HC Deb 24 October 1956 vol 558 c28W
18. Mr. W. T. Williams

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what grounds Mr. Leonard Chirwa, a graduate of United States and South African universities and a trained teacher, was refused permission to conduct a school in the Lenge Native Reserve, Northern Rhodesia, when there was no school in the area in which he wished to teach, and his school project was approved by the Lenge Native Authority.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

Mr. Leonard Chirwa, who is not in fact a graduate of any United States or South African university, was refused permission to conduct a school in the Lenge Reserve on the grounds that the training which he had received did not fit him to do so. Approval of the project was not within the competence of the Lenge Native Authority, which did, however, recommend it to the local education authority. It was not approved.