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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Government has dismissed a report by the United States of America Embassy in Zimbabwe claiming that an estimated 840 000 schoolchildren have dropped out of school since 2020 following the outbreak of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

According to the US embassy report on the 2021 state of human rights in Zimbabwe, released on Wednesday this week, hundreds of thousands of children of school-going age are involved in tobacco farming, artisanal mining, street vending and prostitution.<\/p>\n

However, Public Service and Social Welfare Minister Paul Mavima on Thursday told NewsDay that the Government was conducting its own assessment and will not rely on external reports. He said:<\/p>\n

We do not rely on external reports. We have our own report that will be released in May. After all, the US has never reported about us in a positive way, so why should we rely on their reports?<\/p>\n

Primary and Secondary Education ministry spokesperson Taungana Ndoro also rejected the report saying it is part of the United States\u2019 \u201cregime change agenda\u201d. Said Ndoro:<\/p>\n

The report should never be considered. The figure is out of this world. The main aim of such ungrounded and highly-inflated statistics is to tarnish the image of the government and to push the regime change agenda. There are no such statistics on school dropouts in the country.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) said children are quitting school because they don\u2019t see the value of going to school. PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou said:<\/p>\n

Our findings show that one of the major reasons children are dropping out of school is a lack of appreciation of the importance of education.<\/p>\n

It is not inspiring at all when a school-going child sees an engineer selling tomatoes in the streets.<\/p>\n

They know they will not get jobs after graduating and so they will not value going to school.<\/p>\n

According to PTUZ, their survey covering only five provinces has shown that 45 000 pupils had dropped out of school since 2020.<\/p>\n

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