Zimbabwe: Pos Machines for Schools

17 August 2017

Government is making frantic efforts to ensure schools have Point of Sale machines to enable parents pay fees without challenges, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora has said. Addressing stakeholders in the education sector and Information Communication Technologies industry in Harare recently, Dr Dokora said it was important that schools embraced technology and implemented the use of plastic money.

"We also note on the recent budget review statement, the request that we had made to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, to say, we need all our schools to be capacitated with Point of Sale machines so parents can swipe so school kids can swipe at the tuck shop," he said.

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