ZVISHAVANE – Zimbabwe’s education system remains archaic and far behind the rest of the world in many areas.
Zungwi Primary School under Chief Mazvihwa, some 40km from the mining town of Zvishavane in has one classroom block that must content with an enrolment of 320 pupils.
The classroom block has three classrooms and yet the school must have five blocks.
The Mirror was at the school recently for a district tree planting day occasion supported by Nedbank and the head Lewis Damba narrated the problems of the school. The Bank was represented its Zvishavane Branch Manager Nicholas Nyere.
Darlington Chokera who is Zvishavane District Development Coordinator was the guest of honour.