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Kalaki’s Korner: Ukwa’s Wives

  It was Sunday morning, and as good Christians Sara and I were at the Cathedral of the Very Cross.       ‘The lesson this morning,’ intoned the bishop, ‘is taken from the Gospel according to St Kalaki, Chapter 13, Verses 23-37…’      In those days Babylon was ruled over by the Great [...]

President Michael  Sata has sent a message of condolences to the Ghanaian people over the death of President John Evans Atta Mills. In a letter to His Excellency, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, the new President of the Republic of Ghana, President Sata expressed shock at the death of President Mills. “It is with sadness that I have learnt [...]

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A boy who was found in possession of Ruth Mbandu’s phone has been arrested. The boy was arrested in Lusaka’s Kanyama compound on Tuesday. Lusaka police commissioner Solomon Jere has confirmed the arrest to Muvi TV news. The 19 year old NIPA student was on Saturday 14 July 2012 brutally murdered in Lusaka`s Emmasdale area. [...]

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 A 30 – year – old man of Sinjembela in Shangombo district is admitted in Lewanika General Hospital for injuries he sustained after he was attacked by a leopard that left him half blind. And Lewanika General hospital Acting Medical Superintendent Seke Kazuma confirmed the admission of  Philimon Sikobiso a farmer in Sinjembela who is receiving medication at the [...]

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President Michael Sata and his ministers have quietly  increased their salaries and allowances by more than 100 per cent for the president. President Sata and his ministers and deputy minister’ salaries were increased on April 1, 2012. Statutory instrument no. 17 of 2012 says president Michael Sata now gets K327 million  per annum. According to [...]

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By Field Ruwe In writing about “The Faceless Graduate,” I am compelled to begin by citing S.E. Kiser on poetry: I have hoped, I have planned, I have striven; To the will I have added the deed; The best that was in me I’ve given; I have prayed, but the gods would not heed. I [...]

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The investigative wings have arrested former Labour Minister Austin Liato and charged him with two counts of abuse of authority of office involving boreholes and hammer mills, according to Zambia Reports. Joint investigations team acting public relations officer Christopher Chibanku confirmed Liato’s arrest. He said Liato was arrested on two separate counts of abuse of [...]

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Defence minister Geoffrey Bwalya  Mwamba (GBM) is a big fool. Let’s hasten to say here that calling someone a ‘fool’ is not an insult, according to the Post newspaper. It’s a description. Even the bible describes  fools as fools. On Tuesday, Mwamba said he will, after 7 days, send security forces against the Watchdog if [...]

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The Post (Editorial) / Wednesday, 13 September 2006 There must be recognition in Zambian politics that any election campaigns must be based on sound moral values which serve to bind our people and not to divide them on tribal and regional lines. The Bemba tribalism and regionalism that is being unleashed by Michael Sata and [...]

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About 150 pupils at Dihehe primary school in Shangombo are having their lessons under trees while their only classroom built on temporal structures is almost collapsing. School Head teacher Sikute Kamona said though government had given them school about K180 Million to construct 1×3 classroom block under which 4000 bricks have since been moulded by parents, pupils at the [...]

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