Changala questions role of Guy Scott in PF govermnent.
A concerned citizen, Brebner Changala, has questioned the need for an elaborate security detail for Vice-President Guy Scott when he is not eligible for presidency even in an interim capacity if something happens to the sitting president. Mr. Changala said the concept of personal security detail and the associated expenditure for leaders in any country [...]
Botswana opposition concerned with situation in Zambia as Sata says teachers should be paid well
March 20, 2012 79 CommentsBotswana ‘s Leader of opposition in in parliament, Botsalo Ntuane has told Zambian President Michael Sata that Botswana is concerned about Zambia’s deregistration of opposition political parties. And Sata whose government is refusing to increase salaries for teachers has said there is need to pay teachers well. Botswana opposition leader Ntuane told Gabz Fm news [...]
Continue reading …International rating agency says de-registering MMD may affect donor aid, Zambia’s $500m Eurobond
March 20, 2012 61 Comments
International Ratings organisation Fitch says that additional strain will be placed on Zambia’s (‘B+’/Negative/’B’) government finances and its relatively strong governance undermined if the Registrar of Societies’ decision to de-register the country’s official opposition party is not overturned by the courts. On 14 March, the Registrar of Societies announced that the Movement for Multiparty Democracy [...]
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Twenty-six (26) Kansanshi mineworkers have become the first victims of the PF government policy of dismissing employees who demand for better wages and conditions of service. Kansanshi mine yesterday dismissed 26 employees for demanding for ‘more money in their pockets’ in fulfillment with the PF’s election promise. There has so been no word on the [...]
Continue reading …In an interview with Lusaka based QFM radio, Panji Kaunda said it is most likely that the soldiers being mistaken for Zambian soldiers are the ones from neighbouring Angola.
Continue reading …Showing patients’ cancer wounds on TV as condition for specialist treatment
March 20, 2012 55 CommentsSo another lucky patient has been evacuated for specialist treatment after the presidential directive. We are told President Michael Sata again acted on this information upon seeing a report in the media. We have difficulties in understanding how Sata and his administration want to run the healthy and other critical sectors of our country. It [...]
Continue reading …Money matters: Nchito enters no prosecution for 68-year old Dutch who defiled little Kalulushi girl
March 20, 2012 46 CommentsEVERT Jan Wolf, the Dutch engineer charged with three counts of defilement, indecent assault on a female and conspiracy to commit a felony, has been freed after the State entered a nolle prosequi yesterday. Jan Wolf, 68, of Katope Crescent Ndola and his accomplice, a Grade Nine pupil, were jointly charged. But Ndola district deputy [...]
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Zambian international striker Clifford Mulenga will be hauled over the coals by Absa Premiership side Bloemfontein Celtic “for picking up an unnecessary red card” – the club has announced. Mulenga was recently in the news for all the wrong reasons during the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations after he was booted out of camp for [...]
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