Own Correspondent|Students at Zimbabwe’s Prince Njube Memorial High School in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Bulawayo, staged a public protest Monday over the deteriorating situation in schools where teachers are on strike and parents are crying foul on steep education costs.

The students, carrying President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s official portrait and banners declaring that they were doing it for all other Zimbabwean children, marched for almost five kilometers along one of the highways to the city’s central business district to present their grievances to provincial education officials.

The students told District Schools Inspector Zanele Muyambo that they need urgent government intervention on the deteriorating education situation in schools where there are no teachers even if their parents have paid huge sums of money for their learning.

Muyambo promised to deliver their grievances to the relevant authorities.

The march by the Njube Memorial High School students may have instigated students from other schools to follow suit as there hasn’t been any meaningful learning at schools throughout the country.

Teachers have tactically not been reporting for duty since schools opened only reporting on Mondays to clock for duty and return home.

According to the public service code of conduct a government employee is dismissed from work of they don’t report for duty for fourteen working days continuously. Teachers are evading the code by reporting for work once or twice a week.