DAVID Kalunga is not an apprentice in local theatre. He is a tenacious, unwavering and stead theatre artist; an actor, director, producer, administrator, and one able to knit accustomed themes into worthy; inventive, innovative and ingenious pieces of creative drama.
Not long ago, Kalunga bade farewell to Mopani Copper Mines Plc, Mufulira division where he worked as occupational health, safety and environmental superintendent-training following the worldwide copper plummet that saw thousands of miners lose their jobs.
Now his intents are precise, defined and fixed; to put his artistic abilities to good use through theatre.
Kalunga needs filial support; moral and financial, to ensure his newly established consultancy firm, Dav360 Solution succeeds. His appeal is passionate, adoring and obsessive, but equally as outstanding projections as his strategies.
He intimated, “I want to work with Government departments and the corporate world in matters of efficiency, productivity, policy analysis, implementation, monitoring and evaluation,” discernibly admitting DAV360 Solution would aim at identifying the clients’ needs through modern hi-tech analysis often used in processes in coming up with aims, goals, objectives and targets of most productive programmes.
Kalunga, who is chairperson for Mufulira Little Theatre said his first assignment is to work with theatre artists in Mufulira before spreading to other parts of Zambia.
“The actors will be used to convert clients’ written procedures,” he said, “then converted to the best operating practices to ICT supported replay scenes to effect simulation and e-learning thereby standardising effective teaching and learning materials with the advantage of personalised tuition,” he said.
The contextual to his consultancy Kalunga said was to somberly give investigative services to clients who may require an independent flair to their established systems.
Artists will be used to reconstruct scenes for better understanding of the critical seconds before the accident.
He admitted the high priority would be given to near misses from which valuable lessons that could prevent serious incidents from occurring – for all major industries, accidents cannot be underplayed.
Kalunga said his plans are to work with the government departments responsible for the formulation of statutes on occupational health, safety and environment to ensure law is up to date with world class standards.
He cited the practices such as the British Standards where occupational, domestic and industrial and road accidents are among the lowest in the world.
The organisation will not be looking for expert artists in theatre, but those who can simulate and bring out the situation as conceptualized by the investigators.
DAV360 Solutions at the request of bereaved or accident affected families will guide these families through the inquest process.
This is a court process that looks at the circumstances surrounding a fatal accident and establishes at the end an open or closed verdict.
There are two verdicts processes, Kalunga said, open and closed. In an open verdict relatives or any other interested is given a go ahead and sue for liability or criminal proceedings.
Whereas the closed verdict means the court rules in that death was by misadventure and not any individual or organisation’s action or omission caused the accident.
With the prevailing high incident rates of roadcarnage, accidents on the mines, in the power industry andagri-forest industry, David Kalungaprophesizes a busy time for theatre artists in DAV360 Consultancy Solutions.
He believes Zambia is developing fast, and this kind of theatre is ideal, and should be reinforced.
Having directed and produced several plays in the early 90s, Kalunga’s consultancy is already advantaged in that scripting matters of concern will not be a glitch.
He wrote The Stuff, a terse script which turned out to be a worthy short play about drug abuse many years ago.
At Country Club theatre in Mufulira, David Kalunga directed The strangler by John Katebe (1987), The Trials of Jerome Mbali by RenutusMushinge (1988), Black Empire by John Katebe and later worked together with playwright Charles Chitundu on a mouthful title, A flirt perhaps but certainly not a bitch.
Earlier Kalunga appeared in among other plays John Katebe’s Payment in Kind (1985) and in 1986 The trials of Dedan Kimathi by Ngugiwa Thiogo (written in collaboration with Micere Mugo).
Other plays include Light Musonda’s two-character play Promises and promises and Kobina man of character in 1990 and 1992, respectively.
By all intents and purposes, Kalunga is not a trainee or an apprentice in theatre; he is an actor full of experience; inert skill, aptitude, knowledge and a lush veteran in theatre to undertake any role with virtuoso – the role that he has assumed in DAV360 Consultancy and Solutions.
And it is this tenacious, unswerving and firm character further compounded by the abilities; as an actor, director, producer and administrator that can make David Kalunga achieve his goals; make his newly formed consultancy an accustomed and inventive success.
For detailed information Kalunga can be contacted on email; kalungadavidza@yahoo.co.uk or and on his whatsApp number: 0961715024.

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