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The Deputy Sheriff in Karoi yesterday placed an advert inviting people to come and view the property.
Zebra Downs Primary School will auction property belonging to Mr Thomas Chinoda.
The property includes a water pump, irrigation pipe 3 inch, irrigation jointer, irrigation pipe 2 inch, 10 irrigation sprinklers, two irrigation stoppers and a non-runner water pump.
It could not be established how much the parents owe the school.
Other schools taking similar action against parents and guardians are Mushowe and Tafara Primary schools.
One parent with a child at Tafara Primary School is set to lose two wheelbarrows while another at Mushowe Primary School will lose a scorch cart.
An official, who is part of the auction, said parents were first given a written letter notifying them of their indebtedness and the need to pay up.
He said if they fail that is when legal processes are commenced that result in the school approaching the courts to give an order to attach the property.
“Some parents who are unable to pay fees are asked to work for schools to offset their indebtedness,” he said.
The Bulawayo High Court ruled early this year that parents undertook to pay all fees for their children when they bring them to school and failure to do so should result in legal proceedings being instituted against them.
It was ruled that school fees payment obligation was a contract entered into between a parent and the school concerned and not a pupil.
“The said contract can either be express or implied. The parent undertakes to pay all fees, which the institution levies against the student from time to time,” said Bulawayo High Court judge Maphios Cheda.
He ruled that is was improper to use pupils as pawns to enforce payment by either turning them away or withholding examination results because pupils did not have contracts with the schools.
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