By Pamela Munyoro.
Harare, Zimbabwe (News of The South) – Most young people’s education is currently being affected due to the dire economic crisis in Zimbabwe. Primary and secondary school fees has been increased rapidly, to the extent in which most parents are failing to afford.
This will lead to most children not attending class as they will be forced to leave the school premises because the fees payment has not come forward. Also the fees increase is holding back the tertiary students to proceed with their degrees as they will not be allowed to sit for their finals, hence most dropouts will be seen as the year proceeds.
Recently, examination fee has risen too $200rtgs per subject making it difficult for most parents to afford, thus many children will not be able to finish the ordinary level as many of them will be doing like eight to ten subjects. Due to the inflation we have, transport money is increasing day by day, for those who prefer using kombies because they are fast are no longer affording. Inasmuch, zupcos were provided they are not enough and long queues are experienced. This is when we are seeing most of our children getting to school late and they would have missed out on a lot. Also the issue of electricity fault that is happening is affecting our children’s times of reading.
At night mostly there will be no electricity, children are failing to read or do their homework as making use of candles is not usually advised when it is associated with children. Many reforms are needed to make a change so that we make life easier for our children.
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