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Three days of national mourning accorded to the Late Victoria Kalima

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Victoria Kalima
The Late Victoria Kalima

President Edgar Lungu has declared a three day national mourning for the Late Gender Minister Victoria Kalima who died yesterday.

This is according to a statement issued by Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet for Administration Patrick Kangwa. The late Minister of Gender,Honorable Victoria Kalima died on Monday 11th June at Maina Soko Hospital after an illness.

The period of national mourning will run from Thursday 14th June to Saturday 16th June 2018.During this period, all flags will fly at half-mast and all radio and television stations will play solemn music from 06:00 Hours to 18:00 Hours everyday.

All activities of entertainment in nature should either be postponed or cancelled.The funeral for the late Hon Minister is being held at House number 13 Kasempa road,off Chipushi Road,Sunningdale,Lusaka.

32 COMMENTS

    • She was one of the architect of the Wako-ni-Wako” tribalistic movement that saw Easterners rallying behind Lungu & ended up in a merger of RB’s MMD & PF whilst other tribes were retired from civil service “under national interest” & replaced by their relatives.

      They then taught Lungu how to steal through loans for roads & other projects making him one of the richest zambian in 3 years whilst turning Zambia into the most indebted countries & worst performing EURO-Bonds.

      Anyway MHSRIP.

    • Three days of national morning from lazy Lungu .For waht ?!Some people need to get a life and learn what to work not pretending to be working .Let us give him credit though for cutting down on unnecessary air mile he put in last year espcially to Swaziland to see semi naked girls and to learn how to grow crops .Zambia deserves better .

  1. Victoria will be missed by many, including myself. MHSRIP.
    Beautiful lady with a beautiful voice. Everything about her was just beautiful.

  2. Is God willing to prevent death, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
    First of all, God created reality, and he is supposedly omnipotent. Secondly, free will of someone who only wants to murder, kidnap and rape seriously infringes of their victims’ free will.The first point is correct but not sure how it says anything important. The second point is wrong. Doing something against someone’s free will is not a violation of free will but a violation of rights.

  3. “Why won’t God heal amputees & people with HIV AIDS like Victoria?”
    God truly is a fnckn jerk. Why did he create some people to be born with disabilities – especially genetic problems – or deformed bodies? If he was so powerful, surely he would be able to prevent this or at least create everyone without these problems?
    Summarizing, here is what Jesus promised:
    If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. (John 14:14)..Ask, and it will be given you. (Matthew 7:7)
    God answers prayers as promised in the Bible, and if God is performing all of the medical miracles that we read about in inspirational literature, then God should also be restoring amputated limbs. Why would God help cancer victims (e.g. Marilyn Hickey’s mother) and people bitten by rabid bats (e.g. Jeanna Giese), but…

    • CONT’D…
      (e.g. Jeanna Giese), but discriminate against amputees and Victoria Kalima who died from HIV AIDS? No one God either has never healed an amputee at in the history of the world.

    • You are simply a toddler …some issues are too complex for your undeveloped little brain.. now crawl back in your baby coat!!

  4. This is what I mean when I say this govt of Edgar is very lazy and has no concept of what productivity is….I mean this is a woman who has been sick for the last two years, you kept her on taxpayer’s payroll when she was ill ..now you declare 72 hours of national mourning….lazy bums!!

    • Its to appease the people in his constituency for a pending by-election my Gay Gay.Even Trump has reconciled with Kim for the upcoming elections in the US.

  5. ******* **** and Jay Jay awe sure . I hope you two are not married. I don’t know how to describe you. ******* **** you are worse. What a creature.

  6. ******* **** are you a woman or man? I can imagine marrying a guy like I wouldn’t manage just the language your mouth is rotten dude

  7. ******* **** are you a woman or man? I can imagine marrying a guy like you I wouldn’t manage just the language your mouth is rotten dude

  8. i would like to convey my heartfelt condolences to the PF for the demise of Ms Victoria Kalima. Ms Victoria was noble lady who was always available for the people of Kasenengwa. She was the voice of the voiceless. May the lord comfort her family as they pass through this trying moment.

    Condolences to the good people of Kasenengwa.

  9. Condolences. Lazy bum good for nothing lunatic and chief hooligan and bully of the Tribal Hogarnaization wing has no class! It is in the blood. Prejudice is the equivalence of HATRIBALISM.

  10. Yes we need to mourn the departed but 3 days is quite long for a Minister. A day would have been enough. What matters is not how we mourn but how we honored and related with a person when they were alive!

    • Honouring for depleting taxpayer funds with 2 years of sick leave days not even a CEO of a big corporation can be awarded such!!

  11. MHSRIP.
    For this administration it appears everything is wrong.Is a cabinet minister entitled to that period of mourning?The annoying thing is that it is the same administration that produced a circular on guidelines of state funerals.

  12. ******* ****, ******* ****, ******* ****! Make it clear what you want to say about God and Victoria Kalima? Death is for us all. MHSRIP

  13. Its time government stopped harassing the entertainment industry in the name of national mourning.
    “all radio and television stations will play solemn music from 06:00 Hours to 18:00 Hours everyday.”
    Why not restrict this decree to your own state broadcaster, DeadNBC ? Every other industry will be working normally so why single out entertainment? Will the govt cover their losses? LAZ is this constitutional?

  14. Yes 3 days is too long.Kwati umuntu elo alabuka. I know all of us will die one day. One day of national mourning could have been enough.Kwati ni kateka olo imfumu tuleloosha.

  15. Three days of national mourning is too much for a minister please!!!! Anyway what does the constitution say on this? Anyone to educate me please…

  16. Indeed l didn’t know that kulima woman, why would l be subjected to mourning, 3 days for that matter? Awe ba pf you have to change some of these archaic rules

  17. VICTORIA KALIMA DIED OF AIDS ITES TIME GOVERNMNET LEADERS LEARN TO SAY THE TRUTH, YES WE SYMPATHIZE WITH THE FAMILY AND KASENENGWA PIPO BUT TO HIDE COAUSE OF DEATH FOR A MINISTER IS NOT HELPING THE SITUATION, KAUNDA ANNOUNCED WHEN HIS SON DIED OF AIDS, SO LET HOPE AT BURIAL TIME THEY MENTION HER CHRONOLOGY. THE HUSBADN WAS MY FRIEND DIED SOME YRS BACK IN A ROAD ACCIDENT KALIMA WAS NEVER A POLITICIAN BUT HER GOOD LOOKS AND HABITS TO GIVE MADE HER JOIN POLITICS, WE STUDIED TOGETHER AT NRDC AND SHE WAS NICKNAMED NARDEC OPEN..MHSRIP

    • People don’t did of Aids any more especially if they are economically privileged. Give us some other incurable illness

    • People don’t die of Aids any more especially if they are economically privileged. Give us some other incurable illness

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