PF to demolish some houses in Copperbelt
The PF government has directed the Kitwe City Coucil to demolish some housing units in some townships. Minister of Local Government and Housing Nkandu Luo recently gave the directive to the City Council to demolish the houses because the houses were allegedly built on places designated to be children’s play grounds. Among those affected are [...]
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) claims there are no cases of corruption involving PF government officials. ACC Director General Rosewin Wandi who was given the job of director by president Sata recently also claimed her ACC would not hesitate to prosecute anyone found wanting. Speaking like a cadre or PF spokesperson and not professional, Wandi said [...]
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Vice President Guy Scott has explained why he does not act as president whenever president Mi chale Sata goes gallivanting outside Zambia. Dr. Scott has revealed that the constitution does not allow him to stand for the republican presidency or act as president because of his ethnic background. QFM NEWS reports that during the vice [...]
Continue reading …DEC officials storm High Court registry to copy documents on Shoprite scam
March 2, 2012 32 CommentsSome Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) officers on Thursday this week stormed the High court registry seeking documentation of the judicial review case involving Lusaka lawyer, Lewis Mosho and his firm Lewis Nathan Advocates filed on February 16 this year. Meanwhile, a well known ’operative’ at Times of Zambia Patson Phiri working with a provincial permanent [...]
Continue reading …The Director of Public Prosecutions has no legal authority to surrender let alone recommend secondment of DPP’s chambers’ advocates. The Watchdog reported last week that Mutembo Nchito had solicited for the removal of two senior advocates. The advocates in question were allegedly surrendered last month and a fortnight ago respectively, and information reaching this publication [...]
Continue reading …Production at Canada’s First Quantum Minerals Zambia flagship copper mine has ground to a halt due to a strike over wages, the labour minister said on Friday. Workers at the Kansanshi mine, Zambia’s largest copper mine which produced 231,000 tonnes of the red metal in 2010, downed tools on Thursday, Fackson Shamenda said in a [...]
Continue reading …Back to UNIP: PF secret police arrest Lusaka Lecturer and friend over re-aligning of districts rejection
March 2, 2012 71 CommentsSecret Service Police on Wednesday arrested a Zambia Open University law lecturer and his friend for discussing the ‘amputating’ of Chirundu and Itezhi Tezhi from Southern province. The two named men were picked by plain clothes policemen from arcades shopping mall and interrogated until midnight. The two were accused of organizing protests in Mazabuka. The [...]
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The Red Card Campaign on Youth Jobs will be launched as an initiative under the Open Society Foundation on 12th March 2012 at Mulungushi International Conference Centre. Initiative coordinator Sunday Chilufya Chanda has explained to the Watchdog that the launch is open to all interested parties and cuts across political affiliation. ‘We have spent the [...]
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Former Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia executive director Bishop Paul Mususu has charged that President Michael Sata’s refusal to honor his campaign promises on the restoration of the Barotseland agreement casts doubt on whether the PF will fulfill most the promises they made during the campaigns. Bishop Mususu says it is important for political leaders to live up [...]
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