Only 11 Zambians hold senior positions in Shoprite stores
Government says there are only 11 Zambians holding senior management positions in Shoprite stores in the country. Commerce Deputy Minister Keith Mukata said 11 Zambians are holding the senior management positions within the country while five others are holding senior positions in other countries outside Zambia. Mukata said the positions the Zambians are holding includes, Deputy Managers, regional [...]
Former Finance Minister N’gandu Magande says there is no need for the Patriotic Front government to ban the quoting, paying and demanding of goods and services in foreign currency. Mr. Magande has stated that the move by government to rule out trading in the country using foreign money would not help in building a favourable [...]
Continue reading …By Alfred A. K. Ndhlovu The decision by Club de Madrid to honour former president of the Republic of Zambia, Mr. Rupiah Bwezani Banda who is affectionately known as RB, is a fitting gift to him personally and also to the people of Zambia generally who have struggled to build a democratic dispensation since 1964. [...]
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Police have extended the bond on Andrew Banda, the son of the former President Rupiah Banda, to July 6th 2011 because prosecutors are not yet ready to take him to court, his lawyer Sakwiba Sikota has disclosed. Mr. Banda is under arrest on suspicion of soliciting payment from an Italian construction firm, following a dramatic diplomatic incidentwhen [...]
Continue reading …Sudan Football Association expects financial penalty not docking of points
June 21, 2012 28 CommentsAhmed Tarifi the vice president of Sudan Football Association “SFA” has announced that he will bear the responsibility of the problem caused when a suspended player dressed and played against Zambia in their recent World Cup qualifier. Zambia has since protested to CAF about the player featuring in the Omdurman game where the African champion [...]
Continue reading …Former Zambia Red Cross Society (ZRCS) General Secretary Charles Mushitu and Society Finance Manager Sydney Chituta have been arrested by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) for allegedly money laundering offences involving over K200 million. Mr. Mushitu 44 and Mr. Chituta 31, were jointly arrested and charged for theft by public servant and money laundering activities. [...]
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Copperbelt MMD spokesperson Yotam Mtayachalo says the ruling Patriotic Front government should not brag about the on-going countrywide road developments because the project was initiated by former president Rupiah Banda. Mr. Mtayachalo says all the road projects on the Copperbelt and other parts of the country are MMD projects and the current government is just [...]
Continue reading …Sata tells climate change conference delegates that whiskey pollutes environment
June 21, 2012 124 CommentsPresident Michael Sata has told international delegates and other president that whiskey pollutes the environment. Sata who is attending the Rio+20 world conference on climate change and sustainable development in Rio, Brazil was speaking Wednesday evening when he was given a chance to speak to a smaller group of delegates on the side-lines of the [...]
Continue reading …Bamako – The Islamists occupying northern Mali on Wednesday gave a couple 100 lashes of a whip for having a child out of wedlock as they continue enforcing shari’ah law, witnesses told AFP. “At Sankore Square in Timbuktu, a man and a women got 100 lashes for having had a child outside of marriage,” said [...]
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