Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:48:42 +0000 “Go well my girl,” first republican president Kenneth Kaunda said in his farewell message to his wife Mama Betty Kaunda who was also Zambia’s ever first lady after independency in 1964. Mama Betty Kaunda who was interred at Dr Kaunda’s State Lodge home has been eulogized as a beacon of peace and a woman who contributed measly to the liberation struggle in Zambia and other countries in the region. Dr Kaunda in his eulogy read on his behalf by a Mr Pius Kasutu said he would not have achieved what he did for the country and himself without the support of Mama Betty Kaunda. “You were my great companion in the last 66 years of our marriage. I would not have achieved what I did for the country and for myself without your support and participation. Go well my girl,” Dr Kaunda said. In his tribute, Dr Kaunda said […]
