Home » 2012 » July (Page 3)

We are grateful for your honest reporting. In October 2010, you carried out an article on ZCON Construction Company Limited, theft at ZCON, NAPSA and Access Bank which was disputed and you were called all sorts of names. The Post last week Friday 27 th July 2012 carried out an article on ZCON having being [...]

Continue reading …

Foreign Affairs minister Given Lubinda’s daughter Namakau late Friday night in a drunken stupor bashed and damaged a vehicle belonging to the Zambia farmers union (ZNFU). The accident happened around 23 hours and eye witnesses say a Victor Malumani who was driving the ZNFU vehicle was almost killed. The victim is hospitalised at UTH. Drunken [...]

Continue reading …

SOUTH Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) says laboratory tests on the Sondashi anti-HIV/AIDS herb has shown anti-HIV activity and is now ready for clinical tests on humans, according to Patson Chilemba, the First Secretary at the Zambian High Commission in South Africa. The announcement was made by CSIR’s Biosciences Executive Director Dr [...]

Continue reading …

President Sata has recalled all non-Bemba Press Attaches in Zambian Embassies and High Commissions regardless of their expertise. But the president has maintained and promoted Bemba attaches appointed by either Rupiah Banda or Levy Mwanawasa. According to Watchdog sources in Lusaka, among the notable non-Bemba speaking Press Secretaries recalled are Rejoice Lukumba(a Tonga), Samuel Ngoma(a [...]

Continue reading …

President Michael Sata has anounced that his government will build a Universtiy to be called Luapula university. And Sata has created two more districts  in Luapula province.  After visiting Mwata Kazembe during the Umutomboko traditional ceremony of the Lunda people in Luapula, President Sata declared Mwansabombwe and Chipili as new districts in the country. President [...]

Continue reading …

Germany has said it is suspending planned budget aid to Rwanda following allegations the country supported eastern Congo’s latest rebellion. Germany’s development ministry said yesterday it has suspended €21 million (£16.5m) in contributions planned from this year to 2015. Britain and the Netherlands have already suspended support and the US has cut military aid. A [...]

Continue reading …

Kenyan police have arrested the first secretary of the Venezuelan Embassy in Kenya, the Venezuelan Dwight Sagaray, and five Kenyan employees of the embassy residence, for their suspected involvement in the death by strangling of the mission’s charge d’affaires, Olga Fonseca. In a telephone conversation with Efe, the administrative assistant at the Venezuelan Embassy in [...]

Continue reading …

President Michael Sata has arrived in Mwansabombwe and has since met Mwata Kazembe at his palace. President Sata who was received with a firm hugging by the Mwata inside the palace went ahead to introduce his ministers who accompanied him starting with Home Affairs Lungu, Defence Mwamba, Mukanga, Kabanshi, Sakeni and deputy ministers Mwila, Musukwa [...]

Continue reading …

Rupiah Bwezani Banda, the fourth Zambian President, Saturday  morning signed a book of condolence in honour of the late Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills who died last week. Banda described the late Head of State as a true statesman and democrat who contributed to Ghana’s economic growth despite his short reign of three years [...]

Continue reading …

A 28-YEAR-OLD second year chemical engineering student at the Copperbelt University (CBU) in Kitwe has committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree after a drinking spree. The deceased identified as Albert Mfune of house number H334, Chamboli, Kitwe was found hanging on a tree near his home in the early morning hours of yesterday. [...]

Continue reading …