TONSE/PF PAMODZI ALLIANCE PLEDGES FREE EDUCATION FROM PRIMARY TO TERTIARY LEVEL
The Tonse/PF Pamodzi Alliance has pledged to extend Zambia’s free education policy from primary school to tertiary level if entrusted with leadership, saying the initiative would ensure equal access to learning and unlock the country’s development potential.
Speaking on behalf of the Alliance during an interview on Capital FM 99.7 with Esther and Farai, PF Pamodzi Alliance Secretary General Celestine Mambula Mukandila said education remained the greatest equaliser in society and should be accessible to every Zambian regardless of their social or economic background.
Mr. Mukandila said the Alliance believed Zambia had adequate resources to fund free education from primary school to university and other tertiary institutions if revenues from natural resources were properly managed and channelled towards key social sectors.
He noted that Zambia was the world’s largest exporter of emeralds but many citizens were unable to identify tangible benefits from the country’s mineral wealth.
According to Mr. Mukandila, improved management of natural resource revenues could provide sustainable financing for education and other social programmes.
“This is not an impossible dream,” he said, adding that countries such as Libya had demonstrated that free education up to tertiary level could be achieved.
Mr. Mukandila further stated that the Alliance’s vision extended beyond tuition-free education and included providing adequate student support through allowances that would allow learners to concentrate on their studies without financial distress.
He also called for improvements to the bursary system, arguing that students should not complete their education burdened by financial obligations that could restrict their future opportunities.
Education, he said, should empower young people and serve as an investment in national development.
Reflecting on the role education had played in his own life, Mr. Mukandila said many citizens could testify to the opportunities created through schooling and stressed that every child deserved the same chance to succeed.
“An educated society is a productive and innovative society,” he said.
He added that investing in education would equip young people with the skills needed to create jobs, drive innovation and contribute to Zambia’s long-term economic growth.
Going by Brand Management, I am COMPLETELY CONFUSED, what the Pamodzi Tonse Alliance stands for!
You have Ichola, Lamp, You have white color, Green color, Blue, Orange…..
An educated person, is NOT able to identify this thing called Pamodzi Tonse Alliance. Its all over the place, without MESSAGE, Without IDENTITY.
Who is the PR / Communication Manager? You cant win an election with such confusion, maybe in Zambia.
And their primary goal is to come free Malanji the chopper robber !!!
Free education is already given by New dawn.
Tell us something New which zambians have
Not been given.
How can you manage free education when you are eve advocating to to bring back in your government all the experts I corruption and thievery? Are the resources going to be safe?
When they were in power they couldn’t even give free meals, now they will give free education?
These monsters are jokers. Even if one disliked the UPND, there is nothing that these clowns are offering excpet more of the rubbish they dished to the Zambian people for 7 to 10 years! They want power at any cost but just as Mundubile is losing his hair so also his brains are escaping.
University education is a personal choice and not mandatory. The taxpayer should never pay for it. This is the case in a majority of countries in the world.
They can deliver on this. The Zambian government is incapable of delivery on such a promise right now, for the opposition to make such a claim.
Besides even if they were able to, where would these so called graduates get jobs?
The infrasture is not available. The resources to staff these institutions is not available. These are the same people that took away student meal allowances. Where will the get the money to sustain these institutions. Which donor will give people with a background of “tenderprenureship” when they plundered the eurobond?
Liar! When criminal PF was in power, didn’t Prof. Nkandu Luo know that an educated society is a productive and innovative society? Shameless liars.
Same policy makers and same leaders. Nkandu luo vowed that free education will neveer come back and she is still in the clique . Everyone else is still around except for ecl. The same bunch that took away meal and book allowances now want to pretend they are angels and can promise heaven. Its so annoying and pepressing at the same time. How come bandits who robbed yesterday come back to say they wish to you better next time when the debt they created is still over us, We should be asking the hard questions whenever such robbers show their heads before us. The opposition in zambia is only because of tribe and regional hatred, Today’s opposition just have no nothing apart from wanting change to put their own. And the entitled theives think they must get back to continue plundering
