By ALICE NACHILEMBE
Nationalal Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) says teachers from all the 116 districts of Zambia have joined the Kaunda family, Zambians and the international community in mourning Dr Kenneth Kaunda.
NAQEZ Executive Director Aaron Chansa said Dr Kaunda was globally well known and loved for helping to liberate numerous African countries from jaws of colonialism and apartheid.
Mr Chansa said after rescuing Zambians from colonial misrule, Kaunda and UNIP Government found existing one of the most racially segregated educational systems in the world.
He said Government then embarked on a number of serious reforms to address the social, economic and political inequalities which existed before 1964.
Mr Chansa said one of these reforms gave education enormous priority such that under the First National Development Plan (1966-1970) school fees were completely abolished in order to afford all citizens chance to go to school.
He said apart from giving free and quality education to Zambians, Kaunda and his Government rapidly constructed primary and secondary schools across the country, technical and trade schools, teacher training colleges, and built the University of Zambia in 1966.
Mr Chansa says Dr Kaunda wanted all Zambians to access quality education regardless of one’s station in society.
