Parents in Zimbabwe who cannot afford school fees can offer livestock such as goats or sheep as payment, a government minister has said.

The country’s education minister Lazarus Dokora told the pro-government Sunday Mail newspaper that schools will have to show flexibility when it comes to demanding tuition fees from parents, and that they should accept not only livestock, but also services and skills.

“If there is a builder in the community, he/she must be given that opportunity to work as a form of payment of tuition fees,” the paper quoted him as saying.

Some schools are already accepting livestock as payments, the Sunday Mail reports.

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cc:lalasticlala this report is true just confirm it from bbc

Lol.... At least if u no get money... Goat go send ur pikin go school... if they could try with rats in Naija...

Anything is possible.Well,I don't see it has a bad,it's as well a form of payment...Maybe trade by barter,but nothing new here.check

atleast let us emulate this kind in Nigeria. .maybe someday, parents will use cows or even chickens to pay school fees for their kids in schools

cc:lalasticlala move this or you don't value education?

savagery