Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba says the Patriotic Front (PF) Government is doing everything possible to guard against foreign interference in the on going republican Constitution making process.
Mr Kabimba reiterated Government’s commitment to ensuring that the constitution making process was not hijacked by foreign interests but that the final supreme law of the land needed to reflect the aspirations of the Zambian people.
Mr Kabimba who is in Cuba for a series of high level meetings with top officials of the Communist Party and Government of Cuba said this on Tuesday when he met Cuba’s Minister of Justice Maria Esther Reus in Havana.
“The new constitution will reflect the culture, norms and values of the Zambian people and that the new set of laws will be an instrument for social and economic transformation for the country,” he said.
Mr Kabimba, who is also Secretary General of the ruling PF, emphasised that Zambians would claim legal independence by enacting laws for themselves that protected their collective interests, and pointed out that there was a clear link between a legal regime and the economic and social development of a country.
And Ms Reus told Mr Kabimba that her country was also undergoing constitutional reforms in order to bring the country’s laws and regulation in tandem with the economic reforms that would usher in a new economic order.
She disclosed that 97 new regulations had so far been introduced in line with the economic reforms.
Ms Reus said Cuba, like Zambia, was also guarding the legal reforms against what she termed as ‘pollution’ from external forces.
She explained that Cuba was making strides despite economic difficulties resulting from the United States imposed blockade and the global economic crisis, pointing out that the country was intent on achieving economic independence through high productivity, which would lead to import substitution.
Ms Reus said that Cuba had achieved sufficient progress in empowering women, adding that 48 per cent of all Members of Parliament in Cuba were women, while the womenfolk also accounted for 60 per cent of the country’s professional workforce.
She called on increased solidarity between Cuba, Zambia and Africa as a whole. And Mr Kabimba has said Cuba has been Africa’s all weather friend and commended that country for the significant role it played in the liberation of Southern African countries.
He said this when he met the Deputy Head of the International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba at the Party Headquarters in Havana.
He said Cuba’s contribution to the liberation of countries such as Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique was in Zambia’s interest as a landlocked country which depended on the freedom and stability of its neighbours in order to carry out economic trade and development.
He urged Zambia and Cuba to build on the strong ties forged between the two countries by former leaders Dr Kenneth Kaunda and Commander Fidel Castro respectively, which he said had cooled off after Dr Kaunda left office and were only being revived following the PF’s ascendancy to power.
“We are happy to have the opportunity to renew our relations with Cuba and therefore hope that we can interact more often for the benefit of the people of Cuba and Zambia,” Mr Kabimba said.
And the Cuban Communist Party’s Deputy Head of International Relations, Oscar Martinez Cordoves said Cuba was grateful to Zambia for the solidarity with its people adding that Cuba had continued providing support to Africa in the areas of health and education despite economic challenges.
Mr Kabimba is in Cuba on invitation from the Communist Party of Cuba, to meet with senior Party and Cuban Government officials.
What of Zambians living in Scotland like me?
Thanks
Those can look for fish en chips en clean a few toilets…
thats if there xzactly lik u,my crayon eating baboon..
Scotland in Kanyama compound.
If you lived in Europe you would have no time to be playing on Internet all the time.
Continue with your blow job business,munyo wobe
You are useless to this country Mushota, by the way are you female?
U are welcome to interfere, besides you can even be given an appointment fimo fimo.
Is Kabimba the minister of Foreign Affairs now? He went to Cuba to meet former guerrilla fighter, the communists. He did go there to represent UPND, ULP, UNIP or in short the Zambians who are making the constitution.
communist or shar*** law will not be accepted in the Zambian constitution. Good lucky ka Kabimba.
Its seems PF government has a big cash to waste on travelling…. zambia is headed for doom,
Kabimba is still fighting 1960s battles! Kabimba you’re a petit bourgeoise masquerading as a revolutionary. You’re in the same league with that self righteous kleptomaniac Fred the Pest aka the PF and Muchinga Propagandist!
Welcome to Cuba,here despite the U.S blockade,we have managed to give FREE EDUCATION from kindergaten through to the university to both our nationals and poor students from Africa,Asia,Caribbean islands,Latin America and even the United States;FREE HEALTH CARE to any one living on the island;FREE HOUSING;FREE Wi-Fi on the entire country.That is how good we got it!Despite what CNN ,BBC and their cohorts have been reporting on us to those who believe everything they see and hear in the media,our indices of development are equal if not better than the so called 1st world!
Kabimba,as you are leaving the island, ask for a tête-à-tête with FIDEL CASTRO RULS,HUGO CHAVEZ so that maybe and just maybe your country may kick start some real people driven projects.!Hasta la victoria siempre!
With those tuma very old ancient like vehicles. May be that is what PF is looking forward to so that they solve congestion in Zambia.
Need I mention also that they have the best ladies in the world,…Ain’t no lady like a Latin lady!
Any free things are not good. Communism is no good.
On women I agree with you, Latina-Latina. I will never let my Ecuadorian leave me, because I can’t leave her. Me and Sata have something something in common, we got better wives we don’t deserve.
Be warned. Innocent Chimfutumba is a charlatan and a mole. Like a deranged vulture he preys on people’s character. He is all over the Internet sniffing out stories and writing gibberish about people and issues he hardly understands. Google his name and you’ll see what I mean. I have compiled his texts in both the “LT and ZWD. At times he wears the hat of a skunk, spraying his terrible malodorous smell. He claims to be learned. Read all his comments (How I wish I could display them). He’s a moron who writes in colloquial English—semi-literate style. Learned bloggers write well even in haste. His writing is best described by one blogger: “so many words with no sense.” His punctuation is terrible and typos aplenty.
He claims to have been in class with me. It is not true. He might have been in the same 1973 stream and not 1972 as he claims in some of his comments. He’s so damn he does not know when he graduated. I never met him in 1967 because I went to Chingola Primary School in 1968. At Chikola I was not taught by Cheeseman. I associated with him in the Young Farmer’s Club. Yes, the late Patrick Chibwe was in my class, but not Lazarus Chota. In Form Five, I and Patrick were in “A” and Lazarus in “S.” Ask him what form he was in. He claims to have been with me in the same class for five years. There was no Innocent Chimfutumba in my class. If there was, he must have been one of those dumb students with nothing to offer. What was Innocent Chimfutumba famous for? Anyone?
Ask Innocent Chimfutumba to table his qualifications and credentials. Let him give a link to his thesis or books he has written, then simply google my name and see my books and academic achievements. What a difference. Get off my back you grain-brain spiteful creep! You can’t intimidate me.
Learning democratic values and rule of law from the pillar of freedom?
@Wordsmith, are you missing from a psychiatric ward, or you’re high on glue?
Mr Justice Minister, we’ve seen them come like you and go like others like you before you.
Iwe Ka Mushota calm your tits…now take a seat.
I hate Kabimba’s corrupt criminal extravaganza false type of double life he leads!
He was a young promising politician like the way Katele Kaluma was when MMD started, but he has just ruined his life & become pompous like his satanist leader Sata!
Time will tell when Kabimba starts frequenting courts like the way Katele Kalumba did.
Kabimba’s life will be miserable than KATELE’s!
It’s a pity that ***** Monde allowed himself to be cheated by Kabimba to turn his back against his Party. As we know the people of Itezhitezhi are not happy to be in Central Province this is the lucky time to show their angry faces, come election. So Kabimba wanted the post of foreign Affairs,why the personal vandetta against Lubinda.