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“Be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:7, NKJV)
Observe to Do
The Bible has a lot to say about prosperity. Prosperity simply means thriving, vibrant and alive. It’s a picture of vitality. When you are prosperous, you have more than enough to give to others. That means more peace, more grace, more hope, more love.
The key to receiving all these spiritual blessings is found in today’s verse. When we “observe to do” what God has commanded, we are setting ourselves up for success. We are engaging in His system of doing things; and when we do things God’s way, we get God’s results!
Today, “observe to do” what God has commanded. Invite Him to search your heart and mind and remove anything that is displeasing to Him. Put Him first because when you make Him your number one priority, you are setting yourself up to prosper wherever you go!
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for Your Word which is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I choose to put You first place in every area of my life. I submit myself to Your Word that I may follow You and be blessed in everything I do in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
Power Dynamos did second placed Nkana a big favour on Saturday after beating Zanaco 2-1 to see The Bankers lead cut from eleven to eight points on the FAZ Super Division table.
The result at Arthur Davies Stadium in Kitwe also handed Zanaco its second league defeat of the season and ended their 8-game unbeaten run.
Power played about their best football this season in a match new coach Dan Kabwe demonstrated his tactical nous playing the tried and tested players who had stuttered early this season under the fired Tennant Chilumba.
Kabwe is now unbeaten in five games in charge with one draw and four straight league wins.
Fwayo Tembo put Power 1-0 into the break in the 12th minute and turned provider in the 59th minute for Patson Daka’s second goal.
Zanaco scored the equalizer in-between through Fashion Sakala after he raced past Govender Simwala and Billy Mutale in the 47th minute before beating his former club-mate Allan Chibwe.
But Power also had defender Francis Kasinde to thank after he cleared his ex-Arthur Davies team mate Isaac Chansa’s header off the line in the 15th minute and Sakala’s attempt in the 32nd minute.
Meanwhile in Kabwe, Nkana ended Kabwe Warriors unbeaten home run this season thanks to a 1-0 away win at Godfrey ‘Ucar’ Chitalu Stadium.
Just like in the first leg at Nkana Stadium in April, midfielder Jacob Ngulube returned to punish Warriors with a 22nd minute winner.
Zanaco stay put on 49 points while Power also maintain third spot rising to 37 points and still four points behind second placed Nkana.
FAZ SUPER DIVISION
WEEK 21
05/08/2016
Forest Rangers 0- NAPSA Stars 0
06/08/2016
Mufulira Blackpool 0-Mufulira Wanderers 0
Green Eagles 0-Nakambala Leopards 1
Lusaka Tigers 0-Green Buffaloes 1
Kabwe Warriors 0-Nkana 1
Nkwazi 0-Lumwana Radiants 0
Power Dynamos 2-Zanaco 1
07/08/2016
Nchanga Rangers-Lusaka Dynamos
POSTPONED:
Red Arrows-Zesco United
Former ZESCO Managing Director Ernest Mupwaya has been appointed as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) effective 1st August, 2016.
Mr. Mupwaya, who takes over from Neil Croucher, was until his appointment the Director of Commercial Services at AEDC and has held several senior management positions at ZESCO Limited, including that of Managing Director.
He boasts an electricity industry career spanning 30 years.
On appointing him, the AEDC board of directors has tasked Mr. Mupwaya to use his broad experience in the electricity supply industry to transform the company to ensure that it achieves its objectives and build on the successes achieved under Croucher, whose three-year tenure came to a close at the end of July.
A member the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) as well as several other professional bodies and social organisations, Mr. Mupwaya’s appointment is subject to the approval of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
AEDC, acquired in 2013, is one of the two Nigerian operating companies in which the CEC Group holds equity interest.
Zambia Police HelicopterLUSAKA Province Police Commissioner Nelson Phiri says the command has put various measures in place to ensure a safer, peaceful and secure electoral environment for all citizens in the capital ahead of next Thursday’s general elections.
And Mr Phiri said in order to ensure security at all polling stations, police have deployed officers in all seven zones of Lusaka, catering for all seven constituencies in the province.
He said each zone has been allocated with a substantial number of officers stationed there and will be supervised by senior officers who can easily be contacted in case of an emergency.
Speaking during an electoral stakeholders meeting with political parties , civil society (CSO) and faith-based organizations in Lusaka yesterday, Mr Phiri said over 30 cases of electoral violence have been recorded such as destruction of campaign materials , shooting incidents , malicious damage to both private and public property and physical attacks on innocent citizens and the police.
Mr Phiri said some of the measures the police have put in place ahead of the elections include increased police presence in communities, public awareness campaigns against electoral violence and enhanced collaboration with electoral stakeholders.
Mr Phiri said during the 2011 general elections, the police recorded incidents such as burning of motor vehicles in Kanyama constituency, riotous behaviour in Lilanda compound, harassment of electoral officers and political violence and clashing between political parties.
The commissioner said it was the prime focus of Zambia Police to promote the rule of law, respect for human rights, safeguard lives and property during the electoral process and ensure that sponsors and perpetrators of violence were arrested and face the law.
And civil society organization representative (CSO) Judy Mulenga has commended the police for the preparations and measures that it had put in place ahead of the elections.
Ms Mulenga said the issue of elections was a fundamental civil and political human right.
She said it was important that human rights were promoted to benefit human beings.
Meanwhile, faith-based organizations representative, Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) chairperson Rev Michael Ngondwe, said peace was cardinal to every developing nation.
And Mr Phiri presented footballs to political parties as a way to symbolize peace for them to play ‘‘peaceful football’’.
MORE than 1,000 Zambian and Zimbabwean youths from Siavonga and Kariba town, among them university graduates, yesterday thronged the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) offices in Zimbabwe to seek employment as cleaners at the multinational regulatory company.
The Kariba border post, which is usually empty due to low traffic between Zambia and Zimbabwe, was by as early as 06 hours jammed with job seekers from Siavonga and surrounding areas who were found processing border passes to cross into Zimbabwe for interviews as office orderlies.
The job interviews, which were originally slated for Monday, were moved to Thursday after ZRA officers failed to control the multitude of people who had camped outside their premises to submit their job application letters.
Job seekers, who lined up the entire Mahombekombe road in Kariba town where the ZRA mechanical workshop and offices are located in Zimbabwe, were answering to an advertisement by the river authority that intended to recruit 20 sweepers and cleaners.
The financial and economic meltdown in Zimbabwe coupled with the depletion of fish in Lake Kariba has left many people, especially youths, jobless in Kariba Town in Zimbabwe while lack of industries in the resort town of Siavonga has rendered many youths destitute.
The high unemployment levels has also forced many youths especially girls in the two communities to venture into prostitution and other dangerous vices that puts them at high risk of contracting HIV/AIDS.
The Zambezi River Authority, which is co-owned by Zambia and Zimbabwe, is said to other goodconditions of work and pays its low ranking employees such as office orderlies and sweepers better than what an average Government school teacher or nurse gets in the two neighboring countries.
The company, which oversees and regulates usage of water in the Zambezi River, will employ over 500 people from both Zambia and Zimbabwe when it launches its US$294 million Kariba Dam wall rehabilitation project which will be undertaken over 10 years.
Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba has dismissed the letter and contents written by UPND President Hakainde Hichilema as an act of serious desperation and hopelessness.
Mr Hichilema has written to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon seeking intervention over President Edgar Lungu’s threats on democracy and the breakdown of law and order in the country.
Mr Hichilema’s letter was copied to South African President Jacob Zuma, SADC Chairman Ian Khama, COMESA secretary general Sindiso Ngwenya, Chairperson of the African Union commission Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Dean of the African diplomatic corps David Banda and International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Executive Secretary Muburi Muita.
Mr Hichilema also wrote to American Ambassador Eric Schultz, Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland, chairman of the African Union Idris Derby, New Chairman of the African Union Paul Kagame, Ambassador of the Commission of the European Union to Zambia Alessandro Mariani and SADC executive secretary Dr Stergomena Lewis-Tax.
“Recent events in our country give rise to serious concerns on our part, which require the attention, intervention and urgent engagement of your organisations. We are immensely proud of our country’s previous peaceful elections and we would not like this record to be tarnished.
Recent acts of State and political party violence have put our country in a state of uncertainty and the potential for breakdown of law and order which could quite easily degenerate into a civil war, which must be avoided at all costs,” Mr Hichilema stated.
“I attach to this letter a catalogue of print and video images of some of the ugly incidences which have given rise to our concerns and grave anxieties. It is for these reasons that we urge you to help bring about calm, by bringing the participating politics parties together to sign a peace accord which would hold up to the 11th August, so that the lives of our citizens are not endangered.”
He observed that all previous peace agreements between political parties had failed.
“The leaders of the three church mother bodies brought all the major political parties together on 29th April, 2016 where they made a commitment to campaign peacefully during these elections and to reject violence. These commitments have sadly broken down and are not being honoured.
Recently, the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) suspended election campaigns for 10 days in Lusaka and Namwala districts on account of reported violence, but it has become a notorious fact that branded motor vehicles of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) which were prohibited by ECZ continued to campaign especially in the capital Lusaka, without being stopped by either the police or ECZ, causing anger and frustration on our part and others taking part in these elections,” Mr. Hichilema stated.
He stated that if the situation remained unchecked, it would produce serious consequences for the country.
“This state of affairs is menacingly leading to a breakdown of law and order in our country and concerns to this effect have also been voiced in equal measure by the Human Rights Commission of Zambia, the Law Association of Zambia, the Non-Governmental Organisation Co-ordinating Council and the Southern African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD), who have accused ECZ and the Zambia police of being biased against opposition parties,” Mr. Hichilema stated.
“We fear that if this situation remains unchecked, it could produce serious consequences for our country and its people, hence this urgent request for Your Excellences’ engagement and intervention. I am confident that you will give this matter the urgency and seriousness it deserves.”
But Mr. Kalaba stated that Hichilema was fearful of an impending fifth straight loss and was now making desperately wild claims to attract international attention to himself.
He said that Zambia is a democratic state that runs free, credible and fair elections and Mr Hichilema was afraid of the impending rejection from Zambians that he would face next week.
He said the act by Mr Hichilema was desperate and highly unpatriotic and was surprised that any Zambian could write such a letter against his own country.
Below is the full statement by Mr. Kalaba
HICHILEMA’S DESPERATION IS ALARMING
We have learnt with sadness that United Party for National Development (UPND) leader has written an unpatriotic letter to the United Nations and copied it to the African Union, International Conference on the Great Lakes (ICGLR) and other bodies.
The gist of this letter is the preposterous claim that Democracy and Freedoms have been eroded in Zambia by the government of President Edgar Lungu.
We suspect that Mr. Hichilema is smelling a clear electoral defeat, a straight 5th personal loss for him that he can’t appear to stomach.
We are shocked that any citizen of this peaceful and democratic country could write such a demeaning and unpatriotic letter against the spirit of his own country. It is imperative to state that the basis and foundation of his letter holds no truth and is an attempt to merely scandalise the credible electoral process.
President Edgar Lungu has been at the forefront of ensuring that Law and Order is preserved and the inter party violence incidences were curbed. On the other hand, Mr. Hichilema has promoted activities that violate peace, law and order by defying the law and public order act.
He is on record as the only political leader who refused to be part of the peace efforts initiated by the ECZ Zambia remains a peaceful country and will hold credible, transparent and democratic elections.
Mr. Hichilema has been able to hold public rallies and meetings without hindrance or stoppages. Government has invited local and international observers to witness this process.
We therefore call upon Zambians and the recipients of this desperate letter to dismiss its contents and regard it as only worth for its nuisance value.
We also urge Mr. Hichilema to recognise that his acts of unpatriotism against his country is so regrettable that it amounts to sabotage and beneath the call of a man aspiring for the highest office in the land.
Mr. Hichilema is expected to express sincere gratitude and patriotism to Zambia and its people for all the country has given him.
His hypocrisy and desperation speaks volumes about why Zambians have rejected him for four times in the past and are most likely going to reject him for the 5th time.
God bless Zambia. Hon. Harry Kalaba Minister of Foreign Affairs
Livingstone based retired medical doctor Teddy Mulenga (left) and British National Chaz Powell (right) pose for a picture on Zambezi River in readiness for their long journey from the source of Zambezi River in Northern Western Province of Zambia to Mozambique
A BRITISH national, Chaz Powell, has partnered with a Livingstone based retired medical doctor,Teddy Mulenga, to walk from the source of Zambezi River in Western Province of Zambia and pass through Angola up to Mozambique.
The journey, which is aimed at raising money for wildlife conservation and anti poaching activities, is expected to start next week on August 10 up to January next year.
If this mission will be succesful, the two will be the first people in history to walk along the entire Zambezi River for a journey of about 2, 500 kilometres.
Speaking in an interview in Livingstone yesterday, Mr Powell said he decided to partner with a medical doctor who would carry a medical kit in case the two fell ill along the way.
Mr Mowell hopes that the duo would be in Livingstone by end of September 2016 or Ocyober this year where a photographer and other national from United Kingdom were expected to join in walking to Mozambique.
Powell has since described the planned expedition along Zambezi River as the biggest adventure to occur in his life.
“I am an expedition leader already in Zambia and Botswana. I am attempting to walk from the source of Zambezi River in Zambia’s North Western Province and finish at the beach of Indian Ocean in Mozambique.
“I am raising money for David Shepheard Wildlife Foundation which is also doing conservation and anti-poaching activities in Kafue National Park,” he said.
Powell says the other reason he would be walking on the Zambezi was that his son was a Zambian and lives in Livingstone.
And Dr Mulenga, who is an obstetrician, said he was excited to be part of the British national to walk along Zambezi River.
“I will be carrying a full medical kit and I will be attending to health challenges that may arise along the way such as malaria, injuries, snake or crocodile or lion bites and skin diseases among others.
“We will also be carrying equipment and a satellite phone to update the whole world on our movements,” Dr Mulenga said.
He also hopes to vote for the Referendum in some villages in North Western Province because he wanted the expanded Bill of Rights to go through.
The two are expected to interact with local people along the way and engage them on wildlife conservation issues.
KampyongoVice- President of Victory Ministries International Reverend Abel Thosi, who is also presiding pastor of Victory Ministries Bible Church Woodlands-Chalala Branch, has extended an open invitation to Honourable Stephen Kampyongo to attend a church service at the Chinsali Victory Bible Church, his home area where Pastor Mwango, the presidIng pastor, will be on hand to give him a warm welcome so that he could confirm for himself that the ministry was alive and well.
Reverend Thosi was responding to allegations by Honourable Stephen Kampyongo, made on a live Hotfm radio talk show this morning, 5th August, that Dr. Nevers Mumba had abandoned his ministry and given his churches away.
He explained that the ministry was still vibrant and that Dr. Mumba was a frequent speaker at many of the 53 branches of which 43 are locally based and was the main speaker at the Kasama Victory Bible church Sunday service just two weeks ago during his campaign tour in Northern Province. Reverend Thosi said Dr. Mumba remains not only founder but also President of this ever-expanding ministry and remained a respected and world-reknowned name in the region and around the world with thousands of graduate pastors of the Victory Bible School now running various independent ministries around the country and in the region.
He further explained that Dr. Mumba has a busy preachng calendar every year and is a frequent guest speaker at many churches in Lusaka, around the country, in the region and abroad and was a highly sought-after guest speaker at churches in the region while on tours of duty as Republican Vice-President.
FILE: President Lungu with mopani Chief Executive officer Mr Johan jansen tour Synclinorium Shaft at Mopani operation room operates the Shaft gear in the Control Room – Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza 05th May 2016.
Mopani has halted copper production across all of its operations in Zambia following the death of four miners in separate accidents.
Three workers were electrocuted its Mufulira underground mine, the official, who declined to be named, told Reuters.
A further accident took place last week at a Mopani shaft in Kitwe where the mine employs around 14,000 people.
“The latest position is that we have suspended all production related operations across all Mopani facilities to facilitate investigations into the severe mines accidents that we have experienced in the recent past,” the official said.
Apart from the Mufulira underground shaft in Mufulira, Mopani also owns the Nkana underground shaft, South Ore Body shaft and the Mindola shaft in Kitwe.
The mining giant is currently working on sinking three new shafts, investing US$1.1 billion to incorporate technology expected to extend mine life by 25 years.
Zambia’s copper exports account for around 70% of Africa’s total copper production and 60% of its exports.
Glencore is investing more than $1.1 billion in Zambia to sink three shafts at MCM with new technology that will extend mine life by over 25 years.
President Lungu with Former president Rupiah Banda and MMD president Felix Mutati after paying a Courtesy call on Paramount Chief Kalonga Gawa Undi at Mkaika Palace in Katete on Friday, August 5,2016 -Picture by THOMAS NSAMA
FORMER president Rupiah Banda has urged the people of Katete to vote for President Edgar Lungu in the next week’s polls.
The President said when he greeted people at Mkaika in Katete yesterday that they should turn in large numbers to vote for President Lungu in the elections.
Mr Banda who was accompanied by MMD leader Felix Mutati that people should do what they did last year to vote for Mr Lungu.
“Please do not forget to vote for Mr (Edgar) Lungu in the elections.Please vote for Mr Lungu,”he said.
And President Lungu paid a courtesy call on Paramount Chief Kalonga Gawa Undi of the Chewa people at his palace in Katete.
The President who arrived in the company of First Lady Esther Lungu and his campaign manager Samuel Mukupa.
Meanwhile, President Edgar Lungu has concluded his campaign trail in Eastern Province.
And President Lungu says he is confident of scooping next weeks elections because he is the best Presidential candidate.
The President says he has already outsmart the other eight candidates because of his working track record and people’s acceptance.
President Lungu says the massive reception from the people of eastern province during his campaigns solidifies his pending victory.
The President however urged PF supporters countywide to go in numbers to vote for him and all PF candidates.
President has also disowned independent candidates purporting to have his blessings
HUNDREDS of people who attended President Edgar Lungu rally at golf course in ChipataUNDREDS of people who attended President Edgar Lungu rally at golf course in ChipataUNDREDS of people who attended President Edgar Lungu rally at golf course in ChipataUNDREDS of people who attended President Edgar Lungu rally at golf course in ChipataPresident Lungu talks to Paramount Chief Kalonga Gawa Undi’s mother as First Lady Esther Lungu ,Former president Rupiah Banda and MMD president Felix Mutate listens after paying a Courtesy call on the Paramount Chief at Mkaika Palace in Katete on Friday, August 5,2016 -Picture by THOMAS NSAMA
Power Dynamos recovery under new coach Danny Kabwe will be tested on Saturday in Kitwe and on the same day, Nkana too will examine just how invincible Kabwe Warriors are at home this season.
At Arthur Davies Stadium in Kitwe, leaders Zanaco visit 3rd placed Power hoping to extend their winning run to nine games after scoring 22 goals and conceding just three from their last eight fixtures since losing 1-0 away to Forest Rangers on June 5.
Power on the other hand are on a mini-recovery under Kabwe from four matches in-charge with a draw and three straight wins heading into their big date against Zanaco.
Power are sixteen points behind Zanaco on 33 points.
Meanwhile, 2nd positioned Nkana head to Godfrey ‘Ucar’ Chitalu Stadium where Warriors have yet to lose in nine games this season.
The major highlights of Warriors home games so far this season saw Zanaco and defending champions Zesco United leave ‘Ucar’ Stadium with 1-1 draws.
However, Nkana have yet to lose in Kabwe since October, 2010 and so striker Walter Bwalya, on 13 goals, with his teammates will be hoping to break Warriors’ hearts on Saturday to see them stay second behind Zanaco who currently lead them by 11 points.
FAZ Super Division Week 21 Fixtures
06/08/2016
Mufulira Blackpool-Mufulira Wanderers
Green Eagles-Nakambala Leopards
Lusaka Tigers-Green Buffaloes
Kabwe Warriors-Nkana
Nkwazi-Lumwana Radiants
Power Dynamos-Zanaco
07/08/2016
Nchanga Rangers-Lusaka Dynamos
Postponed:
Red Arrows-Zesco United
Forest Rangers have ended a four-match losing streak with a goalless home draw against Napsa Stars on Friday at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola.
Prior to this game Forest had lost to Nkana, Mufulira Wanderers, Nakambala Leopards and Lumwana Radiants.
Napsa started this Week 21 tie on a promising note with Laison Thole testing Forest goalkeeper Jairos Mulenga with a volley in the 7th minute that the latter saved.
Forest missed a fine chance to take the lead in the 21st minute when Ronald Chibwe failed to connect with a cross from Felix Nyaende after the goalkeeper failed to deal with the cross.
The second half began in the same fashion as the first, with Napsa dominating and could have taken the lead in the 70th minute but their Uganda striker Justus Anene’s powerful shot was stopped by Mulenga.
Chibwe then missed a nice opportunity to seal the three points in stoppage time when he headed another Nyaende’s cross inches wide.
Forest rise one notch to 10th place on 25 points while Napsa stay put in third from bottom in sixteenth place on 18 points after also ended a three match-losing run.
The lineup for the Zambia 2017 Africa Youth Championship is complete but their will be no Nigeria or Ghana coming to Zambia for the tournament.
Defending champions and record seven-time winners Nigeria and Ghana, winners three times, both failed to qualifiy for the tournament after tumbling on the final hurdle.
Ghana beat Senegal 1-0 in July 22 but bowed out 3-2 on aggrgate.
Nigeria were beaten to a ticket to Lusaka by Sudan who qualified on away goals rule following a 5-5 aggregate result.
Nigeria won 2-1 away but lost 4-3 at home on July 23.
The roll of qualified teams has 2003 champions Egypt who beat 2001 winners Angola 1-0 at home and 4-0 away.
Also qualified are 1995 champions Cameroon, who had earlier beaten Libya 3-0 in the first leg as insurance that subsequently made up for the 1-0 away loss in the final leg.
1997 runners-up South Africa too are coming to Zambia, they beat Lesotho 2-0 away and 3-0 at home.
1979 runners-up Guinea are also through after a 0-0 away draw over Gambia before winning 2-1 in Conakry.
Mali, runners-up in 1989, complete the roll after a 2-0 home win to qualify by the same aggregate scoreline following a 0-0 draw in the first leg against Burkina Faso.
Zambia will host the Africa Youth Championship in Lusaka from February 26 to March 12.
The top three finishers will qualify to the 2017 FIFA Under-20 World Cup that South Korea will host later in May.
We would like to make it clear to the Zambia Police that the UPND will be going ahead with its final rally on August 10th in Chawama, despite coming under pressure from those seeking to abuse their office for partisan advantage.
We have submitted all the necessary documentation and followed due process. There is no sound or credible reason why we should not go ahead.
During the campaign period, our permits and permissions have been resisted, denied or cancelled at last minute on numerous occasions in a blatant attempt to obstruct us and try and stop our campaigns. This has created an uneven playing field in which we are clearly being disadvantaged.
It is extremely important that in these last few days all parties are allowed to campaign freely if the elections are to have any credibility, something we hope the election observers now registered in the country are watching closely.
As the police may recall ahead of the 2015 presidential by-election both the PF and the UPND held their final rallies in Lusaka both and it was not a problem.
Today’s Scripture
