Police on Wednesday afternoon fired tear gas canisters to disperse scores of youths who protested for being left out of the Zambia army recruitment at the first infantry brigade in Lusaka’s Emmasdale area. This was after the youths blocked Katimamulilo road with different objects forcing motorists to use alternative routes. The youths who also lit [...]
Continue reading …Police in Denmark say Attan Shansoga has appeared in court twice so far and is still detained. Steen Hansen, Communication officer for the Danish police told the Watchdog by email. ‘It is true that Attan Shansonga was arrested by the Danish police on Friday June 22nd 2012 at 23:27. He was arrested, because there was [...]
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By Roy Clarke The Chieftainess Serenje sat on her throne in her grand palace at the top of Serenje Hill. She was very annoyed. In all the forty years she had sat on her throne she had never been so annoyed. She was remembering the day, some ten months earlier, when a suitor had [...]
Continue reading …THE Lusaka High Court has ordered for a stay of execution of a judgment in a case in which the Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) is demanding K14 billion from shareholders of the defunct Zambian Airways. The shareholders were JCN Holdings, The Post Newspapers (owned by Fred M’membe) and Mutembo Nchito. High Court Judge Flavia Chishimba ordered [...]
Continue reading …The majority of the youths from secondary, college and universities who voted for PF on the promise of jobs within 90 days will now have to wait at least two years to be employed in the farms to be created by their government in all provinces. Chishimba Kambwili says the promise of job creation within [...]
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PRESIDENT Michael Sata says his Government is working to stamp out casualisation by creating long-term permanent jobs for Zambians. And the President has directed local authorities in the country to improve their town planning by learning from countries such as Brazil. Mr Sata said he was impressed with Brazil’s planning and development when he attended [...]
Continue reading …Local govt deputy minister Masumba failed at NIPA; diploma is fake – NIPA official tells court
June 27, 2012 76 Comments
A witness has told a Lusaka magistrate’s court that the diploma which was awarded to Local Government and Housing Deputy Minister Steven Masumba was irregularly issued because the minister did not successfully complete his training programme. National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) examination officer Lydia Nyondo Chibale said Masumba did not successfully complete his Accounting [...]
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Government has disclosed that plans are underway to resuscitate operations at Mansa battery factory which become defunct shortly after privatization. Commerce Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Keith Mukata told Parliament Tuesday, that government through Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has also re embarked on a feasibility study to investigate the problem. Mr Mukata disclosed that the study will provide guidelines [...]
Continue reading …UNZA students are today expected to meet at 10 hours to chat the way forward after last night’ short-lived riot. Last night students blocked Great East Road by burning tires on it while riot police lay in ambush waiting for instructions to pounce. A police officer, who identified himself as an “inspector”, spent not less [...]
Continue reading …MMD president Nevers Mumba says the judiciary’s decision to quash de-registration of the former ruling party is sweet victory, according to Z Dr Mumba is delighted that Lusaka High Court judge Jane Kabuka yesterday quashed de-registration of the MMD by the Registrar of Societies Clement Andeleki on grounds that it lacked logic. He commended the [...]
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