Solwezi District Education Board Secretary (DEBS), Fredrick Munkinyi, says 42 per cent of girls in the district drop out of school due to pregnancies.
Mr Munkinyi said 42 per cent of school girls in between grades five to nine drop out of school before they complete basic school while 21 per cent leave school for early marriages, and attributing this to cultural practices, negative attitude towards education and poor sanitation in most schools.
He said this in a report presented to the District Development Coordinating Committee (DDCC) held in Boma Conference Hall.
Mr Munkinyi said there was need to improve water and sanitation, sensitization of the value of education, and increase bursaries in primary and secondary education sectors.
Mr Munkinyi said the increase in pollution in the district has exerted pressure on education facilities resulting in crowded classrooms and inadequate staff accommodation, toilets, learning materials and teachers.
He said the enrollment rate has been constant on average for the past four years, saying the goal of 80 per cent rate of seven year olds who enter school for the first time was not achieved.
Mr Munkinyi attributed this to the increasing number of underage children in urban schools and over age children in rural schools.
He said there was need to ensure that children are enrolled at the right age in urban and rural schools and sensitize parents on enrolling their children at the right age both in urban and rural schools.
Mr Munkinyi observed that the teacher-pupil ratio has been increasing gradually since 2005, saying more pupils are coming to the district than the teachers the district was receiving, hence the need to construct additional classrooms and staff houses for the teachers.
ZANIS
Wow! This is serious,and iam sure the babies wont have their fathers.Bashi mine ku solwezi are busy abusing abaice.Can Poverty be the cause or the girls also enjoy sex? Anyway I dont know.
what cultural practices? its too much wango, nyele brought by the bembas and Tongas employed on the new mines ( Lumwana and kansanshi)
Mmmmmmmh!! Na grade five? Awe elo nomba cashupa.
Abaiche ukutemwishe intwenu. Naba grade five sure!!! Is it for free?
Is medical free in Zambia anyone
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Hi Lady Chiza’s thighs. How do know that only bembas and tongas like twenu. Kamba mushe!
#6 Lady Chiza – These are underage girls and your comment is inappropriate because it is molestation and pedophilia whenever someone has sex with a child.
8. go to solwezi at tall trees. u will c for yourselves. Send your husband for a night at tall trees and bet you, he will never appreciate yu in bed! the girls are bad news iwe. thank god u are not married!
These early marriages and pregnancies are common particularly in rural areas all over the country. Its just that we dont have actual numbers for other parts of the country. It is interesting that they seem to have actual statistics for NW province. I was in samfya last year and came across ‘couples’ who were only 13 or 14 years old. They were already ‘parents’. I guess they will be grandparents by the age of 30 if the cycle is not broken.
Ba Woman of substance, haha. mwenda nsele nsele!
Ba Lady Chiza’s thighs#6,Mwansekesha sana! So ninshi manje paliba amasha sana pali aba abaice?I was told by my friend who work there ati ubucende ku solwezi bwacila.Ati no twaice tonse nitu mwaisa banga (big enough to accomodate) !!
Ba Lady Chiza’s thighs. Mulemoneka kuti mwa turning sana. Drop me a line.
Don’t blame the children, blame the parents & teachers – they teach the children. Elo nomba iyi picture nayena te sana mwe, isn’t that going a bit in the erotic direction?
THEY ARE FOLLOWING TB’s FOOTSTEPS.
Too many RBs in NW Province
And King Mswati was there a few days ago.
RB told him ati “ndiye Hunting groung yanga”
Ba pungwa, call me on 261616 Lusaka
Well,for young girls in solwezi to get pregnant is not a rocket science because they are just young by age but kuncende bakalamba.
# 17, you line is not reachable.
Bali na nyele maningi bafana.
I had my first sex at 25 and I still remain a virgin becuse I ve been condomising. You see condoms prevent direct contact hence remaining a virgin.
But where do these chaps get the motivation ya kukwinda??
Am angered
#17 thats multichoice customer care line, and its been unreachable lately. you sending ba monk on a wild goose chase are you?
Well, you can all laugh now and pray that none of you ever have daughters!
# 21 Iam not so dull to do that.
Chalibindwa sana, Chilatondwa maningi, Nimaloza aya yamene atilangisa ana awa
tonga steel dude, first experience at 25? then u aint really tonga are u? tongas are the horniest tribe on the continent, i shud know, am half tonga. i got a full tonga cuz in the village with 12 kids with like 11 different chicks and rite now, his a.s.s. is in court coz sum dude from flogging maize ku mazabuka found him atop his wife in the wee hours of the morning. course there was the mandatory chase with an axe but my cuz escaped but got sued.
Lady Chiza that number is for multi choice. Why putting a company number instead of your own number?
thats where I work kabili!
This is sad news. Then, these tu ma small girls just increase burdens to their families.. bwafya sana…
Household family valuez must be inculcated in children if this scourge iz to be curbed.
#25 dudelove,
That it dude. No wonder am Tonga Steel and not Tonga Bull.
I had been chief monk the past 25 years. At 25 I graduated from monkhood to bachelorhood
#30 that’s just pathetic. You are just a chief wanker.
Well, may be next we should get Mobile Delivery vehicles so we can attend to preganat school girls throughout the country!
Lusaka Times, How dare you show us naked bellies and navels? Don’t you know this is p*orn*og*ra8phic and not allowed by Nyama and Shikapwasha? Just show us MMD naked nkote on the ground Bale oswela ba president wabo.
Fyalilowa bane. LT but why umusungu in the photograph? In this time and era one would have thought you have a photograph of a beautiful black Zambian girl!
NO# 25 that is funny manditory chase with an axe.
ku Solwezi amafumo walamoneka bwino zona.
” more pupils are coming to the district than the teachers the district was receiving ”
Why are districts ‘receiving teachers’? Don’t they come from the districts themselves? What does that mean?
programmes like prolife must be taught in schools,seminars,PTA meetings.because some of these girls and boys lack formal education.all girls and boys even some adults need to transcend beyond sex life comes out,therefore its ones reponsibility to upbring that life,to educate,to clothe,feed,and so on.pregnancies shouldn’t be particularized only to rural areas.the whole business of girls pregnance regards race,region, culture,belief,etc again though medicals are free,this is not true.but it streaches how medicine is nation wide legalized.you girls are a disgrace,mwakutusawisa!!