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The Government has deferred the reopening of schools in Harare for the Third Term to Wednesday 6 September 2023.
All schools were scheduled to reopen on Monday, 04 September 2023 and while the date has not changed for the schools in the country’s other nine provinces, the holiday for learners in Harare has been extended by another two days.
The latest development was announced by Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Secretary, Ndavaningi Mangwana, who, however, did not give reasons for the postponement. <a href="https://twitter.com/nickmangwana/status/1698308971965063313?s=20">Mangwana tweeted</a>:
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This is to notify that schools in Harare are now opening on Wednesday 6 September 2023.
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The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education confirmed the postponement via a post on X, formerly Twitter. It said:
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<div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5">@MoPSEZim would like to notify all stakeholders that the third term opening date for Harare schools has been moved to Wednesday the 6th of September. All other schools open as scheduled on Monday the 4th of September.</div>
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Late last week, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education had to refute social media claims that the commencement of the 2023 Third Term had been postponed to 14 September.
In a statement, the Ministry said schools will open on 04 September as planned, adding that any official changes regarding school openings would be communicated through formal channels and not through social media.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Pindula News

Schools In Harare To Reopen On 06 September

The Government has warned schools, both public and private, against demanding fees exclusively in United States dollars saying the Zimbabwe dollar remains legal tender.
In a press statement released on 12 May 2023, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education said parents and guardians should be allowed to pay fees in local currency calculated against the prevailing bank rate. The Ministry said:
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The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has noted with concern the demand for school fees and levies in USD by school authorities.
For this reason, all public and private schools must accept all forms of currency payment obtaining in the country for school fees and levies.
Therefore, the demand to receive payment exclusively in USD is not permissible and is contrary to the laws of the land.
For the record, the Zimbabwe dollar is still the legal tender in the country.
Parents/guardians should therefore be allowed to pay fees and levies in Zimbabwean dollars.
Parents/guardians opting to pay school fees in USD or in Rand should be allowed to do so calculated against the prevailing bank rate on the authorized fee and levy structure.
As a matter of fact, no school; public or private should charge fees without the approval of the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education.
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education remains committed to the education of all pupils at institutions that provide primary and secondary education as we strive to provide quality and relevant education to all Zimbabweans.
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The Zimbabwe dollar is increasingly becoming unattractive for businesses and services providers as continues to fall rapidly against other countries in use in the country such as USD, Rand and Pula.
As a result, both formal and informal sectors are demanding payments in foreign currency and where the Zimbabwe dollar is accepted, in most cases the black market rate is used which is more than double the official rate.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Govt Says Forex Only School Fees Illegal

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is working with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to provide content that will be taught to learners to ensure that they shun corruption from a young age.
In an interview with <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/zacc-to-take-anti-corruption-lessons-into-classrooms/">The Herald</a>, Justice Matanda-Moyo said the provision of anti-corruption education in schools is a stepping stone towards the realisation of a corruption-free country at all levels. She said:
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ZACC is currently working with the Curriculum Development Unit in the Ministry of Primary (and Secondary) Education to input teachable content in school syllabi.
The establishment of Anti-Corruption Clubs in schools and colleges, and the appointment of Anti-Corruption champions in both urban and rural communities are tools that will be used.
Mainstreaming anti-corruption content in the formal school curriculum is an important preventative tool.
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She said ZACC will work with religious groups in raising anti-corruption awareness and also disseminate anti-corruption information on both electronic and print media.
Matanda-Moyo also said ZACC was working on correcting the public’s perception that it was a useless organisation with no capacity to fight corruption.
More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Anti-corruption Content To Be Added To School Syllabi

The government has started re-registering and regularising some private schools that it had shut down last year.
This is being done to help absorb thousands of South Africa-based learners likely to join their parents coming back home in the coming months following the expiry of their Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs).
Speaking to <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200006997/govt-re-registers-closed-schools-to-absorb-returnees-children">NewsDay,</a> Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Director of Communications and Advocacy, Taungana Ndoro, said:
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Processes are underway to put in place measures to adopt the learners into local schools.
We have those schools that we call non-governmental or private schools that are in the process of being registered and regularised, and the government is building more schools.
We are also encouraging private players to play their role and make sure we have enough schools to cater for the deficit, particularly in the highly-populated areas.
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Zimbabwe has a student population of six million but has a deficit of 3 000 schools.
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou said that local schools will struggle to accommodate the children of returnees. Zhou said:
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We will have bloated classes. Resources like chairs, books and others will also be in shortage.
We would have hoped that the government would engage its South African counterpart for a gradual return of our people instead of a once-off flooding of returnees.
We know that an additional number of learners will worsen the plight of learners in schools.
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Zimbabwe Teachers Association secretary-general Goodwill Taderera said:
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No doubt those learners will be crammed in classes because already the teacher-pupil ratio was abnormally high.
Teachers are very committed but the government should now take this issue seriously to avoid worsening the situation.
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Govt Says It Will Regularise Deregistered Schools To Absorb Children Of ZEP Holders

Opposition politician Linda Masarira has urged the government to ban the importation of Chinese-made buses by schools, saying they are sub-standard are therefore prone to fatal crashes.
Masarira said American-made buses are safer for schools as they have been developed over the years for that purpose.
This comes after a Higer Bus, made by Higer Bus Company Limited, a Chinese bus manufacturer, was involved in an accident on Friday night in Nyanga resulting in the death of six pupils from Tynwald High School in Harare who were on a trip. Tweeted Masarira:
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The nation is mourning the preventable death of school children because we don’t value the importance of standards. 
This is the greatest difference between Africa and the Developed world. We just do things haphazardly without any standards. When we get pain it hits us hard.
The pain the nation is feeling could have been avoided had we upheld standards.
What is the best standard of the school bus in Zim? Why do all American schools use one bus type when they can afford other expensive elaborate types?
We need to emulate best safety practices! Zimbabwe should stop buying these cheap, useless Chinese buses for schools that have no regard for safety.
Our national vehicle stock will cause more deaths until we understand that we need to do things by standard to ensure the safety of all road users.
The American school bus is yellow (all of them are yellow because yellow is the first colour a human eye can see).
In Zim, any school will paint their bus anyhow. The American school bus is one of the safest vehicles on the road.
The way the body is built is different from these cheap buses. It has been in development for decades.
We need to prioritize the safety of all school-going children by ensuring that they have standard buses which are safe in the case of accidents.
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Masarira Urges Govt To Ban Chinese Buses From Schools

Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development Minister Amon Murwira has challenged college graduates to be innovative and start to establish their own schools as the country is short of between 3 000 and 4 000 schools.
Murwira made the remarks while speaking during a graduation ceremony at the United College of Education (UCE). He said:
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What we lacked was the framework under which our graduates can start schools and be facilitated to do so.
It’s normally a matter of policy direction and resources being poured towards that policy direction.
That’s where the discussion is, not whether we have enough jobs or not. We don’t have enough schools; we don’t have enough teachers and we don’t have enough people with the expertise that you have.
I told you about the deficit of schools. So why are we stuck? Why are we not building schools?
Who said we cannot build schools? Who said we should work for the Public Service Commission?
Section 75, Sub-section 2 of the constitution says you can be the founder of your own schools.
Anybody can start their own school but when you look at most of the private schools, except for the Mother Touch group of schools which was started by a student from Seke Teachers’ College, they belong to people that are not even trained in teaching.
We have to start forming groups of our students to start their own schools and we fund them so they start those institutions.
Why was it not possible? It was not possible because we did not have Education 5.0. Now we have changed the law so that it is now possible to do so.
We changed the National Planning and Development Act so that it can fund school start-ups.
We are starting to operationalise that we have said to every college that at the end, they must spend some time with a graduating class forming these consortiums so we can have, for example, the UCE group of schools or whatever other name you might want to call them. Let’s start with one or two examples next year.
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During the graduation ceremony at the United College of Education, 707 graduands received diplomas. 618 were female while 89 were male. | <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/start-your-own-schools-government-urges-teachers/">The Sunday News</a>

Govt Tells Teachers To Establish Own Schools

Health experts have expressed that schools may be superspreaders of measles, with the disease spreading rapidly countrywide since it was detected in Mutasa District on 10 April this year.
As of 6 September 2022, the Ministry of Health and Childcare had recorded 6 551 cumulative cases, including 4 633 recoveries and 704 deaths across the country.
Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) president Enock Dongo told <a href="https://newsday.co.zw/health/article/200000173/measles-outbreak-looms-in-schools">NewsDay</a> that there is a high chance of measles spreading like a wildfire in schools. He said:
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There is no guarantee for safety, especially in rural areas and other children where they are crowded.
What it means is that the chances of them spreading to each other are very high, especially considering how virulent it is.
So we have no guarantee that this is not going to spread. People should be vaccinated to avoid the chances of hospitalisation and death.
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Community Working Group on Health executive director Itai Rusike said:
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We want to continue encouraging parents and guardians to have all children vaccinated against measles in order to avoid schools becoming the epicentre or hotspot for measles.
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Westview Clinics boss, Dr Johannes Marisa, said the government should educate people on the importance of being vaccinated against the disease. He said:
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We are worried that schools have opened while the situation is like this where measles is spreading like veld fire.
So at this juncture, we should fight vaccine hesitancy by removing all myths around measles.
Disinformation and misinformation surrounding issues of measles are contributing to the law uptake of the vaccines.
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Recently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) noted that measles had been progressing quickly and the case fatality was relatively higher when compared to other recent outbreaks.

Schools May Become Hotspots For Measles - Health Experts

The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Evelyn Ndlovu, says parents whose children have been turned away from school for failing to pay school fees in foreign currency should report the schools to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC).
Responding to questions from senators in Parliament on Thursday, Ndlovu said government policy does not obligate payment of school fees in foreign currency.
Senator Tichinani Mavetera (ZANU PF), asked Ndlovu to clarify the government’s policy on the payment of school fees. In response, Ndlovu said:
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The policy is very clear; our local currency can be used to pay fees.
We have a challenge as seen on social media which have decided to come up with their own policies. We, as the ministry, call upon school heads to accept local currency fees.
Our population continues to break the law.
We have instructed our law enforcement agent ZACC to check all those schools demanding fees in local currency.
I call upon all parents to resist the school heads’ outrageous demands and report them to ZACC.
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However, Mavetera asked Ndlovu whether it is the duty of ZACC or the Minister of Education to bring order to the schools. Ndlovu responded:
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… the police force resides in another portfolio (Home Affairs ministry). I am serving the nation as my mandate.
Maybe the Senator can advise on the methodology I can use to control the situation.
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Reports indicate that most schools countrywide were refusing to accept the Zimbabwe Dollar and instead demanding the United States Dollar before they enrolled learners for the third term which commenced on Monday. | <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/i-dont-control-the-police-says-education-minister-as-senator-presses-her-on-schools-demanding-fees-in-usd/">NewZimbabwe.com</a>

Parents Must Refuse To Pay Schools Fees In USD - Minister Ndlovu

332 COVID-19 cases with the majority of them being asymptomatic, have been reported in both primary and secondary schools in Zimbabwe since schools were reopened on 28 September.
This was said by Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa while briefing the media during a post-cabinet briefing in Harare on Tuesday. She said:
<blockquote>In the learning institutions, a total of 332 COVID-19 cases were reported and the majority of these are asymptomatic, isolated and being monitored by Rapid Response teams in the respective provinces.
Cabinet also wishes to reassure the public that the total number of infected learners and teachers out of a population of 4,5 million and 121 272 respectively, is very low.
The environment at schools will continue to be monitored as previously undertaken. We continue to urge the need for responsible reporting in this regard.</blockquote>
Some stakeholders in the education sector have called for the immediate closure of schools saying pupils and teachers are being made guinea pigs as coronavirus cases have spiked in recent weeks.
However, speaking over the weekend, Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education spokesperson, Taungana Ndoro said there is no chance that non-examination classes could close early unless there is an incredibly explosive rise of COVID-19 cases in schools.

Zimbabwe's Schools Record 332 Coronavirus Cases To Date

The government of Zimbabwe has given schools and parents the go-ahead to use a pro-rata system to determine the amount parents should pay for the none writing classes who will go back to school in 2 phases on 26 October and 9 November. The Sunday News reports.
This was revealed by the Director of communications and advocacy in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Mr. Taungana Ndoro who said this to the publication:
<blockquote>That is the procedure, schools and parents come together and agree the pro-rata system, once they agree on the amount the classes will pay, they then forward to us for approval.</blockquote>
Mr. Ndoro also shed more light on some problems that are mushrooming as schools get ready to receive more students:
<blockquote>The problem is that some schools are now taking advantage to demand too much. We have heard that some schools want to have a thermometer for every class but no pupils must be screened when they are getting into class but at the gate so there is no need to be buying thermometers to cater for every classroom.</blockquote>
Ndoro also repeated Education Minister’s <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/10/07/enough-29-teachers-have-been-reporting-for-duty-mathema/">remarks last week that 29% of teachers reporting</a> for duty are enough:
<blockquote>About 27-30 percent of the teachers are reporting for duty and remember not all classes have been opened so using these figures each teacher is catering for 23 students which is commendable.</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/fees-for-non-exam-classes-slashed/">The Sunday News </a>

Govt Allows Schools To Pro-Rate Fees For Non Writing Classes

The government has not yet set the dates for the reopening of schools, contrary to social media reports claiming that schools will reopen for exam classes in three weeks.
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education will make an announcement in due course and the reopening dates will be determined by the progress that will have been made in fighting coronavirus.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Tumisang Thabela, on Wednesday dismissed a schedule falsely stating schools will reopen next month. She said:
<blockquote>Only the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education and the Permanent Secretary can make an announcement on the dates for the reopening of schools.
We have realised that a message is circulating on various platforms with supposed dates for reopening of schools, but let us stand guided as a sector that we have spokespersons for the ministry. Anything else should be ignored.
There has been some understandable anxiety on the part of parents and children when schools will open again.
The opening date will be determined by the progress that we make as a nation in fighting the coronavirus.</blockquote>
Thabela was speaking at the launch of the Manicaland Chapter of the COVID-19 Schools Response Plan at Old Mutare Mission.
Her remarks come after a schedule purportedly from the Ministry has circulated widely on WhatsApp.
The schedule falsely states that examination classes will go back to school on June 23, while Grade Six, Form Three and Form Five classes would go back on July 14 with the rest of the classes going back on July 28.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/no-opening-dates-for-schools-yet/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Herald</a></h4>

Govt Dismisses 'Schedule' For Schools Reopening

Schools will likely open in 4 weeks time, Open Parly reports. This was revealed by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Ms Thumisang Thabela who was presenting the School Reopening Strategy to the Parliament Committee on Primary and Secondary Education.
Ms Thabela said schools will reopen in phases:
<blockquote>Schools will be opened in phases. First phase will see exam classes going to school. This phase needs about four weeks to put in place.
Phase two will see those writing next year going to school these are learners in Grade six, form three and Lower Six.
Phase three will see Grade three, four and five returning to school. Forms one and two will also do the same.</blockquote>
Ms Thabela also said they will try to maintain social distancing even in schools and some learners will have to learn in tents when learning starts:
<blockquote>As we get to phase three we are very sure at that time classrooms will be used up. We will be using tents, mobile classrooms one day classes. There is a lot of infrastructure that might be called up. The infrastructure and human resource will be stretched at this point</blockquote>
Meanwhile, ZIMSEC June exams are expected to start on 22 June 2020.
More: <a href="https://www.openparly.co.zw/govt-some-pupils-will-have-to-learn-from-tents/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=govt-some-pupils-will-have-to-learn-from-tents&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=govt-some-pupils-will-have-to-learn-from-tents">Open Parly</a>

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