Category: Gender & health

Statement by his Excellency Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu President of the Republic of Zambia during the swearing in ceremony, on Wednesday, 8th August, 2018, Honourable Elizabeth Phiri, M.P Let me begin by congratulating you Honourable Elizabeth Phiri, M.P on your appointment as a Cabinet Minister responsible for Gender. I recognise your significant contribution to our party the Patriotic Front and also our country. Your passion to serve the Zambian people at any leadership level is what earned you a position in the party’s central committee. Further, your commitment to the party and welfare of the Zambian people earned you an...

Friday 10th August, 2018 A renowned nonprofit organization in the fight against early child marriage in Zambia, Musokotwane Compassion Mission Zambia (MCMZ) has challenged the newly appointed Minister of Gender to walk the directive by her appointing authority, President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to end child marriage. Speaking at a press briefing held in Choma, Southern Province, Musokotwane Compassion Mission Zambia (MCMZ) Executive Director, Sibbuku Genious Musokotwane congratulated Honourable Elizabeth Phiri on her well deserved appointment, and urged her to walk the directive to end child marriage beyond pronouncements. Mr. Musokotwane says it is worrying for us as a country to...

[Brig Gen Godfrey Miyanda – 21st August 2013] I write this open letter to the legal fraternity (lawyers, judges including magistrates, paralegal and other support staff of the judiciary) as a matter of urgency. I wish to express an opinion on the prevailing situation concerning the judiciary in the country. I make this appeal in my personal capacity as a citizen to remove the perception of a partisan agenda. If there was a way for me to appear on a national forum such as ZNBC television and Radio Zambia without encumbrances I would gladly do so in order to make...