School U-turn in Zimbabwe

Published on 13/07/2012 00:00

Zimbabwe’s indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere has backed down on a bid to take over private schools.

Mr Kasukuwere said new regulations ordering pre-schools, secondary schools and colleges to hand over 51 per cent of their shares would now not apply to not-for-profit institutions. “The notice was specific to companies engaged in education as a profit-making venture,” he wrote on Facebook after meeting education minister David Coltart of the opposition MDC. All but one of more than 60 private schools in the country are not-for-profit institutions.