Monday, 28 May 2012

For Mugabe's children, life gets tougher and tougher

28.02.2010 2:45

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In a shanty in north Harare, a 12-year-old girl with thin, malnourished arms uses a hoe far too heavy for her to scrabble in the dried sewage, refuse and rock. Her name is Grace and, beneath the surface of this filthy townscape, she is looking for broken bones. She and her father will collect all they can find, and sell them for pennies to the local sugar refinery. Grace is not dodging school; she is trying to get there. Like 80 per cent of Zimbabwe's 4.5 million children, Grace and her 10-year-old sister have left school, turned away because they can't afford the $5 (£3.25) fee. In a country that once boasted the best education in Africa, it has come to this. Grace's father, Joseph, tells...

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