Category: Gender & health

Monday 30_08_2021 Press Statement  by Dr. Richard Silumbe The United Party for National Development (UPND) government may not employ the 70,000 teachers currently unemployed, anytime soon! They may not employ the 40,000 nurses currently unemployed, anytime soon! They may not even raise the salaries for the 900,000 civil servants anxiously waiting for such a pay rise, anytime soon! We understand, because these are secondary jobs! These jobs need a huge revenue base to support such a huge wage bill associated with employing skilled manpower. However, the UPND government can rapidly and resolutely recruit 1,000,000 unskilled or less skilled young people...

By Derrick Sinjela and Theresa Kalenga in Lusaka, Zambia UNITED Prosperous and Peaceful (UPPZ) leader Charles Chanda is urging President Hakainde Hichilema to dialogue with him as mining can resolve Zambia’s teething unemployment, income inequality and high poverty, a tripartite woe that has not soared young people. Offering to complement government effort, in a Monday 30th August 2021 Online Facebook Media Engagement themed: ‘Let Us Arise and Take Investment Setiously’, Mr. Chanda argued that ‘Bally’ alone cannot fix the vulnerability confronting the Zambian people. An entreprenuer in his own right, President Chanda is pleading with the New Dawn UPND Alliance...

By Judith Mulenga Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) Chairperson Lusaka, Tuesday 17th August, 2021: THE Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) congratulates the people of Zambia for once again demonstrating to ourselves and others of our unshakable belief in democracy. The large numbers that voted and in doing so unequivocally replaced a corrupt stifling dictatorship of President Edgar Chagwa Lungu with that of the President Elect Hakainde Hichilema under very oppressive and repressive conditions is nothing short of a miracle. CiSCA wholeheartedly congratulates the United Party for National Development for affirming the tenets of democracy by the Party’s consistency, perseverance in the...