Category: Gender & health

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...

Fellow countrymen and women, My Government, through the Ministry of Health, has continued to effectively implement the COVID-19 Contingency and Response Plan by heightening surveillance and contact tracing; while undertaking mass screening and testing within communities and points of entry, among others. The above-mentioned continuous COVID-19 interventions where undertaken in the last 24 hours, and revealed that; Zambia recorded zero (0) COVID-19 positive cases during the period (i.e. the last 24 hours). The country has 39 active cases of COVID-19 in admission and receiving treatment. I am heartened by the five (05) new recoveries from COVID-19 which were recorded in...

CHURCHES ARE FREE TO DECIDE By Isaac Chipampe Special Assistant to the President (Press And Public Relations) State House LUSAKA, (Saturday, 25th April, 2020)—–State House would like to clarify that His Excellency, Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia, has not directed churches to open. In his address to the nation Friday, the President said; “I have decided that some activities such as the following may continue being undertaken normally subject to adhering to public health regulations, guidelines and certification: 1) Places of Worship may congregate while observing social distancing, mandatory face masks, hand sanitising, and hand...

By Kwilanzi News Zambia The National Democratic Congress, NDC, President Dr. Chishimba Kambwili says President Edgar Chagwa Lungu does not deserve to remain in power as Head of State as he has made decisions that are at variance with those of citizens. In a Friday 24th April 2020 Press Statement issued by NDC Spokesperson- Saboi Imboela in Lusaka, Dr. Kambwili protested that President Lungu continues making decisions that politically benefit him as an individual and not those that are collectively good for all Zambian citizens. In an apparent response to President Lungu’s partial unlocking of some economic sectors, Dr. Kambwili...

“On behalf of the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops, I sincerely thank C&S Investments Limited for yet again making another donation to the Catholic Church. The Coronavirus may manage to kill our bodies but will never kill our souls. Let us pray that we may have enough faith to completely trust God, who is the author of life,” said an elated Bishop Evans Chinyemba By Derrick Sinjela in Woodlands, Lusaka Wednesday 22nd April 2020   AS the international community wages war against the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic, Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) representative Right Reverend (Rt. Rev.) Bishop Evans Chinyemba...

[blockquote style=”1″]*Coronavirus very likely of animal origin, no sign of lab manipulation: WHO*[/blockquote] (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory. U.S. President Donald Trump said last week that his government was trying to determine whether the virus emanated from a lab in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic emerged in December. “All available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in...