Mutasa embroiled in a nasty fight

Former Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa is embroiled in a nasty fight to control two community schools in Nyanga so that he can pocket at least $150 000 annually in school fees and has since directed school officials to pay rentals to him.

Mutasa, who is reported to have hit hard times, recently wrote to the school officials informing them that Nyafaru Primary and Nyafaru Secondary schools in Kairezi Range, under Chief Tangwena on the border with Mozambique, belong to him.

The schools are a cash cow considering that they have a combined enrolment of 776 pupils.

Of these pupils, 511 are at Nyafaru Secondary, which offers boarding facilities at $360 a term, while day scholars pay $60. The primary school has an enrolment of 265 pupils and each child pays $20 a term.

The fees translate to close to $50 000 a term in fees and $150 000 a year.