There has been a hated debate over the appointment of non-Ndebele speaking teachers to teach the Ndebele language in Matabeleland region primary schools with various educationists and analysts in the region critisising the government for creating a handicap that affect the overrall pass rate in schools.
In media publications, Matabeleland North provincial education director Boithatelo Mnguni said this was a handicap that was affecting the teaching process in the region. As a solution, she said the governement was coming up with a facility where schools would be required to engage specialist teachers who then assisted those teachers who did not have Ndebele as their first language.
"We hope schools will take this cue and also chip in to assist in resolving this clear handicap," she said.
Dr Samukele Hadebe who comppiled the Ndebele dictionary , said with the manner in which things were going, there was a possibility that the language was dying a slow death because the personnel entrusted to administer the language by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary education were not proficient in the language.
"When looking at this matter one fact that canonot be ignored is that those who teach Ndebele do not have a basic or even a deeper comprehension of the language mainly because it is not their first language," said Ndebele.
He said the region needed more people from the region who had Ndebele as their first language to come in and teach Ndebele so that it can be preserved.
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