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Chindunduma School: Agricultural Training School, Shamva, Zimbabwe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

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This project is to develop an agricultural training school as part of a larger primary/secondary school complex for refugee children from Mozambique near Shamva in northeastern Zimbabwe. The end of the war and the coming of independence has left Zimbabwe with the task of reorienting old structures and institutions. This is particularly true in agriculture and education. Alternative models must be developed in order to provide the skills and experience necessary to rebuild the country along more egalitarian lines. The Danish organization, Development Aid People to People, who are the organizers of this project, provided assistance to ZANU (PF) for the schools in Mozambique and trained 150 ZAND (PF) cadres in their school in Denmark. After independence, Dr. Mutumbuka, Minister of Education, asked the group to continue their assistance, and the school project developed through discussion. Dr. Mutumbuka places tremendous importance on the success of the school as a model for Zimbabwe in the struggle for appropriate education.

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Research Article
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1981 

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* There is a fine irony in this transformation of Kemphaven. It was once a training camp for Smith’s notorious black Selous Scouts, who massacred thousands of innocent civilians in the guise and uniform of ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas in a vain effort to discredit them. Today, it has become a model for the new non-formal education thrust of Zimbabwe, and black Zimbabweans till the fields, build their school and homes, side by side with Danish volunteers. –Ed.