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Page last updated at 06:49 GMT, Friday, 12 June 2009 07:49 UK

Zimbabwe orphans 'selling their bodies'

Zimbabwe's education system used to be one of the finest in Africa. But in 2008 only around a fifth of Zimbabwe's children went to school and the number of teachers fell by 70%. Correspondent Mike Thomson, in the fourth of his undercover reports from the country, examines the repercussions of the collapse of Zimbabwe's education system.

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