From pride to pauper - Zimbabwe’s education system

Once hailed as the pride of Africa, Zimbabwe’s education system has been engulfed from top to bottom by the country’s deepening political and economic crisis.

The University of Zimbabwe, once the pinnacle of the system bequeathed by colonial rule, is finding it almost impossible to keep functioning. Meanwhile, in schools across the country, teachers are operating hand to mouth, worrying less about lessons than about what their pupils have to eat.

At the university, in Harare’s Mount Pleasant suburb, clouds of tear gas frequently smother the campus and dormitories. In the past few years police have sealed off the campus so often that it is almost routine. Once last year riot police dragged students from their dormitory rooms and beat them. One student died from his injuries and has become a cause célèbre.

The pay of lecturers and professors is so low that almost all have had to find other jobs to get by. So many university posts remain vacant after resignations that departments are decimated and academics say the university is at the point of collapse.

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