Newly-appointed Primary and Secondary Education Minister Cain Mathema says he will prioritise the welfare of teachers to enable them to work in a conducive environment.
Speaking during the ministry’s 2020 strategic workshop in Bulawayo on Monday, he said:
Before a new school is built, we must make sure that there is piped water and secondly at a new school, we build the school head’s house and after that, we build teachers’ cottages, then classroom blocks.
He revealed that talks were underway for devolution funds to be used to rehabilitate the infrastructure at schools destroyed by storms.
Mathema was moved from the Home Affairs to the Education Ministry earlier this month following a Cabinet mini-reshuffle by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.