Until Robert Mugabe is out of the picture, very little progress can be expected. Mugabe has enriched himself thanks to business deals, most recently with China. Meanwhile, the former breadbasket of southern Africa that had a model education system has been reduced to this. AFP:
Without supplies, schools are having to improvise to keep their classes running, after thousands of teachers fled due to economic hardship and the political violence of the last year.The West needs to step up and do much more to help Morgan Tsvangirai move Zimbabwe back on track. Getting around Mugabe and his friends is not easy but it's also not impossible. There's no reason why it can't return to being a prosperous country.
"If you look at textbooks for example, ideally each pupil should have their own textbook or share at a ratio of one textbook for three pupils," Madosi said.
"But we have a situation where seven and in some cases 12 pupils share one book. In the worst cases, some textbooks are just not available -- or only the teacher has a personal copy.
"In the end the teacher spends most of his time doing clerical work, that is, copying exercises and writing on the board."
