{"id":230578,"date":"2026-04-17T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-bold-reforms-in-zambias-chanje-and-kawaza-chiefdoms-are-helping-to-end-harmful-practices\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:06:39","slug":"zambia-bold-reforms-in-zambias-chanje-and-kawaza-chiefdoms-are-helping-to-end-harmful-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-bold-reforms-in-zambias-chanje-and-kawaza-chiefdoms-are-helping-to-end-harmful-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Bold Reforms in Zambia&#8217;s Chanje and Kawaza Chiefdoms Are Helping to End Harmful Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\"><em>EASTERN PROVINCE, Zambia &#8211;<\/em> Located in the heart of Eastern Province, the Chanje and Kawaza chiefdoms are vibrant custodians of Zambia&#8217;s rich cultural heritage. Here, ancestral wisdom guides daily life, and ceremonies such as <em>Gule Wamkulu<\/em> and <em>Chinamwali<\/em> mark the passage of age and identity. Life is deeply intertwined with community, respect for elders and a strong sense of belonging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">However, beneath the beauty of tradition, the chiefdoms face persistent challenges that threaten the well-being of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EASTERN PROVINCE, Zambia &#8211; Located in the heart of Eastern Province, the Chanje and Kawaza chiefdoms are vibrant custodians of Zambia&#8217;s rich cultural heritage. Here, ancestral wisdom guides daily life, and ceremonies such as Gule Wamkulu and Chinamwali mark the passage of age and identity. Life is deeply intertwined with community, respect for elders and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7439,54185,12735,12629,10633,54186,257,9224,7580,254,4709,881,8982],"class_list":["post-230578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bold","tag-chanje","tag-chiefdoms","tag-harmful","tag-helping","tag-kawaza","tag-news","tag-practices","tag-reforms","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}