Zimbabwean First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe arrives in the country tomorrow,Monday November 23rd, to attend the African First Ladies against HIV and AIDS (OAFLA) conference.
Her Ethiopian counterpart Azeb Mesfin who is OAFLA President arrives in Zambia the following day on Tuesday.Other First Ladies expected to attend the conference are Namibia’s First Lady Penehupifo Pohamba who is represented by Reverend Mrs Hilukiluah who has already arrived in the country.
The OAFLA Conference is intended to empower SADC First Ladies with information on maternal health issues and also develop a comprehensive SADC OAFLA sub-regional plan of action.
This is contained in a press statement released by State House’s Press and Public Relations Unit.
The focus of the conference which is being hosted by Zambia’s First Lady Mrs Thandiwe Banda is Maternity Protection as a Preventive and Care Strategy Against Mother to Child Transmission of HIV.
According to the statement, Technical Advisors of the visiting spouses of heads of states are already deliberating ahead of the First Ladies’ workshop which begins on Tuesday November 24, 2009.
Among the planned activities is a visit-site tour to Matero Clinic in Lusaka where there is a support programme for mother and child health, and the State House Women’s Club, Nursery and Pre-School.
The workshop will close with a gala dinner at Hotel Inter-continental in Lusaka on Thursday November 26 whose major function will be to raise funds to help support OAFLA Zambia Chapter activities.
ZANIS
Bana RB, when you go to visit, do not invite people to your ill-governed country for a conference, we have no money for now. Kulibonesha………
Ok good for them.Hope takuba umulomo typical of banamayo
It is a mockery to refer to dictators’ wives as first ladies, they are part and parcel of their husbands’ corruption and misrule. Away with them. Mugabe, Rupiah, Mswati and many more have caused too much misery to the people.
Mrs Grace Marufu Robert Gabriel Karigamombe Matibili Mugabe will just come to shop in Lusaka.
Some of the conferences are just a sheer waste of tax payers money.just what can grace mugabe do uplift the life of a common man whe she is in front of plundering the same money meant for the poor in her country.
This is nonsence, just shows the clueless nature of this f.o.o.l called Zambian president and the minor he is married to. Anyway, it will not be long before Banda is tossed out of office, the bells have started wailing for him. His degree of incompetence is stinking to the very heavens above. You bet even Chama Chakomboka could have done a good job.
Please send her back where she came from. What first lady is she? Crap!!
Where else can Grace be invited to anyway but Zambia????Whatever