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By Joyce Mukucha
As the Second Republic march with a transformative and inclusive development agenda towards achieving an Empowered and Prosperous upper-middle-income society by 2030 without ‘leaving no one behind, the government has started to implement development programs towards improving the lives of the San community in Tsholotsho, and is set to construct more schools in the area to improve literacy levels.
This was said by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Monica Mutsvangwa during a post-Cabinet media briefing this Tuesday.
The steps towards attaining the objectives of Vision 2030 are guided by the interventions that Government is undertaking through the National Development Strategy 1: 2021-2025 (NDS1).
“The Minister of Local Government and Public Works, Honourable July Moyo, updated Cabinet on the Implementation of Development Programmes for the Tjawo (San) Community, which were agreed upon by Cabinet in July 2021. This followed an interactive meeting the Minister had held with the communities in Tsholotsho,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
She highlighted that projects so far identified by Line Ministries to improve the livelihoods of the Tjawo communities include goat rearing, market gardening, and dam scooping.
“The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has since met with the Tsholotsho Rural District Council to identify possible sites on which to build primary and secondary schools. Treasury will fund the construction of two primary and secondary schools for the Tjawo, out of the fifty schools which it has undertaken to finance,” she said.
Minister Mutsvangwa also pointed out that 5 000 national identity documents have been issued by the Registrar-Generals Office under a mobile registration exercise the Department mounted for the community, and the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage personally visited the communities to assess progress.
“While the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) have already completed recruitment for the current year, they have undertaken to recruit from the San communities in the forthcoming recruitment cycle,” she added.
Meanwhile, the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has recently flighted advertisements which they have shared with the Tjawo communities, and a quota has been reserved for them.