SOUTHERN Province Minister Cornelius Mweetwa has implored the opposition Patriotic Front not to shy away from national events such as the commemoration of this year’s international women’s day which fell yesterday.
Mr Mweetwa says he is saddened that P.F members especially the women were conspicuously absent at this year’s provincial commemoration of women’s day in Choma.
He says it is not right to shun women’s day which does not require party affiliation in order to attend.
The minister who is also UPND national spokesperson has explained that the party, while in opposition failed to attend such events in Lusaka because of the high levels of violence that had been perpetrated by the P.F then in government.
He was speaking in Choma yesterday during the commemoration of International Women’s Day held under the theme: “Gender Equality today, for a sustainable tomorrow.’
And the Minister has said this year’s commemoration of International Women’s Day is unique for the region as the event is coming soon after the province experienced the worst floods now followed by a prolonged dry spell, a situation that will result in total crop failure and the resultant hunger.
Mr Mweetwa said women in Southern Province will bear the brunt of this hunger situation as front-line caregivers.
Meanwhile, Choma Mayor Javen Simoloka has paid glowing tribute to the new dawn government for prioritising the empowerment of women through huge resource allocation under the Constituency development fund.
Mr Simoloka has disclosed that women in the district have so far formed cooperatives in readiness for the disbursements of the empowerment funds.
He has assured that the women in the district will properly utilise the funds so as to free themselves from the shackles of poverty.
Hon MINISTER you are right PF have blundered. But in all honesty, were you going to attend if you’re still in Opposition? I leave that to your conscience.
The agony of imagining yourself as a national asset worth of a national leadership position only be consigned to the Bantustan province.
Agony is considering yourself as a national asset worth of a national leadership position only to be consigned to a small province. I advise you to work very hard because the first dissent that the UPND is likely to face will hail from Southern province. The UPND gave the people of Southern province so much hope that some even donated their animals just to put the Party into Government. People are anxious to see the benefits. Unfortunately the first blunder has been a shoddy fertilizer contract. Time is ticking and people are counting. Don’t waste time about PF, the people know PF better. You don’t have to tell them again and again.
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Just IGNORE those obsolete PF-ers, the party was on its way to dying anyway. Don’t you agree stup!d KZ?
Just as well they didn’t pitch up, I mean imagine Mumbai Phiri the suspected murderer or Nkandu “Zinjanthropan Chinyau” Luo showing up, women would genuinely leg off in all directions scared. So Luna halulati zaku sabisa sicaba!
UPND shunned away all the government functions starting in Mwanawasa government all the way to Lungu’s administration. UPND is a mirror that has got two sides, the back and the front with upside down images.
Am sure they just wanted to see how favourable the conditions are for attending whether safe or not…. Seeing how peaceful it was they will surely attend next time.
Small man Small penls syndrome again from Small cornelius. I understand him. No corruption fuseke. You are always dreaming about me. I am not a gay
Let his ugly parents from choma attend. Why force us
Proper mbuzi
This m0r0n has forgotten how they were behaving in opposition.
Cornelius, stop complaining you did the same in opposition. There is nothing sinister in absconding the event. You did not attend the most adorable day in zambian history “independence” whilst in opposition.
We don’t even need your invitations for any upcoming events.
This guy will choke to death with bitterness, AUGUST 12 Is painful
The best is to remain quiet if i still carry a similar scar
Same Song different singers = Zambian politics
Hon when we used to say dont boycott national events you didnt listen… even boycotting KKs homily shuwa…. I just hope PF can grow and attend national events
We miss Hon Edify Hamukale. This Mweetwa guy has not initiated nor continued with any development activities as there is nothing visible going on in every sector. He only talks about politics and nothing else. youth are suffering with no jobs nor grants. Mweetwa wont simply fit in Hamukales shoes. We want development sir and stop coming at 11 hrs. for work and going late for functions
It seems Cornelius doesn’t realize the magnitude of the burden he carries as Southern province Minister. He needs to work very, very hard. If there’s a province that the UPND is likely to face the 1st dissent it’s the Southern province. The UPND gave people so much hope that many even sacrificed their animals just to put them in power. Edify Hamukale had raised the bar so high that he never had any audit queries. The people have already received their 1st disappointment in the shoddy fertilizer contract. People know the PF better so Mweetwa shouldn’t waste time on that topic. If he doesn’t know what to do let him seek our advice, we’ll give it to him free of charge
Mweetwa wants publicity…. Hiding him in Southern bantustan doing injustice to him. Bring him out to Lusaka and send Nkombo to the South.
It’s their right whether to attend or not. They are still licking their wounds so let them be. But other PF women in other districts actually participated.
This is the chap who when MCS did not move to state house only after two months was shouting on roof tops, his boss had not moved to state house since August last year and the chap has his tail between his legs. Most of us don’t remember which national event HH and his UPND attended save for the state funeral of the Zambian founding father Dr Kenneth Kaunda. Today this chap Cornelius Mweetwa is singing the opposite song . This is not being a role model it is a shame . Cornelius keep quite on things that would highlight your hypocrisy.
Corneliuss Mweetwa does not know the number of unemployed youths in his constituency and in Southern Province but he knows the number of Polling stations and number of registered voters in the same geographies, He is a clueless casual minded minister from whom we should not expect any development and economic progress . Indeed Hon Edify operated in a difficult political opposition headquarters but managed to deliver significant development projects with his name appearing all over on key infrastructure which he commissioned. Mweetwa has no opposition pressure nor internal party hatred which Hamukale endured from his fellow PF officials who had hunger for public funds abuse. Therefore Mweetwa has no barrier to point at for his continued poor performance and leisure French attitude to…