Category: Gender & health

Easter Sunday 12th April 2020 Sermon by Father Jones Mutemwakwenda

Let me start by wishing you a HAPPY EASTER. This year we are celebrating Easter in our homes because of the coronavirus. Everyone has been told to stay at home, protect the National Health Service and save lives. It is important that we follow these measures given by the Government. We started our journey to celebrate Easter today with Ash Wednesday on 26th February 2020. Ash Wednesday marked the start of Lent period. During Lent period, our Lenten Sermons were based on the book of Psalms. On 5th April 2020, we celebrated Palm Sunday to start the Holy Week. Even...

Check fake and crooked Covid 19 donations, Leslie Chikuse advises Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya

By Luswepo Mutepuka A ZAMBIAN Governance activist Leslie Chikuse has cautioned Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya to be on a lookout as most donations to ongoing Coronavirus Disease (covid 19) donations are being staged managed by publicity seeking individuals. Mr. Chikuse says the country is watching what stakeholders are donating and once contributions are not accountable or honoured as pledged recipients will be take to book. Worried by what he termed as contributions made by questionable reputations and social standing, Mr. Chikuse told this _*Kwilanzi News Zambia*_ author in an interview in Lusaka that some of the donations are questionable...

Gender Minister Elizabeth Phiri blames poverty for Increased Gender Based Violence in Zambia

By Luswepo Mutepuka GENDER Minister Elizabeth Phiri has reiterated that poverty is the many contributor to increased Gender Based Violence (GBV) cases in Zambia. A concerned Ms., Phiri has noted with regret that GBV Survivors are more often than not found in households with low incomes. In an apprent reference to high poverty, high income inequality and high unemployment, a worried Ms. Phiri, who is Patriotic Front (PF) Kanyama Member of Parliament (MP),; they are less quarrels in families where couples earn income and thus contribute money at domestic level. The Gender Ministry is saddened that in households with only...

Chrispin Chiinda partners with ‘BuyZED’s Evans Kazonga Ngoma in Promotion of local products amidst covid 19 outbreak

*CHIINDA PARTNERS WITH ‘BuyZED IN PROMOTION OF LOCAL PRODUCTS AMIDST COVID-19 OUT BREAK* By Francis Chipalo (Community based journalist- Lusaka) ‘BuyZed’ founder Evans Kazonga Ngoma and Munali 2021 parliamentary hopeful Chrispin Chiinda have partnered in the promotion of local products amidst COVID-19 that has not spared Zambia. Ngoma has rolled out a robust campaign encouraging Zambians to purchase, use and promote local products in all sectors, a move he said would boost the country’s economy. Ngoma said doing so would also create employment for the Zambian people, adding that the more local products being purchased and used, the more the...

Freedom of the Press and Expression at Risk as Government Suspends Prime Television Broadcasting License, cries Nalucha Nganga Ziba

Freedom of the Press and Expression at Risk as Government Suspends Prime Television Broadcasting License, cries Nalucha Nganga Ziba

ActionAid Zambia 38G Kabulonga Road Ibex Hill P.O. Box 51407 Lusaka, Zambia Telephone: +260 (0)9 664 53677 Email: info.zambia@actionaid.org FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND EXPRESSION AT RISK AS GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS PRIME TELEVISION BROADCASTING LICENSE ActionAid Zambia is deeply concerned with the draconian decision by the Zambian Government to suspend the broadcasting license of the privately owned Prime Television. The Patriotic Front (PF) Government through the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA,) on Thursday, 9th April 2020, suspended the broadcasting license of Prime television under the guise of public interest. The decision by the Zambian government to cancel the broadcasting license of Prime...

Nkeyema Member of Parliament Kapelwa Mbangweta protests cancellation of the Prime TV station’s Broadcasting License as matter is still active in Courts

By Luswepo Mutepuka UNITED PARTY for National Development (UPND) Nkeyema Member of Parliament (MP) Kapelwa Mbangweta of Nkeyema District is a district of Western Province has doubted the motive behind by government through the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) to cancel the Prime TV station License when the matter is still active in the Courts of Law. Mr. Mbangweta said in an interview in Lusaka that he expected the Zambian government to first listen to his apology and stakeholder protestations as opposed to revoking his license, a development that will result in job losses. Mr. Mbangweta says it is unfortunate that...

General Education Minister Minister David Mabumba says pupils will not to pay tuition fees once classes resume

By Luswepo Mutepuka General Education Minister David Mabumba says school user fees that paid before the end of term one should be carried through to term two as learners did not get any form of education mentorship in the stated period. Mr. Mabumba, a Patriotic Front (PF) Member of Parliament (MP) for Mwense in Luapula Province says when President Edgar Lungu announced the current closure of schools, only three weeks remained before the end of term one. And Mr. Mabumba has announced that the Ministry is still consulting education sector technocrats and stakeholders on how the grade twelve General Certificate...

Zambia must ban plastic carrier bags, insists Integrated Community Litter Initiative National Chairperson Pascal Chikumbi

By Luswepo Mutepuka The Integrated Community Litter Initiative (ICALI) National Chairperson Pascal Chikumbi has called for a total ban of plastics countrywide by the Ministry of Commerce Trade and Industry a means of maintaining a clean and green environment. Noting the undegrading nature of plastics, Mr. Chikumbi says encouraging paper carrier bags and wrappers is the only way the country can save the environment from mounting mountains of used plastic waste pollution. Noting Zambia’s lack of capacity to clean the environment through plastic recycling, Chikumbi expressed dismay at the continued disposal of waste in both public and private institutions located...

Panos urges IBA to rescind the cancellation of Prime TV broadcasting license

Issued by: Vusumuzi Sifile Executive Director, Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) Email: vusa@panos.org.zm Lusaka, 09 April 2020: Panos Institute Southern Africa is saddened by the cancellation of Prime Television’s broadcasting license, and calls on the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) to rescind its decision and reinstate one of Zambia’s leading privately owned media houses. In a letter to Prime TV proprietor Gerald Shawa on 09 April 2020, the IBA Board Secretary/Director General Josephine Mapoma said the TV station’s broadcasting license had been cancelled “with immediate effect”. The IBA said the cancellation of Prime TV’s broadcasting license was in line with provisions of Section...

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