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Jubilee Centre October 8th, 2008
Zambia will elect a new president in twenty-two days. Whether you vote or not, the next President will determine the future and well-being of this nation. Here are some talking points to help you decide how you can vote. Which candidate has best dedicated his time toward explaining what he will do to: reduce […]
Jubilee Centre September 16th, 2008
The gathering in New York for the High-Level meeting on 25th September for the Heads of States to discuss the Millennium Development Goals will be the eighth year since the 189 Heads of State signed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Declaration. At the first MDG summit in 2000 the Heads of States from the Global […]
Jubilee Centre September 9th, 2008
Three political parties are most likely going to contest Zambia’s presidential by-election in the next three months. The three people who will be fielded are Mr. Michael Sata-PF, Mr. Hikainde Hichilema-UNPD and the Acting President, Rupiah Banda-MMD. Who of these three is articulating things that matter most to believers in Christ Jesus? Christian voters ought […]
Jubilee Centre September 1st, 2008
Although life in present day Zambia is changing, the question of traditional beliefs and cultural practices is still a very important issue. The ritual of taking the body of former Zambia’s president, Dr. Levy Mwanawasa SC to all provincial headquarters that each Zambian pay last respect to him raises several questions for Christians who understand […]
Jubilee Centre August 19th, 2008
My wife and I were privileged to attend the Leadership Summit (August 7-8) at Willow Creek in the USA. “The summit is founded on the core belief and vision that when you change a church leader, you can change a church, when you change a church you can change a community. And when numbers of […]
Jubilee Centre July 21st, 2008
It is all true. Zambia is magnificent country, it is one of the few countries in Africa that has enjoyed relative peace since independence, and its famous Victoria Falls is one of the wonders of the world. But what is the Zambians’ attitude to it all?
Amazingly, God has given us long to build on this […]
Jubilee Centre July 10th, 2008
Being a Heroes Holiday, I asked the members at a church I was invited to preach last Sunday to give me names of men or women they remembered, who had dedicated their lives to the service of our country and people. Three names featured prominently, Kenneth Kaunda, Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula and Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe. Interestingly, […]
Jubilee Centre June 23rd, 2008
One way leaders establish their credibility and authority is by demonstrating how they act in times of crisis and calamity. In a nation of only eleven million people, a bus accident causing the death of twenty eight people and injuring fifty others is a major disaster. How was this disaster handled? Who led the people […]
Jubilee Centre June 16th, 2008
Ms. Faustina Sinyangwe, the MP for Matero, is complaining that the public do not show interest in what is being discussed at the National Constitution Conference. She is shocked that ordinary Zambians are not paying attention to the discussions concerning a document that shall govern them. Ms. Sinyangwe is asking the wrong question. A key […]
Jubilee Centre June 9th, 2008
UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says that Barack Obama’s nomination as US Democratic presidential candidate should serve as a lesson to Zambians that petty politics about tribal xenophobia should be a thing of a past. Mr. Hichilema urged Zambians to seriously learn from political developments of the American people who have demonstrated that race or color […]
Jubilee Centre June 2nd, 2008
Are Zambians lazy as was reported in the Post newspaper recently? Song writer Nathan Nyirenda does not agree. In his song Mwemakufi, there is a line in which he states that we work like donkeys, in the morning, at noon and in the evening and yet we remain poor. Zambians are not lazy when doing […]
Jubilee Centre May 26th, 2008
Africa Freedom Day which falls on 25th May is a day in which Africans observe the creation of the Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) and pay tribute to the Heads of State, who through a common vision of unity, freedom, equality, justice and progress decided to seek a joint African solution to the challenges facing […]
Jubilee Centre May 18th, 2008
It is sad to be remembered for what one might have been. Mr. Michael Sata, the opposition leader of Patriotic Front, has tremendous potential. In the last six years there has not been an opposition party leader like him who has stood up and spoken out with such a spirited voice on behalf of the […]
Jubilee Centre May 14th, 2008
Many African nationalists would argue that the United Kingdom has no right to be critical of Zimbabwe’s current presidential election results stand off between ZANU-PF and the MDC. Many see the UK special interest in the Zimbabwe election results as being solely over the land invasions by Mugabe and ZANU-PF that began in 2000 and […]
Jubilee Centre April 7th, 2008
Robert Mugabe belongs to the political elite leadership group that inherited authoritarian colonial states. These leaders include Kenneth Kaunda, Kwame Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyatta. None of these leaders dismantled the undemocratic systems that our colonizers used to suppress the Africans’ aspiration for freedom. For example Kaunda who himself had been jailed by the colonialists under […]
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