UPND Deputy Secretary General Getrude Imenda says the ruling party did not adopt a female candidate for the upcoming Lumezi by-election because it is too fierce for women to compete in. Madam Imenda says UPND could only have opted for a female candidate if all other participating parties had agreed to adopt women. She adds that Zambians should support Bill 7, which in her view, would allow proportional representation of women in the National Assembly. To start with, it is very surprising that such a statement is coming from a woman who has risen to the very top of the ruling party’s political structures. Madam Imenda’s remarks are not just disappointing, they’re emblematic of the very mindset that keeps Zambia’s...