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As Covid 19 ravaged the world, a new pandemic began to rise. One that had been brewing for ages but was taken out of the pot by Covid 19, education. However, unlike Covid-19 it targeted a specific age group and luckily this pandemic has a cure.
The first stage in my homemade remedy, like zumbani tea, is that Zimbabwe should increase the number of domestically published textbooks so that the cost of buying these books may decrease.
If more textbooks, especially domestic ones, which are tailored to the Zimsec syllabus, were to be published the market would flood making textbooks easier to find at a cheaper price. Since 72% of all Zimbabweans are below the poverty line, the possibility of there being at least one computer in each household was a farfetched dream.
The lack of 21st Century technology would not have been such a problem if the physical textbooks had been available in public schools. Having seen fellow exam candidates begging teachers for textbooks woke me up. The network in Zimbabwe has to improve, an upgrade from LTE to 5G would not hurt. - blog.wb.org/blogs
A version of this article appears in the print on June 23, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.