USD fees: Govt policy failure hurting parents

SCHOOLS open today for the third term under a cloud of distress for thousands of parents who have been plunged into a quandary by the country’s difficult economic situation which has seen them struggle to raise fees to send their children back to school.

Ever since government resuscitated the Zimbabwe dollar in 2019, after 10 years in the morgue, the deafening mantra has been the southern African country will never ever redollarise.

But as schools open today that declaration appears to have been turned on its head because most schools are now no longer interested in Zimdollar fees and the local currency appears headed back to the mortuary.

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