Zimbabwe’s education authorities are considering new measures to regulate vehicles transporting learners following a series of fatal road accidents that have raised concerns about roadworthiness, overloading, and child safety. The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education says it is developing a policy framework that would introduce greater oversight of transport operators responsible for ferrying schoolchildren.

The hill above Tengwe still remembers the nights a 12‑year‑old girl spent there alone, too frightened to return to a home that had become a place of danger. It was on that ridge and in the quiet courage of a cousin and a handful of teachers that a secret began to unravel, leading to a conviction at the Karoi Regional Magistrates’ Court and a long prison sentence for the girl’s father.