There has been an 'irretrievable' breakdown since (from left) Mr Mugabe, opposition's leader Morgan Tsvangirai and South African Thabo Mbeki signed the power-sharing accord two months ago Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGESMugabe’s Bitter Troops Close Private Schools -- Times Online
PUPILS as young as five years old were being turned away from school gates by President Robert Mugabe’s army last week as Zimbabwe’s education system, once one of the finest in Africa, became the latest victim of his ruinous corruption and economic mismanagement.
A week after the scheduled beginning of the academic year, all state schools remain closed. They are not expected to reopen until at least the end of February. As far as the state is concerned, if its own schools are shut, then the private ones have no right to be open.
Jocelyn, whose 10-year-old son Tafadzwa attends the private St George’s primary school in Harare, described what happened when she arrived for the start of term last Monday.
“Soldiers were at the gates telling the pupils to go away. They said that other children couldn’t go to school, so St George’s children should stay away until the government decided when term should begin.”
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