Category: Gender & health

 By Bryan Chafilwa The Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on company owners to and employers to adhere to set rules and regulations that protects the well being of their workers. Speaking at the official opening of the quadrennial conference at Fairview Hotel in Lusaka organized by the Grain and Meat Union of Zambia, ZCTU Secretary General, Cosmas Mukuka said employers have the duty to protect and promote the well being of their workers by ensuring that better wages, better working conditions and attractive emoluments were accorded to employees. He also noted that, notwithstanding the obligation that employers...

By Jubiel Zulu Centre Coordinator, CUTS International  Ms. Chenai Mukumba has acknowledge positive outlook of agricultural sector regarding reduction in mealie-meal prices as a result of high productivity of maize. Ms. Mukumba says in the recent months, a 25kg bag of breakfast mealie-meal was sold between K96 and K106, and in some cases as high as K120. She says it is recommendable that prices of mealie-meal have fallen significantly as a result of the bumper harvest as well as the market forces of demand and supply as most millers are now buying maize grain from farmers at lower prices. She...

By The Speech Analyst (Mike Sichula)   Dr Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda has been discharged from University Teaching Hospitals (UTH) this morning Saturday 22 July 2017amid social Media talk that Zambia’s first president had died.   Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya said Dr Kaunda had recovered fully prompting the hospital to discharge him.   Dr. Chilufya, who is Patriotic Front (PF) Member of Parliament for Mansa Central in Luapula Province said Dr Kaunda was stable and that a team of specialist doctors would continue monitoring his condition.   Dr Kaunda was admitted on Tuesday this week to the UTH in...

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 A LUSAKA District Agriculture Cooperatives (LDAC) Committee Member Mary Sakala has called on women in the rural to take keen interest in agricultural activities for them to contribute to ensuring household and national food security. Sakala says time has come for women till the land pointing out that desist spending time on gossip and idle talk would not empower them economically. Sakala wants the Zambian Government led by President Michael Chilufya Sata to treat women farmers as equal partners in development process as this particular gender had the numbers to economically...

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 CHIEF Chipepo of the Tonga people of Siavonga in the Southern Province says his chiefdom is grappling with early marriage due to poverty and has since called on Patriotic Front (PF) Government to stiffen as an effective check on the rampant vice. Chief Chipepo says prioritizing sensitisation programmes in the area is yet another intervention viewed as an effective curb against early marriages in his chiefdom. Alluding to the hunger situation in the Southern Province, Chief Chipepo bemoaned that poverty was exacerbated as a result of climate change which had negatively...