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Chidyaka condemns Veep’s comment on UPND/PF pact
By Moono Hamasukwa
The United Party for National Development (UPND) in Southern Province has condemned Vice President George Kunda’s remarks against party president Hakainde Hichilema and his association with the Patriotic Front (PF).
Speaking to Radio Chikuni News Tuesday, Provincial Vice Chairman, John Chidyaka, said that Mr Kunda has no right to comment on the affairs of UPND and PF as he is not a member of the two parties.
Mr Chidyaka said it was sad to note that the Vice President has decided to meddle in internal affairs of the UPND.
He said the vice president should concentrate his energies on solving problems in the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) instead of involving himself in matters that do not concern him
George Kunda recently accused opposition UPND leader, Hakainde Hichilema of gagging the party’s original philosophy of inclusiveness and non-tribalism stance.
Mr Kunda said Mr Hichilema’s going into a political pact with the PF was against the ideals on which late UPND president Anderson Mazoka formed the party.
Mwanakalanga calls for continuation of mobile NRC issuance in his ward
By Choolwe Hamando
Ufwenuka Ward councilor Tenara Mwanakalanga has called on the National Registration office to revisit his ward as a number of people were left out during the recent mobile issuance of National Registration Cards (NRCs)
Mr. Mwanakalanga says a number of people in his ward were left out as some of them were not aware of the programme.
He told Radio Chikuni News Monday that villagers in Mulongalwiili and Hanamaila areas had no chance to get NRCs due to long distances to the issuance centre.
Mr. Mwanakalanga has since urged people in his ward to be pro-active and take advantage of this exercise if the office agrees to revisit the ward.
Gender insensitivities hinder women‘s participation in sports-NOWSPAR-
By Nchimunya Vanessa Mweemba
The National organisation for Women in Sports, Physical Activities and Recreation (NOWSPAR) has said power inequalities between males and females continue to hinder women’s full participation in sports.
NOWSPAR Chisekesi Chapter spokesperson, Oliver Mangani, says the suppression of women has made it difficult for them to excel in various sporting activities.
Mangani told Radio Chikuni News Saturday that there is need to sensitise communities on the need for women to participate in sports.
He said that many Zambian women are talented but the social norms do not favour their full participation in sports.
Mangani said there is need to campaign against certain norms that make it difficult for women to actively participate in various sporting activities.
He called for coordinated efforts from all stakeholders to encourage as well as well increase the number of women participating in various sporting disciplines.
Mangani said sport remains increasingly important in global efforts to fight lifestyle diseases, hence the need for women to take part in sports as it promotes good health.
Trivia
Of Urchins
What can a parent of a three year old do when woken up at the dead hour of 03:00hrs to be told that his/her three year old infant is crying at the neighbour‘s door step?
“Witchcraft!” the parents screamed.
You can’t blame them actually because they swore that they went to bed with the named tot and there is no way they could not have known that he had gotten out bed.
Awe struck parents narrated to our reporter that they have failed to understand how and when the child got out of bed and went to the neighbour’s house as the house was locked from inside and the child was incapable of opening the door as he was very little.
So when something weird happens and there is none to blame what can a man do? Turn to the supernatural and blame the fiend?
Before turning to the supernatural, concoct a series of wizardry conspiracy theories so that it becomes easy to blame the devil for the innocent antics of an adventurous precocious tot.
The named parents told our amused reporter that it all started when the father to the three year old adventurous tot got sick in what is suspected to be the work of jealousy freaks –the wizards.
They said wizards made him a demoniac for a few days and later it was his innocent three year old son who moved to the neighbour house at the most ungodly hour.
When our reporter told the man that his son was a bit adventurous, the man told our reporter to stop being funny and treat the matter seriously as the family is living in great fear if recent events in the family are anything to go by.
If you live in a world where everything from failed crops, to sickness, loveless marriages, four time loser status and all the general problems of humanity is blamed on witchcraft, what can your reaction be if you woke up one day to fine entrails at your door step?
Phiri experienced the worst fear of his life when he found entrails at his door step and rushed to Police in Pemba to report the matter.
A freaked Phiri told police that what happened at his house should be investigated as he suspects that it’s a wizard who put the entrails so as to cast a spell on him.
He earnestly requested the cops to investigate the matter and bring the culprit to book in the shortest possible period.
Meeting the dead
There was drama in Hampwili village in chief Hamaundus's area when a man in his early twenties who was heading cattle in the nearby forest rushed to the village and told people that he had seen two women who had died years earlier weeding in the field.
Curious villagers rushed to the field and found nothing really, apart from the maize crop in the field.
But the man swore that he had seen the two women working in the field.
The man failed to speak to our reporter as he was still in shock.
Sister to the man, Emma Chilala told our reporter that her brother is still trying to recover from the shock.
Emma said witches and wizards were in a tendency of turning people into Zombies so that they help them in their fields.
She said that her brother may need the intervention of witchdoctors for him to live as a normal person after his experience with the world of the dead.
When boredom gets the better of you…………
If you have no TV to watch and you are so bored and thirst for drama ,why not turn a super normal thing of rats eating from you plate shocking drama by inviting your neighbours to watch?
That is exactly what a man in Chilyatamuka village did when hungry rats did what any other person would do in their situation, share a plate of food only this time they ate when the house owner was eating and he saw them.
Curious villagers rushed to watch rats eat shamelessly with the owner of the house and were shocked that the rats were enjoying their meal.
When our reporter rushed to the village, he was shocked to find sane adults watching rats eat and wondered if they have lost their minds.
Boredom can turn even the sanest of men into raving lunatics who are amused by anything and that’s how our reporter summed up the madness in Chilyatamuka village.
