Home » 2012 (Page 3)

In Mumbwa where Kabimba comes from they say ‘Cula ulya tulileta‘ meaning ‘the frog eats those which bring themselves. Check the bottles of beer behind Kabimba.

Continue reading …

Apparently the only thing the ’90 days regime’ managed to change was the name of Lusaka International Airport to Kenneth Kaunda. This is the state of toilets at Kenneth Kaunda International airport on the fisrt floor. This really gives the visitor a good first impression of Zambia, the real Africa. And this is what visitors [...]

Continue reading …

KCM has consistently worked tirelessly to dishonor, tactfully, any contractual obligations undertaken with all contractors. You as CEO cannot boast of any contract that has ever run smoothly/successfully since Vedanta took over the running of KCM in 2004. All contractors have universally complained about your style of business as Vedanta and somehow you are proud of yourselves. What a shame! KCM has single handedly destroyed working relations with all contractors like a cancer eating into the professional fabric of our society. All companies of repute are leaving Chingola. Is KCM our curse?

Continue reading …

All the retirees for Times of Zambia have come together and mobilised themselves to criple the operations of the company after dragging it to  court for failure to pay them terminal dues of more than one year. The retirees who are former senior editors and others from other professions have hired a lawyer of Ndola [...]

Continue reading …

ROME  – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to pay his estranged wife Veronica Lario 100,000 euros ($132,200) a day as part of a divorce settlement, the daily Corriere della Sera said on Friday. The newspaper said the 36 million-euro-a-year settlement, reached after three years of negotiations, was filed with a court in [...]

Continue reading …

Dear editor, Please hide my identity. I want to let u on with what’s happening in these foreign banks especially intermarket bank. Management is so unprofessional and they pay slave wages. There has been no salary increment for 3yrs & the salaries r poor mainly k2,500  000which is the same amount that the cleaners at the [...]

Continue reading …

Former First Lady Thandiwe Banda has sued the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over the allegedly unlawful seizure of apartments belonging to the Mpundu Trust Limited on Leopards Hill Road in Lusaka. Mrs. Banda has filed the suit before the Lusaka High Court seeking compensation for damages suffered as a result of lost time on the real [...]

Continue reading …

Former District Commission for Mpongwe and Lufwanyama Miniver Mutesa today led a delegation of 240 defectors from other political parties to join the UPND. Mrs. Mutesa who contested as independent candidate for Lufwanyama and emerged number two led a group of defectors from MMD, PF, ADD, and FDD. The defectors were welcomed by UPND president [...]

Continue reading …

We wish to appeal to the opposition parties, civil society organisations, religious organisations and all well meaning citizens and the media to remain watchdogs against any indications of misrule. This country, more than ever, desperately needs well resourced independent institutions that shall provide checks and balances to the excessive use of power by the current government. The Church must also continue to provide spiritual guidance and prayers for our leaders at all levels and most importantly uphold the prophetic voice.

Continue reading …

We ask ourselves, if the PF could take the billions or just a quarter of those billions of money they are going to waste in the Mpongwe bye-election to Mutondo primary, how many of those little angels who have been denied school would be assured of a better tomorrow? Only 50 pupils out of the 379 applicants [...]

Continue reading …