FIRST Lady Christine Kaseba is today expected in South Africa to attend the 2013 GBCHealth Africa Regional Conference, at which she is expected to be presented with the Frontline Heroes Award.
According to the programme made available to the Zambian High Commission in South Africa, the conference is expected to run from October 15 to 18, 2013 under the theme, ‘Where business meets to help global ideas become local results’, with an audience of 70 percent from the private sector, while the remaining 30 percent is drawn from government, United Nations (UN) and non-governmental organisations.
This is contained in a statement released yesterday by First Secretary for Press at the Zambian High Commission in South Africa Patson Chilemba.
The objectives of the conference involve promoting co-ordinated private sector involvement in global health issues, aligned to national agendas, highlight opportunities for business to help accelerate progress towards health-related MDG targets, showcase existing business contributions to global health targets and facilitate dialogue between public and private stakeholders.
Dr Kaseba will be joined at the conference by other high-ranking officials including South Africa’s Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi, Nigeria’s Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu, Namibia’s Minister of Health Richard Kamwi, UNAIDS regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa Sheila Tlou.
During her time in South Africa, Dr Kaseba is expected to address students, staff and invited guests at the high profile Medical University of Southern Africa in Pretoria.
Dr Kaseba will also attend the launch of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) cervical cancer initiative.
On October 17, Dr Kaseba will attend a full gala dinner during which the most exceptional companies in 2013 will be honoured and she will be presented with the prestigious Frontline Leaders Awards.
According to GBCHealth, the Frontline Leaders Award recognises on-the-ground health workers who are making a difference in people’s lives.
On October 18, Dr Kaseba will deliver a keynote address and join the panelists to discuss Gender and SADC in her capacity as World Health Organisation Goodwill Ambassador against gender-based violence.
Globe trotting at tax payer expense for a photo op thereby ballooning our already huge budget deficit.
…..the same one who ran away from striking nurses last week? Very funny…
….I think our minister of health and his deputies (I’m sure there must be 3 or 4 of them) is a big waste of time.
Enka, wecipuba iwe. You have just exposed your shallowness. consider going back to school. you are a black sheep of your family. how much do you even pay for PAYE?
Imprezza, cebe ci enka! He wants the world to come to a standstill!
Muka Yama….
And that her assistant, I like her.
she is hardworking than her old ailing husband hope Zambians learnt a lesson of not voting for old sick people to state house, if her husband was in good shape, the country will improve drastically he can’t keep up so he is always hidden from the public
What exactly does she do? What is her line of work? She’s just an attention seeker…..Just read the article above again…..and you would understand what I am talking about! Award! Keynote speech! Really? And where has she been when TB vaccines have been running out? ARVs? Nurses strikes? And yet we should be made to believe that she’s ‘on the ground’ ‘working hard’! Pleeease!
Where is Joseph Kasonde?
Took that question right outta my mouth dude.
This woman is hard working, if we had three quarters of her kind, Zambia would have been amongst the developed nations, anyway congratulation dear first lady, i hope our men can get some of your knowledge and energy Or maybe we should clone a thousand more of you!
The other countries are being represented by ministers of health, these are officials accountable to their governments who drive policy. Who is she accountable to?
What if she does a better job more than Weather boy or GBM? who do you rather pick, GBM?
look at namibia,nigeria the have ministers of heath wat of our joseph kasonde.this woman shes going out of her boundaries now.
Trouble is the minster of health has nothing on his CV to show except his new Benz. Leave Kaseba alone.
I always wonder why these awards only come when one becomes first lady or president? Was she getting these when she was at UTH as mere Consultant/Expert? How many awards will she get in the next 3 yrs before end of term?
Mama Chiluba and Mama Mwanawasa were also very hard working and Ms Thandiwe was about to start.
Mama Kaseba is also hard working.
Imprezza, it not only those who pay the salary-based Pay As You Earn (PAYE) who are tax payers. ALL Zambians pay VAT while other forms of taxes include duty on imported goods, corporate tax, capital gains tax, withholding tax, property transfer tax, excise tax etc.
PAYE constitutes a very small amount of total revenues collected in Zambia. I thought I should help clarify this very important subject you raise.
# 8 I have this to say…………. Thanks for that information.
Before you try to clarify, spend some time to educate yourself about topic at hand, which you instead of clarifying just manage to make it *****ically unqualified.
kwaza kuutuka
Ichikalila pansaka…….musumba wa bwali. Hence global trotting.