Recruiting Zimbabwe’s top engineers and inventors
Zimbabwe could manufacture ground-breaking engineering innovations to stop the plague of plane crashes seen rising in the last few months. This is not because this country’s national airline has one of the safest records in the world having never crashed, but principally due to the raw untapped intellectual wealth buried in the Zimbabwean human capital. Zimbabweans are a rare breed as has been admitted in some scholarly circles and this “Zim species” could truly hold the keys of future international aviation, as this article explores.
So who are jet manufacturers to employ, the University graduates? Perhaps. But in Africa we are not yet aware that the world’s best designers and engineers came from the ordinary Tom, Dick and Pombiadonhas who never went to university. In the western world everyone is worthy of recognition but in Africa if your father is a security guard or a toilet-cleaner, you are laughed at, a scenario that continues to eat up Africa with each passing day. We have such a long way to discover that a country is developed by every person within it no matter what he or she does.
Highly rated education
One of the prominent things Zimbabwe has celebrated to date since independence is what this nation has termed our “highly rated education”. But most graduates are now admitting on the knowledge they have boasted of all along, that they were mainly reciting books and they are poor as regarding the in-depth exploration of education. True education humbles people and those who beat their breasts in pride are 100% of the time the most non-creative and subversive members of our society who just go around “bigging” themselves with their little knowledge when they are actually destructive.
Aeroplane Inventors had no University Education at all!
The people who invented the aeroplane, the Wright Brothers had no university education at all. During that time 120 years ago it was SCIENTIFICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to fly in the sky and a London science symposium held by academic gurus in 1903 declared it impossible for a metal object to fly in the sky, and it was deemed impossible for a vehicle to travel at the speed of 35miles per hour without choking the person in it.During that very same month two boys with no university education, the oldest (who at the age 26 had enrolled at a Bible school, just that) decided to shift from making bicycles to manufacturing the first FLYING METAL OBJECT, and they proved those intellectuals a million times wrong. By December 1903, the first aircraft was made, ten years later it was used in advanced warfare, and less than 60 years later the little thing would travel as far as the moon and back. It was all created by youths who had no education at all, characteristic of those youths who hopelessly hang around in the rural areas of Zimbabwe herding goats and sheep, but are yet by far internally superior to the privileged graduates from the cities.
Zimbabwe still importing bulbs 35 years after Rhodesia
With the thousands of graduates capped by President Robert Mugabe, 35 years after independence, Zimbabwe is still importing basic goods like light bulbs and needles. Surely there must be something wrong with what we have celebrated as education which was really just scraping the surface. This is thus abundantly reflecting the fact that the real engineers are the poor insignificant ones who are humble for knowledge, and those who have graduated to become professional engineers, holders of colourful pieces of paper, must bow down in greater humility so to learn from these wise and innovative ones who are needed on the world market.
These are the people the world needs to come out and release from within their powerful selves their life saving superhuman prowess, and why shouldn’t Zimbabweans envision themselves manufacturing breakthrough technologies? The Wright Brothers of Zimbabwe are there within this country, they only need to come out. What is required is the confidence and the “we-can-do-it” attitude – Zimpolicy Dialogue Institute – Moses Mutyasira-Director, Tapiwa Kapurura and Patrick Tom, Sydney Barson (Board Members), Denzel Romol Nkhata, and Misheck Hogwe- Board Chairperson.
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That’s a valid point, but (speaking as a pilot) there is a lot more to piloting an aircraft than just good weather. But it helps.
So, you can produce energy from nothing, yes? You can create energy, from nothing? You can violate laws of thermodynamics at will? Smart. You are in demand. You must be from Zimbabwe.
You are very right up to your bones. In 2017, l am rolling out my new electricity generating machine which needs no imput.
I am working on this machine and currently dealing with accredtation issues rather than functional which l have finished. For a Bank loan to be granted, l need to finish a Masters Degree in lndustrial Design.
These days if you do not have a University Degree, you cant secure a loan for an invention because insurence Companies dismiss your idea as hypothesis.
Many Zimbabweans that l know are so brilliant but no one is giving us money to invent life revolutionising products.
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Problem with Africa is that we always want to play by the rules. Other countries developed by reverse engineering other people’s things and improving them. We will go no way by trying to reinvent the wheel. Sounds unethical but this is the reality in this civilization.
While the discussion is healthy , we once again call for facts not name calling.Fo those who have gone to Australia, Uk , America and work in the healthy sector,they needed to do bridging courses.This shows that internationally, our standards are not above everyone.In the Cilicon Valley of USA,the hurb of technology, USA takes Moslem intellectuals from Iraq , Saud ,it takes Russians, Indians, Jews, Chinese and give them unlimited budgets in research.Up until we have our own people designing tangible life value objects, then we cant say we are on top.
Education of theory is almost worthiless these days.Chinese can now mine oil down to 200in the ocean, and we cant mine the diamond now 60 metres .
NUST started as an Institute of Technology, but sadly its now a commercial and other degrees institution.Africa needs an institution where researches on food, diseases, technology, power and energy are done for our unique continent.Beating our chests saying we are educated when the educated can not construct a cheap river crossing bridge with local available resources is blind patriotism
This is most absurd how can this analyst be so naive. The terrain and weather is different in the South Asian Seas its not the same as our region which is relatively calm. Its like comparing oranges to potatoes. Granted Zimbabwean pilots enjoy a good track record its not because they make better pilots, its so many factors most important of which is weather.
Knowledge comes from The Lord God Jesus Christ, before we were even born on this earth,God gave us such knowledge as necessary. Those two brothers who invented the plane were given that knowledge by God before they were even born on this earth, that’s why first they enrolled at a BIBLE School. Before my Father The Lord God Jesus Christ was about to sent me to this earth, He gave me a formula to make a certain type of sweets you are all eating today. I thought how am I going to make money from sweets and He told me that all these big shops will be selling them, but each and every shop that sells them shall pay you a patent fee. So when I started grade one my mom cooked the sweets for me to go and sell at School, my teacher was astonished and asked me how I made them? I told her in front of all the other kids and she said I will patent them for you and she did, she wrote to the patent body. All the other kids started making their own sweets from my formula. But all these companies all over the world shall pay me my patent and I shall give away all to the poor of this earth ( the lame, widows, orphans, blind, homeless and vendors) AMEN. Messenger Of God
I am also a professional working in a fortune 500 company and none of the colleagues I have talked to so far have worked with a Zimbabwean and what most of them know about Zimbabwe (except for Africans and Indians) if at all is that it is in Africa. Which countries have you traveled to where people actually know a lot of professional Zimbabweans and “applaud” their professionalism? I have also traveled to a lot of countries and if the person I am talking to is not African or Indian I am lucky if they can give me a general location of where Zimbabwe is in Africa. So which countries are you talking about where there are so many quality Zimbabwean professionals that have distinguished themselves from lets say Indian, Japanese, Asian and professionals from other countries?
@Giribheti. I do not know which planet you are from. I am a professional working in a foreign country and I travel a lot. Everywhere I have gone, they applaude the quality of professionals that come out of Zimbabwe. That is a fact that cannot be denied. What is critical in one being a professional has less to do with content but approach and attitude. The Zimbabwean education system prepares one for further education and teaches one to work hard. That is what makes a Zimbabwean unique. And that is a fact. Countries that have money to invest in research are happy to employ Zimbabwean scholars, something that Zimbabwe is unable to do because of financial constraints. That Air Zimbabwe has not recorded a plane crash must be applauded. While it is true that the flying time is low, it does not change the fact that no plane has crashed yet, and every Zimbabwean must celebrate that. That it is a regional airline is of no consequence, flying is flying. If anything regional airlines have the worst safety records. Viva ZImbabwe!! Icho!!
matako enhema awapanza apa. please pull this nonsense off this site to save face
This is a poorly written article likely penned during a bout of misguided patriotic emotion. The facts are clear, education for most Africans is a means to get out of poverty by getting employment after school and a professional qualification. Very few Africans set out to build or create anything to solve life’s problems or needs and actually go in search of knowledge related to that in schools and colleges. In fact most Africans set out to destroy their shared means of life so only themselves can have access to such means. So you will have people trained in how to repair and aircraft engines, some in repairing the body or fuselage of an aircraft and some in radio communications and so forth. Such people will never aspire to sit down and try and build an aircraft from scratch for example, because they never set out to do such a thing in their life. If the job comes to an end they simply migrate in search of employment elsewhere. The only people who seem to have a concept of creativity in life in Zimbabwe are some sects of the so called Vapositori. These people are very handy and given access to any resources they will try to create or build something useful in everyday life. You will agree that Vapostori make and design a lot of things which are both strong and useful and they educate their children on how to do these things. They make metal items, pots. dishes, water cans, scotch carts, reed furniture and if they were offered skills centres they would build sophisticated things. So the point here is that the education system though very academic does not mould creativity out of graduates but fools as evidenced by Zimbabwean and other African standards. It is even worse at the highest level of education at plaCes like UZ, the faculties headed mainly by professors claim to carry out research all the time but they never come out with any tangible solution to ordinary problems in Zimbabwe. If you were to ask them how the most sophisticated modern machines are made they will name all components from their heads with little reference to books. So there lies our problem.
Where do Zimbabweans get this idea that it’s doctors, engineers etc. have a high reputation internationally and are sought after by other countries? Looks like Mugabe’s delusions of grandeur mentality is affecting a lot of people. People in other countries don’t even know where is Zimbabwe is and they don’t give a damn about it and they have better engineers/doctors/inventors etc. than Zimbabwe has.
“Safest record in flying” ? Where did you pull that out from? The fact is that Air Zimbabwe has been reduced to a regional carrier and doesn’t really count.
Its because the airline doesn’t fly much it spends most of the time in the hanger or being held by debtors and they are only very few. Now if you go next door to SA they have over 50 long haul planes which have a good safety and hospitality record.
RUBBISH
Asi safest record in flying tinayo hedu. Kunyange zvindege zvedu zvave old asi hatina macrash arikutaurwa.
Hameno zvawamwa hako.We even fail to come up with a short seed variety to eradicate hunger , then you talk about designing plane safety for a weather condition that even our professors are not aware of.Lets not do cheap talking.We started agrarian reform, but we cant even make our own model of planters and rippers, tractors.We want prosperity, but not wayward thinking.I don’t diminish our intellectuals .