Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Teachers Vote With Their Feet
As qualified teaching staff leave their jobs and flood out of the country, the schools are filling up with untrained teachers.
By Yamikani Mwando in Bulawayo (AR No. 138, 15-Oct-07)
Zimbabwe’s schoolteachers once belonged to the elite who could afford houses and cars, but increasing numbers are now joining the exodus of economic migrants, leaving pupils in the hands of untrained replacements.
In the Eighties, when the country was still in euphoric mood after achieving independence, teachers looked forward to a life of plenty. Today, however, they say they have been turned into paupers by the deepening economic crisis. Like most Zimbabweans – especially others working in the large public sector – teachers have found their salaries eroded almost to nothing by spiralling inflation, currently estimated at over 6,600 per cent year on year.
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