Felex Share and Elita Chikwati — The National School Pledge is part of the recommendations of the 1999 Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Education and Training and any attempts to block its implementation are misplaced, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora said yesterday. State Security Minister Kembo Mohadi weighed in saying contrary to claims in some quarters, the National Pledge was not a Zanu-PF thing and the country stood ready to go to war if need be defending the values espoused in the National Pledge.
Opponents of the pledge are fulminating despite the fact that over 3.1 million Zimbabweans voted for the new Constitution from whose preamble the pledge was derived. The Commission of Inquiry, led by Dr Cephus Nziramasanga, was constituted by President Mugabe to diagnose the problems that were affecting the education sector.
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