Category: Gender & health

LAW MAKER IMPRESSED WITH STANDARD OF WORKS ON PROJECTS* *………as Brian Mundubile inspects development projects in Mporokoso Constituency, Northern Province MPOROKOSO Central Member of Parliament (MP) Brian Mundubile is impressed with works on projects being undertaken in his Constituency which he says conform to the 7th National Development Plan (7NDP) the PF government has been following* Brian Mundubile said in Mporokoso Saturday 4th July 2020 that the works contractors are putting up on projects in his area are a true reflection of the 7NDP’s Development Equality which government is pursuing.   Mr. Mundubile inspected works on the township drainage, ongoing...

By Luswepo Mutepuka, Kwilanzi News Zambia ISLAMIC Supreme Council of Zambia (ISCZ) president Suzyo Zimba is of the view that what happened in Malawi cannot happen in Zambia on account of lack of self-less politicians. Mr. Zimba has told Kwilanzi News Zambia in an interview in Lusaka that the only way an opposition alliance can win elections is through allowing a neutral person to stand and United Party for National Development (UPND) Leader Hakainde Hichilema being on the ballot paper as a running mate. Mr. Zimba says if Mr. Hichilema is going to contest as Opposition Alliance Presidential aspirant, it...

By Luswepo Mutepuka, Kwilanzi News Zambia Former Archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Lusaka Telesphore George Mpundu insists that Zambia is no longer a Democratic State on account of opposition political parties being denied a chance to to mobilize and meet existing and prospective members countrywide. Emeritus Archbishop Mpundu wants all political parties to be given an opportunity to advertise themselves as Zambia heads to the Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government poll on Thursday 12th August 2021. Archbishop Mpundu told Kwilanzi News Zambia in an interview in Lusaka  that there is no level  political playing ground as evidenced by the...

By Luswepo Mutepuka Kwilanzi News Zambia UNITED Party for National Development [UPND] Chairperson for Rural Reconstruction and development, Moono Mapani has described as blackmail President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s decision to create a K30 million youth empowerment scheme for artistes countrywide, introduced a week after young people staged a Digital Bush Protest in Lusaka. An audibly hurt Mr. Mapani tells Kwilanzi News Zambia in an interview in Lusaka that the K30 million Political Carrot offered by President Lungu is a clear indication that Zambian Government is in panic mode as elections near. Mr. Mapani wondered where the money had come from...

By Luswepo Mutepuka Kwilanzi News Zambia FOUNDATION for Democratic Process (FODEP) Executive Director George Chimembe called on President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to desist from stopping citizens with a different point of view from expressing themselves. A worried Mr. Chimembe has told Kwilanzi News Zambia in an interview in Lusaka that President Lungu should have allowed a peaceful protest to State House as opposed blocking those with divergent views from holding a clearly legitimate demonstration. Mr. Chimembe is saddened that in a democratic country, people with a different political and socio-economic view point are increasingly denied to an opportunity to protest...

By Luswepo Mutepuka Kwilanzi News Zambia UNITED Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) President Charles Chanda describes that the manner in which government is running national affairs as a vindication of a prediction made by Seer 1 that he has withdrawn powers on account of failure by Patriotic Front (PF) leaders to honour promises made to the electorate. Mr. Chanda says there is total confusion evident by inconsistent implementation of governments’ policies, which are increasingly a variance with the 2011 ‘more money, more jobs and lower taxes’ theme. And Mr. Chanda has condemned President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s countrywide tour of developmental...