Source: Swipe cards for school fees – DailyNews Live
Staff Writer 9 October 2017
HARARE – Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora has
instructed schools to set up point-of-sale swipe machines to allow parents
to pay fees using debit cards.
This could bring brief relief to parents struggling to pay fees amid
crippling cash shortages.
Responding to a question by Mount Darwin Senator Alice Chimbudzi on what
government policy is in terms of schools getting swipe machines, Dokora
said he was “facing challenges with the bursars who receipt money in
schools but now each and every school should have a swipe machine.”
“Having a swipe machine does not require one to have Zesa but as long as
there is network, that is what enables one to make payment. So, we
instructed that all schools should make an effort to get swipe machines.
“We also had discussions with the reserve bank and the minister of Finance
and Economic Development, … Chinamasa and we agreed that we will be able
to get these machines in batches and these will be distributed in schools
to ensure that parents are able to pay their fees,” Dokora said.
COMMENTS
That’s Razaro (Dokora) “the genius” for you & his comic solutions to liquidity problems. The clown is really never short of some fallacious and useless ideas.
Now, it’s “swiping machines” in all schools. No doubt they will be supplied by his proxies of course. These will have to be awarded an over-priced government tender worth millions of forex. Never mind where that forex will come from – Patrick will provide once instructed by his master to do so.
But, one would think before moving to another outlandish idea, Razaro should have updated us on the success of his “goat-fees”. According to him then, goat-fees was supposed to be the ultimate panacea to school fees payment problems in the country. So, what happened to that other “creative solution” of his? nxaaaaaa!!!!!!