Zimbabwe: Teachers At The Mercy Of Loan Sharks as Salaries Plunge – Africa Links 24

By A Correspondent| A damning new empirical study has exposed the shocking extent of the economic ruin facing Zimbabwe’s educators, revealing that nearly 80 percent of teachers have been forced to survive on a web of predatory loans as their official salaries plunge far below the poverty line.

The Teacher Basket of Needs Survey, commissioned by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) and…