{"id":54234,"date":"2023-12-19T20:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T20:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/its-cold-in-opposition-kalaba"},"modified":"2023-12-19T20:42:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T20:42:27","slug":"its-cold-in-opposition-kalaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/its-cold-in-opposition-kalaba","title":{"rendered":"IT\u2019S COLD IN OPPOSITION \u2013 KALABA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Citizen First (CF) president Harry Kalaba says it is difficult to operate as an opposition political party because money does not come easily. Speaking when he featured on ZNBC\u2019s Sunday Interview programme, Mr Kalaba stressed that his party does not agree with the Statutory Instrument from the Registrar of Societies that parties must hold conventions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are having a convention, it is not stones which you gather but money which you have to look for. In the opposition, it is cold; money doesn\u2019t come easily. It is not for the Office of the Registrar or the Ministry of Home Affairs to tell us when and where we should have a convention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kalaba further indicated that CF will participate in ward by-elections in Kapamba in Mpika, Kayo in Mwansabombwe and Mayembe in Shiwang\u2019andu which are scheduled for next January next year.<\/p>\n<p>The former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Bahati Member of Parliament is happy that the UPND-led Government is trying to open the public media to dissenting voices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey (UPND) have realised that maybe they should open up to political players like myself to also access ZNBC,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo on that score, I want to say thank you minister [of Information and Media Cornelius] Mweetwa because you gave me an opportunity to appear here [on ZNBC]. We cannot confine ourselves only to private media houses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Citizen First (CF) president Harry Kalaba says it is difficult to operate as an opposition political party because money does not come easily. Speaking when he featured on ZNBC\u2019s Sunday Interview programme, Mr Kalaba stressed that his party does not agree with the Statutory Instrument from the Registrar of Societies that parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-54234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IT\u2019S COLD IN OPPOSITION \u2013 KALABA - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/its-cold-in-opposition-kalaba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IT\u2019S COLD IN OPPOSITION \u2013 KALABA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. 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