Zim schools slash fees

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Harare - President Robert Mugabe's government has allowed most of the 46 private schools closed down this week to reopen on Monday after they agreed to slash their fees to official levels to avoid being seized by the government, according to official statements on Saturday.

The government-controlled Daily Herald published a list of 36 schools which had been "cleared" by the education ministry and said pupils could go back to school next week.

Education Minister Aeneas Chigwedere had denounced the schools as "racist" organisations charging high fees to keep out blacks, and gave them until Friday to cut their fees to prescribed levels or be "nationalised" by the government.

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