Wed, 08 Mar 2017 10:06:13 +0000 IT is totally unacceptable, extremley careless and uncoscionable for Reverend Matale to suggest that the stampede at OYDC was a result of widespread national poverty. Reverend Susan Matale, general secretary of the Council of Churches in Zambia, must come out in the open and declare her interest in politics than use her church position to promote personal political interests. The church should be the last institution to claim political mileage from a sad and devastating event such as the one in which eight lives were lost in a stampede. Above all, it is an insult to the intelligence of Zambians to suggest that the tragedy was a result of widespread hunger in the country. This statement was outrightly political, illogical and an affront to the facts as they emerge. There was no food being distributed when the deaths occurred, therefore the suggestion is not correct. The event at […]
