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05/03/2008: "Too scared for school: the plight of Zimbabwe's teachers"

Hundreds of rural schools are struggling to reopen at all after teachers fled a campaign of violence against local activists for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and officers for the Zimbabwe election commission. Thousands of teachers took employment as election officers during the school break to supplement their shrinking incomes. In the past week at least 100 teachers, including several school principals, have been arrested on suspicion of electoral fraud.

The main trade union federation announced yesterday that two teachers had been beaten to death at their school in the northwestern Guruve region, apparently by ruling party militia. "These are being accused of rigging the elections in favour of MDC," Raymond Majongwe, secretary-general of the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, said.

[ Schools are a White idea anyway. ]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3857348.ece