Paul Nyathi|Government has moved in to put up measures that will avoid clashes with militant Mthwakazi Activists on the upcoming teachers recruitment exercise.

Speaking through the Ministry Of Information, government said that people will be recruited to teach in areas where they can speak the local languages an issue that has been high on Mthwakazi Activists’ fights.

In the last recruitment of teachers, communities in Bulawayo and its hinterland led by Mthwakazi Activists expressed dismay over the continued deployment of non-Ndebele speaking teachers in the region.

This came after the ministry of Education released names of teachers to be deployed to different parts of Zimbabwe.

Most of those deployed into the Matabeleland region had Shona surnames.

Neutrals believe that the problem should not be the deployment of teachers from other regions into Matabeleland, but that it can only become an issue if they fail to speak the local language and to communicate meaningfully with the students.

But the militant Mthwakazi Republic Party insisted that Matabeleland jobs belong to people from the region and anything less than that would not be acceptable.