Category: Gender & health

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,...

LCC PR OFFICERS EMBARRASS MOYOR …as they conceal K20,000 money meant for Chelstone Clinic newly born babies By Elijah Ngoma LUSAKA City Council (LCC) Public Relations (PR) Officers embarrassed Lusaka Mayor Mr. Miles Bwalya Sampa as they concealed money meant for giving to Chelstone Clinic Christmas babies on the morning of Friday 25th December 2020. Speaking as he presented Xmas hampers to three mothers, Mayor Sampa was shocked that money meant for the babies was not with council workers from the Public Relations Department had not been given to him. “We are changing the system as previously, we only gave...