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Debate flares over teaching STEM subjects in local languages

A heated debate is unfolding in Zimbabwe over government proposals to introduce science and mathematics lessons in local languages, with supporters hailing the move as a step towards decolonising education while critics warn of poor planni…

Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 09:12hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter

National languages critical in decolonising the mind

President Mnangagwa yesterday officially opened the National Languages Conference in Victoria Falls.Running under the theme: "Redefining the role of Zimbabwean languages for national development towards Vision 2030 and beyond," the confere…

Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Broadcasters should speak all national languages'

Reaching 90 years of age on March 15 this year , retired veteran broadcaster and national languages enthusiast Amon Nyamambi, better known on the airwaves as 'uMaqhulayibambe' his grandfather's name, still remembers vividly the variety of …

Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:26hrs | 19 | by John Masuku

Mohadi calls for all languages to be taught in schools

VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi said Government should promote the teaching of all indigenous languages in schools, including those spoken by minority groups and urged Parliament to speed up the enactment of an enabling legislation to official…

Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Minority groups aim at promoting previously marginalised languages

Minority groups in Matabeleland have intensified programmes aimed at promoting their previously marginalised languages in the wake of the adoption of the new Constitution of Zimbabwe in June this year.The new supreme law, which repealed th…

Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 17:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Let us promote our mother languages

Shona and Ndebele are the two languages spoken by the black majority in Zimbabwe - from the Limpopo to the Zambezi, with a few pockets here and there of minority languages.These two languages identify the blacks in Zimbabwe as a people. Th…

Published: 02 Apr 2013 at 12:06hrs | 2 | by John Gambanga

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Debate flares over teaching STEM subjects in local languages

National languages critical in decolonising the mind

'Broadcasters should speak all national languages'

Mohadi calls for all languages to be taught in schools

Minority groups aim at promoting previously marginalised languages

Let us promote our mother languages

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