Gender Focus with EMELDA MWITWA
SOCIAL challenges and policy shortcomings will never cease in life, but from a positive viewpoint, the major achievement in our campaign for gender equality in Zambia is the affirmation of girls’ education.
Today marks exactly the 55th year since Zambia won her political independence from Britain, and along the way, we’ve made notable achievements in our campaign for gender parity in education. (more…)
Children’s Corner with PANIC CHILUFYA
TOMORROW Zambia will be celebrating 55 years of independence. It was on October 24, 1964 that Northern Rhodesia became Zambia, the newest country on the African continent to become independent after overcoming extreme obstacles and decades of liberation struggle against its colonial master, Britain.
And from 2016, this day is much more significant because it comes shortly after the National Day of Prayer and Fasting on October 18. (more…)
Dear editor,
INDEED congratulations are in order for the splendid performance by Green Eagles Football Club. (more…)
Analysis: SUNDAY CHANDA
HISTORY teaches us, with the benefit of hindsight, that the independence of the United States of America (USA) 243 years ago, did indeed serve as an inspiration for many countries of the world to rid themselves of foreign domination, and conceive for themselves unique and suitable political and economic systems. (more…)
BENEDICT TEMBO, Choma
FOOTBALL Association of Zambia (FAZ) president Andrew Kamanga is happy with the rehabilitation works at Choma’s Independence Stadium. (more…)
Analysis: MWAPE MUSONDA
ON OCTOBER 24, 1964, the orations were delivered, bands played, the guns boomed and the flag of a new nation Zambia was raised. The words “Independence! Independence! and Unity” travelled fast across the land to the furthest, smallest Zambian village and there too the tom-tom took up the cry, “Independence and unity of purpose.” (more…)
Dear editor,
GOVERNMENT and private institutions brand their premises with the national flag to mark the Independence celebrations every October. (more…)
Analysis: MUBANGA LUMPA
FOLLOWING Zambia’s independence on October 24, 1964, the United National Independence Party (UNIP) government embarked on a number of reforms to address the social, political and economic inequalities among Africans that had resulted from European colonialism. (more…)