Monthly Archive: March 2018

ANALYSIS  Is Xi Flying Too Close to the Sun?

ANALYSIS  Is Xi Flying Too Close to the Sun?

CHINA MEDIA BULLETIN  Issue No. 127: Mar 2018                 Subscribe  / Read Online  / PDF Monthly update of press freedom news and analysis related to China Analysis: Is Xi Flying Too Close to the Sun? In the News: Tightened censorship on National People’s Congress, end of term limits Censorship and surveillance: WeChat upgrade, feminists silenced, privacy concerns Xinjiang: Reprisals against Uighurs at home and abroad Hong Kong & Macau: By-election opens door to suppression of dissent Beyond China: Tibet event ban in India, Taiwan spy case, U.S. campus meddling Featured Prisoner: Yao Wentian What to Watch For Take Action Photo of the...

SADC sexual harassment worries Lilian Saka Kiefer

SADC sexual harassment worries Lilian Saka Kiefer

By Derrick Sinjela PANOS Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) Executive Director Lilian Saka Kiefer says sexual harassment is one of the biggest hindrances to women’s advancement into positions of power and influence in Southern Africa. In a recent review of political party systems and structures, PSAf noted that women who aspire to positions of influence are often subjected to unwanted sexual advances and also expected to perform sexual favours to men in influential positions such as lectures, supervisors and employers. In a Monday 28 March 2018 Media Statement circulated by PSAf  Knowledge Management and Communications Mr. Manager Vusumuzi Sifile, Ms. Saka-Kiefer...

Sexual harassment hindering women’s advancement in Southern Africa – worries Executive Director PSAf Lilian Saka Kiefer

Lusaka, Wednesday 28 March 2018: Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) says sexual harassment is one of the biggest hindrances to women’s advancement into positions of power and influence in Southern Africa. In a recent review of political party systems and structures, PSAf noted that women who aspire to positions of influence are often subjected to unwanted sexual advances and also expected to perform sexual favours to men in influential positions such as lectures, supervisors and employers. PSAf has noted that sexual harassment has become so entrenched to the extent of almost being normalised in some sections of our society. As...

IJF hands over “Judo Hall” to Zambia Judo Association

IJF hands over “Judo Hall” to Zambia Judo Association

By Noah Silomba OYDC Communications Officer MINISTRY of Youth, Sport and Child Development (MYSCD) Permanent Secretary Joe Kapembwa says Government attaches great importance to the development of sport in Zambia. Kapembwa is happy that the International Judo Federation (IJF) selected Zambia as “International Olympic Training Center” (IOTC) for judo athletes by constructing Judo Hall worth 326,000 Euros a move increasing participation in the sports discipline and minting of medals during competitive games. Witnessing the handover of the newly constructed Judo Hall (Dojo) on Monday 26th March, 2018 to Zambia Judo Association (ZJA) by the International Judo Federation (IJF) at the Olympic...

Get to know ‘Typical PMC-Zambia’ up-close-and-personal

Get to know ‘Typical PMC-Zambia’ up-close-and-personal

By Thomas Mwale PHILEMON Chisanga Mwansa musically branded as ‘Typical PMC-Zambia’ is an Artiste, Television and Radio Personality as well as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ‘Team No Sleep’ largely referred to in Zambia and elsewhere as a workaholic. Born on Wednesday 15th February 1995, ‘Typical PMC-Zambia’ is the second last born in a family of four. The youngster hails from a family of three (3) boys and a (1) girl. Philemon , a Vicenarian, as someone in his or her twenties is referred to by medical practitioners, was raised in a Christian Home by his father Mr. Gideon...

Harry Kalaba dares anti-Michael Chilufya Sata people

Harry Kalaba dares anti-Michael Chilufya Sata people

By Titani Zulu FORMER Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba is worried over the manner the pro-poor Patriotic Front (PF) is now controlled by politicians who vigorously fought its founding President, the late Michael Chilufya Sata. An audibly hurt Kalaba, currently serving as PF Bahati Member of Parliament (MP), Mansa District of Luapula Province expressed regret that those that physically and emotionally disregarded the late Sata are now in full control of the Patriotic Front. Featuring on a University of Zambia (UNZA 91.7FM Lusaka Star Programme on Monday, March 26, 2018, ‘ Topic: State of the Nation anchored by Thomas Kabwe...

TAZARA Board Appoints Prof. Razack Bakari Lokina, Mrs Rukia Diwani Shamte & Mr Stanslous John Sichalwe

TAZARA Board Appoints Prof. Razack Bakari Lokina, Mrs Rukia Diwani Shamte & Mr Stanslous John Sichalwe

Press Statement, Monday 26 March 2018   Prof. Razack Bakari Lokina, Mrs Rukia Diwani Shamte and Mr Stanslous John Sichalwe have been appointed as new members of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) Board of Directors, replacing three other Directors whose terms of office expired.   The Ministers responsible for Transport in Tanzania and Zambia, Hon. Prof. Makame Mbarawa and Hon. Brian Mushimba made the respective appointments in accordance with the TAZARA Act, following the expiry of tenures for three former Directors.   Hon. Mushimba also renewed the membership for Mr Peter Kazhila, whose first term as a Director expired in...

First Lady Esther Lungu empowers Luanshya’s DAGAMA School

First Lady Esther Lungu empowers Luanshya’s DAGAMA School

By Derrick Sinjela FIRST Lady Esther Lungu has appreciated the hospitality bestowed on her by the people of the Luanshya and groups who witnessed a philanthropic gestures rendered through the Esther Lungu Foundation Trust. The Copperbelt, Luanshya District Administration team, the University of Zambia, Ministry of Education provincial administration and district officials, Patriotic Front Party saw Esther Lungu Foundation Trust  empower Dagama School for Physically Challenged Children. First Lady Esther Lungu alluded to the World Health Organization (W.H.O) 2011 first World Report on Disabilities statistic showing that one billion people in the world are living with some form of disability,...

President Lungu commissions Kingphar Pharmaceutical Zambia

President Lungu commissions Kingphar Pharmaceutical Zambia

  By Derrick Sinjela PRESIDENT Edgar Chagwa Lungu, has commissioned Lusaka’s Kingphar Zambia Limited on Wednesday, 21st March 2018 witnessed by Health Minister, Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, Commerce Trade and Industry Minister, Christopher Bwalya Yaluma, Lusaka Province Minister, Bowman Lusambo, Chinese Ambassador to Zambia, Yang Youming,;Royal Highness Chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukamambo II,  and Chairman of Kingphar Zambia Limited. President Lungu described the commissioning of the Kingphar Zambia Limited Pharmaceutical Manufacturing as a milestone similar to NRB Pharmacy Manufacturing Company within Lusaka’s South Multi Facility Economic Zone. “The Patriotic Front (PF) Government is determined to promote local manufacturing of medicines, as a manifestation...

GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA, MR. EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU

GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA, MR. EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU

  THE PROGRESS MADE IN THE APPLICATION OF NATIONAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES   DELIVERED TO THE SECOND MEETING OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWELFTH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 16TH MARCH 2018   INTRODUCTION MR. SPEAKER, 1. I AM DELIGHTED TO JOIN YOU AND THE HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IN THIS AUGUST HOUSE TODAY.   2. OUR CONSTITUTION UNDER ARTICLE 9(2) DEMANDS THAT, ONCE EACH YEAR, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA PRESENTS TO THIS AUGUST HOUSE A REPORT ON THE PROGRESS MADE IN THE APPLICATION OF OUR NATIONAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES. BY EXTENSION, THIS CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION ENTAILS THAT THIS HOUSE...

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