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Slow Pace to Elect a Mausoleum for Late Chiluba Annoy SATA
Former late President Frederick Chiluba and Late former Libyan President Muamar Gahdafi.. Behind is current President Michael Chiluba Sata
The Remembrance Day which falls on the 10th of November is commemorated worldwide every year.
Speaking during the ceremony at the cenotaph, Zambia National Service Head of the Chaplains Henry Matifeyo has reiterated the need for society to never shed blood again as was done in the world wars.
Lieutenant Colonel Matifeyo says the first and the second world wars spelt enough blood that people in the world should strive for peace and dialogue over issues affecting humanity.
Lieutenant Colonel Matifeyo also notes that as Zambia enters the year of jubilee and as it remembers the fallen heroes that fought in the world wars, the nation should pray for relief from death that the land of Zambia will rest from any forms of colonialism which does not benefit the people.
Meanwhile president Sata has expressed disappointed at the rate which the Ministry of works and supply is carrying out his directive to elect a mausoleum on the tombstone of the later former republican President Frederick Chiluba.
Speaking after he laid wreaths at the late President Patrick Mwanawasa’s mausoleum, the visibly displeased President Sata wondered why the Minister of works and supply Yamfwa Mukanga has not carried out his directive and to which Mr. Mukanga told the Head of State that his directive is still on paper and that the directive will however carried out soon.
President Sata further went on to lay wreaths on the late Dr. Chiluba’s tombstone.
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YAMFWA
November 10, 2013 at 4:01 pm
So this semi illiterate bully thinks castigating people and his ministers in public is what is meant by working hard! Getting annoyed unnecessarily without thinking is a sign of dullness!
Pastor E
November 10, 2013 at 6:52 pm
The man is an emotional worker!
FuManchu
November 10, 2013 at 6:57 pm
Society never to shed blood the chaplain says yet PF cadres are good at it and blood is still being shed! The president annoyed by the delay to ‘elect’ albeit erect a mausoleum for late FJT, see works on it start in no time out of fear by Yamfwa Mukanga and his ministry, maybe there is no budget even! Zambian haphazard bullying leadership aawe mwe!
amfumu chizende
November 10, 2013 at 6:58 pm
Why isn’t he also annoyed that Chilubas and Mwanawasasas retirement homes are not being built while his is being constructed? Just intrested in tombstones as if he is a satanist
Diathane M45
November 10, 2013 at 7:04 pm
Author: “spilled” not “spelt”, “erect” (like an excited penis) not “elect” (like chose). At least do some research on the event ba reporter. Find out why we have Burma Road, Burma Barracks, Arakan Barrack and Tug Aragan Barracks! Which war ended on 11/11/1918. What is the significance of the cenotaph, why are people wearing poppies? This a failed article!
DD
November 10, 2013 at 9:33 pm
@Diathane M45,am interested to learn of the answers to your questions…
Zumbwr
November 10, 2013 at 11:42 pm
Me too. I am sure we can learn a lot from you. Treat this as a matter of urgency and good importance, tapapata.
sando
November 10, 2013 at 9:37 pm
Pipo, you must have respect for president. U can not just anything that comes into your mouth. Remember you are not age mates
real yellow jenalist
November 11, 2013 at 12:08 am
Diathane M45 please remind these half baked pretenders to the noble profession of journalism. Apart from good grammar good stories have background info like you have pointed out.@DD Tug argan Burma Gonda are all names of battlegrounds our Zambian soldiers fought at during the World Wars but I’ll let Diathane xplain them
Air Mukwai_
November 11, 2013 at 12:50 am
Many barracks are named after the location in which they are situated. When this happens they are often (but not always) referred to as “Camps”, “Lines” or “Garrisons”, rather than Barracks. Examples include Blandford Camp; Longmoor Camp; Rheindahlen Garrison; Lo Wu Camp. In Germany, the British of the Rhine (BAOR) barracks was named along similar lines. However, there are exceptions. For example, Maindy Barracks, Cardiff is located in Maindy and is the home headquarters of the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards (Welsh Cavalry). Lumsden Barracks at Fallingbostel, between Hanover and Hamburg houses the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment as part of the 7th Armoured Brigade (Desert Rats). In the case of the Barracks in the Ruhr area taken over by 43rd Welsh Division in 1945 (mainly former Luftwaffe flak kasernen) they were named after the home towns of the Territorial Army regiments in the division. Thus, one can see records of names like Glamorgan Barracks, Duisburg; Wrexham Barracks, Mulheim; Carnarvon Barracks, Dusseldorf; (all of which have been closed).
Criteria can also be combined. Garats Hay Barracks in Leicestershire is an example, with the Barracks named by location, but blocks and lines within the Barracks are named after Battles. In Catterick, the accommodation blocks/lines are also named after battles. Other Barracks are named after functional Army Corps regiments, like 11 Signals Regiment barracks and 8 Signals Regiment barracks.
In Ghana, the main Army base in Accra is now called Burma Camp, commemorating the WWll Burma Campaign in which West African forces (including Nigerians) served. It used to be known as Giffard Camp, named after General Sir George Giffard who was GOC-in-Chief, West Africa in 1940. He later commanded the 11th Army Group under Mountbatten in Burma from November 1943-44. The name was changed when Ghana became independent. Within Burma camp, there are Barracks – such as the Arakan Barracks, named after the Arakan campaign in Burma. (Interestingly, the Zambia National Defense Headquarters in Lusaka is located in an Army Base that is also called ‘Arakan Barracks’ – and Nigeria has an Arakan Barracks as well.)
On the other hand, in Ghana, Tamale and Tema Barracks are geographically named. There are also other Barracks in Ghana but there will not be the focus of this essay.
Air Mukwai_
November 11, 2013 at 12:53 am
Kohima Camp was a military camp in Tai Po Tsai north of Clear Water Bay Peninsula in Hong Kong. The camp was built by British Army and demolished in 1980s when the army gradually withdrew from Hong Kong. The land became the site of a new university, namely The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in 1986.
Before the construction of the university, The Scout Association of Hong Kong made use of the camp to set up a Jamboree, namely the Hong Kong Diamond Jubilee Jamboree for the 75th anniversary of Hong Kong Scouting.
Kohima is a town close to the eastern border of India. In 1944 Imperial Japanese Army failed in offensive operation in Battle of Kohima and marked the limit of Empire of Japan.
Air Mukwai_
November 11, 2013 at 1:34 am
Poppies have long been used as a symbol of sleep, peace, and death: Sleep because of the opium extracted from them, and death because of the common blood-red color of the red poppy in particular. In Greek and Roman myths, poppies were used as offerings to the dead. Poppies used as emblems on tombstones symbolize eternal sleep.
A second interpretation of poppies in Classical mythology is that the bright scarlet colour signifies a promise of resurrection after death.
Artificial poppies are worn to commemorate those who died in war. This form of commemoration is associated with Remembrance Day, which falls on November 11. In Canada, Australia and the UK, poppies are often worn from the beginning of November through to the 11th, or Remembrance Sunday if that falls on a later date (November 13, 2011).
Wearing of poppies has been a custom since 1924.
Proff Reader
November 11, 2013 at 9:09 am
Micheal Chiluba Sata???
Ba Ntamba Lukuta
November 11, 2013 at 2:01 pm
Why do they want to elect a Mausoleum? We have already elected Sata. Ukutumpa!