Secretary to the Cabinet Roland Msiska has announced that the time table for tomorrow’s Grade 9 Examination will go on as scheduled and pupils should not abscond from writing their examinations.
Dr Msiska says all secondary school pupils who are sitting for examinations will write the exams as scheduled.
He explained that for pupils based in Lusaka police at road blocks will guide the pupils to facilitate their passage on selected roads which have been partially close.
Some selected roads will tomorrow Monday and Tuesday , the burial day of President Michael Sata who died in a London hospital on 0ctober 28, be partially closed.
Among the affected roads are the Independence Avenue, Church road, Pundit Neru, Haile Selassie, Chikwa road and Cairo roads.
Others are nationalist, Addis Ababa, Great east road and the Great North road.
Meanwhile, Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Minister Yamfwa Mukanga has paid tribute to President MICHAEL SATA’s commitment to improve the communication and transport sector.
Mr. Mukanga says President Sata drive to promote investment in communication and transport sector has helped in opening up the rest of the country.
He has cited the repossessed Zambia Railways from Railway Systems of Zambia as one which has helped revamp the rail sector.
In the communication sector, Mr. Mukanga says the repossession of ZAMTEL from a Libyan firm Lap Green network has also recorded progress in the performance of ZAMTEL.
Mr. Mukanga was speaking on ZNBC Television’s Let’s Mourn programme.
He further says Mr. Sata embarked on installing communications towers in rural areas to easy communication.
Mr. Mukanga says the Link Zambia 8000, Pave Zambia 2000 and the L400 have resulted in easy connectivity and reduced the cost of doing business.
What was wrong with the re-scheduled date that the Ministry of Education had announced last week? With the road closures children, who use public transport to get to school may end up either missing exams or arriving late.
Thanks LT for the information.
I was unfortunate enough to be born in religious family, so before I learned to walk and talk or even comprehend myself and my surroundings I was already baptised and in their eyes a part of this sharade. Tell me, if religions are so great and supposingly “our choice” how come all of them try to recruit you before you even learn how to say no? Talk about someone pushing their views at you.. Wake up, you blind followers, for your own sake.!!
About time people realize the truth.
@Peace, good point you raise. Very respectfully noted!
@Peace
There’s true and false religion. False religion baptises babies before they have a chance to choose which God they want to dedicate their lives to. Jesus was baptised at age 30 and then he began his ministry, think about it.
You still have a choice. You can recant your faith if you have any in God. You don’t have to shout for the world to hear or else you will be doing the same recruiting thing you are against.
Practice what you preach.
Why close the roads in the first place. You cannot paralyse business for 2 whole days and expect employers to pay employees for days not worked. How do they account for those 2 days not worked? This cannot be tolerated in North America.
Africa and Zambia in particular operates on cloud 9
All this inconvenience because of one individual who was always absent in his office…I can’t wait for this circus to end and his corpse to buried…what a liability this man was!!
Why on earth would grade 9 exams be rescheduled?? Unless grade 9s received invitation cards to the funeral! The relevant authorities should take care of logistics – Allowing the funeral AND normal business to occur simultaneously.
Sha!
Let us mourn the late president Mr . Michael Sata with the dignity he deserves by doing so we are sticking to the earlier resolve we made as a people of zambia that president Michael Sata will be our even if he a liability to the nation or even he hires useless cabinet ministers to help him run the affairs of the the government like what he himself observed and commented on the ineffectiveness of his cabinet.
As noted by the majority of mourners only Michael Sata was a man of action and the rest of his team were Useless this has put us voters in yet another precarious situation of having to choose as a president one of these persons who a confirmed non performer. Now we need to choose some one energetic, passionate , intelligent & learned from among the pool of political players…
Soon we shall be voting into office a candidate from whomever will present themselves. Just as we have vilified and glorified Michael Sata in equal measure, so the nays and yays of the voting population will do the same with the incoming President. However, what must stand out in all these experiences is that life MUST go on regardless and unless there is some earth-moving (literally here) incident that compels people to stay put we must honor those that are fallen by going about our business albeit solemnly and in dignity. Life, after all, is a mix of all sorts and a mess of anything.
What does the Minister of education Do? I thought it was his job to let the pupils know about Exams….
It looks like there seems to be no coherency in the Zambian Govt…Everyone can announce anything he/she wishes from any department.
What a circus…..