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46). The number of children of primary school age (7 - 14 years of age) was assumed to be
18% of the total population.
6 Here the number of actual pupils is compared with the number of school age children (7 -
14) at the time.
7 A detailed study of the development of secondary education in Northern Rhodesia is pro-
vided by Coombe (1967/68).
8 The teacher training situation is similar to that of the secondary schools. Four of the 14
teacher training colleges (for primary school teachers) are church run. In the past few years,
due to a shortage of funds, the State asked the churches to take a stronger interest in the sec-
ondary education system, and since then the BC, UCZ, PWC and AMEC have each opened
a new school. The UCZ plans the construction of five new secondary schools.
9 .. as far as the Anglican Church is concerned we have not handed over any school and we do
not intend to do so if we can possibly avoid it” (the Anglican Bishop of Lusaka, F. O. Green-
Wilkinson 1963, 123). Shewmaker (1970, 90 and 107) remarked that as far as the Church
of Christ was concerned almost all pupils became Christians and members of the church during
their time at the mission schools. After the handover of schools in 1965 many of the ‘school
churches’ in the villages ceased to exist. With the Reformed Church of Zambia, it was pre-
dominantly the Zambian church leaders who advocated further support of the schools through
the churches whereas the missionaries had wanted to hand over the schools (Verstraelen-
Gilhuis 1982, 302 - 303).
10 WENZEL (1984, 56) reports, for instance, that in the Kabompo District there was a 30%
shortage of classrooms and teachers’ houses, a 44% shortage of blackboards and that 50% of
school benches and teachers’ desks were not provided.
11 Interview with the White Father L. Oger, in Lusaka, 15.10.1984.
12 Here it must be borne in mind that in most cases only the last attended schools were
mentioned. These are usually the most advanced ones. This explains the high number of
references to these two schools. If the full school career of each person had been mentioned,
the percentage of mission schools would have been even higher.
13 The persons listed in “Who is Who” seem to be more concentrated in the Copperbelt
than in Lusaka. Therefore the missions working in the immigration area of the Copperbelt,
North-Western, Luapula and Northern Provinces (CMML, SAGM, WF, FCSM and LMS) are
probably overrepresented compared with the missions of the south and east of the country
(SJ, CF, PEM, DRC and MMS). Although a great number of politicians have attended the
Jesuit school at Chikuni, it has only ten mentions.
14 Of the approximately 500 persons who come from the Gwembe Valley and attended sec-
ondary school until 1972, a sample of 164 was studied.
15 As early as 1933 the Pilgrim Holiness Mission had a station in Jembo, directly above the
valley and adjacent to the territory of Chief Chipepo. They also used the station as a base
when working in the valley.
46). The number of children of primary school age (7 - 14 years of age) was assumed to be
18% of the total population.
6 Here the number of actual pupils is compared with the number of school age children (7 -
14) at the time.
7 A detailed study of the development of secondary education in Northern Rhodesia is pro-
vided by Coombe (1967/68).
8 The teacher training situation is similar to that of the secondary schools. Four of the 14
teacher training colleges (for primary school teachers) are church run. In the past few years,
due to a shortage of funds, the State asked the churches to take a stronger interest in the sec-
ondary education system, and since then the BC, UCZ, PWC and AMEC have each opened
a new school. The UCZ plans the construction of five new secondary schools.
9 .. as far as the Anglican Church is concerned we have not handed over any school and we do
not intend to do so if we can possibly avoid it” (the Anglican Bishop of Lusaka, F. O. Green-
Wilkinson 1963, 123). Shewmaker (1970, 90 and 107) remarked that as far as the Church
of Christ was concerned almost all pupils became Christians and members of the church during
their time at the mission schools. After the handover of schools in 1965 many of the ‘school
churches’ in the villages ceased to exist. With the Reformed Church of Zambia, it was pre-
dominantly the Zambian church leaders who advocated further support of the schools through
the churches whereas the missionaries had wanted to hand over the schools (Verstraelen-
Gilhuis 1982, 302 - 303).
10 WENZEL (1984, 56) reports, for instance, that in the Kabompo District there was a 30%
shortage of classrooms and teachers’ houses, a 44% shortage of blackboards and that 50% of
school benches and teachers’ desks were not provided.
11 Interview with the White Father L. Oger, in Lusaka, 15.10.1984.
12 Here it must be borne in mind that in most cases only the last attended schools were
mentioned. These are usually the most advanced ones. This explains the high number of
references to these two schools. If the full school career of each person had been mentioned,
the percentage of mission schools would have been even higher.
13 The persons listed in “Who is Who” seem to be more concentrated in the Copperbelt
than in Lusaka. Therefore the missions working in the immigration area of the Copperbelt,
North-Western, Luapula and Northern Provinces (CMML, SAGM, WF, FCSM and LMS) are
probably overrepresented compared with the missions of the south and east of the country
(SJ, CF, PEM, DRC and MMS). Although a great number of politicians have attended the
Jesuit school at Chikuni, it has only ten mentions.
14 Of the approximately 500 persons who come from the Gwembe Valley and attended sec-
ondary school until 1972, a sample of 164 was studied.
15 As early as 1933 the Pilgrim Holiness Mission had a station in Jembo, directly above the
valley and adjacent to the territory of Chief Chipepo. They also used the station as a base
when working in the valley.