School fees in Zimbabwe
My friend was talking to his neighbour who has 4 children. Thankfully 2 of them are below school age, but one is just about to go into Form 1 of the local government high school.
The father has to find Z$7 million fees for the first term – that’s over US$70 – and that’s before buying the textbooks and exercise books and uniform. He is lucky in that he has been scrimping and saving the money up, but many of the people he knows are in despair.
He fears that a whole generation could drop out of school because of the high fees. And these are not expensive private schools – they’re just the ordinary government schools.
So much for ‘Education for All’.
