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Tumbuka Subjects demand dismissal of Morris Ndhlovu as Chief Mphamba

Tumbuka Subjects demand dismissal of Morris Ndhlovu as Chief Mphamba

30th August, 2017                                                                           Royal Crown Prince Bryce Mfune, Hon. Lawrence J. Sichalwe,                                                     Head of Chief Mphamba Royal Minster of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs,                                          Family of the Tumbuka people, Lusaka                                                                                     Mphamba Royal Village, Zambia                                                                                                P.O BOX 530033, Lusaka. CELL: 0955 771 143 Hon. Minister, TUMBUKA SUBJECTS DEMAND DISMISSAL OF MORRIS NDHLOVU AS CHIEF MPHAMBA A unanimous call by Tumbuka Subjects have demanded that Morris Ndhlovu Crown Chief Mphamba should be dismissed from his throne due to his senseless crude rule.  (Find attached letter from Tumbuka subjects). I as Head of the Chief Mphamba Royal family have been...

National Assembly of Zambia 2016-2021 Members List

National Assembly of Zambia 2016-2021 Members List

About the Zambian Parliament The first meeting of the Northern Rhodesia Parliament took place on 23rd May 1924 in Livingstone, the first capital of Northern Rhodesia. The Parliament elected in December 2001 was the twentieth Parliament to have been elected since parliamentary government began in Zambia. This makes the Zambian Parliament one of the oldest continuously functioning legislatures in the Southern African Sub-region. Since independence on the 24th October, 1964, Zambia has evolved through eleven (11) Parliaments. In this regard, by 24th October, 2014, the Zambian Parliament will have continuously have enjoyed Parliamentary democracy for fifty (50) years. According to...

Panos challenges media, civil society to create spaces child participation in local governance

Panos challenges media, civil society to create spaces child participation in local governance

By Elias M. Banda Grahamstown, South Africa 31 August 2017: Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) has called on the media and civil society to work together to provide platforms for children to also participate in decision making at the local government level.   Addressing delegates at the 2017 Highway Africa conference in Grahamstown, South Africa on 31 August, PSAf Programme Manager for Media Development and ICTs, Elias Banda said children had an important role to play in the sustainable development of any community. He however noted that children were failing to play this role as they did not have access...

PMRC Press Statement On the Proposals to Change the Legal Age of Marriage

PMRC Press Statement On the Proposals to Change the Legal Age of Marriage

By Ms. Bernadette Deka PMRC Executive Director Dear Friends and Colleagues, Child marriage is widely recognized as a violation of children’s rights and a direct form of discrimination against girls who are often deprived of their basic rights to health, education, development and equality. The practice of child marriage is a violation of girls’ human rights and puts girls’ health at risk, hinders their ability to exercise their rights to choose who, if, and when to marry; to pursue their right to education; and in many cases, may also impede their legal and economic rights. Child marriage ultimately violates a girl’s aspirations...

Debates – Friday, 23rd September, 2016

Debates – Friday, 23rd September, 2016

Friday, 23rd September, 2016 The House met at 0900 hours The Clerk read the Proclamation ELECTION OF SPEAKER, FIRST DEPUTY SPEAKER AND SECOND DEPUTY SPEAKER The Clerk of the National Assembly (Mrs D. K. K. Mwinga): Hon. Members, allow me to preface my address by congratulating you, on behalf of the National Assembly of Zambia and, indeed, on my own behalf on your successful election to this august House in the 11th August, 2016, General Election. I also congratulate those who have been nominated to be hon. Members of this House. Hon. Members: Hear, hear! The Clerk of the National...

Kelvin Mutale Sampa empowering Kasama

Kelvin Mutale Sampa empowering Kasama

By Derrick Sinjela PATRIOTIC FRONT (PF) Kasama Central Member of Parliament (MP) Kelvin Mutale Sampa is a man of the people in Kasama, Northern Province with a passion for development which is founded when he served as President of the National Initiative for Citizens Awareness (NICA). Before his latest passion as a parliamentarian, Mr. Sampa (KMS) studied Social Sciences at Mulungushi University in Kabwe Central Province after concluding Grade Twelve at Munali High School in Lusaka, thus sharing an educational heritage with former First Republican President Dr. Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda. Spearheading development is a key component of Sampa, since...

FAREWELL, A DIRGE-Dr. Joseph Mwenya Kasonde

FAREWELL, A DIRGE-Dr. Joseph Mwenya Kasonde

By Dr. Canisius Banda – Public Health Specialist [The Illustrative and Repeating Case of His Vessels] We come. And we go. What really matters is what we do in between. As Father Charles Chilinda of St Ignatius Catholic Church puts it, what matters is whether we are goats or sheep. That is what counts. He was here. And now he is gone. He was born Joseph Mwenya, without a title, an unknown from a remote village whose name only its inhabitants know in Mporokoso, the son of a teacher. Like his father, he eventually became a teacher. Without one at...

Parrogate Ginnery Ltd.to buy Cargill’s cotton gin and maize mill in Chipata, Zambia

Parrogate Ginnery Ltd.to buy Cargill’s cotton gin and maize mill in Chipata, Zambia

By Mildred Kaunda | +260 977 989545 | mildred@cuttingedge.co.zm and Andrew Chinambu   CHIPATA, Zambia. August. 30, 2017–Cargill has reached agreement withParrogate Ginnery Ltd.to purchase Cargill’s cotton gin, maize mill as well as land, buildings and equipment associated with Cargill’s operationsin Chipata, Zambia. The transaction is subject to clearance by the relevant competition authorities.   In Parrogate Ginnery Ltd., Cargillhas found a buyer who will secure a future for the cotton and maize operations in Chipata. Parrogate Ginnery Ltd.’s extensive experience with cotton origination and ginning operationsin Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, as well as its considerable network in the region...

EQUIP welcomes Test & Treat initiative by Ministry of Health

EQUIP welcomes Test & Treat initiative by Ministry of Health

By Andrew Chinambu Cutting Edge The Ministry of Health in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has mandated EQUIP Health to assist with rolling out a Test & Treat programme targeting 65,000 HIV-positive individuals in fiveprovinces in Zambia, namely: Central, Copperbelt, Luapula, Muchinga and Northwestern provinces. This is on the back of His Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s speech at the HIV Testing, Counselling and Treatment Day event on 15thAugust 2017. The HIV and AIDS scourge continues to be one of the biggest threats to Zambia’s development agenda. Since the first reported case of HIV was confirmed in Zambia in 1984, approximately one million citizens have died of AIDS-related illnesses. Despite the availability of...

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