Basic education in public schools will be offered free of charge starting next year, while the Government has set in motion plans to equip primary school learners with Information Communication Technology gadgets to facilitate remote learning, President Mnangagwa has said. In his weekly article carried elsewhere in this edition, the President said he was concerned by the number of learners dropping out of school owing to financial challenges worsened by Covid-19 and sanctions. The Government, he said, was considering different models to finance the roll out of free universal primary education next year. Technology, said the President, had become the biggest single medium of education in today's world. As such, Government has begun accelerating a transition f
