Category: Gender & health

Gender Minister Elizabeth Phiri seeking increased participation of women in Zambian politics


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By Arthur Davies Sikopo *Give women opportunity to lead* pleads – pleads PF Kanyama MP GENDER Minister, Elizabeth Phiri, has called for increased participation of women in politics. Ms. Phiri says women have for long been left behind and not considered when it came to political participation. She says it is high time society started supporting them to aspire for political office. And The Minister challenged Political Parties to adopt 50 percent of women in the coming 2020 General election. “Give women opportunity to lead. They can do much better given an opportunity in the political arena. I challenge all...

Power struggle, the story of the Livingstone City Council


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Ikuka Muleta Youth Leadership Activist- Livingstone writes….. Power struggle, the story of the Livingstone City Council. It is a well known fact that when two senior officials in the local authority are not in good standing, are pulling and darking in different directions for own gains, service delivery suffers. Today, this is the similar situation that Livingstone City Council finds itself into. ….Why and how?? Only the administrative incharge and civic incharge have answers to such questions. What is more clear and undisputable is that when the Mayor makes a pronounced through his elective powers as a city father, such...

*Press Statement from Patriotic Front Secretary General Hon Davies Mwila* _Friday, 29th May 2020_ *Foreign investors must respect Local Labour Laws and Our People must refrain from taking the law into their own hands*


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*PRESS STATEMENT FROM PATRIOTIC FRONT SECRETARY GENERAL HON DAVIES MWILA* _Friday, 29th May 2020_ *FOREIGN INVESTORS MUST RESPECT LOCAL LABOUR LAWS AND OUR PEOPLE MUST REFRAIN FROM TAKING THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS* *1. PATRIOTIC FRONT IS A PRO-POOR PARTY AND WE ARE FRIENDS OF THE WORKING CLASS* The Patriotic Front is by design, by objective and by practice a Pro-poor party. We are friends of the working class. The people’s heartbeat is our heartbeat and the people’s pain is our pain. Therefore, when our people are laid siege in very trying environments by their foreign employers and their...

Care for Nature Zambia Executive Director Nsama Musonda Kearns PRESS STATEMENT Wednesday 27th May 2020


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Care for Nature Zambia Executive Director Nsama Musonda Kearns PRESS STATEMENT Wednesday 27th May 2020 THE people of Luapula Province would like to thank the Minister of Mines Honorable Richard Musukwa for coming to Luapula following the numerous concerns raised over manganese mining. It is indeed gratifying to have the minister in the province as it brings new hope that the challenges being faced will be resolved. Since the days of Mansa Batteries, Manganese has contributed significantly to the development of the province and if it is mined and managed sustainably, it can still contribute to job creation and poverty reduction....

Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) Pastoral Statement on Radio Stations attacks in Muchinga Province


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1. All correspondence to be addressed to the General Secretary PASTORAL STATEMENT ON RADIO STATIONS ATTACKS IN MUCHINGA Saturday 23rd May 2020 LUSAKA THE Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) is deeply dismayed and concerned over the continued intimidation and attacks on the media by the State and ruling party cadres respectively. We have noted with sadness the attacks on Muchinga, Mpika and Isoka Radio Stations by suspected ruling party sponsored cadres and a District Commissioner to disrupt on-going radio programmes featuring opposition UPND President Hakainde Hichilema. As a Church we have spoken against media freedom suppression by the State...

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