The Patriotic Front government has made local languages compulsory from Grades one to four effective January 2014.
This comes barely four weeks after the ruling PF Secretary General Wynter Kabimba announced that speaking English in schools was colonial and that the education system in Zambia needed restructuring to accommodate local languages.
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