Category: Gender & health

FROM WPFD 2019 AS PRISON VISITOR OF SINJELA TO WPFD AS DEFENDANT IN HIGH COURTWorld Press Freedom Day (WPFD) 2019 was… Posted by Kasebamashila Kaseba on Sunday, May 3, 2020

By Luswepo Mutepuka – Kwilanzi News Zambia Sunday 3rd May 2020 – World Press Freedom Day (WPFD)! The Health Professions Council of Zambia (HPCZ) wishes all Journalists a Happy Press Freedom Day. Your work in many ways alerts the world and through you information to save humanity is disseminated. HPCZ Registrar and CEO Bwembya Bwalya says the role of the media is vital in all sectors including health. Mr. Bwalya salutes Journalists especially this time when the world is fighting a pandemic. “We don’t know how it would have been without the media…” Mr Bwalya states.

PRESS RELEASE DATED SUNDAY 3RD MAY 2020 IN CELEBRATION OF WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY DATED By Linda Kasonde Executive Director Chapter One Foundation – Zambia Chapter One Foundation promotes and protects human rights, human rights defenders, constitutionalism, social justice and the rule of law in Zambia. Our aim is to promote and protect the Constitution and the rights included in it and by so doing, free the space for Zambians to fully participate in the democratic governance of the country. We recognize that press freedom plays an essential role in empowering individuals, strengthening economies, and fuelling true democracy throughout the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday 28th April 2020 ANC WISHES PRESIDENT “KK” HAPPY 96th BIRTHDAY Today marks the 96th birthday of the first President of the Republic of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Buchizya David Kaunda. The African National Congress joins the people of Zambia and the African continent as a whole in wishing this outstanding statesman, freedom fighter and humanist, President Kaunda, a very happy 96th birthday! President Kaunda holds a special place in the hearts of our movement, our country and her people. He opened up Zambia and made it the home and headquarters of the ANC for over 30 years....

  All correspondence to be addressed to the General Secretary CCZ INTERNAL MEMO To: All CCZ Church leaders Date: 25th April 2020 Ref: Extension of the Suspension of Church Gatherings in view of the continued COVID-19. Dear Church leaders, I write to advise that it is more prudent not to lift the suspension of all public Church gatherings until further notice. We have taken note of the Presidential address, however our consultations and the reality on the ground have prompted the above stated position. As Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), we share the challenges that our communities around the...

By Kwilanzi News Zambia ZAMBIA Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) President the Right Reverend George Cosmas Zumaire Lungu, currently serving as Bishop of Chipata in the Eastern Province has advised Catholics to continue praying in the safety of their respective homes, as the environment is not yet conducive to worship as congregations or Small Christian Communities. In a pastoral guidance issued, a few hours after President Edgar Chagwa Lungu allowed Churches to open, while observing guidelines issued through Heath Minister, Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, Bishop Lungu prayed that his Catholic flock would continue to follow ZCCB spiritual programs on radio, television...

By Kwilanzi News Zambia COUNCIL of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) General Secretary Reverend Father Canon Emmanuel Chikoya prods Zambian government thoroughly scrutiny mining investors, in an apparent reference to Mopani Copper Mines Plc is a Zambian registered copper mine owned by Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM-IH) with10 per cent shares, Glencore Plc at 73.1 per cent shares and First Quantum Minerals Limited with 16.9 per cent shares. Rendering a pastoral advice, Canon Chikoya spiritually viewed happening at Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) in Kitwe and Mufulira on the Copperbelt Province as a lesson to Government through Mines Minister, Richard Musukwa to...

Quotes by Steve Biko Archive Category: Quotes “The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.” Letter to SRC Presidents, I Write What I Like, 1978. “Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression – the blackness...