Opposition to demonstrate next week as PF panics
Youth members of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) in Lusaka are planning to stage a demonstration next Thursday to protest against the appointment of their MPs as deputy ministers in the PF government, according to Zambia Reports President Michael Sata has appointed 9 members of parliament from the former ruling party as deputy ministers [...]
TB Joshua: I haven’t said anything on death of Ghana president, but I will this Sunday
July 27, 2012 35 Comments
Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua has vehemently denied an article currently circulating around the internet claiming to have interviewed him about the sudden demise of Ghana’s former President John Evans Atta Mills. The story, which originated from Nigeria’s Abuja based Leadership Newspapers and was subsequently re-posted throughout media houses and internet news sites in Ghana and [...]
Continue reading …The Bank of Zambia (BoZ) has maintained the policy rate at nine percent for the month of August. BoZ Governor Michael Gondwe disclosed that the Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee which sat today decided to maintain the policy rate for the month of August at nine percent as it anticipates inflation pressures this month to [...]
Continue reading …President Michael Sata has invited Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe to open the the Agriculture and Commercial Society of Zambia (ACSZ) next week. According to information from inside Zambian State House, Mugabe will be the Guest of Honour at this year’s show whose theme is “Building on today’s prosperity”. According to show organisers, this year’ preparations [...]
Continue reading …Government has embarked on negotiations for commodity loans with some co-operating partners under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative to finance the construction of thousands of housing units and offices for Zambia Police countrywide. Home Affairs Minister, Edgar Lungu, disclosed the development when he addressed heads of departments under the Ministry of Home Affairs in Mansa yesterday. Mr Lungu said [...]
Continue reading …By Edwin Sakala Winter Kabimba Secretary General of the Ruling Patriotic (PF) should not cheat himself to believe that his Organisation won the 2011 tripartite election because it was popular. That assumption is far from being the truth. The just ended elections in which the former ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy was defeated was won [...]
Continue reading …Zamtel says it has completed connecting its fiber-optic to submarine cables
July 27, 2012 10 Comments
By Michael Malakata Zambia’s Zamtel has completed its fiber-optic connection to two submarine cables, the West Africa Cable System (WACS) and Sat-3, through Telecom Namibia in order to boost the country’s broadband capacity. Zamtel, the country’s only total telecom solution service provider, said it is now able to deliver 600Mbps of Internet capacity to the [...]
Continue reading …MISA concerned with PF govt failure to guarantee freedom for state-owned media
July 27, 2012 25 CommentsThe Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia says it is concerned with the fragile freedom that the State owned media is enjoying because it is not adequately protected by required legislation. The government owned media in Zambia are Times of Zambia, Daily Mail, Zambian National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), and Zambia News and Information Service (ZANIS), [...]
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By George Chellah in Nalolo Thu 08 Sep. 2011, 14:01 CAT [2785 Reads, 0 Comment(s)] MICHAEL Sata says President Rupiah Banda has been ungrateful to the people of Barotseland. And Sata said unlike President Banda,who is a “playboy”, he has stood with the people of Barotseland during difficult times. Addressing a rally at Nasilimwe [...]
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