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Sata rejects Malawian president’ s invitation

Preident Michael Sata has rejected an invitation by Malawian president Bingu Mutharika to attend the COMESA summit. And Sata has sent vice president Guy Scott to go and complain to Malawi over Sata’s deportation in 2007. A special envoy of president Mutharika David Chisala Bandawe Saturday morning met Sata to deliver the invitation and good [...]

We do not subscribe to the misguided notion of “white is right”. Therefore it is quite dangerous for him to peddle bizarre racial opinions – willy-nilly. He must take care and refrain from such inflammatory statements. We would like to remind him that Vice-Presidents have come and gone in Zambia, and that there is nothing special about him. Moreover, he forms part of the club of retirees who are running our country today. But our time is coming.

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THE Government has reduced the price of fuel by an average K400 per litre from midnight yesterday. Minister of Lands, Energy and Water Development Chris Yaluma said at a Press briefing in Lusaka yesterday that the fuel pump prices were adjusted following the waiving of the petroleum build-up cost that oil marketing companies (OMCs) used [...]

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Tanzania Zambia Railways Authority -TAZARA- Managing Director Akashambatwa Lewanika has resigned   Lewanika has written to President Michael Sata indicating his willingness to step down as Managing Director for the joint national railway company. Mr Lewanika says he has decided to offer himself to be replaced because the effective operations of the TAZARA Managing Director [...]

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Police in Lusaka are investigating Former Finance Minister, Situmbeko Musokotwane for allegedly using public funds to procure over one thousand bicycles. Police Public Relations Officer, Ndandula Siamana says police have so far confiscated hundreds of bicycles from Dr Musokotwane’s residence in Lusaka west. Ms Siamana has told ZNBC News in Lusaka that police suspect public [...]

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