Emulate Mandela - Mpezeni
By Staff Reporter
Wed 11 Dec. 2013, 14:01 CAT
PARAMOUNT Chief Mpezeni says very few leaders can match Nelson Mandela's leadership qualities.
And Lusaka mayor Daniel Chisenga and South African High Commission counsellor Patrick Jacobs yesterday opened the laying of wreaths at the Rhino Statue at Longacres in Lusaka yesterday.
After leading his Ngoni chiefs, Madzimawe and Nzamane, in signing the book of condolences at the High Commission yesterday, Mpezeni said Mandela's leadership should be emulated by all as he suffered for his people.
He said Zambian leaders should take a leaf from Mandela's heart for the people.
Mpezeni said Mandela suffered for the people, and that very few people in Africa, having been imprisoned for many years, would handover power after a couple of years.
After laying the wreaths, Jacobs said Zambia played a central role in the liberation of South Africa.
"If it was not for the support and for the encouragement from people of Zambia and its leaders, South Africa would not be where it is today and for that, we are eternally grateful to the people of Zambia and its leadership," he said.
And Chisenga said South Africa and Zambia were like an extension of one big country.
"We have always enjoyed this relationship. For us losing a great man like Mandela is like losing our own here. And we commend the Republican President Michael Sata for declaring seven days of national mourning," said Chisenga.
World leaders converged in South Africa for a funeral service for Mandela who will be put to rest on Sunday.
Labels: CHIEF MPEZENI, DANIEL CHISENGA, LEADERSHIP, NELSON MANDELA, PATRICK JACOBS
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Govt committed to raising standards for families, says Chisenga
By Masuzyo Chakwe
Sat 07 Dec. 2013, 14:20 CAT
LUSAKA mayor Daniel Chisenga says the government is committed to alleviating the suffering of families as a result of population growth challenges that the country is facing.
Making a presentation at the World Family Summit +9 in Berlin on Tuesday during the local authorities roundtable session, Chisenga said the local authority with the support of the government was currently undertaking various initiatives to raise the standards of families.
Chisenga, who is also Local Government Association of Zambia president, highlighted a comprehensive urban development plan for the city of Lusaka which was currently being implemented.
"The construction of inner ringroads, and projects such as the Pave Zambia Project, L400 Road Project, as well as the undertaking of flood risk mapping and related actions in flood prone areas of the city, will definitely ease mobility and increase activities by families living in the area," he said according to a statement issued by first secretary for press and public relations at Zambia's Embassy in Germany Yvonne Shibemba.
Chisenga explained that the Water Supply Sanitation and Drainage Project would help ease access and improve reliability of water and sanitation in selected urban and peri-urban areas of Lusaka.
He further stated that the council in conjunction with ZICTA had also embarked on a street naming exercise, under the National Addressing and Postcode System Project for purposes of developing a residential address system for speedy delivery of municipal services.
"We also want to take our services closer to the people, so the council has come up with zone development committees per hundred households to enhance participatory governance of residents in all municipal services including waste management," Chisenga said.
He emphasised that the improvement of densely populated communities through the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) would enhance land tenure security.
"Under this programme, the local authority is issuing title deeds to residents who have never had the opportunity to possess such documentations thereby increasing their opportunities to obtain loans for property improvement and raise investment levels," he said.
Chisenga thanked the World Family Organisation executive for conferring Zambia with the status of World Family Capital City for the year 2013.
He also congratulated the delegates for unanimously electing Judith Mwila as vice-president of the WFO.
Mwila, a renowned family building consultant counsellor and founder of Families Are Nations, becomes the first African woman to hold the position since the inception and affiliation of the WFO to the UN in 1986, deputising Brazil's Dr Deisi Kutsztra.
The WFO is an international organisation which has as main objective to represent families of the world at all levels, to defend their interests and to act with them and for them vis-a-vis governments and the international community.
Chisenga led a five-member delegation to the World Family Summit +9 organised by the WFO, the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development, and the United Nations NGO Branch, in partnership with the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, senior citizens, women and youth and the German Red Cross, under the theme 'Building the Future We Want'
Others in the delegation were Lusaka City Council town clerk Moses Mwelwa, president of Families are Nations Zambia (FAN) Mwila, FAN board vice-chairperson Antoneill Mutentwa, board trustee and women empowerment trainer Angela Banda and FAN national director of youth and talent identity Morgan Phiri.
Labels: DANIEL CHISENGA, EUGENICS, JUDITH MWILA, POPULATION CONTROL
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Chisenga urges partnership for waste energy power plant
By Henry Sinyangwe
Tue 22 Oct. 2013, 14:00 CAT
LUSAKA mayor Daniel Chisenga has challenged the private sector to partner with the local authority in establishing a waste energy power plant.
He said this would be a better way of keeping the cities clean as the youth would be collecting garbage for sale to the power plants. Chisenga said it was not the responsibility of the councils alone to collect garbage, but a duty for all stakeholders.
Recently, Forum for Democracy and Development president, Edith Nawakwi, during a graduation ceremony of over 1,000 young people that were trained as garbage collectors through a Danish-funded initiative undertaken under the auspices of a newly-formed company called Neighbours Friend Waste Management Limited at Lusaka's Pamodzi Hotel, challenged unemployed youth to take up the opportunity of collecting garbage in the country.
Nawakwi, the patron of the organisation, said young people in Lusaka should not complain of being unemployed when they were living in an extremely dirty city.
And Chisenga said there was too much waste lying around the country.
"What we envision is to see that the waste that we have in the city can be collected and recycled. That will be a catalyst to create even light industrial areas for producing manure and electricity. But the council is not doing all that because we don't have the capacity to set up a power plant of which we need US$2 million, which is a huge cost. It will be good to have a situation where the private sector could partner with the council to invest in such kind of infrastructure because young people will be involved in collecting this waste and sell to the power plant," he said.
"We visited a waste energy plant in Stockholm, which is even struggling because they can't find garbage and they are importing from Finland. So from the garbage that we have, it can be good that stakeholders come on board to see how best we can utilise it to help the young people and women find employment."
He said the community-based enterprise was one of the methods benefiting the young people because they were run by individuals who could create garbage collection companies.
"We have what we call the franchise contractors, we have the community-based contractors and we have the waste management of Lusaka City Council (LCC)," Chisenga said.
"The community-based enterprise is one of the methods which is really benefiting the young people because these are run by individuals who can create a company, register it with the council and you are given a catchment area from where you are supposed to collect and each household pays a certain amount to you as a company, not to the council."
Chisenga said registered companies were managing catchment areas and employing young people and women to collect the waste from households.
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Government urged to hasten council decentralisaton
Monday, April 13, 2009
A civic leader in Lusaka has urged government to quickly implement the decentralization policy in order to spearhead development in the country.
Mulungushi ward 18 councilor, Daniel Chisenga, however, said
government should first try to define and address the role of a councilor before it can implement the decentralization policy.
Mr Chisenga said in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today that government should define clearly the role of a councilor and recognize them to ease their work.
He said councilors should be respected and that government must always ensure that the local authorities around the country are adequately funded once the decentralization policy is in force.
The councilor added that there is need for the central government to assist councilors in rural areas with transport such as bicycles and motor cycles as they implement the decentralization policy.
Mr Chisenga also said that government should incorporate the grassroots in the policy decision as they know much about their locality.
He said involving the locals will also promote continuity and help stop the tension that exists between the locals, government and the investors.
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Labels: COUNCILS, DANIEL CHISENGA, DECENTRALIZATION, LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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PF instructs councillors to vote for Chikwelete
Written by Constance Matongo
Monday, December 08, 2008 5:19:01 PM
OPPOSITION PF has instructed its councillors in Lusaka to vote for Robert Chikwelete for mayor and Daniel Chisenga as his deputy. Chikwelete and Chisenga are councillors for John Howard ward 3 and Mulungushi ward 18 respectively.
In a letter dated December 6 addressed to PF councillors, party secretary general Edward Mumbi encouraged them to rally behind the adopted councillors so that they would emerge victorious.
“Anyone who will defy the resolution of the caucus meeting which was confirmed by the party leadership will face disciplinary sanctions,” stated Mumbi.
He stated that all those interested in the positions of mayor and deputy mayor for Lusaka should not campaign because Chikwelete and Chisenga had filled the two positions.
“We wish to inform all those concerned and interested in the two positions that despite the postponement of the elections for the positions of mayor and deputy mayor by the Honourable Minister of Local Government and Housing to a later date, the party’s position has not changed and there should be no campaigns within the party for the two positions,” read Mumbi’s letter in part.
And Chikwelete said some councilors who opposed his candidature on the ground that he was imposed on them had no better reason to oppose him because he was adopted after going through elections.
“We had elections and I got 10 points together with councillor [George] Nyendwa. We then went for a re-run and I got 14 votes and my colleague Nyendwa got 12 votes. That is why am saying it is not true that I have been imposed on the people because I went through a democratic process of elections,” said Chikwelete.
Labels: DANIEL CHISENGA, PF, ROBERT CHIKWELETE
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