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The Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister has been accused of hijacking the Education Transition Fund (ETF) where he allegedly set up parallel structures in a bid to divert money to finance his cash-strapped MDC party's activities.

Campus politics dates back to 1925 when African students schooling in London formed a union known as the West African Students' Union (WASU), headed by a Nigerian as the first president of the union. Inflation of financial figures for projects, misappropriation of funds and bribery by school management to okay anti-students' management decisions have become the order of the day among most student union leaders.

Poor management and a lack of transparency are damaging the delivery of primary education in South Africa, according to a new report from Transparency International. The report shows that one quarter of the schools in the districts surveyed were considered to be at high risk of corruption, and one in three principals considered embezzlement a significant concern.

Kenya is no longer a country of focus for aid from Canada, the country's new High Commissioner has said, due to massive graft. He cited the scandal surrounding the Sh103 million embezzled from the Free Primary Education programme.

Two professors at the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who alerted the law about embezzlement of funds, are facing the sack on the orders of the Minister of Higher and University Education.

Fifteen of the 80 students enrolled with the Namibia College of Open Learning will not write their end of year exams after a teacher allegedly misappropriated their examination fees. It is suspected he used the money to settle personal accounts. The students will not be able to sit their exams this year as the fraud was discovered too late.

Malawi's Education Minister has been arrested for using public funds for his wedding. The minister, now dismissed from his job, has denied the charges of having used a cheque meant to be spent on a cancelled official meeting to pay for the wedding reception at a hotel.