Charles Oliver | May 14, 2004
Zimbabwe has closed all private schools and sent the children home because it says their fees are too high. The education minister says the schools set fees high in order to keep out blacks. But the overwhelming majority of the students in the schools are black. Armed policemen were stationed in the schools to keep parents from sending their children.
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