VETERAN POLITICIAN MATIYA NGALANDE DIES AT 93
VETERAN politician and former Cabinet Minister in the UNIP Government, Matiya Ngalande, has died at the age of 93.
Mr. Ngalande passed away in Lusaka yesterday after an illness.
Secretary to the Cabinet Patrick Kangwa announced that President Hakainde Hichilema has accorded Mr. Ngalande an official funeral in recognition of his numerous and selfless contributions to the nation.
Mr. Ngalande served as Minister of State for Luapula Province in 1968 and was later appointed Cabinet Minister for Northern Province in 1975. He also served as Deputy Minister in the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) Government between 1991 and 1996 in the Office of the Vice President, as well as in the Ministries of Community Development and Social Welfare, and Communications and Transport.
Mr. Kangwa said funeral gatherings are being held at the late statesman’s residence, House Number 7, Pendela Road, off Kasangula Road in Roma Township, Lusaka.
He added that Mr. Ngalande will be put to rest on Monday, February 16, 2026, at Leopard Hill Memorial Park. The burial ceremony will be preceded by an official funeral church service at the Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross at 10:00 hours.
President Hichilema has declared Monday, February 16, 2026, a day of National Mourning to be observed from 06:00 to 18:00 hours in honour of the late former Cabinet Minister. During this period, all entertainment programmes will be postponed and flags will fly at half‑mast.
ZNBC
Now that is serving the people of Zambia. No drama no noise….Quietly and respectfully serving with purpose and the enjoying ones twilight years….
Ba AKA Ba Chibesakunda tell us whose interest other than your own do you speak for?
Aside from generalised outbursts…what have you found as wrong to leave retirement and start making noise?
Ba Ngalande MYSRIP….thank you for your service…
Yes Mr. Mulenga, ask them and let them answer. Some of the so called Council of Elders are just a Council of failures. AKA Mwana Mulena, at one time he was an MP for Mongu Central, how much did he achieve? At another time he had an opposition party called Agenda for Zambia, it failed. What can he do or tell us now?
However we can’t forget his Father Godwin Mbikusita Lewanika who later became the Litunga was a great man and a true Nationalist who became the first African to form a Liberation Movement in Zambia (Northern Rhodesia). He remains on record as the first pioneer of our liberation struggle and eventual Independence in Zambia.
My condolences to the Ngalande Family and relatives.
Mulenga above, I concur with you. Well I just want to ask fellow Zambians,
this issue of national morning across the entire country, is it really sustainable going into the future? See what, there will be more than 300 MPs not long from now. There will also be so many other professional honourables and the numbers will be increasing as the population grows. Rif ruffs turned honourables such as Bowman, kapyongo emmanuale Banda, munir zulu will also be there and in large numbers. Must Zambia continue to burden the State with responsibility for own dead, some of then even when they have only been destructive to Zambia?Why not include hardworking professionals such as soldiers, police officers, teachers, doctors, nurses, sports people who save zambia better and longer than politicians for national funerals if we want it to continue?
Zambia must decide on some of these things we put in our law. They are just not sustainable and serve little purpose going forward. I submit