Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II is expected to visit the country for the first time on Thursday. In a statement released to the media, the Prince will arrive on the morning of 3 October and stay until midday on 4 October.
According to High Commissioner James Thornton, the Prince, who is largely on a working visit, will be promoting the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Zambia. The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is open all young people regardless of their back ground and circumstances.
It is delivered around the world by schools, colleges, universities, employers, social clubs, uniformed and non-uniformed youth organisations, young offenders’ institutions, religious organisations, sports clubs, and a whole host of other civic organisations. Recent Award projects around the world have focused on involving young offenders, street children and former child soldiers.
The Prince who is Trustee and Chairman of the International Council of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme,will visit Alliance Motors, the franchise holder for Jaguar Land Rover products in Zambia, one of several British companies.
Alliance Motors with Jaguar Land Rover are investing up to USD 11million in Zambia over the coming years in order to bring the British brand to the Zambian market.
“Prince Edward’s visit here is a further sign of the strength of the relationship between the UK and Zambia, and follows the highly successful visit by HRH The Princess Royal a year ago.” said Mr Thornton.
Prince Edward will start his visit by paying a courtesy call on the Acting President, Alexander Chikwanda.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Scheme, which was founded founded by Prince Edward’s father in 1956, now operates in more than 140 countries. The Scheme has been operating in Zambia since 2009. Approximately 200 young Zambians have so far taken part in the training programme offered by the Scheme.
The Prince will assist the Vice-President in conferring Gold Awards, the highest level of the Programme, to young Zambians. He will also participate at a fund-raising dinner for the Award in Zambia.
At least someone almost a head of state has finally visited our ailing dictator, this is positive.
“Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II is expected to visit the country for the first time on Thursday. In a statement released to the media, the Prince will arrive on the morning of 3 October and stay until midday on 4 October.“
“Prince Edward will start his visit by paying a courtesy call on the Acting President, Alexander chikwanda“
where is the president,, for mr chikwanda to still be acting??
This chap is far down the pecking order.It’s just like a Malawian minister labour visiting zambia.
Dear price Edward,
Bring a mosquito net,
Personal GP
A cheap mobile phone,
Cough mixture (from potholes on Great East Rd)
Deodorant
Your own food
Skin Tan
DuskMask
Your own toothpaste
Sunglasses
Your own water
Ear muffs
Knee puds
From a fellow brit to be and from experience, there
Mushota
Thanks
lol… Mushota knee pads for what?
To do what? As a tourist?
Mushota is right.
Bring your own toilet paper, pillows and linen too. Too much knock off products pa Zambia.
What exactly constitutes “participation in the scheme”? I would like to know what these 200 young Zambians attained from the scheme.
Personally I couldn’t give a flying fcuk in the wind that Edward is coming. More feathering of the royal nest at the expense of poor Africans. (Yes, I’m cranky and unreasonable today)
..and mad.
if i may add.
“Tese Zono, you are right, I ve just realised that since SATA came to power NO HEAD OF STATE HAS OFFICIALLY VISITED Zambia.
The usual inferiority complex. Zambians think whites are better than blacks in all.
Peter you’re a racist fcuk!!!! Smilling at a person who brings relief for anything does not mean inferiority complex…if the person is white. Your dog wags it’s tail at you not because it thinks you’re superior, although you deludedly believe so, but because you’re it’s ticket to a meal. It’s black racists like your sorry a.ss that perpetuate colonial doctrines that gat olden day freedom fighters still in governements across Africa.
Peter not all Zambians feel inferior, a lot of us Know that we were created in God’s own image. Word!
Welcome back Peter. Your silence has been deafening! Too quiet like Wynter.
@3.3 Mwanawakwitu .If God created us in his own image how come we’re not invisible like Him? Just asking,lol.
So that means the president won’t be in the country by Thursday. Where is he? We deserve to know. Hasn’t the UN assembly finished?
So what if he comes……….we start crying ma rubbish..
LOL
As for Edward’s patronising and publicity-seeking visit, it is him who stands to benefit from it, of course at the expense of our national image. Recently, his brother, William, visited Kenya on the guise of“helping the needy and the vulnerable, helping communities, and helping Africans.” It seems to be a banal duty of many far away in Europe and America to save ‘Africa’, a continent where most are very happy to fight the world’s fight because few really disagree that there is a fight to be fought. Yet the same elements like William and Edward– who are both part of ‘a tiny family elite notable for nothing except the lineage of the particular person’s womanhood from which they shrunk ’ – don’t normally take a stance, or even publicly discuss issues that are genuinely controversial.
@ Chimbwi, your comments are credible, though I fell your language is somewhat too strong and morally corupt to be an advice. come on man, you can do better than that.
People who talk about inferiority cpx are most of the time inferior themselves. They are also limited in their reasoning, shame.
If he comes, so what? we start dancing? How many Zambians of high ranks have visited their country and they announced? this is inferiority complex!! Pantufye musungu? ataaaa!!
just coming to check out his farm milla…in lilayi
Ps. Has anyone seen the President? This is becoming irresponsible.He is like an absentee father.Isn’t it a threat to national security for the president to go on secret rendez-vous’ after attending major conferences?
Maybe uncle Chikwanda should just take over permanently since the prez is non existent these days. Unfortunately uncle is now a dinosaur! We advised him not to accept the invitation from MCS but he wouldn’t listen. Now his image has been equally turnished.
@ndobo & Ulemo,
I am equally surprised that the president is still away though the UN summit ended days ago and there is so far no official statement about where he is and what he is doing. Zambians have the right to know what he is up to. Isn’t strange that all his trips abroad always have the dodgy effect.
It is as if there are no hot issues awaiting his attention back home.
Awe I feel for queen Elizabeth mwe. All that beauty, the crown and she was forced to get hitched to her husband and produce bana ba so sure. Matu kupakalala monga nin Nkwale olo viga Vima nyamata vo yofyeselako bana pa Star trek.
Botswana got William and Harry, and what do we get, the unknown Edward. What’s with Jaguar and Land rover when he should be spending more time with street kids and the like for whose charity, he’s patron.
As usual just displaying total madness by these spoiled brats who seem to have turned blogging into an occupation. Yo comments do not make sense but show how yo tribalism,hate,jearous, falsehood,lazyness and ubusushi ‘ve impaired yo brains.Viva Sata
To the contrary.If you Osmore can’t blog as an occupation its a sign of your weaknesses.You see,us bloggers who are independently wealthy and can blog all day and that speaks of our superiority over you.
Ba mushota mulichipuba Dana, I guess you come from kumumana, where there mosquitoes. I was in Zambia but, did not suffer from malaria. You should love your mother country. Wechnangwa
I am glad the prince is just stayin 2 days bcoz fish and visitors always start smelling in 3days.
Are we supposed to start dancing? Am sure he will not leave the country without mentioning human rights in that area…
TO DO WHAT?MAY BE TO BRING MONEY TO SUPPORT SAME SEX.