Zimbabwe: Prioritise Education With Production

6 January 2014
editorial

Every first week of January, the issue of school fees and levies grabs the headlines in the media. Schools authorities are often portrayed as monsters who want to squeeze hard-earned cash out of parents who are battling to make ends meet. The debate rages on and eventually, the rule of majority prevails and Government intervenes to order schools authorities not to increase fees and levies.

This is, however, not the ideal way of managing schools affairs and the future of this country. It is the innocent child who suffers as bickering over fees and levies rages through most of the first term.

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