Teachers in Zimbabwe End Three-Week Strike
692 views · Published 21 October 2009 · 2:30 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · Education
Teachers across Zimbabwe struck for three weeks last month over demands for higher pay, closing schools and causing parents to worry that their children might lose a second school year to Zimbabwe's economic crisis. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from Harare that the country's unity government is coming under increasing pressure as it struggles to raise funds for education and other basics in the face of depleted revenues caused by the country's economic crisis.
