Category: Gender & health

      PRESS STATEMENT DATED 24TH DECEMBER 2020 ON THE POLICE SHOOTING OF UNARMED CITIZENS IN LUSAKA By Linda Kasonde Executive Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-kasonde-4025a08/ No. 1 of Plot 6941 Suez Road, Cathedral Hill (Next to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross) P.O. Box 51378 Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260 211 257001 Email: linda.kasonde@cof.org.zm In any functioning democracy, citizens have the constitutional right to freely assemble and associate. We, the undersigned civil society organisations, note that yesterday United Party for National Development leader Hakainde Hichilema was summoned for questioning at the Police Service Headquarters. We equally note the heavily armed police presence on the...

By Michael Mazakaza (Mr) Communications Officer COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN ZAMBIA, Stand No. 377A, Ecumenical Centre Bishops Road, Kabulonga P.O. Box 30315, LUSAKA Tel: 260-211-267739; (+260) 977 571535/967420600 www.ccz.org.zm   COUNCIL of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) General Secretary (GS) Reverend Canon Emmanuel Chikoya has received with shock the alleged defilement of a 17 year old boy of Kamanga Township in Lusaka by his female employer of Salama Park in Lusaka where the boy worked from. Reverend Canon Chikoya found it alarming to learn that the husband to the woman in question was part of the abhorrent and illegal act as he...

By Derrick Sinjela AS Zambia increases access to electricity, the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) Chief Executive Officer Clement Silavwe is delighted that Kasanjiku Mini Hydro Power Station in Mwinilunga District of the North-Western Province is set to benefit over 12,000 people at a cost of US$8.6 million and scheduled for handover in 2021. An elated Mr. Silavwe said in an interview in Lusaka that the Kasanjiku project located on the Kasanjiku River in Mwinilunga District of the North-Western Province will improve the quality of life for beneficiaries at household and community level in both Senior Chief Ntambu and Chief Sailunga’s...

COUNTRYMEN AND WOMEN, GOOD EVENING. IN A FEW HOURS TIME, THE NEW YEAR WILL ARRIVE. THE COUNT DOWN TO 2021 WILL BE OVER.  WE ARE GRATEFUL TO THE ALMIGHTY GOD FOR HIS GRACE THAT HAS ENABLED US TO REACH THIS FAR, AS WE END THE YEAR 2020 AND ENTER THE NEW YEAR, 2021. THIS IS THE MOMENT WE LOOK BACK AT THE JOURNEY WE HAVE TRAVERSED TOGETHER IN 2020.  IT IS TIME TO REFLECT ON THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES WE FACED TOGETHER AS A NATION.  IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE OUR SUCCESSES WITH RENEWED HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. COUNTRYMEN AND...

By Derrick Sinjela & Nakamba Mwinji THE physical tenacity and emotional energy exhibited Triumphant Foundation Trust (TFT founder Holla Kunda-Simbeye has a huge heritage her mother Clara Kalunga-Kunda, as she raised a saint in her daughter from a humble ground. When this author reached by phone through in Ndola, Ms. Kalunga-Kunda nostalgically reminisced purchasing a unit of eggs (10)) which once boiled Ms. Kunda-Simbeye was tasked to resell as a form of raising domestic income. On her part the families ‘Kasuli’ a Bemba  reference to a last born sibling, Otensia, a general trader now blessed with a 7-year-old son, Kunda,...