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Godfrey Mutimba

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Godfrey Mutimba writes for The Standard, Zimbabwe’s Sunday newspaper.

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Desperate Teachers Eat Pupils’ Food

By Godfrey Mutimba

“We have no option but to share the porridge with our pupils, for us to survive and also for the energy to teach them,” said Jeffrey Gumbo, a teacher at Mutenda primary school. “There is widespread hunger and starvation and we have not been spared, so we have to eat anything we get in order…

“We have no option but to share the porridge with our pupils, for us to survive and also for the energy to teach them,” said Jeffrey…

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