Nude Photos: Church tells Post editors to check their consciousness and not just consider sales
7th JANUARY, 2013
UNPALATABLE PICTURES IN SOME OF THE DAILY TABLOIDS
The Council of Churches in Zambia is deeply concerned at the almost nude pictures that are being published in some of the daily tabloids. The deliberate exposure of near naked women, the suggestive sexual positions of the dancers and the obvious alcohol abuse by the patrons at such occasions raises the question as to what is the motive of all those pictures.
It is palpable that the answer to this question might be that we are in a liberalised and democratic era and we can even be referred to the west where those things are normal and nobody complains and that people can chose to see or not to see, to read or not to read. The other argument might be that the internet is awash with worse pictures and people watch anything anyway. However this phenomenon cannot pass without comment. Our nation is still too young to deal with these things as the west has done.
At the time when the country is crying out against the rampant moral degradation, the ever increasing cases of sexual and gender violence, the breakdown in community values and principles, the uncontrolled substance abuse, such pictures in a newspaper do nothing to help the country curb the ills it is grappling with at the moment. When our children are subjected to such pictures day in day out they begin to think it is the norm and once this entrenches in their minds there is no telling to what extent the damage would have been done to these potential adults of tomorrow.
We are appealing to the consciousness of our media practitioners to consider walking with the Zambians in their quest to instil moral grounding and to entrench value chain in the lives of especially our young people. We are cognisant of the fact that papers must sale but not on the back of our young people and our moral cultural standing in our society.
The church’s other concern is the widely popular so called entertainment during government or private functions. The kind of dancing that our women and men are exhibiting at such functions leaves much to be desired. At an occasion where we are raising consciousness regarding sexual and gender violence, it is at the same occasions that women and men would dance in such a way that it is sometimes very embarrassing to watch. As far as we know some of the so called traditional dances were never meant for public consumption, they were for a specific purpose and a specific occasion and usually performed in the privacy of homes or during counselling preceding a wedding. To now bring these activities in the public arena and call them entertainment raises concern for the church. The sexual manoeuvres and explicit gestures are to say the least uncalled for and they do not help the nation in their aggressive campaign against sexual and gender violence in our society.
Secondly the ‘entertainment’ is taking too much time away from the core of events and could even be anti-development in terms of the time this entertainment takes. Zambia at a time such as this needs everyone to be investing as much time as possible on developmental activities rather than on entertainment. Instead of an event taking two hours so that people could go and do other work, it is taking four to five hours.
If indeed we must have entertainment during all events there are many other traditional dances which are graceful, entertaining and not suggestive.
It is our hope and prayer that as we begin a new year those that are responsible for disseminating information to the public and those that arrange the so called traditional dances as a form of entertainment will seriously reflect on this matter and dutifully help the cause of society in bringing sanity to the land.
Rev Suzanne Matale
General Secretary
Council of Churches in Zambia
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I believe responsible journalism should be about stamping out social ills. I would appreciate if this disgusting picture was completely ignored and instead bring out the one related to the main show( entertainment wise) However this pic could have been appropriate if the journalist commented in the negative on this indecent exposure bound to corrupt many of our innocent boys. ……by the way does anyone know what the story about this pic was?????? well the main comment was: Singer Dalisoul with a fan go wild on stage during a performance at Mayela night club. It would have been much more appropriate if the journalist had identified this pic with one of the many social ills that should be discouraged by passing a discouraging comment in relation to the picture. If I were a journalist I would marry this pic to a discouraging comment like: A shameless and drunk prostitute interrupts Dalisouls during an otherwise very entertaining show ( The clever artist tactfully chased the whore by reminding her about her nakedness). That way one discourages such behavior.
Army worm - January 9, 2013
12:06
Church manje ni government,pf ni government nd postnewspaper ni government who is going 2 control vintako being published nationwide mu christian nation coz mapastors, ma revulandis,ma bishop nama elders onse they av 4goten their duties 2 perform thy ar politician failing 2 advice th government bt backng thm who is going 2 advise ngati bana ba asogoleli bathu nawo aluvula lets b frankly sitizaluza nchito coz ths is nt states to publish vintako
cairzzious - January 8, 2013
23:48
Why was this chimama also exposing herself? Chinajaila yakumbuyo. Shame on her too.
Fitiball - January 8, 2013
16:44
mmembe, remember there is death after every life. one day it wiil be you to sleep in the cold soil. i suggest as a christian, be careful
wille - January 8, 2013
14:45
very immoral pfost chaps..how do you publish such a pussy..?
CNP-4U - January 8, 2013
14:27
Rotten Post newspaper run by equally rotten to the core editorial team whose morals have descended to the lowest BOTTOM inboth senses of the word. What a silly woman also – to show her everything even without being asked for permission for the whole world to see!!! The hottest part of hell is waiting for you woman and the Post editorial team for making so many to sin in their hearts and actually after seeing that photo. I always thought that the soft and fluffy paper was very good as toilet paper; now am so sure it is not fit even for that private matter- cleaning bottoms!
anaseeh drorgva - January 8, 2013
13:22
Never mind…thats just some soft porn picture….
iris kaingu - January 8, 2013
13:16
Where arev the editors ? integrity ?
Gabriel - January 8, 2013
12:57
Why show the same “UNPALATABLE PICTURES” also? You have now become the same as those TABLOIDS that show those UNPALATABLE PICTURES but online.
JS - January 8, 2013
12:32
What do u say about President Michael Sata’s daughter Mwelwa Sata (the plump and short one) with one Chongo Mushinge at a pool party at southern sun hotel in Lusaka Church?…..
Why double standards..Monga nima setting.
J.O NICHIKALI - January 8, 2013
10:55
This practice of journalism is dangerous, it is sad that the post has hidden under ‘exposure of what goes on in night clubs’ as propagated by the editorial of Sunday, 6th January 9and why choose the day of worship to defend such an immoral picture, what a coincidence!!).
If the picture was in a RESTRICTED publication, there wouldn’t be any condemnation but the post is an open print media which is displayed on the street, and any picture is likely to CATCH the eye of any passerby.
in journalism, we are able to communicate with masses pictorially,i have some questions for my fellow scribes and editors at the Post:
1.Do the editors know that some of the people that touch the publication are illiterate but onlywant to look at pictures to ‘read’ the story?
2.Do they realise the harm being done to such innocent souls, what about the children at home in whose hands the papers land the moment we reach our homes and throw the paper in the living room?
3.There is always a caption at the bottom of the picture, if at all it is in the name of ‘exposing the evil things’ do the captions transmit that message to the reader or the captions instead attract the reader’s mind to the activity, you cant be claiming to condemn something bad done by one person while attracting another person’s attention to the same wrong.
4. is there any independence in these publications or the motive is driven by one editor who seems to have a purpose for these pictures?
5. Above all, self sensorship is critical in any media practice, we have seen that before in the same Post, Chansa Kabwela’s pictures are a typical example.
I may go on and on but honestly speaking on this one the Post has injured people’s minds and I am amazed at the uninformed support coming from the artists, they don’,t seem to be in tandem with what media practice is. the media is their to EDUCATE, INFORM AND ENTERTAIN. let us rate our ‘paper that digs deeper’ on this pyramid.
We all know about what happens in Night clubs and that is the reason why there is age and operation hours regulation, so unless the editors are telling me that they have reduced themselves to a tabloid specialising in night club activities, then we can now know so that when you are buying the paper you even know what you expect.
what is news, Is it when a man bites dog or when a dog bites man? here we are just telling people that a dog has bitten man, which in any case is not news but rather a common and normal circumstance. In my journalistic opinion, the pictures seem to be aimed at pulling rather than pushing society away from the immorality being ‘condemned’ by the post.
I would have proposed that this debate window is opened in one of the post editions and let readers express themselves freely (hoping that even opposing views will be published) and then judge for yourselves, and again about musicians supporting the act, them artists are an interested party and are you really balancing your opinion sources when you just go to one section of people 9interested parties for that matter!).
I wish the Post long live and deeper digging.
Wilson Pondamali - January 8, 2013
08:19
I SOMETIMES WONDER, AS WHO EVER MADE A WOMAN WANTED HER TO BE, FOR EVEN A BITCH HAS TO BE ON HEAT TO EXHIBIT SUCH KIND OF BEHAVIOUR. WHAT A SHAME AND AN INSULT TO WOMANHOLD.
NEVERMIND - January 8, 2013
07:38
what was the singer peeping at?Indecent curiosity at its best!
Arizona - January 8, 2013
06:16
to bad for that bad picture,if i was the one making photos i cant even show that bad photo to people am sorry.
moonga mbala - January 8, 2013
05:41
You can see that even the church fears The Post. Why go round names when you know who publishes those pictures. This so called rev. matale is a PF cadre hiding in the church. We cant get any thing reasonable from her.
Sansakuwa Chikala - January 8, 2013
04:38
If you don’t like the post Don’t Read It! Period!!!
Otherwise …… Kikikik
Nojou - January 8, 2013
04:17
agree!
nana - January 9, 2013
09:38
Let’s hear what bo inonge wina wil say,since this involves her nephew namakando! What about those pf women in kafue who were callin for HH ‘s blood? Why are they quite?
patrick shekela. - January 7, 2013
22:56
Ali na pad
Humprey - January 7, 2013
22:43
but stil more fye,what is this woman putting in between her legs,is that a vuva or what?but if its the vuva then alinayo.
take out this photo now,mumembe has alread made a ——————————–
one zambia 72 nations - January 7, 2013
21:20
I think Mmembe in his yesterday’s editorial was very right. There is too much hypocrisy in this country. People like Susana Matale move with hardcore porn movies on their cellphones, but the moment just thighs are shown in papers, these are the same people who start ranting and frothing as if they are the holy of holies.
No wonder churches of nowadays irritate me. After being screwed the whole night, someone even has the guts to open her mouth singing Hallelujah !! Hallelujar!!! the loudest like a baby who has been slapped on the cheeks. These clergy are hypocrites who hoodwink docile imbeciles.
EMMY - January 7, 2013
20:52
You got that right! As for me i stopped praying after visiting “the holy” city of jerusalem in Israel
Mimi - January 8, 2013
10:25
the post has been satanic all this time, look at how they have tried to cleanse KK of all the evil deeds he committed for over 20 years by constantly telling us that kaunda is good when kaunda is an evil man, how they been fighting christian values and morals constantly showing those bad pictures to our children in their evil educational post.
rockwill - January 7, 2013
20:30
ZWD has continued to reproduce this pic in the name of scandalising the post, yet, perpetrating the corruption of people’s morals. Stop this nonses and set a good trend for the media. Cheap politics.
CHABILINGANA P - January 7, 2013
19:43
I agree with you why keep showing this indecent picture almost every day? Is ZWD as immoral as the post?
shoko - January 8, 2013
07:51
Malicious DOGS and they always post it beside minister Masebo. Shame on you DOG
Nkeyema - January 8, 2013
23:37
Who is keeping this photo here what is the benefit i think no one wants to look at it it is a disgrace to you the publishers of this paper please keep it way
nshilimubemba - January 7, 2013
19:37
Point of correction Rev. Our nation is NOT still too young to deal with such things like the west does. We are an old nation. We were morally upright people till Mumembe arrived on the scene. Rev don’t be scared of mentioning who the culprit is. If you trully have faith, THE ALMIGHTY GOD WILL PROTECT YOU FROM YHE SAVAGE EDITORIALS OF MUMEMBE.
Chambeshi Metals - January 7, 2013
19:36
This just goes to show just how hypocritical the Post Newspaper are. Only the day before, they were at the forefront of “drumming” up campaign against HH for what they (Post) attributed to him has degrading Women in suggesting he advised “Women to deny sex with their PF boyfriends”. Something he has refuted. While that was gaining momentum with a few names called in to condemn HH, the post go and publish this. This can’t be refuted it is in print and on record. We await to hear recordings of what HH said.
The least Nawakwi, Inonge and the “very concerned” women’s group from Kafue (whom we believe have sued HH) can do is equally condemn the Post Newspaper and for the womens group, sue the Post Newspaper. Otherwise they expose themselves and their intentions in the first place. However, when the arm that sleeps with the master is involved and the “campaigns of the belly” are involved it becomes difficult to be objective and impartial…..
It's a worry (Mmembe n Nchito should pay back K14b) - January 7, 2013
18:43
are you sure this is a zambian woman or a congolese dancing queen
blackbull - January 7, 2013
18:42
bad manners!
Joseph - January 7, 2013
18:23
This pic makes me nauseous every time I see it, ugh!
Bobby Digital - January 7, 2013
18:16
Ba Suzanne Matale, its good that you are now coming to some awakening, instead of supporting anything that comes to us…i hope you were not among the people who vigorously condemned HH claiming he insulted the women, NOW THIS is an insult to the women by your so beloved POST NEWSPAPER that is bringing insanity in the minds of MEN, to destroy their thought patterns,,you know that men have a strength with what they see, so the POST decides to make WICKED suggestions for the men..and that INCLUDES your HUSBAND, the minute he sees that picture after after buying the POST, it NEVER left his mind….May God help you too..
NewZambia - January 7, 2013
17:56
hope we are seeing this picture for the last time today in 2013,and that any article condemning the practice will just refer to its date of publication.
grace - January 7, 2013
17:40
Can we PLEASE remove this story now???? Continuing to put it here with this horrible picture is like we are now alos participating in its promotion. It is not a nice picture to see, it is NOT even erotic – it is disgusting.
Mbafu - January 7, 2013
17:22
Boza if she approached you you would be salivating like a dog that has seen food.So stop pretending am sure you are even touching yourselves some of you.
Mushota's dog - January 7, 2013
18:00
meembe is a big dog and people who support this are satanists
CBU - January 7, 2013
17:21
xxxxxL
goodliving.com - January 7, 2013
17:21