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March 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Textbook hawkers interviewed by The Herald newspaper said they obtained the
books from “education officials” or claimed they were salespersons
for “big people”.
“This is not our problem. I buy them for $3 or $4 from my suppliers. I do
not know where they get them,” said one.
Britain contributed £5.6 million towards the textbook funding. On top of that
it has pledged a further £23m towards training teachers, improving water and
sanitation in schools and giving children who dropped out a “second
chance” to get an education.
It forms part of an annual £88 million of average funding to Zimbabwe each
year. Many have questioned Britain’s commitment to its aid budget which
despite other swingeing cuts will rise by more than a third to £10.6 billion
in 2014/15.
Chris Heaton-Harris, a member of the Public Accounts Committee which recently
raised concerns about “hit and miss” educational aid spending,
said the Department for International Development needed to be more
demanding about accountability from its partners.
“The issue is that contracting the distribution of aid money out to third
parties also results in the contracting out of the checks and balances you
would expect to have in place when using tax payers’ money,” he said.
Mr Majongwe said Britons had every right to question where their money was
going but that a few “bad apples” should not be allowed to ruin a
good system.
“We are coming from a war situation and dealing with people with an
insatiable appetite for money but we are dealing with these blockages and
correcting our weaknesses to bring Zimbabwe’s great education system off its
knees,” he said. “We can’t do it without help.” David
Coltart, the Education Minister from Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for
Democratic Change, in a shaky coalition with Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF, said
that the numbers of stolen textbooks was a “drop in the ocean”
compared to the numbers in schools.
He suggested that Zanu PF had flagged the story to undermine the gains made.
“It’s deeply embarrassing to elements in Zanu PF that the British
government is helping health and education because it goes against their
propaganda that British sanctions are damaging Zimbabwe and that Britain is
hostile towards us,” he said.
He said that foreign aid had helped the schools system improve “dramatically”.
A spokesman for DFID said it was aware of the allegations and was awaiting for
the outcome of the Unicef investigation before taking action.
“The UK has tough safeguards in place to protect its funding, making sure our
education support in Zimbabwe directly helps millions of children,” he added.
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