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President Lungu expected in Namibia tomorrow

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FOREIGN Affirs Minister,Joseph Malanji briefing the media
FOREIGN Affirs Minister,Joseph Malanji briefing the media
President Edgar Lungu is tomorrow expected in Windhoek Namibia to attend the 38th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit of Heads of State and Government.

The theme for the 38th Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the SADC being held at the Safari Hotel from August 17 to 18, is “Promoting Infrastructure Development and Youth Empowerment for Sustainable Development”.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joseph Malanji told media in an interview in Windhoek today that President Lungu will also assume the Chairmanship of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security which is managed on a Troika basis and is responsible for promoting peace and security in the region.

Mr. Malanji said President Lungu will upon arrival attend a meeting to discuss some of the African Union (AU) reforms which the SADC region has put in place for consideration.

He further explained that the President is expected to hold bilateral meetings with SADC member Heads of State more particularly to discuss issues of elections in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Mr. Malanji stated that Zambia will work with other member countries to ensure peace prevails in DRC saying it will be bad for Zambia if elections are not conducted well in that country.

He however, expressed confidence that nothing to the contrary will happen for the sake of peace and stability in the region.

Mr. Malanji explained that for the region to enjoy a common free trade area, peace should be attained and maintained.

The advance party comprise Minister of Defence Davis Chama, Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo, Minister of Sports, Youth and Child Development Moses Mawere and Transport and Communication Minister Brian Mushimba.

Others are Defence Permanent Secretary Stardy Mwale, his Home Affairs counterpart Chileshe Mulenga and other senior government officials.

The focus of Namibia as the new SADC chair will be on strengthening infrastructure development in the region as well as harnessing the human capital dividend through youth empowerment to ensure sustainable growth.

Infrastructure development is pivotal to the socio-economic growth including the industrialisation agenda of the region as thriving economies depend on a reliable infrastructure base, both at the national and regional level.

The SADC Organ on Politics Defence and Security which Zambia is Chair is managed on a Troika basis and is responsible for promoting peace and security in the SADC region.

It is mandated to steer and provide member states with direction regarding matters that threaten peace, security and stability in the region while coordinated at the level of Summit, consisting of a Chairperson, Incoming Chairperson and Outgoing Chairperson, and reports to the SADC Summit Chairperson.

Apart from the expected arrivals of Heads of State and Government, there will be a Troika meeting of Ministerial committee of the organ.

On Friday August 17 which is the SADC day, the Chairperson will issue a SADC Day message alongside the launch of the theme for the summit before the official opening of the 38th Ordinary SADC summit.

This year’s theme builds on the 37th Ordinary SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government held last year in Pretoria, South Africa whose theme was “partnering with the private sector in developing industry and regional value chains,’.

Namibia last hosted such a SADC event in 1992.

37 COMMENTS

    • It is getting too long to like that Malanji, please change him.
      From Kalaba to Malanji is like the usual insult.
      Replace him with Peter Sinkamba.

    • Defense minister, Home Affaires, Sport and perm Sec. What’s that for? We have diplomats there please. Save money my leaders!!!

    • That’s the only time you hear about this utterly useless lazy dingbat Edgar …am sure he will be escorted to KKIA with all his army of ministers and officials in their new Toyatas SUVs.
      When we tell you what we have in Zambia is a mere figurehead like the Queen.

  1. “ONLY A TONGA MUST LEAD UPND” says Sejani. BREAKING NEWS- The entire UPND kanyama constituency structures collapses and joins PF. The end of the tribal party is approaching at a faster rate than anticipated. We are waiting for the TONGA GOD HH for another press conference over these unending defections kkkkkkkkkkkkk. Zambia will be a better place to live in without tribalist HH on the political arena

    • Chamisa’s court challenge is basically divided into two parts. The first argument is based mainly on the arithmetic/statistical errors (intentional or otherwise) comparing ZEC announced figures to the ZEC provided election results CD, the v11 and v23 forms. The second argument is based on the procedures followed by ZEC (and other interested parties) prior, during and after elections which might have compromised the election results.

      MATHEMATICAL / STATISTICAL PROBLEMS.
      Introduction
      In the ZEC broadcast message of 3rd of August, Emmerson Mnangagwa was announced as having scored 50.8% of votes cast. The extra 0.8% gave him a win since a presidential candidate is declared a winner if they get 50% PLUS 1 vote. That 0.8%, in this case, represents about 30 000 votes. This means if it can…

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      This means if it can be proven mathematically or otherwise that Mnangagwa fraudulently acquired 30 000 votes or more, then he cannot be declared the winner. Either the person who then reaches 50%plus line after recount becomes the president or there is a rerun for the top two candidates.
      1…Unaccounted for results
      According to ZEC 5 659 583 individuals were registered to vote. If 72% people voted (as alleged by ZEC) then around 4 032 000 people voted. However ZEC announced a total of 4 775 640 voters having exercised their right. This means 700 000 or so votes are unaccounted for.
      2. CD information discrepancy
      On announcing results, ZEC also gave the party representatives information on CDs. This information unfortunately differs with the one announced by ZEC on the national…

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      This information unfortunately differs with the one announced by ZEC on the national broadcaster e.g. in the CD 4 774 878 people voted yet ZEC announced on TV that 4 775 640 people voted.
      3. Presidential and parliamentary total votes discrepancy
      When a person enters the voting station, he is given three ballots to cast their vote: LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENTARY (House of assembly) and PRESIDENTIAL ballots. This means at any point during collating of votes, the presidential votes in total must be equal to the House of assembly total votes for a given area. This is inclusive of spoilt papers. If ever there is a discrepancy in the tally figures then further explanation must be given as to what happened at the polling station.

      In the ZEC announced tally, presidential votes…

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      .In the ZEC announced tally, presidential votes were more than house of assembly by 40 717 votes. This value was accounted for by 12 constituencies only out of 210.
      4. Inflating and deflating of figures.
      V11 forms are usedfor capturing information at the polling station. These v11 forms are then used to collate results which are entered in the v22 n v23 forms at ward and constituency command centers. However on looking at the v11 and v23 figures, apparently Chamisa’s votes were reduced by 19 722 while those of Emmerson Mnangagwa were increased by 10 343 votes.
      5. Excess total voter more than registered voters in polling stations.
      A Polling station, according to ZEC, is supposed to have at least 1 registered voter but not more than 1 000 voters. However Some polling stations…

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      However Some polling stations brought returns of a plus a thousand votes. There are also some instances were more voters than the registered number ast thier vote.This discrepancy amounted to a total of 31 204 odd votes being gained mostly by Emmerson Mnangagwa.
      ZBC current affairs interviewed one presiding officer in Mashonaland whose polling station had 600 odd registered voters yet he reported on camera that by 5pm “over 900 people had cast their vote.”
      In some places e.g. Mashonaland central, over 400 000 votes were announced when in actual fact only 200 000 people voted. This means 200 000 votes were created.
      6. Civil servants who didn’t vote
      There are 40 000 plus civil servants, mostly teachers, whose right to vote was taken away by ZEC despite court ruling ordering…

    • ZEC despite court ruling ordering ZEC to make sure all its officers on national duty vote. ZEC had employed over 130 000 officers for the voting process.
      7. Double collation of results
      There are some stations which were collated twice. Whether it was intentional, fatigue or a simple innocent mistake, this error caused an increase of 9 035 votes of which 7 703 were accorded to Mnangagwa.

      8. 21 Polling station removed on polling day
      On voting day, 21 polling stations were removed from ZEC list. No explanation given. New stations, whose location was secret until their returns came to command center, were created. These 21 ghost stations brought strange result with one station bringing a return of about 5 396 votes for Emmerson Mnangagwa (a figure well about the limit of 1000 voters per…

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      (a figure well about the limit of 1000 voters per polling station).
      9. Tempering with v11 forms
      In one example of v11 tempering a v11 form for Gezi primary school had initially been completed with Mnangagwa having 9 votes. This was later changed by putting a 54 ahead of 9 making Mnangagwa’s tally to be 549. The total votes also was rubbed and clumsily amended to reflect the new tally.

      PROCEDURAL ARGUMENTS:
      These are arguments that mostly have to do with conduct of ZEC and other interested parties which may have directly or indirectly led to compromised results being announced.

  2. WHO IS GOING TO BE THE ACTING PRESIDENT SINCE THE VICE IS GOING TO TURKEY , DEFENCE MINISTER IS GOING TO NAMIBIA OR IS ALREADY GONE. I GUESS BOWMAN LUSAMBO, RONALD CHITOTELA OR MALALANJE, WHATS UR GUESS BLOGGERS

  3. “promoting infrastructure development on kaloba that you cant afford to pay” is what they should be discussing. useless greedy chaps. Where are the PF cadres who danced to more money in your pockets.. only to be victims of double taxation. ubututu mu zambia

    • Let’s roll, that tribalist WILL NEVER be president! He can sacrifice as much blood as he wants he will still be a LOSER.

  4. Who would think lungu lives 8 miles from the recent epicentre of cholera where people were drinking water from shallow wells next to pit latrines ?

    What is remarkable is that this self same lungu was area MPs for one of the cholera epicentres …… 90 people died…

    • I am glad Childish is UNELECTABLE & UNLIKABLE. He is wasting his time and his supporters’ time. UPND is a COALITION OF THE WICKED. It is also a COALITION OF TRIBALISTS.

    • You, No one is talking to you , I told you to go and wash between you sticky legs and maybe you will find a man….

    • Spaka like Lilo
      What makes you think this Sharon is a woman?Just follow his posting they are very masculine or those of an ugly fat woman who blames everyone but herself for being single at 40.Anyway PF deserves a refund of the money they spent on him.He is not logical,not funny the posts only get mnoticed because of the monotony,HH this HH that.PF you can do better,perharps you should concentrate on Mushota

  5. The whole lot will be out of the country at the same time – including both ECL and mama Inonge. Doesn’t make much of a difference anyway. I don’t know what REAL work they do when they are around.

  6. Lazy Jay j, please ask your triba.l head of upnd to share his experiences with Break News.
    Such nonsense can only make amusing reading if h.h is mentioned.

    By tge way I don’t hear h.h mentioning the petition, has he now received the bill for legal services?

    • Looking at that breaking news it is now clear why lungu rushed to harare even before the official results ……to try and advice munangagwa to be sworn in as president , even by a clerk if the chief justice was still asleep ……like in his case.

  7. So all ministers will stop work and go and parade at the airport to see off President Lungu to Namibia This is despite the world moving from stone age to iron age to computer age and to digital age. In America not even a Vice President sees off the President because people take work and the mandate they are given by the people seriously

    • Well, this whole thing of ministers and technocrats seeing off the Head of State is historical. In the KK days, whenever KK was travelling or returning from a trip, the route used will be full of school children and adults alike, waiving at him. The airport will be full of all ministers and technocrats, including party functionaries and all sorts of dance troupes. Shops and markets will be closed. We Africans think that time is always there and costs nothing. How cursed!
      Coming to Presidential entourages, most of the inclusions are irrelevant to the occasion at hand.
      We do not think that spending resources on irrelevant inclusions is an opportunity cost.
      Our friends in developed countries do not have this kind of thing. Everything they do is well calculated in terms of likely benefits…

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