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*Govt Says It Will Regularise Deregistered Schools To Absorb Children Of ZEP Holders*

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The government has started re-registering and regularising some private schools that it had shut down last year.

This is being done to help absorb thousands of South Africa-based learners likely to join their parents coming back home in the coming months following the expiry of their Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs).

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Speaking to NewsDay, Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Director of Communications and Advocacy, Taungana Ndoro, said:

> Processes are underway to put in place measures to adopt the learners into local schools.

> We have those schools that we call non-governmental or private schools that are in the process of being registered and regularised, and the government is building more schools.

> We are also encouraging private players to play their role and make sure we have enough schools to cater for the deficit, particularly in the highly-populated areas.

Zimbabwe has a student population of six million but has a deficit of 3 000 schools.

Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou said that local schools will struggle to accommodate the children of returnees. Zhou said:

> We will have bloated classes. Resources like chairs, books and others will also be in shortage.

> We would have hoped that the government would engage its South African counterpart for a gradual return of our people instead of a once-off flooding of returnees.

> We know that an additional number of learners will worsen the plight of learners in schools.

Zimbabwe Teachers Association secretary-general Goodwill Taderera said:

> No doubt those learners will be crammed in classes because already the teacher-pupil ratio was abnormally high.

> Teachers are very committed but the government should now take this issue seriously to avoid worsening the situation.

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