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The country's coffers are so empty that teachers and medical staff have gone on strike over unpaid wages, and – more worryingly for the government – the military and police have repeatedly been left waiting for their salaries.
And in a country that used to have an education system that was the pride of the continent, the schools that Mrs. Nyabinde's children — Chenai, 10, and Darlington, 6 — attend are now empty of teachers.
The halls were empty, and teachers were preparing their rooms for visitors.
When the student notices that the seed is empty, his teacher replies that from that emptiness comes the great Banyan tree, and, he continues, that same creative essence is in the student, too.
Funerals were constant, schools were emptied of teachers, and hospitals lost their doctors to the virus.
It is an extremely friendly, unbuttoned sort of place where students eat lunch in any empty space, where teachers hold counseling sessions on ancient sprung couches at one side of their classrooms, where everyone knows everyone and last names barely exist.
When permanent positions are left unfilled by the start of term, students do not sit in an empty classroom; substitute teachers are brought in to fill the gap.
Then, one day after school, as she was erasing the chalkboard the duty of a class monitor in the empty classroom, the teacher grabbed her hand.
