ZNBC PRESENTER DID NOTHING WRONG IF ANYTHING LOCAL LANGUAGES MUST BE ABOLISHED – TIZA MUKUKA
Youth Advocate Mukuka Kampamba popularly known as Tiza Mukuka says ZNBC Tv host Margret Chisolu did not do anything wrong and the National Broadcaster ZNBC did not have to issue any apology on her behalf.
Mukuka has also charged that Local languages nolonger have any significance in this time and era, add that the world is now interconnected and only one language has to be used which is English.
According to Mukuka, the caller is a troubled person who wanted to bring confusion live on air by using a language people cannot understand and comprehend.
“If anything she tried to fix the language barrier by advising the caller to use a more common language which is English for everyone to understand. We are standing with Margret”. Says Mukuka
Neither Chisilo nor the caller should be blamed, instead we should blame ZNBC for having tolerated certain biases with giving clear guidance. I wonder what the policy on use of local languages on English channels of ZNBC is! We should actually applaude the caller for exposing these biases.
Neither Chisilo nor the caller should be blamed, instead we should blame ZNBC for having tolerated certain biases without giving clear guidance. I wonder what the policy on use of local languages on English channels of ZNBC is! We should actually applaude the caller for exposing these biases.
I agree entirely.
But the response from Margaret Chisilu was blatantly insensitive; discriminatory and stupid. There’s no guidance that can change someone from being tribalist so don’t blame ZNBC.
Chisilu proved her pomposity in those few minutes and surely is not the right person for that role. Without any powers, she went on to declare that only Bemba and Nyanja local languages were acceptable but who is she and who gave her those powers?
Its such stupidity that nearly made Bemba as the official language in the ECL Govt and that stupidity stuck in Chisilu’s mentality!