9 August 2018
Accra, Ghana

His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zambia Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu visited the National Assembly of Zambia stand at the ongoing 92nd Agricultural and Commercial in Lusaka on Friday, 3rd August, 2018.  The President who was in his jovial mood shouted “hear hear hear....order order order..” (sentiments usually used in Parliament) upon seeing the National Assembly stand.

The SADC Parliamentary Forum has issued a preliminary statement on the Observation Mission to the 2018 Zimbabwe Harmonised Elections. The Statement was issued by the Head of Mission the Rt Hon Justice Dr Patrick Matibini, SC, FCIArb, MP, Speaker of the National Assembly of Zambia at Harare International Conference Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe on 1st August, 2018.

The Rt. Hon. Juctice Dr. Patrick Matibini, SC, FCIArb, MP has continued his countrywide tour of constituency offices, with his most recent tour having been the tour of Southern Province constituency offices from 20th to 22nd July, 2018. The Speaker has embarked on the countrywide tour of constituency offices in order to be extensively acquainted with the operations of the offices, as well as to devise ways of making them more effective in serving the purpose for which they were established. 

The Chairperson of the National Working group of the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), HIV and AIDS Governance Project Dr Chritopher K Kalila, MP says there is need for strategic engagement and networking in SRHR and HIV and AIDS programming in order to adequately address prevailing SRHR challenges.

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For immediate release, 12 July 2018

Speaker of the National Assembly Rt. Hon Justice Dr Patrick Matibini, SC, FCIArb, MP says Zambia and South Africa enjoy warm and cordial relations from way back and therefore it is imperative that their Parliaments learn from each other by sharing best practices.  Dr Matibini said this when a delegation from Kwazulu Natal Legislature of South Africa paid a courtesy call on him at Parliament Buildings in Lusaka, on Tuesday, 10th July, 2018.

A Mission of the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC - PF) on Friday 6th July, 2018 paid President Edgar Chagwa Lungu a visit at State House in order to lobby for Zambia’s support towards the transformation of the SADC- PF from a parliamentary forum to a parliament.

Clerk of the National Assembly of Zambia Mrs Cecilia Nsenduluka Mbewe has said it is indisputable that national development is only achievable through the labour force, which is a factor of production in every industry.
Speaking during the National Assembly of Zambia 2018 Labour Day Awards presentation ceremony on Friday, 29th June, 2018 at Parliament Buildings in Lusaka, Mrs Mbewe stated that human resource is the most indispensible of all factors of production.  She congratulated all members of staff for their devotion to duty and urged them to even do more.  

Chirundu Member of Parliament, Mr Douglas Syakalima says the National Assembly Constituency Offices have made the work of Members of Parliament easier as MPs are not expected to be in the office physically to attend to constituency issues. Mr Syakalima said this during the Roadshow that was organised by the National Assembly of Zambia, with the support of Irish Aid, in his constituency on Saturday, 23rd June, 2018.