Government recently introduced a policy that children from pre-school to grade four be taught in the local languages.
The curriculum would be delivered in Zambia's seven official languages for the first four grades from one to four and then, in the fifth grade, English would take over as a subject.
The seven official languages are Tonga, Bemba, Nyanja, Kaonde, Luvale, Lozi and Lunda (...)
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Initialy published by The Times of Zambia, January 31, 2014.