By Own Correspondent| Parents with learners at a Masvingo Boarding School, Riverton Academy are in shock amid indications that the institution is set to hike school fees for the first term of 2019 to $9 600.

According to a leaked post-dated letter addressed to parents with children at the boarding school, fees will now be denominated in United States dollars while those paying in local currency will have to part with at least four times more the amount paid in US dollars.

Below is the letter:

However, an official at the school who refused to disclose his name telling the ZimEye reporter to send questions via email to the school said the institution had not hiked its fees.

“I am not aware of the purported communication you are talking about because our fees remain the same?” said the official.

“People can play around with letter heads and i am yet to see the letter which is proposing the fees hike.”