PF candidate Chitalu Chilufya flank by his wife talks to reporters after his victory President Sata has with immediate effect appointed newly elected Mansa Central PF Member of Parliament Dr. Chitalu Chilufya as deputy minister in the Ministry of Health. Dr Chilufya replaces Hon. Christopher Mulenga who has been transferred to the Ministry of Youth and Sport in the same ...
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President Sata appoints newly elected Mansa central MP as deputy Minister Health
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Tanzania hold Zambia in Cecefa Opener
Zambia blew away a first half lead to draw 1-1 with Tanzania at Machakos today in their opening Group B match at the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup in Kenya. Nkana striker Ronald Kampamba gave Patrice Beaumelle’s side a 41st minute lead against the run of play. "Sate Sate" Kampamba headed in a Felix Katongo cross to finish a move started by fit-again midfielder Kondwani Mtonga. ...
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Burundi top Cecafa Group B
Zambia’s 2013 Cecafa Cup Group D opponents on Sunday Burundi have taken command of the pool after Thursday's round one of games played in Machakos in Kenya. The 2014 CHAN finalist were made to work hard for the three points by Somalia who surprised their opponents by holding out for most of the opening 43 minutes of the first half. Somalia almost took a shock lead in the 22nd minute ...
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Sports Tanzania hold Zambia as Burundi beat Somalia
Tanzania replied five minutes later through Hussein Said, who headed home a corner kick to earn his team the equaliser. The match started on a high note with both teams hunting for early goals, which was characterised by missed ...
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Nurses defy Government’s threats as more join the strike
Nurses Striking nurses at UTH have defied government's directive to go back to work by 17 hours today. A check at the health institution found nurses from defense forces taking care of patients. Some of the nurses interviewed vowed that they will not return to work until their grievances are ...
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Zim Zambia Malawi borders much quicker now
The introduction of trade information desk officers at key border posts between Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi has boosted trade in the region and made cumbersome customs processes easier for thousands of small-scale cross-border traders. However, the funding through the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) will come to an end, which means the trade information desk officers could ...
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Musokotwane’s sentiments displeased ZDDM
Lea-Lui Member of Parliament Situmbeko Musokotwane The Zambia Direct Democracy Movement (ZDDM) has lashed out at Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) Liuwa Member of Parliament Situmbeko Musokotwane for opposing the inclusion of the 50+1 clause in the republican constitution on the basis that it was costly to run an election with such a clause. ZDDM Vice President Charles Kafumbo says the ...
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RB takes fresh plea in magistrate court
Former President Rupiah Banda Former President Rupiah Banda has today pleaded not guilty to two counts of corrupt practices by public officer and concealing gratification of motor vehicles contrary to section 36 of the anti corruption Act number 38 of 2010. Mr. Banda was taking fresh plea following an indictment to the charges earlier this week when the construction comapny was included in the ...
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Zambia records slump in cotton production in 2013
Zambia has seen a slump in cotton production this year largely due to a reduction in the hectares farmers planted the crop, state media reported on Thursday.Cotton production in the southern African nation slumped by 48 percent because many farmers did not plant the crop as a result of low prices that emerged last year, according to the Times of Zambia.The country produced 100,000 tons of cotton ...
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Govt Warns Against Bid-Rigging
THE Government has warned officers involved in awarding of tenders against vices like bid-rigging saying they are detrimental to national development and add to the cost of doing business. Commerce, Trade and Industry Permanent Secretary Siazongo Siakalenge said there was need to adhere to the law and avoid vices during tender awarding. Speaking at the opening of the one-day seminar on ensuring ...
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Breaking Silence On GBV
THE loudest voice that is heard in the condemnation of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Zambia is that of the female folk. This is because girls and women being the weaker sex are usually the victims of GBV at the hands of their male counterparts who in most cases are perpetrators of the vice. Zambia is a Christian Nation and still subscribes to the motto of One Zambia, One Nation which first ...
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FRA Maize Exports Hit 32175.35 Tonnes
THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has so far exported 32,175.35 tonnes of maize out of the 205,000 tonnes to three countries, under the Government to Government agreements with Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Malawi. Agriculture and Livestock minister Robert Sichinga said in a statement that this means a balance of 172,824.65 tonnes of maize was yet to be exported to the three countries under the ...
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Nsakwa Yaba Kaonde - Cidatel of Tribal Identity
Authentic Zambian cultural values, so shuddering now, have eroded seemingly beyond revivification. Occidental type of culture, prevalent in the western world such as the United States of America, Britain, France, German, Italy has engulfed Zambian society. Against the unabated cultural blizzards pervading the Zambian ethos and many other parts of the developing world, one ethnic group, the ...
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Government dismisses 18 state advocates for engaging in illegal industrial action
Government has with immediate effect dismissed 18 state advocates for engaging in what it described an ''illegal industrial action'' demanding K3,600 non practicing allowance which is said to have been ...
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KK appeals to the supreme court the over $ 1 million owed to five law firms
Dr Kaunda FIRST republican President Kenneth Kaunda has appealed to the Supreme Court against the decision of the high court to refuse to set aside a judgment in default that ordered him to pay more than US$ 1, 208, 026 (about K6.6 billion) to five law firms. This is in a matter in which Sakwiba Sikota’s central chambers, Lukona chambers, Patrick Mvunga and Associates, Lighthouse chambers ...
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Government plans to expand and modernise Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital
Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital Government plans to expand and modernise Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital in Lusaka. Deputy Minister of Health Christopher Mulenga said government wants to transform the hospital to a level where it will provide quality health care that was of international standards. Mr. Mulenga disclosed this when he officiated at the Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital open day ...
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President Sata to soon unveil the strategy to solve youths unemployment-Kambwili
Youth and Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili PRESIDENT Michael Sata will soon launch the Youth Employment Strategy which will outline how Government seeks to address the unemployment levels the country is grappling with. Youth and Sport Minister Chishimba Kambwili said during the ZNBC Radio Two Government Forum programme in Lusaka yesterday that Government with help from the World Bank (WB), ...
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State to Continue Enhancing Private Sector Growth in 2014
THE Government will in 2014 continue implementing reforms aimed at building and enhancing a sustainable legislative and regulatory environment for private sector-led growth, Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda has said. Mr Chikwanda said this would include the Government's commitment to provide an environment that would encourage local content and business linkages with the help of the ...
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Fire Fighting Industry Must Win Back Public Confidence
THE National Fire Service Training School based in Kabwe which was constructed shortly after independence in 1964 in some way has contributed to the fire fighting and rescue industry in the country. Yet its contributions have been received with mixed reactions by members of the public. This is mainly due to the numerous cases of failure and ineffectiveness recorded by the fire fighters to ...
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How Gov Yuguda Won Kenneth Kaunda Africa Leadership Award
This year's prestigious Dr. Kenneth Kaunda Foundation African Consciousness Leadership Award expectedly to Mal. (Dr.) Isa Yuguda, the Bauchi State Governor as Africa's Best State Governor in Education and Infrastructural Development has thrown the state into a strange frenzy. On Saturday, November 9, 2013 when the governor was expected to be in Mandela Hall, Burger's Hotel in ...
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