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This is Warren Park 1 Primary School in Harare on Tuesday this last week, 15 September 2009. Teachers are reporting for duty but refusing to teach, yet parents are still sacrificing their comfort to send their children to school, But one reader here believes Zimbabweans now despise education. Because he has no education himself, he wants to lead all parents to abandon sending their children to school and reduce Zimbabwe to a Stone Age country whose people can not even drive car Harare, Zimbabwe, 19 September 2009 I have just published a comment under the story about Jonathan Moyo's return to ZANU PF and any Zimbabwean who wishes to see what is wrong with us as a people and our country ought to read it. Not only is it vulgar, emotional and uncouth, but it also is the chief reason why the recovery of Zimbabwe is not taking place. The writer is obviously in the grips of his emotions and does not look at facts on the ground at all. In his convoluted, vulgar and twisted emotional turmoi...

These school children in Harare will most probably not have any teachers to teach them as schools open this month, with the largest Trade Union for teachers insisting that the strike they have called for will go ahead. But all is not as it appears. This is an extension of the struggle between Mugabe and Tsvangirai, with the state media playing up the strike as "massive" and relishing the troubles faced by MDC ministers who are in charge at the Ministries of Finance, Education and Public Service Harare, Zimbabwe, 31 August 2009 You will recall that I told you a few weeks back that Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF were planning to incite civil servants to make life difficult for the MDC-T in government. The information we got indicated that the ZANU PF component of the Inclusive government was urging civil servants to protest and even march, with a ZANU PF source saying, "Vachaita ekutiza maoffice avaichemera" - "They will end up running away from the offices they were ...

With the MDCs controlling both the Education and Health Ministries (David Coltart of the Mutambara MDC is seen above being sworn in by Mugabe in February), ZANU PF now feels free to "take up the cause of the common man", as was explained to me today. The next few weeks will be very interesting indeed. Harare, Zimbabwe, 22 August 2009 Robert "The Solution" Mugabe and his party, ZANU PF, are plotting to unleash massive protest marches all over Zimbabwe in a move designed to directly undermine the two MDCs in government. This morning, a ZANU PF official was telling me that the party has been receiving "thousands" of protests and pleas from desperate parents who are being asked to fork out US$80 for examination fees for their children at government schools. "They want us to do something about Coltart (the MDC Mutambara minister of Education) and the collapse of the health system. The Old Man (Mugabe) agrees". The marches could come in the next two we...