President Micheal Sata has appointed a new cabinet and reduced the size to nineteen from twenty-three.
President Sata has also created a new Ministry called Ministry of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs.
The President has appointed Guy Scott as his Vice and Geoffrey Mwamba commonly known as GBM as Minister of Defence.
Sebastian Zulu is the new Minister of Justice, Alexander Chikwanda, Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Home Affairs is Kennedy Sakeni.
Others who have been appointed are Dr. Joseph Kasonde as Minister of Health, Chishimba Kambwili as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emmaneul Chenda is Minister of Agriculture and Livestock.
Former ZCTU president Fackson Shamenda is the new Minister of Labour, which has been merged with Sports, Youth and Gender.
Bob Sichinga is Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Minister of Mines is Wylbur Simuusa and Given Lubinda is Minister of Information, Broadcasting and Tourism.
The new Minister of Education, Science and Vocational Training is now Dr. John Phiri who is the current Dean of the school of Education at the University of Zambia.
Professor Nkandu Luo is the Minister of Local Government, Housing, Early Education and Environmental Protection, while Esther Banda will deputise Professor Luo.
Inonge Wina is the Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs,and Communications and Dr Joseph Katema as Minister of Community Development, Mother and Child Health.
The President has also appointed Katombola Lukuo as Southern Provincial Minister, Nathaniel Mubukwanu for Western Province, Josephine Limata for North Western, Freedom Sikazwe for Northern Province and Miles Sampa for Lusaka.
Other provincial ministers are Solomon Mbuzi for Eastern, Davies Mwila for Luapula, Yamfwa Mukanga Copperbelt and Philip Kosamu for Central.
Meanwhile the President has merged the Ministry of Transport and Communications with the ministry of Works and Supply
President Sata’s Cabinet added by on
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The cabinet looks composed though most chaps are new to most of us. Anyway wil wait to see how they perform.
SMALL AND TO THE POINT. THO SOME ????? ON DEFENCE,
WELL HE MAY BE ASSISTED BY COL KAUND.GBM SHUOLD HAVE DONE WELL ON MINES OR LOCAL GOVT. HOWEVER CONGRATS. LIKE I SAID I THANK THE PRESIDENT FOR CONSIDERING HON. FORRIE TEMBO OF NYIMBA. WHOM THE MMD NEVER CONSIDERED HIM.I WOULD HAVE LOVED HON.KAMBWILI TO BE ON LABOUR. THE MAN CAN DELIVER TO BE ASSISTED BY HON. JEAN KAPATA..
AM ALSO HAPPY WITH THE NEW MINISTRY .CHIEFS AND TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS. HPOE THIS WILL BRING BACK TRADITIONAL VALUES.MOTHER AND CHILD HEALTH.EXCELLENT BO PRESIDENT !!!!.
YES TO THE POINT BUT HE SHOULD SCRAP OFF SOME POSITIONS WHICH DO NOT SAVE A PURPOSE LIKE DC ,
Gud cabinet,inonge is suited so that she can look into barotse issue. Am happy 4 GBM thats how hard work kn do.
question mark on willie nsanda if he can perform. seems cabinet promising.
Not tribally balanced, he should have done it the KK way, because he received over overwhelming support from the entire country. KK was good at this and left everybody feeling represented at least at basic tribal level.Anyway, we are all with him and walking the 90 days to see whether what was preached is not just a flirting elision to be pursued and never attained.For now, Viva President Sata!
hey cant you see its tribaly & politically balanced…..hold yo fire!
Iam happy with his Cabinet, especially with Guy Scott as VP, no tribalism, hope he will start putting on suits and how about Kabimba?
Nice cabinet,fewer no unneccesary positions saves money.to ministers all the best n work hard…….we r watchin u n highly acceptant.
Now this is the type of government zed neds
YES,GOOD CABINET KEEP IT UP MR PRESIDENT.SAM
Very gud cabinet tho some positions lyk minister of defence wud have been to a more experienced man instead of gbm. He wud have suited wel in local govt. All da best to dem all! Viva sata
Thank you Mr. President for appointng Guyscott as a vice beause u suffered a lot with this Man and Congratulation for eveyone in the cabinet.
In the words of Edith Nawakwi on commenting on President Mwanawasa’s 2002 Cabinet, “Mediocre”.
I know MCS wants to please those who stood by him and helped finance the long walk to state house from January 2002 to date.
GBM at defence. With his vulgar mouth will he not upset a general or two? I suppose the main point there is that he can get the Lucrative Mealie Meal contracts for GBM Mealing!
AB Chikwanda at Finance, he graduated in 1971 from Lund University in Sweden, Same University as Rupiah. His last appointement was in 1992 at State house where he promptly awarded a lucrative renovation contract to Apollo a firm where he held substantial shareholding. FTJ fired him. The recycled politicians we did not want!
Willie Nsanda at Transport and Works. He served there in the 1996 Cabinet as deputy to Lupando “Katloshi” Mwape. What can he offer a country in dire need of infrastructure redesign! He is a succesful entrepeneur in the Transport Industry and I like his new house in Mass Media but thats as far as I can see on this guy. The recycled politicians we did not want!
Sebastian Zulu at Ministry of Justice? Another old school fellow and the recycled politicians we did not want! A former UNIp secretary general. Can this man help us deliver a new Constitution and the 50+1 clause we so much want to be included.
Sata has pardoned his “Thugs” in the very first week in office. What signal is he sending in country where Political violence is the only Violence we know. Political Scarifice. So Judge was doing a duty for the PF? So its true that Sata knew what these thugs where doing!
Cabinet and the whole Press riefing was a big Anti-climax after the Euphoria of finally having my preferred candidate win.
Given is misplaced at information. This is where AB Chikwanda should have been. Given was better suited at Local Government or Agriculture (his profession).
God Bless ZAMBIA.
Malilisho I agree with you 100%. We certainly do not need to be doing favors to individuals when it comes to running the affairs of the country; aged and recycled politicians and thugs (like Nsanda and GBM)are not needed in modern politics.
The configuration of certain ministries seems illogical at best. why not have not combine works, supply, communication, transport, information and broadcasting? (instead of tourism and Information & broadcasting) Lands, environment, water, natural resources and Tourism? Education, science, technology & vocational training? Comm Dev, Gender and YSCD?
I also expected that the President to scrap the position of DC so that the District Admin Officers become the heads of districts. This will save us loads of money.
It seems that the President is in such a hurry that he has ignored the recent reforms that have been made. Early Childhood Education was taken back to Min of Ed. Please let mother and child health remain the baby of Min of Health.
Lets wait and see….
Zambians we congratulate you, we Malawians are waiting for Mr. Sata during the COMESA Summit. I hope he will enhance our brotherhood as we all are looking for development in the region.
Malawians, how do you wait for Mr. Sata when in Malawi you declared him an Prohibited Immigrant. Have you revoked that declaration? Shame to Mbingu.
Paddie Joe,
I hear that persona non grata issue has been revoked, but Bingu has refused to offer an apology. Also note that most ordinary Malawians weren’t happy with that deportation order, but had no power to stop it. Most people heard of it after the fact. But I guess Sata should come to the COMESA Summit otherwise he will have failed in his responsibility of representing Zambians.He should put aside his disagreements with Bingu and be man enough to attend the Heads Summit. Lastly, looking at your Cabinet, it is evident that the border seperating Malawi and Zambia are indeed artificial. 80% of the names there would make it into a Malawi cabinet without raising an eye brow. Names like Lungu, Zulu, Kambwili, Sichinga, Phiri, Banda, Katema are very common in Malawi. The stupid federation is alive and well, lol!
I want to salute the President for his cabinet. Can someone tell me who this Alexanda Chikwanda is. I remember Mr. Chikwanda of UNIP era. Is this Alexanda Chikwanda Chikwanda Jr? If he is the old man, where has he been and what has he been doing of late? Mr. President, stop unearthing old folks from UNIP.
‘Dont Kubeba’that the PF stands for BEMBA FRONT! There is nothing good about this cabinet. This is a Tribal cabinet! Zambia has gone to the dogs. The rote starts now coz monkeys have been put in charge of the Maize Field! Ma Rubbish! Wonder what the people praising this nonsense would have said if Kavindele, Milupi, or HH had come up with a cabinet like this? Sata is a Tribalist and no amount of scrubbing will remove this Tribal tag. Sata is an unshamed tribalist together with his supporters who want us to turn a blind eye to his rampant tribalism! The constitution gives him a chance to balance his cabinet by nominating 8 MPs. Alas his natural tendency is to gravitate towards his tribesmates.
GBM is the only wrong choice!
Defence is an important factor for our country and I believe he is not the right man for it!
I would like to congratulate Zmabians for their political maturity for the smooth change of government without going to war in which many lives would have been lost. What Africa needs now are leaders who care and respect the lives of all Africans. We cannot keep on blaming colonialism, imperialism and other evil forces destroying our continent when we are failing to stop that or actually when our own leaders are part of the genocide machine of the contnent. African leaders must embrace reconciliatory approaches when dealing with political issues both nationally and beyond. Any party has the right to govern if mandated so by the masses. Trying to rig in broad day light will only fuel tension. Zambians and Ghana for that matter have taught many Africans that other political parties have the right to government. There is no one party which was fotmed forever forever. Away with wamuyaya concept.