President Rupiah Banda is on Tuesday scheduled to travel to Western Province for what his spokesperson Dickson Jere called ’a two-day working visit.’ Jere said in an email statement that ’the President is expected to join the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) campaign team in the Luena Parliamentary by-election in which the MMD is fielding Mr. Mwangala Maopu as [...]
President Rupiah Banda will take up the chair of the Defence and Security organ of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Watchdog understands. It has emerged that the decision was made during the meeting of the same organ held between 21-23 July 2010 in the Mozambican capital Maputo And Namibian President, Hifikepunye Pohamba is expected to assume [...]
Continue reading …KAMPALA, July 26 (Xinhua) — Zambian Foreign Minister Kabinga Pande has slashed a recent media accusation that China’s aid to Africa leads to the continent’s government corruption and huge debts, saying it is ungrounded. “It’s unfair to say that China’s aid to Africa leads to corruption and huge debut,” he told Xinhua in an exclusive [...]
Continue reading …Most of our politicians have no values or virtues which can take this country in the direction in which it ought to go. This deficiency has been the hall mark of the MMD and is equally visible in the PF/UPND pact. While it is critical that the MMD be voted out of power, it is more critical to look at which political party/leadership deserves to be ushered in as a replacement. The change which this country needs, is not to simply remove the MMD from power.
Continue reading …Convicted Zambian Musician, Danny Mwikisa popularly known as Danny Peddle says it is unfortunate that a lot of people have a wrong perception about prisons and prisoners. He says perceptions that prisoners are horrible and dangerous people are not true, saying he was well treated by prisoners while in prison. Mr. Mwikisa says the days [...]
Continue reading …THE Bankers Association of Zambia (BAZ) has advised customers to be watchful when using debit cards especially when transacting abroad. In the last few days, some retail banking customers in Zambia have reported suspicious cases involving debit cards on their accounts to their banks. BAZ chairman Savior Chibiya in a statement said initial investigations by [...]
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