Monday, May 5, 2025

The Week in Pictures

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Alcoholism and alcohol abuse has remained a major challenge the youth in Zambia. This is attributed to joblessness among the lads who opt to engage in other social ills such as crime and prostitution. When Zambia was celebrating 48 years of political freedom, some youths engaged in alcohol consumption. But one Lusaka youth got more than he could contain.
Alcoholism and alcohol abuse has remained a major challenge the youth in Zambia. This is attributed to joblessness among the lads who opt to engage in social ills such as crime and prostitution. When Zambia was celebrating 48 years of political freedom, some youths engaged in alcohol consumption. But one Lusaka youth got more than he could contain.

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A youth from Kalikiliki township helps an intoxicated colleague on Independence Day in Lusaka east

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A passerby helps a Lusaka youth lift an intoxicated colleague along Ibex Hills road on Independence Day.

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Two ‘Zam-Ambulances’ donated at Muwanguni Rural health centre in Mansa

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Plan International Mansa programme unit manager,Ms Grace Mwendapole giving out the cell phones and other products to SMAG (Safe Motherhood Action Group)members

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Kalulushi ZAWA ranger Lewis Daka(Left) with other ZAWA officers examines one of the rifles recovered from the suspected poachers.

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Vice president Guy Scott with North Western province permanent secretary Augustine Seyuba buying vegetables from a trader at Mufumbwe main market on Monday.

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Tourism minister Sylvia Masebo and PF General secretary Wynter Kabimba chatting during a rally in Mufumbwe

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A Long journey starts with a first step…4-year-old Nasilele, a baby class pupil at Eagle school of excellence in Nakonde district of Muchinga receiving an award from the District Education Standards Officer (DESO) Peter Ndlouvu (r)for his outstanding performance in class. This was during a graduation ceremony of the pre-school and Grade 7 pupils held at Mwetwa Hall

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Dr Solomon Jere Being Sworn in as Deputy Inspector General at State house

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Quintuplets were born to a 32 year old woman from Lusaka.Above, a nurse attends to the babies that were still being observed at the hospital

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Muchinga province deputy permanent secretary Jewis Chabi addressing hundreds of job seekers who stormed the office of the district commissioner (DC ) Evelyn Kangwa demanding to know when the construction works at the new provincial administration site in the district would commence so that they can be employed

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President Sata arrives at the site of the Lusaka Chiawa road

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The Chiawa – Chirundu road currently under construction under the Link Zambia project

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President Micheal Sata on Monday Inspected Lusaka -Chiawa 80Km  road Under construction Linking Chirundu Zambia- Zimbabwe Boarder  with a Bridge on Zambezi river in chieftain Chiawa area Lusaka Provinc
President Sata inspects the Lusaka -Chiawa 80Km road under construction, linking Chirundu Zambia- Zimbabwe Boarder with a bridge on Zambezi river in chieftain Chiawa area

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President Michael Sata in ceremonial ZAF Uniform at KK international airport before he flew into Livingstone to commission ZAF Officers.Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza Presidential photographer

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President Michael Sata in ceremonial ZAF Uniform at KK international airport before he flew into Livingstone to commission ZAF Officers.Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza Presidential photographer

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President Michael Sata greets Service Chiefs at KK international airport before he flew into Livingstone to commission ZAF Officers.Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza Presidential photographer

73 COMMENTS

  1. These pictures are full of Twerps

    The trend is the same LT, how about pictures of buildings, shops, cars found in Zambia
    Some of these pictures are extremely repugnant and do not inspire confidence in people like myself who are coming to Zambia to spend a few weeks
    Abysmal

    Thanks

  2. Sata in uniform wow thats a first! But he does look like a dictator.Zambian men drink too much.Pic1-3 thats a pathetic sorry sight.pic4 what exactly is the zambulance supposed to carry? needles? hope its not people

  3. Pic 1-3-Awe iliko bad.This is what we call cut rub-bish.Pic 4-this is what i call as initiative.Pic 8-Good to see those two love birds together.

  4. Pics 16 – 18. Real swag! Pic 6 Game meat!! U ‘ve given me appetite. Pic. 8 Uhhhmmm!!! I thought these two were…………..

  5. Ok ba LT, I concur with one blogger (who will remain nameless for the sake of sanity) that, there’s really nothing inspiring about the majority of the pictures you post. As an example; Pics 1,2 and 3. Why do you have to show us these drunk (probabaly under aged) youths? I mean, we all know this to be a fact. Kids drink in the morning, in the evening everyday including sundays. Their parents if at all present, are drunks as well. We know that, being belegede is always a given pa Zed. Do we need pictures as proof? You think about that!

    For all that’s worth mentioning, pic 9 is truly the sort of pics you need to start posting from now on. Inspiring and pictures that are worth looking at. Pics 16, 17 and 18. Why are you showing us Sata’s over sized uniform? I dont get it!

  6. LT, I CHALLENGE YOU TO POST MORE PICTURES LIKE PIC 9. LET’S SEE IF YOU WILL TAKE HEED SINCE YOU’RE ALWAYS CENSORING MY S.H.I.T. YES, AM SCREAMING HENCE THE CAPS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SLOW.

    Umupondo out!

  7. Pic #12 are all those youths not suppose to be in school i can see some are stil teenagers nd lookn for jobs.please take the children back to school so that adults are given jobs these teens are the one bringing the no number of jobless pipo to go up.finish school and get good jobs.

  8. Pic #4
    Those ‘Zam-Ambulances’ are just death traps. How does a patient sit or lie in those boxes and how safe are they on the pot-holed Zambian roads and careless drivers? I know these are desperate measures but lives must not be put at risk.

  9. – Thank you for making my day with Sata’s ill-fitted uniform!
    – Sylvia Masebo is back with Winter Kabimba

  10. Why are Zambian service chiefs so fat? In contrast, police constables look malnourished! Compare that to your average British bobby, including the chief of London Metropolitan Police, who work out at the gym.

  11. PIC 16, SATA LOOK LIKE HE’S WEARING AN OVOROS. THIS MAN DOES NOT SUIT TO BE PRESIDENT OF ANY COUNTRY BUT THE ZAMBIAN PIPO CHOSE HIM,HE’S A WASTE OF TIME

  12. #pics 1 & 2 everywhere you look in Zambia is rubbish with exception of very few good places.  #pic 6 do you even call that an office? #pics 13-16 is it going to be another one lane each way road? Pic#16 how safe are place tyres with our kind of Tarmac runway? #pic9 congrats

  13. You LT dunderheads amaze me sometimes. You’re busy critizing, ridiculing and insulting but none of you is yet to comment positively on pic 9 or is it because, you only focus on the negative images LT brings to you every week? This 4 year old boy has achieved much in his class and thus the reward and yet you morons fail to even acknowledge that? Did any of you even go past grade 7? You think the drunk boys, tomatos, Masebo and Wynter, even the awful sight of the president in the clown suit is worth commenting on more so than a positive achievment of a hard working school-going child? Ya’ll pathetic to say the leaset….

  14. @Mushota#3
    You of all people, even mentally and facially challenged ones included, who are you to demand a special treatment from the same people you always insult? Billionnaires and the most powerful figures such as Bill Gate, George Bush, Dangote etc have visited Zambia without exihibiting your madness. You must just shove that white racist of yours ‘Nick’ in your bag because he is behind your racist utterances and he has transformed you into an *****. You are proud of yourself for degrading your own ass. Go to hell.

  15. Boom
    Stop mentioning my name, you sewer rat!
    You are the lowest of all ebbs
    You are wholly without any redeeming social grace or value.
    If God ever decides to give the planet an enema you’d better run like the wind because anywhere you stand is a suitable place for The Insertion.

    You are In Africa I am in Europe; no comparison really, is there?
    Thanks

  16. My question is were do these boys get the money for drinking. I do not agree that what takes these boys to drink is only lack of employment; Give them jobs, they will still come to work drunk…. The money they are drinking with, can’t they buy tomatoes/chibwabwa, impwa and sell? Or do they need Sata or whoever to tell them that? What kind of resume will these chaps have? ati” I had no job, so all I did was get wasted”? what are your hobbies “getting drunk”, what skills have you acquired because of living in poverty? getting drunk……About since I was living on less than a $, I decided to get into a small business with 30pin, and started selling chibwabwa….yes bane I knew nobody when I came to Lusaka from Kitwe, straight from college, with my certificate I walked in a company

  17. and asked to see the manager, they took me to him and he asked me this, “since you have never worked before, what skills do you bring here, any hobbies?”. I told him I assisted my mother selling her makwebo,, he asked what kind of makwebo? me, from high end goods to chikanda, so I have hands on experience in marketing and customer service, coupled with my qualifications now, the rest is history…. You are hired was the response. As much as we want to blame the government(s), our mindset is to blame…. we have no initiative at all. Because if a person can go and spend K1000 on moba, then they know what they are doing and they call themselves poor!!! LT, don’t show those pics of lazy people, show me of boy/girl doing some temp work somewhere….Do you understand!!!

  18. URGENT JOB VACANCY AT plot 1. BELT HOLDER WANTED to start work immediately. Must be short, and able to walk briskly behind the President without letting go of the belt or else it will slide down and trip the President. Job currently being ‘held’ by his bodyguard. But bodyguard getting too distracted by this additional responsibility and may fail to see and act swiftly if bad guys suddenly show up and try to harm the President. So, urgent applications are invited before the bad guys notice this ‘breach of security’.  

  19. I feel sorry for the innocent boy on pic# 9 and the babies on pic #11.They’re surrounded and will grow up amongst drunkards,dictators,political opportunists and visionless party hoppers,irresponsible idlers galore,poachers and freeloaders.

  20. Congratulations to the little lad Nasilele; I know this test has taken a lot of hard work and effort, You deserve the results; You earned it!
    I hope you grow up to be a humble self respecting leader unlike these shameless chaps on this thread whom are disrespecting their elders on a public forum.Its no surprise that some of them were just too daft to be admitted in pre-school at 4 years old.
    I salute you little one.
    Uncle Maxwell

    • Respect is just not given my bro it is earned and the fact that they are “elders” yet so full of BS,bile and opportunism makes it even more tragic.You just don’t follow blindly,rather you do it selectively where it merits.

  21. Pic nr. 1 when a road becomes a pillow to lay your head on, then you gat real problems with drink baba!

    Wonder Kid Nasilele nr.9 congrats.

  22. Iwe #37 Enka thats exactly why we don’t develop.We are poor by choice bcoz all those societal ills you listed are an exact reflection of a country choosing the path of least resistance.We are a nation that chooses to hide its head in the sand.Even diamonds are made thru great pressures.

  23. Pics.13-15.Clearly we have no safety standards in Zambia. No high visibility vest , steel cap boots or hard hats  for the people on site including H.E.M.C.S.
    No wonder the Chinese have Zambian workers on their mine sites with no gloves or boots.
    How can we expect the Chinese to follow suit when all they are doing is what the Romans do when in Rome.

  24. Picture number 18, good to see the service looking so smart, how I wish even the junior service could be provided for with clean and proper uniforms (especially the police)! Thanks LT the pics speak volumes!

  25. Boma ni Boma.
    I like Sata because he goes out phyiscally to see what is happening on the ground.
    Thank God he is Zambian President,its about time we had someone to shake up some activities and projects in the country.

  26. Time civilians were stopped from donning military uniform. Obama is also commander in Chief of the US Forces but you never see him in military uniform. Closer to home Lt.Gen Ian Khama, who is a trained soldier, has moth-balled his generals uniform since becoming Presido and is always in civilian attire even at military events. HMCS loos comical in that uniform.

    Pic 14 – Men in suits running in mad after Presidos vehicle. This is crazy. 

  27. PIC# 16,17 & 18:- FROM COLONIAL KAPASO fighting against Independence freedom fighters To COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. THIS MAN IS A FRAUD. HE DOESN’T DESERVE TO HOLD THAT POSITION ON THAT ACCOUNT ALONE.

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