IN an earlier article this year we registered our concern that the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Forum was interfering in affairs of the State by seeking to regulate schools which solely is the responsibility of Government.
We were shocked the NGO Forum was championing parents who would not pay school fees, and those who refused to enter into any payment plan with the schools.
The NGO Forum has made it its business, through the so-called Justice for Children, to harass schools and threaten to drag them to court for ‘withholding’ the results of students owing massive amounts of money, sometimes as much US$3 000.
We did say the NGO Forum should not fuel division between schools and parents, should not be the hand of discord in its desperate quest to vilify Government institutions, as part of its perennial mission to prove how much of a failure the Government of Zimbabwe is.
On May 23, a commuter omnibus driver ran over four Girls High School students, killing one of them and injuring the other three.
People from all walks of life and different organisations converged at the school to offer their condolences, material support and to counsel the students at the school.
Some have been working tirelessly to get the City of Harare to remove the commuter omnibuses from the illegal pick-up point outside the school.
While so many people were standing in solidarity with the school, the so-called Justice for Children was nowhere to be seen.
They never came to the school to offer their condolences, neither did they offer the parents of the child who was killed any legal services and yet this NGO Forum is always sending delegations to schools threatening them with legal action to release results for defaulting students claiming it is irrelevant these students still owe thousands of dollars.
If each child owed the school US$2 000 or US$3 000, how would the heads run the schools?
Is it just or fair for defaulting students to subside on funds paid by other students?
What is interesting is the NGO Forum’s definition of justice.
Here is a life that has been lost, an innocent life, most cruelly and prematurely ended due to negligence.
One does not have to be a law school graduate to realise this travesty.
That ‘rule of law’ has been breached and that situation needs to be challenged.
So where is the self-declared champion of children’s rights?
Where is the organisation which at a flick of a button can send a delegation of four ‘heavies’ to harass a school head for demanding that fees be paid?
Where is this NGO Forum when a child’s fundamental right to life has been trampled?
Where is Justice for Children on the cruel death of Josylin Gomba who was crushed beneath a commuter omnibus by a reckless, irresponsible driver?
Why has the NGO Forum not fought to have that illegal pick-up point removed to safeguard the lives of the other minors?
The NGO Forum was compelled to drag to court school heads who are doing their best to survive under severe economic constraints, but is not compelled to mobilise its legal resources to exact justice for Gomba and those Girls High students who still live under the threat of those marauding commuter omnibuses.
We did say the NGO Forum is pre-occupied with maligning the Government of Zimbabwe as part of its regime-change agenda that is why the death of Gomba is not an issue for the NGO Forum.
It does not fit in their agenda.
In May last year, the NGO Forum championed the cause of some prostitutes who were protesting their arrest for soliciting.
The NGO Forum went all out to protect prostitutes, provided them with legal services and fought their case until they were acquitted.
In fact, the ruling was so much in favour of the prostitutes they are still celebrating in the Avenues and red-light districts of Harare.
According to the NGO Forum, a prostitute is more in need of assistance than innocent school girls who can be run over anytime by commuter omnibuses.
They are saying prostitutes are more deserving of their assistance than an innocent life lost due to greed; that a prostitute is more deserving than parents who lost a child due to illegal operations on the doorstep of her school.
Here in Zimbabwe, we don’t need prostitutes in our traditional and Christian values.
They are the scum of the earth and we do not want them among us because they do not add value to society.
They are a cancer that destroys society.
Those, such as the NGO Forum, who call them ‘sex workers’ seek to legitimise them because a society riddled with prostitutes has nothing to be proud of, it is moribund.
It is part of the NGO Forum’s anti-Zimbabwe agenda to support prostitutes.
However, Zimbabweans know what they want, what is good for them and that is why there is no epoch of our history in which prostitutes are accepted; not in our traditional society, liberation struggle and not even after independence, but the NGOs and their parents seek to use freedom which was won at the cost of thousands of lives, to gestate and nurse evils that can destroy our society.
Wherever it is that prostitutes are called ‘sex workers’, it is not in Zimbabwe.
Such evil concepts are part of the licentiousness of the West, the lasciviousness of Western capitalist decadence.
We are not Westerners, not capitalist, but its victims through colonialism and we are fighting hard to shake off this evil called capitalism.
Part of the mission of the NGOs is that we sink into the wanton debauchery of capitalist decadence so that we lose our soul on the altar of Western capitalist predators.
It makes sense then that the NGO Forum is not interested in the welfare of Zimbabwe’s children because these children are Zimbabwe’s greatest wealth.
If they are destroyed or disturbed, Zimbabwe is the loser.
The NGO Forum charade is not too hard to unmask.