NUMBER 30                                     AUGUST, 2001

By Madube Pasi Siyauya

The Legal Resources Foundation (LRF)’s rapid expansion programme has been described as dramatic by a consultant from an organisation called IDASA.

Derrick Marco who was in the country on institutional tutoring to LRF last month said in its quest to achieve its goal, LRF has made it possible for very citizen to have access to Law and get justice in abuses of human rights for the people in the rural areas and compounds.

He said the organisation was going through a challenging time to achieve its objectives with limited resources at their disposal.

He said he was particularly impressed with the commitment of staff especially the paralegals that sit in tiny offices.

He said that the commitment of staff is an indication that LRF would make it. He said he saw a lot of potential in LRF to utilise its national capacity to implement additional challenges.

He said an organisation such as LRF is very important in a country like Zambia, which is still undergoing development were people have no economic power to access legal support.

LRF has so far reached seven out of the nine provinces in Zambia.

Widow Wins Back House

By Madube Pasi Siyauya

Dorothy Sichone a widow with four children was assisted by Legal Resources Foundation to obtain possession of a house that was bought by her late husband Derrick Sichone.

Sichone was a lecturer at Kabwe Trades Training Institute and died in May 2000.

Before he was allocated the house, it was occupied by a retired senior lecturer Oswel Belt Mulenga who retired in 1993.

Mulenga thought that he was entitled to purchase of the house under the presidential directive on the sale of government pool houses.

LRF commenced action for possession of the house on behalf of the widow. The order was granted by Justice Tamula Kakusa on May 4, 2001. Sichone took possession of the house July 13, 2001 after LRF issued a writ of possession.

Mulenga had to be evicted from the house.

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