Jack Zimba

 Pamela Mutale (left) and her daughter Mwenda (middle) made the long trip to India to seek medical attention for the little girl.   Mwenda had a form of nasal cancer. She was successfully treated in an Indian hospital and is now fine and back in school.   When life matters most ·        Local company helping medical tourists pay for their lives     JACK ZIMBA   THEY say you cannot put a price on life, but for one mother fighting to save her only child, it took all her savings to afford a trip to India for treatment. In 2018, Pamela Mutale’s child, a daughter named Mwenda, was diagnosed with nasal cancer and needed specialist treatment in India, as recommended by doctors at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH). Before her child’s condition was correctly diagnosed, Pamela had spent about a year trying different hospitals, but the little girl’s condition only grew worse. Pamela talks ...

  Abraham Tembo wants to have a music label to promote talent in Chibolya. Pictures by Jack Zimba.  Ethel Kasabi dreams of becoming a model. Ethel poses for a photo. Many household in Chibolya live in poverty.  Lushomo Mweemba plays for the women's soccer national team. Players vie for the ball during a soccer tournament.  A billboard showing Augustine Mulenga, the national soccer team player who started his career in Chibolya.   Can anything good come out of Chibolya? JACK ZIMBA Lusaka VERY few places in Zambia are as forbidding as Chibolya Township in Lusaka. It has some of the dingiest houses, and drug dens where roughnecks and lowlifes spend hours lifting weights and openly smoking marijuana. Here, you don’t need sniffer dogs to sniff out the illicit drugs; the smell of weed fills the air like smoke at a barbeque party.   About three weeks ago, police and the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) raide...

THE President's daughter. Musata Banda was only three years old when her father became President. Musata with husband, James Banda. With her father, the former President.   With brother, Kaweche, and their father. Musata (front row, left) with Betty Kaunda and siblings.      I was quite naughty, says President Kaunda's daughter JACK ZIMBA WHILE her father kept a grip on power, Musata became the rebellious teenage daughter of the President who longed to have the freedom that she could only dream about within the walls of State House. She was only three when her father became president in 1964, but when she grew older, she yearned for the freedom of an ordinary citizen. On a few occasions, she scaled the brick perimeter wall at State House in the night, on the western side overlooking the Lusaka Golf Club, to escape to parties. “I knew State House like the back of my hand, so we knew where to jump, where there were no soldiers,” s...