The record

Year by year, since 2019.

Emzini weCode began in January 2019, in a borrowed room with a projector. This is the record since then, year by year, with the source behind each figure so you can check any of it.

2019 One room at the Bulawayo Public Library. Weekly technical workshops from January. The first CS7 class ran in May, taught in person, in a borrowed room. May 2019 First CS7 class

2020 Online, because a class you can reach beats a room you cannot. Teaching moved online and was deliberately designed to keep student data costs low. Two hundred students a session. 200 Students per session

2021 Two hundred a session, and the first outside coverage. A second year of online teaching at the same scale, and the year the programme was written about by six outlets. 200 Students per session 20+ Alumni at top universities 12+ Countries represented

2022 A cohort of 1,200, and one student in six was not Zimbabwean. The January to April 2022 cohort enrolled 1,200 students: 1,000 Zimbabwean and 200 from elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. 1,200 Students in the 2022 cohort 1,000 From Zimbabwe 200 From elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa

Method

Every number here has a source.

Reported figures carry the outlet that published them and the date they were true. Figures we count ourselves come straight from our own records. We never add the two together.

How we count Who we are