CHOMA District Commissioner (DC) Bernadette Hamweemba has said Gender Based Violence (GBV) has the potential to reverse on-going developmental gains across the country. Ms Hamweemba has since called for increased collaboration with various stakeholders to sensitise the masses on the vice. She said yesterday that Choma had not been spared by the adverse effects of GBV which, if not checked, had ...
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Lets Step Up GBV Fight
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Teacher Nabbed for Defiling Niece
POLICE in Kabwe have arrested a 44-year-old teacher who is alleged to have defiled his 15-year-old niece. The suspect of Chipako Primary School, whose names have been withheld, is alleged to have defiled the girl who is in Grade 9 at the same school. Central Province Police chief Standwell Lungu, who confirmed this yesterday, said the incident happened around 01:00 hours on Tuesday at the ...
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Banks Should Heed Governors Call
IT is not a secret that the current administration has effectively used the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) to address many challenges in the financial sector. The central bank has in the last two years or so become a critical driver of change and has since recorded various milestones. The BoZ revised the minimum statutory capital requirement from K12 million or US$2.3 million to about K104 million for ...
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PF Cadres Appear for Mention
PATRIOTIC Front (PF) Lusaka Province youth chairperson Kennedy Kamba yesterday appeared in the Lusaka magistrate's court for mention on a charge of proposing violence. Kamba, 39, of Rockfield Township in Lusaka, is charged with proposing violence and breaches of the law to assemblies, contrary to Section 91(1) a of the Penal Code Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia. It is alleged that Amford ...
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Return to Work Union Tells Nurses
THE Zambia Union of Nurses Organisation (ZUNO) has called on striking nurses to return to work, as the union and Government have started negotiations for the 2014 improved salaries and conditions of service. And Labour and Social Security Minister Fackson Shamenda has said the ongoing strike by nurses and midwives at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) and Livingstone General Hospital is ...
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Magic Smells Title As Trotters and Magnet Get Promotion
MATERO Magic trounced Green Buffaloes 74-61 to open up a three-point lead over second placed UNZA Pacers at the summit of the Zambia Basketball Association (ZBA) South league table after Week 16 games played. With two games to go before the end of the 2013 campaign, Pacers whose game against Mazabuka Comets was abandoned due to rains, need to win their remaining games and hope for a Magic slip ...
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Wakunguma Promises Change At NOC
AS the countdown to this weekend's National Olympic Committee (NOC) heats up, candidates for the various positions have also intensified their campaigns. The NOC elective annual general meeting (AGM) is billed for Mukuba Hotel in Ndola on December 7. Campaigns have swung into action with aspiring candidate for the position of secretary general Shapa Wakunguma, who is challenging incumbent ...
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Cotton Output Falls By 48 PC
Zambia's cotton production has gone down by 48 per cent in 2013, due to the reduction in growing area because of the low prices experienced last year. This was because most farmers shunned the crop due to the low prices on the local market which hit a low of K1.70 in 2012. The country produced 100,000 tonnes of cotton in 2013, 48 per cent less than the 275,000 tonnes harvested in 2012. ...
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LAZ Must Avoid Prejudicial Comments
AT THIS time that Mufumbwe PF MP has appealed his conviction case and the matter rests with the higher court, it is prejudicial and malicious, for anyone and more so for the custodians and professors of law, the law body LAZ, to comment on the conviction of Steven Masumba. It appears LAZ is just too personal with anyone having connections and interests with PF. How does LAZ know maybe the ...
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Barclays Beats New BoZ Capital Deadline
BARCLAYS Bank Zambia (BBZ) is not affected by the increase in the statutory minimum capital requirement for commercial banks and has already secured the funds. And the bank has spent more than US$1.5 million over the last one year in upgrading its technology systems to enable its customers have top of the range access to the bank. Speaking during the launch of the rebranding of premier life to ...
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Government Commends U-17 Girls
GOVERNMENT has described the Under-17 Women's national team historic qualification to the 2014 Costa Rica FIFA World Cup finals, saying it is well deserved and a sweet Christmas gift to the people of Zambia. And Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili has directed the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) to engage sponsors of the Premier League clubs to establish girls' teams that should ...
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Expand to Rural Areas FCB Told
THE Bank of Zambia (BoZ) has urged commercial banks in the country to take advantage of the conducive macroeconomic environment to expand to the rural areas and improve financial inclusion. BoZ Governor Micheal Gondwe said at the official launch of First Capital Bank (FCB) Zambia Limited formerly International Commercial Bank (ICB) in Lusaka that banks should take advantage of the prevailing ...
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Swimmers Ready to Splash
ZAMBIAN swimmers have been declared ready for the Confederation of Aquatic Nations Association (CANA) 10th Africa Junior Championships that gets underway at the 90 Days Legacy Swimming Pool in Lusaka today. Coach Ian Stephenson said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that the swimmers were ready to splash at the swimming pool situated at the Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) against 250 ...
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Take Advantage of Export Market
ONLY 163 companies out of 10,000 registered with the Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) have been actively taking part in ventures involved in Non-Traditional Exports (NTEs). ZDA director general Andrew Chipwende said only a few companies were utilising the export market in the country despite the creation of the conducive environment by the Government. He said at the ZDA-Ecobank Business Forum in ...
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Will Chipolopolo Blast Kilimanjaro Stars
ZAMBIA today kicks off her 2013 Confederation of East and Central African Football Associations (CECAFA) Senior Challenge Cup with a tricky tie against one of the tournament's favourites, Tanzania aiming to take early command of Group B. Coach Patrice Beaumelle heads into this group opener against a backdrop of three successive defeats to Brazil, Jordan and Egypt in international friendly ...
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UN Climate Change Indaba Approves New Global Treaty
THE United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference 2013 came to a close in Warsaw, Poland and approved the new global treaty to be signed in Paris in 2015. The UN climate talks concluded with delegates reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming. The new global treaty will replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which set targets for developed countries to cut their green-house gas emissions. ...
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AFDB to Raise U.S $100 Million for Skills Training
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) will raise US$100 million from the private sector for skills development in the Zambian mining sector. The funds are aimed at streamlining skills in the economy. AfDB resident representative Freddie Kwesiga said plans are underway to raise the US$100 million from the private sector for skills training for the Zambian miners. Dr Kwesiga said the bank was ...
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Hichani Out of Sfaxien Match
CHIPOLOPOLO defender Hichani Himoonde has been ruled out TP Mazembe's crucial home encounter against CS Sfaxien of Tunisia in the second leg of the CAF Confederations Cup final in Lubumbashi on Saturday because of an ankle injury. The Congolese giants would be hoping to overturn their 2-0 loss in the reverse fixture in Tunisia and Himoonde will be watching from the sidelines. The Zambian ...
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Angola and Zambia Sign MoU in Minerals Domain On Friday
The governments of Angola and Zambia will sign on Friday a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen cooperation in minerals domain. This was announced on Thursday in Luculo locality in the eastern Moxico province by the Angolan minister of Geology and Mining, Francisco Queiros. Speaking to Angop on the fringes of the inauguration of stations of Benguela Railways Company (CFB) in Luena/Luau ...
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Misa and Save the Children to Host Regional Awards in Zambia
Wednesday 27 November, 2013 On Friday 29 November 2013, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and Save the Children International will host the second annual Regional Children's Reporting Awards at 1800hrs at the Taj Pamodzi hotelin Lusaka, Zambia. MISA Regional Director, Ms Zoe Titus, said "the aim of the awards is to promote examples of high quality reporting in the region ...
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