Teach your MPs well, feed them on your dreams, their constituents' hell will slowly go by

Our relative in Harare, Brian Hungwe, has recently reported that the Speaker of Zimbabwe’s parliament, Jacob Mudenda, is so irked by the low educational levels of his parliamentarians that he is suggesting that there be a minimum level of education for anyone wishing to become a legislator.

That must come as a surprise to many of us. We have been made to understand that notwithstanding all the turbulence Zimbabwe has had to weather, education has remained the country’s forte, churning out wave after wave of erudite, articulate and self-confident individuals good enough to be world beaters.