Category: Gender & health

By Derrick Sinjela and Titani Zulu In an update the nation on the much publicised allocation of 1,581 hectares of land in Ngabo, Namwala District of Southern Province, Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Jean Kapata is saddened with the development. Responding to reports circulating in the media over the displacement of 600 households in Mukobela Chiefdom, Namwala District as a result of the fencing of 1,581 hectares of land, Kapata recollected that the land in question covers Ngabo area; Chief Mukobela’s Chiefdom and ends in Chief Muchila’s Chiefdom. According to the lands act of 1995, Kapata, a Patriotic Front (PF)...

By Chanda Chileshe   THE Lusaka Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) Basic Needs Basket (BNB) for 2018 has continued to record high cost of living for a family of five. The increase in cost of living for March was attributed to poor rainfall patterns, extension of the fish ban, reduced supply of agriculture products on the market and high fuel prices. JCTR is worried that commodity prices are increasing every month at a very fast rate and this is preventing people from living a dignified life. High cost of living is causing suffering on the poor as many are...

By Sunday Chanda Patriotic Front (PF) Media Director Party Headquarters Lusaka, Zambia, 18th April 2018 – We wish to take great exception to insinuations raised in United Party for National developmment (UPND) Spokesperson Charles Kakoma’s statement issued on Wednesday, 18th April 2018. The Patriotic Front has no interest in what Mr. Kakoma writes and does not write. It is not the Patriotic Front that wrote the speech which UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema spoke from when he attacked and falsely the UN through UNDP Resident Coordinator Ms Janet Rogan over a report he had neither read or understood. It was not the...

By Derrick Sinjela Wednesday, April 18, 2018 REPUBLICAN  Vice President Mrs. Inonge Mutukwa-Wina says she has no intentions of seeking election to the office of the presidency in Zambia, as speculations continues mounting that a scheme is underway to dethrone President Edgar Chagwa Lungu. Featuring on recorded BBC Focus on Africa recorded television program in London this morning, Mrs. Mutukwa-Wina ‘let the cat out of the hat’ that she has no presidential ambitions. Vice President Mutukwa-Winacategorically told the TV presenter Sophie Ikenye that seeking the presidency was not her priority. “I think time has come for me to pass on the...