UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has said President Rupiah Banda’s government used late president Levy Mwanawasa’s body to campaign so that they could win a sympathy vote from Central province. Addressing a well attended rally in Chisamba’s Chamuka ward, Hichilema said shortly after winning the 2008 election government abandoned the people of Central province who he [...]
A Siavonga magistrate court has sentenced a Zimbabwean woman to 12 months simple imprisonment for trafficking in marijuana. Magistrate Bathromeo Kaonga today slapped the 12 months jail sentence on Ndaizivei shumbayaonda, 23 a resident of Malongwana village in Zimbabwe after convicting her of the offence of trafficking in psychotropic substances contrary to section 6 of the [...]
Continue reading …The Zambian kwacha is expected to soften further against the dollar by the end of this year, in response to a possible economic slowdown in key copper-buyer China, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday. At current levels of 4,820 the kwacha ZMK= is down by 3.6 percent from its 2009 close of 4,631 against the [...]
Continue reading …The Drug Enforcement Commission has arrested a former lawyer of the Examinations Council of Zambia for theft of about K9 million. DEC spokesperson John Nyawali says Margaret Vikali Mwale, 50, stole the money meant for her maid’s salary which the Examinations Council of Zambia was paying. “Ms. Mwale in her capacity as Council Secretary while [...]
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