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Zimbabwe primary school children sit in a teacherless in Harare, where the teachers are refusing to teach this year until they get a salary increase. Government says there is no money to pay them. This is coming as last year's Grade Seven results show that the Zimbabwe's rural schools recorded a zero percent pass rate, again a result of teachers' strikes and protests and the crumbling economy last year. It looks like it will be the same again this year. Harare, Zimbabwe, 19 January 2010 A recently issued report reveals that the Grade Seven results from 2009 show that rural schools in Zimbabwe have recorded a zero percent pass rate. Which is not surprising considering that teachers were on strike or showing up for work but not teaching. In addition, the economic problems facing Zimbabwe have seen many children and families suffer from want, so that they attended school on empty stomachs, could not concentrate or their families simply failed to pay school fees and the childre...

An ashen-looking Mugabe addresses the media on December 23 during a press conference with Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara at Zimbabwe House, which Mugabe now uses as his office, rarely going to Munhumutapa Building, where Tsvangirai now works from, except for the Tuesday Cabinet meetings.This has been a much better Christmas than usual for Zimbabweans, at least in a decade, but deaths on the roads show a hangover from when corners were being cut n servicing cars and repairing roads Harare, Zimbabwe, 26 December 2009 Same old story. Police in Zimbabwe have announced that 33 people died in accidents on the country's roads since the Christmas period began in earnest on 21 December. Zimbabwe police, who say that the hardest hit province was Manicaland, which far outstripped other provinces in fatalities, also cite fatigue, inattentiveness (driving without due care and diligence) and vehicles that were not roadworthy as the main reasons behind the high death rate. The carnage on ...