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ZAMPOST to provide cheaper and faster mode of payments for second hand cars
The Zambia Postal Services (ZAMPOST) and Trust Company of Japan will next week officially launch an online sales agency for buyers of second hand vehicles. ZAMPOST Postmaster General Mcpherson Chanda revealed this in an interview Ndola yesterday. Mr Chanda said ZAMPOST will effective June 3, 2013 start offering a convenient, cheaper and fast mode of payments for buyers of second hand vehicles ...
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Government directs Zambia National Service to set up milling plants
Defence Deputy Minister, Colonel Joseph Lungu (second left) Government has directed the Zambia National Service (ZNS) command to quickly setup a milling plant to help deal with the national shortage of milling capacity leading to high mealie meal prices in the country. Defence Deputy Minister in charge of Rural Development and National Service Joseph Lungu said the move will help stabilize ...
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Teachers Threaten Industrial Action Over Subsidy
The Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) has called on government to reinstate the rural hardship and double class allowances or face industrial action. ZNUT Lusaka District chairperson Richard Katongo said the arbitrary suspension of the allowances without notice amounted to discrimination on the hard working teachers. He said government should note that the allowances were a toughly ...
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Police Reject UPND Request for Chawama Rally
Police has denied the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) permission to hold their planned rally on Sunday to protest against the removal of fuel and maize subsidies. UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema confirmed the development at a media briefing saying police were citing security reasons. Hichilema said his party was disappointed but was now used to the PF's ...
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Government to introduce new National Registration Cards next month
The Department of National Registration, Passport and Citizenship is expected to introduce a new type of National Registration Cards (NRC) next month. National Registrar General Mathews Nyirongo said the new National Registration Cards (NRC), which will be bio-metric with a chip, will contain additional security features such as finger prints to reduce fraud on the document. Mr. Nyirongo told ...
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Dog mauls Modern Stars fan after Zesco defeat
A staunch Kalulushi Modern Stars supporter is nursing wounds after being bitten by a dog at Trade Fair Grounds in Ndola during Saturday's FAZ Super Division match between his team and Zesco United. Bernard Bwalya said he was bitten on the chest and hand as he was exiting the ground. Bwalya narrated that he was going out of the ground when a dog which was in a vehicle over-powered its ...
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Janza Namibia friendly is very important
Chipolopolo deputy coach Honour Janza has underscored the importance of Saturday's away friendly against Namibia in Windhoek. The Zambia home-based team entered camp in Lusaka on Monday ahead of the friendly against Namibia. Janza said the warm-up match was important to Zambia as it prepares to host the 2013 COSAFA Cup in July. "It's very important because this is a new team ...
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MMD Die Hard coordinator Lusambo’s abusive language was provocative – PF
The Patriotic Front in Lusaka province says yesterday’s agitation that led to PF cadres to pounce on Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) officials may have been caused by insulting and provocative language by MMD’s Die Hard coordinator Bowman ...
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Teachers in Kaoma to strike over removed allowances
Teachers in Kaoma District of Western Province have threatened to down tools if government implements its decision of removing double class and responsibility allowances. Zanis reports from Mongu, that Three teacher unions said this when they stormed Kaoma District commissioner, Joster Manjolo’s office yesterday. Zambia National Union of teachers (ZNUT), Chairperson Musangu Chipango says ...
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Pensioners want subsidies back
The Zambia Local Authorities Retirees and Pensioners Association (ZALARPA) has joined calls by some sections of society urging government to immediately retain the subsidies on fuel and maize which government has removed. ZALARPA President Mathew Nyakalale says the Association which comprises 8,000 pensioners will be negatively affected by the removal of the two subsidies. Mr. Nyakalale says ...
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Court denies Kapiri homosexuals bail as defence raise constitutional issues
relationship walking into the court room while covering his face Central Province Principle Resident Magistrate, John Mbuzi has rejected an application by defense lawyers to grant bail to two men appearing in court on allegations of practicing homosexuality. The two are alleged to have committed the offence in Kapiri Mposhi kast month. And Magistrate Mbuzi has adjourned the case to 5 June, ...
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Lusaka City Council to put up public toilets in Lusaka
The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has embarked on an exercise of constructing more public toilets in Lusaka's central business district. Speaking in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka, LCC Public Relations Officer Henry Kapata said the project was meant to deal with the problem of people urinating in drainages and in the streets of Lusaka. Mr. Kapata said the exercise is expected to be ...
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Former Eastern Province minister is new Malawi High Commissioner
File:President Michael Sata President Michael Sata has appointed Charles Banda as Zambia's High Commissioner to Malawi and conferred Lusaka prominent lawyer, John Sangwa, with the status of State Counsel. President Sata has since implored the duo to exhibit exemplary behavior in their discharge of national duties. He said this at State House today shortly after swearing in the duo. ...
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Zambia sodomy trial delayed
The trial of two Zambian men charged with sodomy was delayed Wednesday and the suspects were remanded in custody, after the constitutionality of the case was challenged by the defence. Philip Mubiana, a 21-year-old barber, and James Mwape, a 20-year-old bricklayer, have pleaded not guilty to having "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" in case that has become the latest ...
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Zambian sodomy trial delayed
Prominent Zambian gay rights activist Paul Kasonkomona (C) leaves the Lusaka magistrate court on April 11, 2013, where he pleaded not guilty to charges of promoting homosexuality, after appearing live on television to argue for his ...
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MOVIE REVIEW Tyler Perry’s TEMPTATION -Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
An ambitious married woman’s temptation by a handsome billionaire leads to betrayal, recklessness, and forever alters the course of her ...
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President Michael Sata expected in Addis Ababa for AU
President Sata with first president Dr Kenneth Kaunda during the Labour Day Commemoration at Freedom Statue in Lusaka on May 1,2013-Picture by THOMAS NSAM President Michael Sata is tomorrow expected in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the AU 50 Celebrations and 21st Ordinary Session of the African Union which is scheduled to take place from the 25th to the 27th of May, 2013 in Addis Ababa ...
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Saying Bye to Democracy in Zambia
Zambia's ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party came to power in 2011 with 60 members of parliament, just five more than the losing Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) - and well short of an overall majority in the 150 seat National Assembly. Since then, President Michael Sata has sought to fashion the parliamentary majority his party did not secure in the general election by engineering a ...
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AVAP urges government to extend allowance removal to other ministries
The Anti-Voter Apathy Project (AVAP) in Eastern province has urged government to extend the removal of similar allowances from officers in other ministries to ensure a full clean-up of civil servants' payroll system. AVAP Regional Coordinator, Maumba Ngoma said there were a lot of workers in other ministries apart from education who were getting allowances which they did not deserve on ...
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University students boycotts examinations demand government address
Mulungushi University Great North Road main campus students have vowed not to sit for end of semester examinations until they are addressed by the government over several outstanding issues affecting their studies. Academic Affairs Secretary Jessen Siamutwa told ZANIS yesterday that the union has since written to the government seeking to be addressed over a number of issues among them, the ...
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10 seriously injured in Mini bus head on collision with truck
Ten people have been seriously injured when a Lusaka bound mini bus collided head on early today with an oncoming truck at Demu area on the Choma-Monze highway. Pemba District Commissioner Reginald Mugoba who confirmed the accident to ZANIS in Choma this morning said 10 of the eighteen passengers on board the mini bus sustained serious injuries. Mr Mugoba said four others including the driver ...
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PF attack on MMD an unacceptable vigilantee era reminder – NAREP
MMD Die Hard Youth Wing Bowman Lusambo The National Restoration Party (NAREP) has described yesterday’s violent attack meted on Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) officials by some Patriotic Front (PF) cadres as an unacceptable reminder of the notorious vigilantes of the United National Independence Party (UNIP) era. In yesterday’s PF attack, MMD’s Bowman Lusambo who was ...
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Zambia Changing Environment in the Zambezi River Basin
Climate and human pressure on resources are significantly changing the environment in the Zambezi river basin, as illustrated in a new 2012 publication, the Zambezi River Basin Atlas of the Changing Environment. The Atlas uses satellite images, high resolution photographs, illustrative text and graphics to present various issues in the Zambezi basin, which encompasses part of eight countries -- ...
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Kenyan Gets Four Years in Jail
A KENYAN has been sentenced to four years in prison with hard labour for harbouring and concealing eight Somalis and two children that entered Zambia illegally. Samuel Gitau, 40, a tour operator in Kenya, was initially charged and convicted in a magistrate's court for smuggling persons into Zambia contrary to section (a) of the Anti-human Trafficking Act number 11 of 2008 in March 2010. ...
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Media Should Explain Benefits of Subsidy Removal - PS
INFORMATION and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary Amos Malupenga has urged the media to play an active role in ensuring that members of the public are well-informed about benefits of the subsidy removal on maize and fuel. Mr Malupenga said both the public and privately owned media should analyse the impact of the subsidy removal so that members of the public were not misled. "The ...
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