa Bere The last edition of our Who is Who? ZINASU Presidents 1997-2010 series is the profile of outspoken, candid student leader Clever ‘Dada’ Tapiwa Bere. The profile was supposed to be published before the bi-annual congress in Chinhoyi. Born in the urban town of Chitungwiza, in 1985, Bere started his primary [...]

Court dismisses ZINASU application

Court dismisses ZINASU application

ZINASU President Clever Bere and three other student leaders Kudakwashe Chakabva, Archiford Mudzengi and Brian Rundogo were yesterday further remanded to 21 December 2009 after their application for refusal of further remand was dismissed by Harare Magistrate Archie Wochiunga. The three were arrested on the 3rd of August 2009 after addressing a students’ union general [...]

ZINASU on International Students Day

ZINASU on International Students Day

ZINASU Press Release:17 November 2009 International Students’ Day is an international observance of student activism, held annually on the 17th of November. The date commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of University of Prague after demonstrations against the killing of Jan Opletal and the occupation of Czechoslovakia, as well as the execution of [...]

Clever Bere decries interference in ZINASU

Clever Bere decries interference in ZINASU

Ahoy Union, Once again I great you in the highest spirit and name of our revolution for academic freedoms! At the same time I forward my profound gratitude to the genuine union’s sons and daughters who have remained true to the union under these trying times. Let me in the same conduit take this opportunity [...]

There is no big issue in ZINASU, just ego's

There is no big issue in ZINASU, just ego's

By Itai Zimunya  Fellow colleagues  This note introduces the issue of the beloved student’s union-ZINASU which is currently undergoing exfoliation and cracking due to several reasons which many cadres articulate well. It seems- though debatable that the students union has split into two strategic entities. One -the take part side-supporting the government led constitutional making process, [...]

Students to boycott classes over high fees

Students to boycott classes over high fees

By Thulani Ncube The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) has called on students countrywide to boycott lectures in protest at what they feel are exorbitant tuition fees charged at colleges and universities. ZINASU President Clever Bere said, “We have been at all state colleges and universities countrywide, drumming up support from the students ahead of [...]

Tsunga hired thugs to beat students: Bere

Tsunga hired thugs to beat students: Bere

Background: The Zimbabwe National Students Union has reportedly split into two factions over differences on whether to support the government sponsored constitution making process or not. Lance Guma moderates a heated debate between the rival Presidents, Clever Bere and Brilliant Dube. It’s claimed in several press reports that Dube is backed by the Tsvangirai MDC [...]