Yellow fever cards: SA forced to apologise after Nigeria also deports South Africans
On March 2, South Africa deported 125 Nigerians who, according to airport health authorities, carried fraudulent yellow fever cards. Since then, authorities in Lagos, raising health concerns, have deported South Africans.
Nigerian government officials said they deported 42 South Africans on a flight Wednesday into Lagos. The officials said South Africa deported five Nigerians the same day.
STATE House deputy secretary for press and public relations Amos Chanda has been moved into the diplomatic service. Sources disclosed yesterday that Chanda, who is former Press Association of Zambia (PAZA) vice-president, would be taken into the diplomatic service, probably the United Kingdom. No reasons have been given for his removal from State House. “He [...]
Continue reading …Sata hires Zambian-born Israeli central bank governor as new BoZ governor?
March 8, 2012 137 Comments
The Jerusalem Post reports that Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer will hand in his shock resignation in the coming days and take up a new position as head of the Bank of Zambia Fischer was born in Zambia, then Northern Rhodesia, in 1943, but left with his family for neighbouring Zimbabwe as a teenager. He studied at [...]
Continue reading …President Michael Sata has created another ministry as a way of marking International Women’s Day. Sata has upgraded the Gender division of Cabinet office to a full cabinet ministry. Sata has also transferred Chiefs Affairs Minister Inonge Wina to the Ministry of Gender as cabinet Minister. He has has promoted Gender Deputy Minister Emerine Kabanshi [...]
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Senior Journalist and economist Chibamba Kanyama has not yet agreed to take over as Director- General of government owned and controlled Zambian National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC). In its usual chaotic way of doing things, the PF government on Wednesday evening announced that Kanyama is the new puppet master of ZNBC. Information minister Fackson Shamenda announced [...]
Continue reading …Yet rural women continue to be held back in fulfilling their potential. If rural women had equal access to productive resources, agricultural yields would rise by 4 per cent, strengthening food and nutrition security and relieving as many as 150 million people from hunger. Rural women, if given the chance, could also help end the hidden development tragedy of stunting, which affects almost 200 million children worldwide.
Continue reading …Zambia’s Open Society Foundation was granted a police permit on Tuesday, 6th March 2011 and as such will proceed with its official launch and the unveiling of its Red Card Campaign on Youth Jobs. The foundation seeks to take advantage of the national youth day to communicate to the Government of Zambia the true feelings [...]
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