President Michael Sata has accorded a state funeral for the late Mama Betty Kaunda wife to first Republican President Kenneth Kaunda who died in Zimbabwe.
The late Mama Betty Kaunda will be put to rest on Sunday, September 23, 2012 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali District of Muchinga Province.
President Sata has also declared three days of national mourning starting Friday September 21 at 06:00 hours to Sunday September 23, 2012 at 18:00 hours.
This is according to a statement released to ZANIS in Lusaka today by Acting Secretary to the Cabinet Roland Msiska.
Dr Msiska has stated that the burial programme for Chinsali will be preceded by body viewing in Lusaka on Friday, September 21, 2012 at Mulungushi International Conference Centre at 10:00 hours.
He also said stated that Requiem service for the late Mama Betty Kaunda will be held at the Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Saturday September 22, 2012 at 10:00 hours and immediately after the Requiem Service the burial procession will leave for City Airport where the body will be flown to Chinsali for burial.
During the period of national mourning, all flags will fly at half-mast and activities of entertainment nature should be postponed or cancelled.
And the Zimbabwean government has sent a delegation of 15 government ministers and some officials from that country’s ruling party who accompanied Dr Kaunda and family members with the body back home.
Others in the delegation included the Speaker of Gauteng Province of South Africa, Ms Lindiwe Maseko, and Zambia’s High Commissioner to Zimbabwe Mrs Ndiyoyi Mutiti and Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Muyeba Chikonde.
ZANIS
mulale muchibote mama betty kaunda.
“If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all- how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?” Romans 8:31-32
Our sweet mother rest in peace. Those who die in Christ they just sleep.
I know you are just sleeping, see you in paradise.
Dignified in life and in death; a life well led. Rest in eternal peace mama Betty. It is well with your soul
Rest In Peace. I wonder what will happen to the soccer game with the Malians at Arthur Davies, postponed or cancelled?
Rest in peace our dearest mother of the nation.
Mama laleni muchibote chamfu. pano chalo twaba ni palwendo twisafye mukutandala, but our real home is with our Heavenly. May God strengthen the big man our grandfather, father during this trying moment
May H.S.R.I.P
I cant stop my tears falling…and that lump in my throat is not melting away!!!
May you Rest in peace Mama Betty, your life was an inspiration to many of us. I am sure your smile continues as your spirit connects with the eternity of God’s spirit….
Moone kabatu, mwakailwana nkondo yabululami, imilimo eye aimitobele Rev 14:12.
YOUR EXCELLENCY DR. DAVID KAUNDA, WE DEEPLY MOURN WITH YOU DURING THE MOST DIFFICULTY PERIOD OF YOUR LIFE.
THANK YOU FOR NOT ALLOWING MAMA BETTY, PUT TO REST NEXT TO THAT THIEF CHILUBA (MHSRIEP). LUBWA IS A RIGHT PLACE FOR HER AS IT EMERGES TO BE THE GREAT CAPITAL OF MUCHINGA PROVINCE.
WE LOVE YOU KK AND MAMA BETTY GO WELL, WE SHALL MEET AGAIN.
Rest in Peace ,Betty.
My prayers go to KK and his family. Good move to have freedom fighters to be burried in the areas of their choice rather than building tomb houses
We wish you mama Betty Kaunda well as you join our lord the father and that your soul will rest in peace. A great woman and indeed a mother of the nation
MHSRIP
MAMA REST IN PEACE AND ETERNITY. TO THE FAMILY, LOOK ON TO THE CROSS AND DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME IT IS ONLY GOD THRU. JESUS CHRIST TO COMFORT YOU THRU. THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU.
barotseland shall one day be free.
RIP mama betty
mama Betty was a mother to us all we will miss her.to KK and the family we are with you,we should thank for God for everything, good or bad for everything which happens,happens for a reason.and we thank God for life of mama Betty,M.H.S.R.I.P.
With due respect,why 3 days national mourning,the woman was 84 for christ’s sake.1 minute of silence is the standard for civilised people
We have no problem being called uncivilised as long as we mourn our mother with respect.
Please try not to expose you illiteracy. Only an ***** with out culture and history can come up with such remarks.
One behalf of copperbelt international college i wish to pass our massage of condolences to the papa kk nd family
RIP Model, Mom, granny.
Everything that has a beginning has an end. Go well Betty.
It is a sad day indeed for the Kaunda family. However, the theory of evolution stipulates that imprints of the parents are passed on to off-springs, following from the survival of the fittest perspective. As a disciple of this theory, we must moan and celebrate the life of the late lady above. Similarly, many great women of Zambia should be celebrated whether alive or in the condition defined as ‘death’. May your soul rest in peace. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Mama Betty you are mother not only to Zambians but to all Africans. May our loving Father recieve your Soule in His Eternal Rest and Peace. and to you our most revered Father of Africa KK may Almighty God comfort you, family and all Zambians.
RIP. WARNING TO UKWA. NO JOKES DURING THIS TRYING PERIOD FOR THE KAUNDAS. WE MOURNING!!!!!
You just cannot tame your tongue even when the nation is mourning. try to restrain it under such situations.
The zimbabweans are the true friends in Southern Africa. Rest in peace Mama Kaunda
I have ran the race, won the race and now I have to be with my maker. What a dignified life led by this wonderful woman. My deepest sympathy go KK, it is really sad for him to lose such a one.
Goodbye Zambia’s rose. May you ever grow in our hearts. You were the grace that placed itself, where lives were torn apart. You called out to our country and you whispered to those in pain. Now you belong to heaven and the stars spell out your name.
Rest in peace mama Betty our ‘candle in the wind’.
We have had enough of betty’s news please, can we have other stuff, like what is happening in other parts of the country, uchende , corruption etc.
You are indeed a very shallow mind!
Akulu Mphuno is it all you could come up with?
Go well Betty. You are a hero in your own right. You sustained a great man in order for our country to be liberated from the British tyranny.
All of you who cant recognize Betty Kaunda’s greatness will never achieve extra ordinariness in your lives. You are simple minded.
mama you have ran the race and have won the race. you were an hero mama MHSRP
Mamma Betty will be greatly missed and let’s pray for the Kaunda’s family especially the husband to the late Mrs Kaunda.
The Nation mourns of you Betty. The icon of the first ladies in Zambia.