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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Evelyn Ndlovu, has said the shortage of Ndebele teachers especially for ECD level up to Grade 3 is due to the reluctance of people from Ndebele-speaking regions to become teachers.<\/p>\n

Ndlovu said the majority of learners from Ndebele-speaking regions do not finish secondary school education and instead choose to migrate to South Africa and Botswana.<\/p>\n

She was responding to a question from Senator Bekithemba Mpofu on what the government policy was regarding teachers teaching primary school children without the knowledge of their language.<\/p>\n

Mpofu then gave an example of a teacher with limited knowledge of Ndebele teaching primary school children in a school that is predominantly of the Ndebele community. Ndlovu responded:<\/p>\n

The policy is that when a child is still young at ECD level up to grade 3, the child must be taught in his\/her mother tongue but we have a challenge of teachers from that region.<\/p>\n

We have been advocating for more teachers to be trained from that particular region without success.<\/p>\n

Most of the children in that region opt for other qualifications. The majority of them do not finish school.<\/p>\n

They leave for South Africa or Botswana and they do not finish their primary and secondary education. That is the biggest challenge that we have.<\/p>\n

We have been in touch with the training colleges to investigate the shortage that is there and I am very disappointed that we have failed to get children into those colleges.<\/p>\n

I am very disappointed. We have failed to get volunteers even in my own constituency which is Bulilima.<\/p>\n

Recently, the Silobela community rejected non-Ndebele-speaking teachers deployed by the government to take early childhood development classes in Donsa-Donsa, a predominately Ndebele area.<\/p>\n

Donsa Councillor Willard Moyo said accommodating the teachers would do no good for the infant learners.<\/p>\n

He was speaking at a meeting held at Zibagwe Rural District full council meeting.<\/p>\n

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