THE planned construction of the US$6 billion Batoka hydro-electric Scheme for Zambia and Zimbabwe along the Zambezi River will create about 3, 000 unskilled jobs in the two countries. Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) chief executive officer Munyaradzi Munodawafa said at the weekend the two countries were planning to construct 1, 600 Megawatts (MW) power projects on both sides of Batoka Gorge, ...
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Batoka Project to Create 3000 Jobs
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Airtel Money Proflight Seal Deal
AIRTEL Networks Zambia Plc has partnered with Proflight Zambia to enable customers purchase air tickets countrywide using Airtel Money. Speaking at the signing of the partnership agreement on Friday, Airtel Money director Brenda Thole described the partnership as a reflection of the synergies that exist between airlines and telecommunication companies across Africa in bringing innovations in the ...
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Siazilo Is Shotokan Champ
NAKAMBALA Karate clubs at the weekend dominated the Shotokan national championship held in Kitwe with Mike Siazilo and Albert Hamainda emerging winners of the Kumite and kata senior challenge. The championship, held at the Ndeke Hall in Kitwe, saw Siazilo beat his club-mate Cryton Ng'andu in the finals to claim the top prize of the Shotoka Karate Association of Zambia (SKAZ) 2013 closing ...
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Invest in Assets Not Liabilities
ONCE upon a time there was a poor peasant couple that prayed every day to come out of their misery. One morning they woke up and found that their prayers were answered. How? A goose sat on their table that was able to lay one golden egg a month! This one egg paid for all their expenses and had change left over for investing. However, after about six months, the couple found themselves in debt ...
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FAZ to Write to Fifa
THE Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has threatened to write to FIFA so that the world football governing body can probe Equatorial Guinea on alleged age-cheating claims. FAZ executive member Lenny Nkhuwa, who is also in charge of women football said the association was appalled by the dubious records presented by the visiting team officials of their players. Nkhuwa said this in an interview ...
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Mumbwa Chiefs Demand Squatters Ejection
TWO traditional leaders in Mumbwa District have threatened to allow their subjects to encroach on Mumbwa Game Management Area (GMA) unless 31 people who have settled there are removed. Chieftainess Kabulwebulwe and Chief Chibuluma told the Sunday Times in a walk-in interview during the week that squatters in the GMA must be removed to promote fairness. It is believed that about 31 families have ...
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USAID Support Boon for Zambia
ZAMBIA's dependence on mining, construction and urban commerce leaves the agriculturally-dependent rural poor behind. About 80 per cent of Zambians work in the agriculture sector which is contributing less than 20 per cent to the country's growth. This is so due to unfavourable lending terms offered by limited financing opportunities for small and medium enterprises in the ...
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Yellow Fever Dispute - Zambia Turns to Who
Cape Town - THE Zambian Government has taken the matter in which South Africa has continued to demand yellow fever certificates from travellers 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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Sacked Nurses Plead With Sata
DISMISSED nurses at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) and Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital in Lusaka have written to President Michael Sata asking him to intervene in their plight. The nurses said they were hopeful Mr Sata would listen to their plea as the final employer. In their letter through the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), the nurses asked the President to have compassion ...
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NOC Losers Concede Defeat
LOSING National Olympic Committee (NOC) candidates Shapa Wakung'uma and Matilda Mwaba have conceded defeat and have pledged to support the newly elected board in improving the sport in the country. But Josab Changa, who lost by far to incumbent president Moyo, said he would petition the results, claiming the votes were rigged. Wakung'uma, who lost the position of general secretary to ...
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Allow Masebo Tribunal to Go Ahead - Harrington
FORMER Transport and Communications minister William Harrington has asked the Lusaka High Court to set aside a court order blocking the appointment of a tribunal constituted to probe Tourism and Arts Minister Sylvia Masebo for alleged misconduct.aa This is in a maatter in which Attorney acGeneral Mumba Malila had succeeded to block Ms Masebo's tribunal which was constituted by acting Chief ...
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Parley Passes Five Laws for Amendment
PARLIAMENT has passed five pieces of legislation for amendment to enhance effective service delivery, transparency and effective monitoring of funds in Government institutions. The five pieces of legislation include the Competition and Consumer Protection Amendment Bill, the Environmental Management Amendment Bill, the Fees and Fines Amendment, the Patents and Companies Registration Agency ...
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Court Summons ZNS Colonel
A SENIOR Zambia National Service (ZNS)officer has been subpoenaed for failing to appear before court in a civil case in which she has been sued for failing to account for a K500,000 estate of her late husband. This is in a case in which Esnart Thole, a ZNS colonel, as first respondent, and Boyd Hamukwala, the second respondent, have been dragged to court as administrators of the late Elvis ...
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Why Organisations Should Engage Key Stakeholders
THERE is a growing concern that most organisations have displayed low stakeholders' engagement in their operations when need arises leading to simple issues transforming into crises with the concerned stakeholders. We would like to inform our esteemed readers that Public Relations Forum column has created a PR Concerns' Box where PR practitioners and all concerned with the PR practice ...
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Truck Assembly Plant On Cards
A US$100 million heavy-duty truck assembly plant is among the spin-off investments First Quantum Minerals (FQM) has attracted at Kalumbila, 150 kilometres west of Solwezi where the global metals and mining company is constructing Sentinel Mine. Other investments also running in millions of dollars are in construction, agro processing, sawmilling, hospitality, banking and energy. FQM's ...
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U-20 Cosafa Exit Upsets Mutapa
COACH Oswald Mutapa has said Zambia's elimination from the ongoing 2013 Lesotho COSAFA Youth Championships is a bitter pill to swallow. Mutapa has since shifted focus towards attaining qualification for the CAF 2015 Africa Youth Championship to be hosted by Senegal. The 2010 COSAFA winning coach told journalists in Maseru, Lesotho on Saturday after narrowly losing 1-0 to South Africa in a ...
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171 Inmates in Justice Limbo
OPERATIONS at the Kitwe Magistrate's Court have been paralysed after the police truck commonly known as the 'Kasalanga' which is used to ferry inmates broke down. More than 171 cases have been affected since the truck which ferries inmates to and from Kamfinsa State prisons broke down three weeks ago. This has prompted magistrates to adjourn various cases for those in custody due ...
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Dont Shun Rural Areas Permanent Secretary Urges Theologians
GOVERNMENT has advised graduating theologians to learn to serve in rural areas. Copperbelt Province Permanent Secretary Stanford Msichili said last weekend that the massive infrastructure development in rural areas should correspondent with church outreach programmes. He urged students at the Theological College of Central Africa (TCCA) in Ndola to accept serving in rural areas. Mr Msichili ...
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State Reprofiles Manganese Mining Licences
THE Government has started re-profiling small-scale mining licences for Manganese in Luapula and Central provinces. Mines, Energy and Water Development Deputy Minister Richard Musukwa said in an interview in Ndola that the process was aimed at transforming small-scale licences into large-scale mining permits that would attract credible investments into the country's manganese industry. He ...
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Blend Cancer Reproductive Health in Aids Fight
Cape Town - FIRST Lady Christine Kaseba has called for integration of sexual reproductive health issues and cancer into the fight against HIV and AIDS if the fight is to achieve the desired results. Dr Kaseba said this in a speech she delivered during the official opening of the 17th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) as a special guest to the conference taking place in ...
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