THE United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) is supporting Zambia to put in place frameworks that support innovative and quality driven industrial development Commerce, Trade and Industry deputy Minister Miles Sampa has said. Mr Sampa said UNIDO had supported Zambia's development of the national quality infrastructure by way of developing the national quality policy. The ...
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UNIDO Backs Zambia On Quality Industrial Development
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How Dad Raped Step Daughter
BEAUTY Chama (not real name) is a 13-year-old girl with good looks. Her father died four years ago and her mother re-married two years ago. But the man who is supposed to be Beauty's step father, a provider and protector, has been defiling the girl for sometime but she could not report the matter to anyone for fear of being killed by the step father who has threatened that he would do this ...
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Zambian Sports Mourn Mandela
THE Zambian sports fraternity has joined the rest of the world in mourning the death of global iconic figure and former South African president, Nelson Mandela. Sports Council of Zambia (SCZ) board chairperson, Mwamba Kalenga said the national governing body was saddened with the passing on of Mandela, who died on Thursday night. Kalenga said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that the world ...
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Kabitaka School Makes Ripples
North-Western Province today clearly portrays what can be called the "paradox of plenty." It is the richest mining province in Zambia and simultaneously wallows near the bottom of the national development staircase. On the educational front, the province's most outstanding school with the gravitas to make ripples on the world map, Kabitaka, opened at Kabitaka Hills in Solwezi, JOHN ...
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Madibas Leadership Worth Emulating
ZAMBIA joins the rest of the world in mourning former South African President Nelson Mandela with genuine reasons to do so. Firstly, when Mr Mandela, who was fondly referred to as Madiba, was released from prison in 1990, he immediately travelled to Lusaka a profound appreciation for Zambia which had hosted the African National Congress, a liberation movement at the time. Those who were ...
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FDD Calls for Demonstrations Against Constitutional Delay
The opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) has called for massive demonstrations against the Patriotic Front government's delay in giving Zambians a people driven constitution. FDD spokesperson Antonio Mwanza said President Sata should immediately constitute a referendum commission and give the people a constitution they have long fought for. The constitution making process ...
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25 Zambians to Attend Obama Youth Initiative
TWENTY five Zambians will be among the more than 500 fellows that will attend the President Barack Obama's Youth African Leaders Initiative fellowship programme expected to start mid next year. The Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders is a new flagship programme of President Obama and was expected to bring more than 500 young African leaders to the United States each year. Mr ...
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Nancy Handabile Nominated for AMVCA Awards
Zambia's actress Nancy Handabile has been nominated for the prestigious Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards in the category of the best actress supporting role. Nancy who is also a journalist by profession currently corresponding with the Times of Zambia said the nomination news has come as a pleasant surprise to her and is greatly humbled. "I am happy and I feel honoured to be ...
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Sakala Brothers to Hold Free Concert At Alliance
AFTER recording one of the best if not the finest albums of the year 2013, the kings of the Makebane music - Sakala Brothers have been billed to deliver a free concert on December 10, 2013 at Lusaka's Alliance Francaise. Alliance Francaise president Chanda says the concert that is meant to commemorate the Human Rights Day is one of the highly anticipated shows likely to pull huge crowds ...
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First Lady in SA for HIVAids Indaba
Cape Town - FIRST Lady Christine Kaseba on Thursday arrived in the resort city of Cape Town, South Africa where she will be guest of honour at the 17th International Conference of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STIs) in Africa (ICASA). South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe would be the co-guest of honour at the conference to be officially opened today starting at 18.00 ...
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Chellahs Mother Burial On Today
SPECIAL assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations George Chellah's late mother Loveness Sakanya Chellah, 59, who died on Tuesday, will be put to rest in Kitwe today. And Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Stanford Msichili was yesterday among several mourners who visited the funeral house at number 14, Nsombo Street, Twibukishe in Kitwe to console Mr Chellah and the entire ...
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National Growth Needs Everyones Support
ASSASSINATING any agenda to grow the country is the extreme censorship of development. That statement is amplified by the truism suggesting that the whole fledging social fabric would fly asunder if no checks are put in place. This brings in the fact that you can not have the argument about the vitality of coordinated support for Government's development agenda both ways. Cardinal ...
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Kapiri Gay Trial - Defence Lawyers Application Thrown Out
KABWE Principal Resident Magistrate John Mbuzi has thrown out an application by Sunday Nkonde of SNB legal practitioners that the testimony by Melody Luhanga, a medical licentiate officer should not be admitted as evidence on the basis that he does not qualify to be an expert witness. This is in the case in which Philip Mubiana and James Mwape both aged 21 are appearing in Kapiri Mposhi Court ...
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Government and ZCTU set for crucial talks over dismissed nurses
Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Leonard Hikaumba The Zambia Congress of Trade Union is today, Monday set to meet Secretary to the Cabinet Roland Msiska to chart a way forward over the dismissed nurses. ZCTU President Leonard Hikaumba revealed that the meeting with Dr Msiska is aimed at finding a lasting solution to the impasse over the nurses situation. Mr Hikaumba said ...
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Zambia takes the yellow fever case to WHO
THE Zambian government has taken the matter in which South Africa has continued to demand for yellow fever certificates from travellers coming from Zambia to the World Health Organisation (WHO) for determination. Zambian High Commissioner to South Africa Muyeba Chikonde confirmed the development in an interview in Cape Town that samples from various parts of Zambia had already been taken to the ...
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Current debt levels worrying-Felix Mutati
Former Commerce minister Felix Mutati Former Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Felix Mutati says the rate at which Zambia is contracting external debt is becoming unsustainable. Mr Mutati said in an interview that it is worrying that the PF government has doubled the country's foreign debt stock in the last two years. He said the accumulation of foreign debt will make it difficult for ...
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Zonefam Got It Right
ZAMBIA has scored another landmark in getting recognised musically on the world map after already registering a football name by winning the 2012 African Cup of Nations in Gabon. On Friday November 29, 2013, after several attempts for musical continental glory, finally Zambia's musical works were rewarded in the Best Group/Duo/ Featuring category at the coveted 10th Channel O Music Video ...
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Chongo - Badminton Star On the Rise
THE past few months have been exciting for Zambia's fastest rising badminton stars and as we head closer to the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing China, the quest for points is getting more and more exciting; each time players take to the courts. The revelation of new and young talent that beams with hope and thirsts for success on the badminton scene cannot be over-emphasised, especially ...
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10-Year-Old Makes Chess Finals
A GRADE-FOUR pupil at American International School (AIS) in Lusaka, Alva Sorensen yesterday made it to the final phase of the senior national team selection after finishing fifth during the trials held at the Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC). The 10-year-old Sorensen, who trains with his father Peter and brother Hampas, defied all odds to make the top five together with players from the ...
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Four Fined for Insulting Ndola Housewife
FOUR women of Chipulukusu Township in Ndola have been fined K1, 000 by the Ndola Main Local Court for insulting a housewife of the same area. The women, Skevas Ngwenya, Gloria Nsakanya , Judith Kasonde and Lillian Lufandika, all in their 20s, were found guilty of insulting Beatrice Tembo 30, of Chipulukusu Township on several occasions. Ms Tembo who sued the quartet for the alleged insults, ...
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