Deployment of non-Ndebele speaking teachers in Matabeleland has resurfaced, with parents at a school in Lupane rejecting a Shona speaking headmistress.
Parents told the new school headmistress, identified only as Bonyonga, during a meeting at Mlamuli Secondary School in Lupane district, Matabeleland North on Thursday last week that she was not welcome at the school.
The headmistress was transferred to the school in December last year and officially started work this term at her new station.
The headmistress is, however, still at the school. Matabeleland North Provincial Education Director Boithatelo Mnguni confirmed the matter to a local newspaper and said the matter was under investigation.
Parents revealed to a daily newspaper that they would not allow Bonyonga into the school as long as she "can't speak IsiNdebele."
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