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Proflight Zambia Goes International
PROFLIGHT Zambia will next month go international by beginning a three-times-a-week service between Lusaka and Lilongwe capitals, Proflight Zambia director of government and industry affairs Philip Lemba has said. Captain Lemba said the new route, which would be launched on June 4, 2013 would be the first international destination for the airline, which already flies to nine domestic points in ...
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Zampost Seals Japan Vehicle Sales Deal
ZAMBIA Postal Services Corporation (ZAMPOST) and Trust Company of Japan will next week officially launch an online sales agency for buyers of second hand vehicles in Lusaka. Postmaster general MacPherson Chanda said in Ndola yesterday that ZAMPOST would, from June 3 2013, start offering convenient, cheaper and fast mode of payments for buyers of second hand vehicles from Trust Company of ...
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Zaffico Expands to Luapula
THE Zambia Forests and Forestry Industries Corporation (ZAFFICO) has secured 20,000 hectares of land in Luapula Province for an expansion programme which will create 1,000 jobs for local people. District Commissioner Ivo Mpasa said Chief Munkanta of Kawambwa District gave the corporation land in Chibalashi area in cub-chief Muyembe's territory when company managing director Frighton ...
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Zesco Groans About Absent Players
ZESCO United coach Tenant Chembo has said his team will miss the services of captain Kondwani Mtonga and sensational Maybin Mwaba ahead of their Week 10 MTN clash against 'wounded' Green Buffalos in Lusaka tomorrow. The two players are away on national assignment with the local Chipolopolo squad for a friendly match against Namibia in that country scheduled for tomorrow. Speaking at ...
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PF Seek Damage Control After Sampas 90 Days Boob
The Patriotic Front government is struggling to disentangle itself from the revelation by deputy commerce minister Miles Sampa that there 90 days development promise were just campaign rhetoric. Sampa's admission has been roundly condemned by a cross section of society and deputy home affairs Minister Nixon Chilangwa attempted to publicly wash it away by dismissing it as a slip of a ...
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Kabwe a Must-See Town
AS the countdown to the co-hosting of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) general assembly by Zambia and Zimbabwe draws near in Livingstone this August, it is worth pointing out the town of Kabwe, which is rich in Zambia's political history, and it is also where the Broken Hill man was discovered. This is a must-see town by visitors who will be attending the UNWTO general ...
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UPND to Discipline Siamunene
The Opposition United Party for National Development has finally summoned its Sinazongwe Member of Parliament Richwell Siamunene for a disciplinary hearing. Siamunene who has accepted a deputy ministerial position in the Patriotic Front government without his party's blessings has already laid the ground for a by-election by having already started addressing meetings in his constituency. ...
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Zambia Relocating Kapwepwe Airport Lauded
THE current site which sits the Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport in Ndola is a time bomb with the explosive potential to detonate anytime. Research shows that the airport noise and pollution were intimately allied to augmented health evils caused by planes, especially among communities perched near airports. Yes, living near any airport also connotes exposure to significant air ...
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PF Supporters Attack Muvi TV Journalists
Supporters of President Michael Sata's ruling Patriotic Front government this morning attacked two journalists, one of whom is a female newscaster, after the two went to cover a story around illegal invasion of a piece of land in the capital Lusaka. The two assaulted journalists have been identified as senior newsroom staffer Kennedy Phiri and his counterpart Francesca Phiri-Banda. Banda ...
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Zambias Hosting of UNWTO Leaves Some On Sidelines
PF youths erecting structures at the makeshift market for street vendors in Livingstone. Many Zambian government officials are proud to be co-hosting the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) general assembly on August 24-29 along with Zimbabwe, however a number of citizens are complaining that they've been pushed aside during the preparations for the event. In recent weeks, ...
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Jobless Lusaka Youths Join Student Protests
Some youths in Kamwala, Chilenje and Kabwata suburbs of Lusaka have threatened to join university students in street protests against the increasing cost of living in Zambia. The young people have called all concerned residents to air their voices on the wrongs being perpetuated by the Patriotic Front (PF) government. The youths said President Michael Sata had become arrogant and insensitive ...
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Zambia heads to Namibia
Coach Herve Renard has axed four players from the Zambia home-based squad that will play Namibia in Saturday’s away friendly in Windhoek. Casualties from the team scheduled to leave for Namibia on Friday midday include Red ...
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Zambia’s State Mining Company Faces Calls for Listing
ZCCM Investments Holdings Plc (MLZAM) is under pressure from minority shareholders to boost transparency in the management of Zambia's state-controlled mining-investment company and list on a regulated stock market. Private investors, who hold 12.4 percent of Lusaka-based ZCCM-IH, are trying to install a representative on the board to improve corporate governance, Philippe Taussac, a ...
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Zambia heads to Namibia
Coach Herve Renard has axed four players from the Zambia home-based squad that will play Namibia in Saturday’s away friendly in Windhoek. Casualties from the team scheduled to leave for Namibia on Friday midday include Red ...
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Nkana wont underrate Warriors
Nkana skipper Sydney Kalume says the FAZ Super Division leaders are wary of Kabwe Warriors as the two teams clash on Saturday at Nkana Stadium in Kitwe. Warriors lie third on the table with 15 points, seven behind Nkana. Kalume said Kalampa will not underrate Warriors in the Week Ten tie. ';Warriors is a good team so we are not going to underrate them,'; he said on Thursday. ...
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Mbesuma is Zambia’s top scorer in the PSL
Chipolopolo striker Collins Mbesuma has finished top scorer among Zambians playing in the South African Premier Soccer League. In the ended 2012/13 PSL season, Mbesuma scored six league goals for Orlando Pirates who failed to defend the title recaptured by their Soweto rivals Kaiser Chiefs. Mbesuma was seven goals behind league top scorer Katlego Mashego of Moroka Swallows who netted 13 ...
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Zambia’s 2nd lady in Malawi pays tribute to late Kamuzu Banda
Zambia's 2nd lady in Malawi, pays tribute to late Kamuzu Banda By Lucky Mkandawire, Nyasa Times May 24, 2013 · 0 ...
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Zambian woman held with 6cr drugs in Mumbai
) arrested a Zambian national for smuggling drugs at Mumbai airport early on Thursday morning. The passenger was carrying six kilograms of amphetamine drugs worth ...
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TAZARA unionized workers in sit in protest after delay in April salaries
Unionized workers at Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) in Kapiri Mposhi have started a sit in protest following the railway company's delay to pay them their April salaries. The workers have not been paid their April monthly salaries. Workers Union of TAZARA (WUTAZ) Coordinating Secretary General, Josam Nkhoma confirmed the development to ZANIS today. Mr Nkhoma said that the ...
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Sata arrives in Addis Ababa
President Michael Sata has arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to attend the 21st AU Summit of Heads of State and government . The summit, which is anchored on the theme "Pan Africanism and the African Renaissance" is scheduled to take place from the 26th to the 27th of May at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa. Over 45 Heads of State and government representatives are ...
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Womens organisation condemn GBM for saying beating a wife is a sign of love
DEFENCE Minister Geoffrey Mwamba The Non Governmental Organization Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has condemned in the strongest terms the statement attributed to Defense Minister Geoffrey Mwamba in today’s edition of POST newspaper suggesting that when a man beats his wife it’s a sign of love. Speaking to Qfm news in an interview this today, NGOCC acting Executive Director Bridget ...
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Five candidates file in for Feira
All the five aspiring parliamentary candidates for the forthcoming Feira Parliamentary Constituency in Luangwa District have successfully filed in their nomination papers today. And all the aspiring candidates have expressed confidence of scooping the seat that fell vacant following the defection of the incumbent, Patrick Ngoma, to the ruling Patriotic Front (PF). ZANIS reports that United ...
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AFRICA INVESTMENT-Zambia risks breadbasket dream with subsidy cuts
By Chris Mfula LUSAKA | Thu May 23, 2013 8:44am EDT LUSAKA May 23 (Reuters) - Zambia's decision to cut subsidies on maize and remove a fuel subsidy is likely to hamper output of the staple grain, raise prices and dash its goal of becoming a regional breadbasket. The southern African country reduced a subsidy on fertiliser to 50 percent from 75 percent, so farmers will now pay more ...
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Veep Scott in Feira for Nominations
Vice President Guy Scott will be in Feira Constituency is in Feira to witness today's filing of nominations by ruling Patriotic Front's candidate Patrick Ngoma. Scott, who has been camped at every by-election with his traditional votes for development message, is expected to tour what the government media termed as 'developmental projects' in Luangwa District. However, ...
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Minister Donates KR50000 to Brothers for Life
DEFENCE Minister Geoffrey Mwamba has pledged KR50,000 to the 'Brothers For Life' movement, which will go towards championing the fight against HIV and AIDS in Zambia. The minister made the pledge in his private capacity at the working breakfast in honour of the 'Brothers For Life' at Radisson Blu Hotel in Lusaka yesterday. Mr Mwamba said Government was committed to fighting ...
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