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Yotam Siachobe Muleya 1940 – 23 November 1959

Yotam Siachobe Muleya 1940 – 23 November 1959

Yotam Siachobe Muleya (1940 – 23 November 1959) was a long-distance runner who represented Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Muleya broke racial barriers and opened a new era in Rhodesian sport when he beat the famous British four minute miler, Gordon Pirie, by 100 yards in a three-mile race at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia in December 1958. Early life Muleya was born in Mudukula Village, in Choma District in the then Northern Rhodesia, the fourth surviving son of Jamu and Munsanda Siakwambwa.[1] As his immediate elder brother had died in infancy, Tonga custom called for...

NAREP President Elias Chipimo Jr. born 3rd September 1965

NAREP President Elias Chipimo Jr. born 3rd September 1965

Elias Chipimo Jr. (born September 1965) is a Zambian politician and the president of the National Restoration Party. He previously worked as a corporate lawyer and human rights activist.[1]   Personal History   Chipimo is the third boy in a family of seven. He grew up in Lusaka, but also lived in the United Kingdom, where his father served as a diplomat in the late 1960s. Chipimo’s father (and namesake) made a speech to the Law Association of Zambia in 1980 which marked the start of his confrontation with the leadership of the ruling UNIP led by Kenneth Kaunda. Professional...

Tumbuka Subjects demand dismissal of Morris Ndhlovu as Chief Mphamba

Tumbuka Subjects demand dismissal of Morris Ndhlovu as Chief Mphamba

30th August, 2017                                                                           Royal Crown Prince Bryce Mfune, Hon. Lawrence J. Sichalwe,                                                     Head of Chief Mphamba Royal Minster of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs,                                          Family of the Tumbuka people, Lusaka                                                                                     Mphamba Royal Village, Zambia                                                                                                P.O BOX 530033, Lusaka. CELL: 0955 771 143 Hon. Minister, TUMBUKA SUBJECTS DEMAND DISMISSAL OF MORRIS NDHLOVU AS CHIEF MPHAMBA A unanimous call by Tumbuka Subjects have demanded that Morris Ndhlovu Crown Chief Mphamba should be dismissed from his throne due to his senseless crude rule.  (Find attached letter from Tumbuka subjects). I as Head of the Chief Mphamba Royal family have been...

National Assembly of Zambia 2016-2021 Members List

National Assembly of Zambia 2016-2021 Members List

About the Zambian Parliament The first meeting of the Northern Rhodesia Parliament took place on 23rd May 1924 in Livingstone, the first capital of Northern Rhodesia. The Parliament elected in December 2001 was the twentieth Parliament to have been elected since parliamentary government began in Zambia. This makes the Zambian Parliament one of the oldest continuously functioning legislatures in the Southern African Sub-region. Since independence on the 24th October, 1964, Zambia has evolved through eleven (11) Parliaments. In this regard, by 24th October, 2014, the Zambian Parliament will have continuously have enjoyed Parliamentary democracy for fifty (50) years. According to...

PMRC Press Statement On the Proposals to Change the Legal Age of Marriage

PMRC Press Statement On the Proposals to Change the Legal Age of Marriage

By Ms. Bernadette Deka PMRC Executive Director Dear Friends and Colleagues, Child marriage is widely recognized as a violation of children’s rights and a direct form of discrimination against girls who are often deprived of their basic rights to health, education, development and equality. The practice of child marriage is a violation of girls’ human rights and puts girls’ health at risk, hinders their ability to exercise their rights to choose who, if, and when to marry; to pursue their right to education; and in many cases, may also impede their legal and economic rights. Child marriage ultimately violates a girl’s aspirations...

Debates – Friday, 23rd September, 2016

Debates – Friday, 23rd September, 2016

Friday, 23rd September, 2016 The House met at 0900 hours The Clerk read the Proclamation ELECTION OF SPEAKER, FIRST DEPUTY SPEAKER AND SECOND DEPUTY SPEAKER The Clerk of the National Assembly (Mrs D. K. K. Mwinga): Hon. Members, allow me to preface my address by congratulating you, on behalf of the National Assembly of Zambia and, indeed, on my own behalf on your successful election to this august House in the 11th August, 2016, General Election. I also congratulate those who have been nominated to be hon. Members of this House. Hon. Members: Hear, hear! The Clerk of the National...

Kelvin Mutale Sampa empowering Kasama

Kelvin Mutale Sampa empowering Kasama

By Derrick Sinjela PATRIOTIC FRONT (PF) Kasama Central Member of Parliament (MP) Kelvin Mutale Sampa is a man of the people in Kasama, Northern Province with a passion for development which is founded when he served as President of the National Initiative for Citizens Awareness (NICA). Before his latest passion as a parliamentarian, Mr. Sampa (KMS) studied Social Sciences at Mulungushi University in Kabwe Central Province after concluding Grade Twelve at Munali High School in Lusaka, thus sharing an educational heritage with former First Republican President Dr. Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda. Spearheading development is a key component of Sampa, since...

FAREWELL, A DIRGE-Dr. Joseph Mwenya Kasonde

FAREWELL, A DIRGE-Dr. Joseph Mwenya Kasonde

By Dr. Canisius Banda – Public Health Specialist [The Illustrative and Repeating Case of His Vessels] We come. And we go. What really matters is what we do in between. As Father Charles Chilinda of St Ignatius Catholic Church puts it, what matters is whether we are goats or sheep. That is what counts. He was here. And now he is gone. He was born Joseph Mwenya, without a title, an unknown from a remote village whose name only its inhabitants know in Mporokoso, the son of a teacher. Like his father, he eventually became a teacher. Without one at...

Parrogate Ginnery Ltd.to buy Cargill’s cotton gin and maize mill in Chipata, Zambia

Parrogate Ginnery Ltd.to buy Cargill’s cotton gin and maize mill in Chipata, Zambia

By Mildred Kaunda | +260 977 989545 | mildred@cuttingedge.co.zm and Andrew Chinambu   CHIPATA, Zambia. August. 30, 2017–Cargill has reached agreement withParrogate Ginnery Ltd.to purchase Cargill’s cotton gin, maize mill as well as land, buildings and equipment associated with Cargill’s operationsin Chipata, Zambia. The transaction is subject to clearance by the relevant competition authorities.   In Parrogate Ginnery Ltd., Cargillhas found a buyer who will secure a future for the cotton and maize operations in Chipata. Parrogate Ginnery Ltd.’s extensive experience with cotton origination and ginning operationsin Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, as well as its considerable network in the region...

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