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Land invasion destroyed schools infrastructure-Utete-Masango
26 Apr 2017 at 04:50hrs | Views
The Zanu PF sponsored controversial land reform programme wrecked havoc on schools infrastructure in rural Matabeleland, a top education official has openly admitted.
Primary and Secondary Education secretary, Sylvia Utete-Masango admitted that the squalid learning and living conditions for teachers common in the region epitomises the monumental failure of the government's land resettlement programme.
"With 2000, as we all know, the agrarian reform; there was movement. I have been to Matabeleland South, where we had even to navigate to where a satellite school is," she said recently in Bulawayo.
"So, at least, government had to make sure that children go school and these structures had to be put up. At the moment, they are satellite and this means they do not have the right infrastructure that is expected."
Most school buildings in rural Matabeleland, particularly Binga, are comprised of huts made from pole and dagga with thatched roofs. Children have to sit on bare dusty floors, while teachers live in single dagga huts, some of them without doors.
On average, pupils in Matabeleland North walk for about 7km to schools.
Primary and Secondary Education secretary, Sylvia Utete-Masango admitted that the squalid learning and living conditions for teachers common in the region epitomises the monumental failure of the government's land resettlement programme.
"With 2000, as we all know, the agrarian reform; there was movement. I have been to Matabeleland South, where we had even to navigate to where a satellite school is," she said recently in Bulawayo.
"So, at least, government had to make sure that children go school and these structures had to be put up. At the moment, they are satellite and this means they do not have the right infrastructure that is expected."
Most school buildings in rural Matabeleland, particularly Binga, are comprised of huts made from pole and dagga with thatched roofs. Children have to sit on bare dusty floors, while teachers live in single dagga huts, some of them without doors.
On average, pupils in Matabeleland North walk for about 7km to schools.
Source - online
