We need urgent security reforms

THE revelations this week by the Research and Advocacy Unit (Rau) that at least 70 000 trained teachers fled the country due to politically motivated violence between 2000 and 2008 is not only shocking, but exposes our deliberate failure to arrest impunity since independence which is now breeding political intolerance and violence.

In a report titled Fragility and education in Zimbabwe: Assessing the impact of violence on education, Rau said the education sector was under siege as violence is already rearing its ugly head ahead of elections which should be held before the end of June next year.

The report claimed that the 70 000 teachers fled violence that was State-sponsored.

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