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Generous employees of Zambian Breweries have been donating goods to Beit CURE Hospital in Lusaka, which is one of the few hospitals in the country able to address the surgical needs of children with disabilities.
The items offered by staff from the brewing company include clothes, children’s toys, a fridge and a few cases of the nutritious maheu product.
The clothes were donated by employees from their various departments at Zambian Breweries in October, to commemorate the Cancer Awareness Month.
Zambian Breweries corporate affairs director Ezekiel Sekele said the company and employees were committed to helping the community and hoped the goods would put a smile on the beneficiaries. “The items we are handing over were voluntarily donated by employees of the company as a way of contributing to the cancer awareness campaign.
The management at Beit CURE said they were delighted at this gesture by the Zambian Breweries employees.
“We are humbled by the gesture of Zambian Breweries employees and who saw it befitting to donate to our hospital. We appreciate the donation,” said the Beit CURE Financial Controller Ms. Catherine Malisawa..
Beit CURE International Hospital of Zambia was established in 2004. CURE International signed an agreement with the Zambian Ministry of Health to operate a paediatric teaching hospital specialising in the treatment and care of children living with physical disabilities. It is one of the few hospitals of in the country that is able to address the surgical needs of disabled children. Since opening its doors, Beit CURE Zambia, has seen over 8,000 patients and nearly 4,000 operations have been carried out.

Cleo Ice Queen is geared to release the highly anticipated video for her new single “Soldier”. She shared the ‘Behind the scenes’ footage with her fans.

The song was produced by Kekero. Video directed by DJ-LO of Ikonik Music, and features choreography from ‘Dancehall Down-under‘ and ‘Street Culture Zambia

BY KAPA187

Paul Slim released his new single “Stay Positive” .

BY KAPA187

The Oasis Forum is deeply concerned and saddened at the recent spate of verbal and political attacks against Ms. Linda Kasonde, in her capacity as President of the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ). We also find it to be in bad taste the attempts by some people to demonise and try to isolate LAZ, especially its President, Linda Kasonde, who carries the full mandate of officially and validly speaking on behalf of LAZ and usually after wide consultation and deliberation by the various members of the said Association. To vilify her in her individual capacity is therefore grossly unprofessional, unfair, immoral and highly unchristian.

As members of the Oasis Forum and its constituent members, we stand solidly with and wholeheartedly support the statement issued by LAZ on 30th November 2016 on the nullification of parliamentary seats and the recent attacks on the judiciary. The Oasis Forum further supports the position taken by Ms. Kasonde on behalf of LAZ as the position that has been arrived at through dialogue and consensus within LAZ, but more importantly on behalf the voiceless citizens of Zambia calling for the protection of and promotion of the tenets of constitutionalism, separation of powers and the Rule of Law in our beloved country.

We wish to state that LAZ’s views are in concert with and echo those of the Oasis Forum. We therefore wish to strongly condemn those who are insinuating that LAZ is biased. We are aware that in this highly polarised and politicised environment, where even facts and the truth have become rare, there will be many interpretations of innocent professional opinions and voices. Our advice would be that those who feel strongly that LAZ has become partisan should seriously rethink their stands.

We as the Oasis Forum are satisfied that LAZ, as a statutory professional body, is discharging its roles as required by law. We are, therefore alarmed, that attacks on LAZ seem to come from sections of society that are more partisan and less knowledgeable about the [legal] issues at hand. We pray that although all Zambians enjoy freedoms of speech to comment and express opinions on any and all issues, more weight will be given to opinions of professional and technical institutions over those of individuals with partisan agendas. This can only come about if there is discipline in our country.

We note with concern the indiscipline that is creeping in our governance systems where the boundaries between the government and the party in government, has become blurred, as if Zambia has reverted back to the one-party state. Often, the power and authority of government is seen to be exercised and ceded to political party functionaries. As free men and women and citizens of this great country, we should reject the rule by threats, intimidation and violence that have become the order of the day. Threats, intimidation and violence are merely intended to instill fear in all of us and rob us our dearly won freedoms.

The Oasis Forum therefore strongly condemns the continued personal attacks on Ms. Kasonde and calls upon all well-meaning Zambians to continue to support her and LAZ in general for the just cause for which the Association is fighting for the greater good of all Zambians. We encourage LAZ to continue to be vigilant and to keep in check excesses of the governors and to ensure that good governance and constitutionalism are upheld and that lapses are quickly detected and exposed for the good of all of us. Let all of us as citizens renew our collective vision of a better Zambia anchored in law and order in peace and unity. Let us not permit partisan interests to override our national character.

Fr. Cleophas Lungu
CHAIRPERSON – OASIS FORUM
Issued On 1st December, 2016 in Lusaka on behalf of Convenors:
1. Rev. Suzanne Matale – General Secretary (CCZ)
2. Ms. Linda Kasonde – President (LAZ)
3. Ms. Sarah Longwe – Board Chairperson (NGOCC)
4. Fr. Cleophas Lungu – Secretary General (ZCCB)

UPND Secretary General Stephen Katuka has reminded presidential press aide Amos Chanda to be mindful that he is a civil servant.

Mr Katuka said Mr Chanda should not think that his being at State House makes him a special civil servant.

He said Mr. Chanda should therefore not attack the Judiciary in the manner he did when he appeared on ZNBC TV’s Sunday Interview.

Mr. Katuka says such attacks only help confirm suspicions that the Executive has influence over the Judiciary contrary to constitutional provisions of separation of powers.

He stated that the UPND wants to see the Judiciary operate independently without any undue influence from the Executive.

The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) opposition inclined leadership has once again shown that it will clutch at every straw to openly show contempt towards President Edgar Chagwa Lungu and anyone deemed to be close to him.
This is one sad clear pattern we have noticed ever since President Lungu convincingly won the heavily contested August 11 polls were the man they overtly support Mr Hakainde Hichilema of UPND tumbled for what appeared like the umpteenth time. We feel the pain of LAZ, especially that of its greenhorn leader Ms Linda Kasonde.
We understand LAZ’s shared contempt and bitterness with Mr Hichilema and the UPND after the devastating loss as they continue to lick their wounds but there is something we do not want to allow to continue.
We do not want LAZ and UPND to continue misleading the nation that there is a neutral call for justice and accountability, of President Lungu and those that work for him such as Mr Amos Chanda, his spokesman.
It is unfair for LAZ and UPND to intimate that President Lungu is directly or remotely interfering with the judiciary in Zambia when history is replete with numerous incidents of President Lungu, a friend of the bench abiding with the law even when he could have arm-twisted matters ex officio.
Below are some explicit examples that demonstrate President Lungu’s respect for the law of the land.
• When President Michael Chilufya Sata died on 28th October 2014 (MHSRIP), a scheme by those close to LAZ was hatched to grab power from acting President Lungu. Instead of fighting the hostile take-over and create two centres of power, President Lungu gave up power in order to maintain law and order
• At party level when the party was divided on the mode of adopting a candidate to replace President Sata as the PF leader with the majority wanting President Lungu to take over, the Head of State still chose the hard route of going to a national convention that needed to be attended by no less than 4000 delegates from all ten provinces of Zambia
• When he did not need to after his first popular election of January 2015, President Lungu went ahead and signed a constitution that did not favour him by including the much-dreaded 50 percent plus one vote, albeit through his immense popularity, defied critics and beat the LAZ and Mast (formerly The Post) supported Hichilema hands down again.
• After he won the popular vote with an extra 100,000 votes to spare and got declared winner by the influential Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) on 15th August 2016, President Lungu did not assume office despite direct and indirect intimations for him to assume office. This was in the back drop of receiving an unprecedented flow of international endorsements emanating from Washington, Beijing, Downing Street and Buckingham Palace and the local church to mention but a few that felt the election was fairly won by President Lungu.
• President Lungu waited until the day the Constitution Court returned with a decision that echoed that of the ECZ chief Judge Esau Chulu. Only then did he agree to be sworn in as Sixth President of Zambia on 13th September 2016.
All this time, Hichilema and his running mate Geoffrey Mwamba had refused to accept the legally declared results, casting aspersions on the Judge Chulu led ECZ and the entire international community.
President Lungu sucked it all in and now barely one hundred days after he assumed office, his Spokesman says the judiciary is not above reproach just like everyone else in Zambia, including President Lungu who was taken to the Concourt, the UPND backed LAZ flags are flying relentlessly, airing the LAZ presser live on their page and baying for Mr Chanda’s blood, whom by extension they associate with President Lungu and we feel it is not fair.
What is fair in our view is that Ms Kasonde, UPND and the questionable Mast must come out in the open and state that they are one political front bent on one thing—the opposition of President Lungu.
We have said in the past that we wonder “where Ms Kasonde was the day they taught law in law school” given her open lack of depth and impartiality in dealing with issues and we are going to say it again.
Except this time we are going to add regarding Ms Kasonde that, “there is nothing more dangerous in a game of political chess than a pawn that thinks it’s a Queen.”
Ms Kasonde, Mr Hichilema, UPND and The Mast, collectively and or individually, please wake up and smell the coffee—President Lungu is the President of Zambia, legally elected, legally, sworn in and legally in State House. You have another five bitter years to wait.

Where was Ms Kasonde and LAZ when Mr. Hichilema attacked Judges Anne Sitali, Pallan Mulonda and Mungeni Mulenga whom he likened to the biblical Judas Iscariot who betrayed a cause for pieces of silver? Where was LAZ when the UPND leader insulted the Judiciary with such impunity that every reasonable Zambian thought he would be cited for contempt of Court! Zambians recall that on 10th September 2016, UPND leader Mr. Hichilema charged that constitutional court judges were paid huge amounts of money to deliberately lapse the UPND petition to nullify the re-election of President Edgar Lungu in the 11th August general elections. Why did LAZ keep quite unless they clapped and nodded in approval of Mr. Hichilema’s lies and insults targeted at the Judiciary! On the date, Mr. Hichilema described the Constitutional Court judges as thugs and criminals who, according to him, had raped the Constitution and were therefore not worth the gowns they wore as they lacked integrity and impartiality. Where were Ms. Linda Kasonde and her LAZ to condemn these insults and label them as contemptuous?!
This is the hypocrisy we must question and LAZ must come out clean. LAZ especially under Ms Kasonde is not above public criticism over its conduct.
Lastly, we challenge LAZ to tell Zambians why Ms. Kasonde’s Press Conference was being streamed Live on Mr. Hakainde Hichilema’s Facebook Page. Could it be that Mr. Hichilema was privy to Ms. Kasonde’s statement? Could it be that LAZ is in liaison with the UPND?

Issued By:
MR. SUNDAY CHILUFYA CHANDA
PF MEDIA COMMITTEE MEMBER