The Chronicle

BULAWAYO, Friday, April 19, 1993 — President Mugabe has urged students to devote more time to their studies instead of frequenting discos if they are to attain greater heights of achievement.

Launching the Herbert Chitepo Library Trust at Highfield Secondary School yesterday, the President urged pupils to emulate the example of the late Herbert Chitepo, who was not only a “learned “man because he was a lawyer, but was also widely read on other subjects.

“Herbert Chitepo, a man of many talents, endowments and accomplishments, was preeminently an intellectual, a scholar. Yes, he was professionally trained as a lawyer and was thus in this regard “a learned man”.

“But he was a learned man in more senses than one. He was also a poet. He most certainly was a keen student of history. He was also a political scientist and sociologist and — need I reiterate — a student and practitioner of the strategic arts.

“In short, he was a student of humanity and of the human condition in all its variety and complexity,” he said.

President Migabe who is the patron of the Trust, warned students that they could never aspire to the lofty heights which Cde Chitepo attained if they did not apply themselves to their studies.

“You must not put discos before studying. As I said to one of my nephews who was fond of the disco and got Ds — you got what you deserved — because disco starts with a D,” Mugabe said.

He told pupils at Highfields Secondary School one of the beneficiaries of the Trust, that now their library had books, they should make good use of them and handle them with care.