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The opposition Socialist Party has promised to introduce free education in the country from nursery at the age of three all the way to University and make it compulsory up to Grade 12 once voted into power in 2026.
Party president, Fred M’membe, in a statement issued on Friday in Lusaka said education will be a major undertaking in this country and will be allocated not less than 25 per cent of the national budget and teachers will not be left to manage and run schools on their own.
M’membe said schools, colleges and universities will need to be supplied with all sorts of teaching aids and other goods and services, and these will be produced in factories by our people, meaning that education will directly and indirectly be one of the biggest employers.
He said in order to have an effective, efficient, and orderly system, the running of schools will include other professionals and a broad spectrum of workers.
“The spectrum of workers will include human resources personnel, information technology experts, accountants, marketing personnel, cleaners, drivers, mechanics, gardeners, nurses, clinical officers, and catering staff, among others,” M’membe said.
He further said that the party will also create employment once voted into power with a job-creation strategy centered around the three pillars of its social and political programme namely education, health and peasant agriculture.
“The health sector will also be used to create a number of jobs. By expanding Zambia’s health services – both in terms of quantity and quality – we will need to employ more people. This will entail a need for more nurses, clinical officers, doctors, pharmacists, radiographers, and many other health and general workers,” M’membe said.
He said the Sociality Party in government will priorities the manufacture of some of the medicines used locally under license and create factories producing health equipment of all sorts.
M’membe further said the country cannot increase agricultural production with a hoe, that’s for planting flowers around the house and a few beds of vegetables to feed a small family.
“Our plans are much bigger than that and will involve many jobs being created in the agricultural sector because of the transformations we will make.
Transformative peasant agriculture under this government will need new equipment, that is; appropriate ploughs, planters, harvesters and other necessities,” he said.
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