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FILE: FAWEZA Mongu District Charperson Limpona Nakwebwa (l) listens to Education Minister Dr. John Phiri (r) the books as Western Province Ps Amos Malupenga looks on during the Launch of the National Libraries Week at Mongu Librabry in Mongu Western Province
Statistics from the previous Southern Province Grade 7 and 9 results show that there is very little teaching and learning taking place in the region, Minister of General Education John Phiri has observed.
And Dr. Phiri has warned teachers in Southern Province against engaging in partisan politics as the country goes to the polls in August this year.
Speaking during the Southern Province Provincial General Education Indaba on the Grade seven, nine and 12 examination results held in Livingstone yesterday, Dr. Phiri said drastic measures needed to be taken by the provincial and district leaders in education in order to improve the performance this year.
“From the 2015 examination results, the statistics clearly show that there is very little teaching and learning at Grades 8 and 9, and that drastic measures needed to be taken by the provincial and district leaders in education,” he said.
Dr Phiri said this was so because of the poor performance which the province had continued to record since 2014 adding that there was need to candidly review the performance of some schools.
“It is obvious that there is a lot of work to be done in Southern Province. We demand from the provincial, district and school levels much more effort if we are going to see changes. The onus is on you to deliver.
“I am here to plead with you and remind you that you should change your minds and should not be business as usual. God has positioned you where you are for a purpose. The purpose is to care and guide children still in school. The purpose is not to molest or abuse them.
The purpose is not to receive salaries under false pretences,” Dr. Phiri said
He said for teachers to sufficiently and effectively contribute to the education process, teachers must be professionally well grounded and that they needed to grow professionally.
And Dr. Phiri warned teachers to leave politics to politicians adding that partisan politics would ruin their live.
“Concentrate on you core business which is teaching or aiding those who teach. If you are receiving messages from God that you must be a politician, kindly resign. Do not create unnecessary problems for yourselves and the system. Stay away from active politics,” he said.
Transporting mealie meal from Samfya to Lunga
UPND President Hakainde Hichilema says the PF administration is a government that “lets things fall apart”before taking action.
Commenting on the government’s decision to ban the export of maize Mr Hichilema said the PF has finally waken up to the realisation that the shortage of maize is a reality several months after the rest of the country.
He said stakeholders including the Millers Association of Zambia called for such a ban but that as usual the PF ignored the advise.
“After much delay the PF has finally woken up to the reality of maize shortages, several months after the rest of the country. Yesterday the government has banned the export of maize and maize products with immediate effect for an initial period of one week.
“This comes more than five months after the Millers Association of Zambia was calling for such a ban and the alarm had already been sounded by many parties, including the UPND, that stocks were being depleted too quickly and that it was necessary to check stock levels as a matter of urgency. The Southern Africa Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF) issued warnings about the dry spell in August 2015. The PF Government chose to dismiss these concerns.
“As the situation worsened in January we made a plea for Government to hear us on this matter, because this is not just a matter of politics but is a matter of food security, and therefore of life and death for some of our most vulnerable citizens. Yet again, no action was taken and our concerns were dismissed,” said Mr Hichilema in a statement posted on his Facebook page.
He said despite the challenge of maize shortages requiring agent attention the PF refused to give the matter the full and urgent attention it required until reports of empty shelves in shops.
“In the weeks that have followed, reports of empty shelves, rationing and rising prices have circulated, but still the PF refused to give the matter full and urgent attention.
“This is a government that lets things fall apart completely before taking any action, whether its maize, electricity or mining. Rather than addressing problems as they arise they bury their heads in the sand until the problem is so big it can no longer be ignored. Those who bear the cost of this ignorance and inaction are the people,” he said.
He further said instead of the ban the country should be taking advantage of the regional market and earn the much needed foreign exchange.
“However the larger issue here is that Zambia should not even be in a situation where it has to ban the export of maize and related products because we can produce food to feed the whole region of 300 million people. This is a market that, had the PF developed and implemented their agriculture policy properly, we could have been sending 5 million metric tons of maize to South Africa, rather than them buying the same from Brazil. Even as we are struggling with our foreign exchange reserves, Government is closing off sources of FOREX,” he said.
Government yesterday banned the export of maize as a mitigating measure to avert the continued shortages of mealie meal in the country.
Kagem Chief Executive Officer Ian Harebottle leading the one of the guest outside with Minister Yaluma looking on
Freelance Photo Journalist was attacked at a Kagem Mining Dinner event attended by Minister of Mines and Water Development Christopher Yaluma, Deputy Minister of Youth Development and Sport Ronald Chitotela and some Zambia National Olympic Committee Executive Committee members on Saturday evening at Pamodzi Hotel.
According to eyewitness, the events started when Kagem Chief Executive Officer Ian Harebottle rushed to the stage to remove a guest of Asian Origin who had taken to the stage and started using a microphone. The Kagem CEO, grabbed the microphone from the man and led him out of the Mopani room.
It was at this stage that , Jean Mandela, who was covering the event, followed the two men outside where a tussle between the two continued since scores of guests of asian origins were walking out the same room. Kagem CEO, Ian, upon realising that the Photo Journalist was outside where the tussle was taking place, jumped on the journalists and tried to grab the camera, but only managed to remove the lens off it.
When the Kagem CEO failed grab the camera off the Photo Journalist, he shouted instructions to the door bouncers to grab the camera from Mr Jean Mandela. The more than 4 door bouncers descended on Jean Mandela, managed to get the camera that was hooked on his right arm. At this point many guests started coming out of the Mopani room to see what was happening outside and surrounded the Kagem CEO and his Asian Guest.
Later, Jean Mandela was seen trying to make a call, but a certain man in a grey suit wearing spectacles arrived, grabbed him, twisted his arm , they tussled for some minutes and he managed to get his phone; and, when Mr Mandela tried to follow him to ask for his phone back, the man smashed Mr Mandela’s phone against the tarmac just outside Mopani room entrance facing the car park, damaging the it in the process. The man was later identified as Nyirenda (the son of William Nyirenda, the Kagem board chairperson)”.
Later on,a land cruise with some police officers drove in and one police officer came out but it was not clear what they came to do on the scene.
The Guest who took to the Stage to use a Microphone
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Helium Prime Media presents the official music video to Eddie Black’s first single this year ‘Soundtrack‘. It features Badman Shapi, member of Zambia’s biggest Afro Pop crew Urban Hype.
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Villagers walking along the great east road to access services such as health and markets in eastern province
As one drives from the north, east or west into Lusaka one sees a cacophony of developments ostensibly under the guise of advancement of the communities in these areas. The sprouting of the developments seem to go unnoticed from a national discourse point of view.
Our discourse as a nation has revolved, sadly, on issues such as who owns a grade 12 certificate, which cadre has a bigger panga than the other while we leave out substantive issues that have a telling effect on the future and shape of the way of life of our communities-especially the rural peri-urban communities.
We have lost the plot-pun intended- on the way land has been managed in customary areas and the sooner we get to grips with what is happening in these areas the better. The management of peri-urban traditional land has been left to the vagaries of traditional leaders who are often dangled lucrative “carrots” in order for them to “allocate” such land. The traditional leaders then allocate land willy-nilly to the highest bidder.
[pullquote]we will have another landless class of people who in future shall try to reclaim their land and ask for reparations.[/pullquote]
The rug of land is indeed slowly being dragged out of the feet of all those villagers in Katuba, Chongwe, Shakumbila etc and soon we will have another landless class of people who in future shall try to reclaim their land and ask for reparations. Their own traditional leaders who claim to hold land in their trust are perpetuating the ultimate betrayal. These leaders-who can be powerful- are listened to by politicians because it is believed they would influence voters in their areas to vote against the politician if an untoward law was passed. Politicians would therefore pander to the whims of these traditional leaders where land matters are concerned as evidenced with the hullaballoo that took place with the issue of vesting land in the President in the revised constitution.
NGOs and donors also listen to traditional leaders since they are considered closer representatives of the people than the State. Therefore, it would only seem right that issues of land management should be left closer to the people and by extension be handled by their representatives in the name of traditional leaders, right? Nothing can be further from the truth in this respect! With due respect to our traditional leaders we have seen how they, like politicians, get rich while their “subjects” continue to wallow in abject poverty.
We have had the mistaken belief that traditional leaders hold the interest of the people whenever land seekers of all shades come to their areas to ask for land and that whenever land allocation is done it is with the full consultation of the people to be affected. However, a casual observation will reveal that while there is an effort not to displace the communities as much as possible, often the main beneficiaries are the traditional leaders. Except in a few cases, the poor villager remains poor while the palace King/Queen drives a Pajero and sends his/her children to international school. That is the sad reality. There is nothing wrong for traditional leaders to better their lives, what is bothersome, however is that they do so at the expense of the subjects they claim to represent.
Land Management, it must be said, is more than land allocation and the way land continues to be allocated without regard to the future planning requirements of services such as water, sewer and other basic infrastructures such as roads in these peri-urban rural areas is going to have a telling effect on the future of otherwise prime land raped into haphazard settlements.
The introduction of the Town and Regional Planning Act could not have come sooner but law and practice seems to be hectares apart as usual. The submission here is that as traditional land continues to be raped in our own eyes we need to rethink how such should be managed. The current practice in which traditional leaders are consulted and sign consent letters and approvals sought from the planning authority in the areas is exacerbating the already poor land management practice. When one gets the Chiefs authority and manages to have the land surveyed one quickly fences off the land to the exclusion of the communities and in no time we see a pattern emerging where haphazard developments take place and further subdivisions are done without any holistic bird’s eye view.
There is need for a holistic approach to land management that will address among others, the skill set required to manage traditional land and plan for future infrastructure. We need to fix the basics first before we think of bigger and esoteric things and one believes the Land issue is fundamental at the very basic level of existence.
Is it any wonder that we would all like, if we had money, to live in Rhodes Park or Kabulonga? It is because in the early days of planning Lusaka there was such forward thinking that we now all covertly admire living in those areas. These things do not happen on their own, they need serious thought and planning which is seriously lacking in the current “planning” happening in the peri-urban rural. The Chiefdoms and their current administrative structures are not up to it in terms of managing land for our rural communities and the sooner we recognize the rape of the land that continues to take place and address it quickly the better.
By Emmanuel Tembo
Lecturer in Surveying and Land Administration
I have never tried goat meat before. It is something that I have always been curious about. A lot of my friends from numerous countries have raved about goat meat and how delicious goat meat stew is. So, out of curiosity I decided to try it out myself. Needless to say I was not disappointed and you won’t be either. This recipe, when followed properly produces beautifully succulent and tender goat meat; that will tantalize your taste buds and make you go googly eyed…yes my friends you will be in goat meat heaven! Well…maybe not goat meat heaven; but you will enjoy it.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hr 10 minutes
Serves: 2-4 (depending on how much meat is on the bone)
Ingredients
450g of goat meat (with the bone in), cut into chunks
59ml cup of vinegar
59ml cup of soy sauce
4 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tbsp of vegetable oil
1 onion, chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
236ml of tomato sauce
473ml of beef stock
1 potato peeled and cut into large chunks
2 carrots, peeled and chopped
170g of green peas
1 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp of pepper
Method
In a bowl mix the goat meat with vinegar, soy sauce and garlic cloves; allow it to marinate for 1-8 hrs. You can do this the day before and for best results leave it to marinate for at least 6 hrs.
In a large pot heat the vegetable oil and brown the goat meat, 10-15 mins; now set the goat meat aside. Cook the onion, red bell pepper and garlic cloves from the marinade, until the onion is translucent, 5 minutes. Now pour in the tomato sauce and simmer for an extra 5 minutes.
Return the goat meat to the pot and pour in the remaining marinade and beef stock. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat, cover the pot and allow it to simmer until the goat meat is partially tender, 30- 40 mins. Stir in potatoes, carrot and peas. Season with salt and pepper; simmer until the goat meat is very tender and the potatoes and carrots are cooked through, this should take an extra 20-30 mins.
Serving
This dish is perfect on its own. Serve hot with a side of fresh bread and enjoy with your beverage of choice. Enjoy!
Kanta Temba is a cake maker and decorator. She is also the owner and founder of Kanta Kakes – cake shop.
You can find her work onwww.kantakakes.com. Follow her on twitter @KantaKakes and Instagram @KantaTemba.
FAZ Super Division leaders Nkana look set to maintain their stay at the top of the table when they host promoted Kabwe Warriors at Nkana Stadium in Kitwe one of the midweek games.
Coach Aggrey Chiyangi’s Nkana top the table with 9 points, three better than second placed Zanaco after three matches played so far in the new season.
Nkana will be hoping to take advantage of Zanaco’s absence to extend their lead at the summit with a win over Kabwe Warriors at Nkana Stadium in Kitwe.
The 12-time champions are facing a Warriors side that has recorded two straight stalemates in their first two fixtures.
“We have to keep the focus. We don’t have to underrate any team going forward,” Chiyangi said.
Elsewhere, the Mufulira derby returns after a one year absence with Mufulira Wanderers hosting their sworn rivals Mufulira Blackpool at Shinde Stadium.
Mighty and Blackpool last met in 2014 when both teams were in Division.
The two teams enter Shinde Stadium with contrasting fortunes that have seen unbeaten Mighty conjure a win and two draws.
Blackpool have lost their first two fixtures with the latest being 3-1 thumping they suffered at the hands of Nkana at the weekend.
“You know these boys are friends. They play together, so when they meet in the derby they want to show who is better. It will be a very tough game I know. They haven’t won a game but that doesn’t mean they are a bad side,” Mighty coach Manfred Chabinga said.
Power Dynamos’ midweek game against Zanaco has been postponed as their opponents are preparing for a CAF Confederation Cup tie against Stade Gabesien to be played on Saturday in Lusaka.
Zesco United’s game against Red Arrows has also been postponed as the local champions are in Mali for their CAF Champions League clash.
FAZ SUPER DIVISION FIXTURES FOR WEEK 4
Wednesday, April 06, 2016
13:00 Lusaka Dynamos vs Nchanga Rangers – Independence Stadium
15:00 Green Buffaloes vs Lusaka Tigers – Independence Stadium
15:00 NAPSA Stars vs Forest Rangers – Woodlands Stadium
15:00 Nkwazi FC vs Lumwana Radiants – Edwin Imboela Stadium
15:00 Nkana vs Kabwe Warriors -Nkana Stadium
15:00 Nakambala Leopards vs Green Eagles -Nakambala Stadium
15:00 Mufulira Wanderers vs Mufulira Blackpool – Shinde Stadium
Postponed:
1. Zanaco vs Power Dynamos
2. Zesco United vs Red Arrows
Chief Government Spokesman Chishimba Kambwili has released sensational details of how late President Michael Sata used to ridicule then Vice President Guy Scott during internal party and government meetings.
Mr Kambwili said President Sata on frequent occasions used to tell the PF and government inner circles that Dr Scott would have been a very foolish man if he weren’t a white man.
He said President Sata never respected Dr Scott at all and used to it known to every one close to him in the party and the government.
Mr Kambwili who is also Roan Member of Parliament was speaking during a news briefing in Lusaka.
“Everybody knows how President Sata used to tell off Scott during our meetings. He used to say that Uyu ngalifye ichipuba ngatali umusungu (Scott would have been a very foolish man if he weren’t a white man,” Mr Kambwili said.
He added, “If you think I am lying, you can ask the former Chief Justice Madam Chibesakunda, there were many instances when Scott was dressed down by President Sata because the man was not taken seriously even within the party.”
Mr Kambwili said the decision by Dr Scott to endorse UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema for the August elections proves that the former Vice President is politically foolish.
“Even us who were doubting as to why President Sata was always talking down on Dr Scott now believe that the late President was right. Scott is a politically foolish man who is way past his sell by date. He overrates himself but he makes poor political judgements,” he said.
And Mr Kambwili has revealed that he has officially lodged a complaint to the Zambia Police Service against the Post Newspapers for alleged illegal phone tapping.
He said he reported the matter to the Police regarding the publication of his private phone conversations with Kitwe District Commissioner Chanda Kabwe over the Presidential Loan Scheme for traders.
“I have now reported this newspaper to the Police and I believe they will investigate because it is illegal for newspaper to tap people’s private conversations and publish them. Remember what happened in the UK with the BBC, they were charged for illegally listening to people’s private discussions and I want the police to get to the bottom of this,” he said.
UNZA library
The University of Zambia has announced that the institution is ready for re-opening after having met all the benchmarks set by Higher Education Minister Michael Kaingu.
UNZA Public Relations and International Liaison Relations Manager Damaseke Chibale said all the conditions set by Higher Education Minister Michael Kaingu had been met including mounting of security cameras in strategic places at the institution.
Mr. Chibale said that distance learning students are expected will report on April 10 while day time students will report on April 24.
He said the process of issuing ID cards to all the students has since commenced.
“We have started installing CCTV in strategic locations within the University grounds which we can’t disclose for security reasons,” Mr Chibale said.
UNZA and the Copperbelt University were closed by Dr Kaingu on February 3 following riots that be-dogged the two higher learning institutions over meal allowances.
Government has set out 10 conditions for re-opening including expulsion of ring leaders, signing of commitment forms to not engage in violence and installation of security cameras.
Product bearing Bishop Banda’s name and image
Northmead Assemblies of God Presiding Bishop Joshua Banda has refuted reports that he has launched a product called Anointed Vaseline bearing his name and image.
In a statement issued by his Executive Assistant and Head of Media, Bishop Banda said he is in no way connected to the said product.
“It has come to our attention that an online publication has posted a beauty product namely “Anointed Vaseline” bearing Bishop H.K Banda’s name and image. We wish to categorically state that Bishop Banda is in no way connected to the said product,” the statement said.
It said, “This act is libellous and malicious. We can only assume that it is meant to dent the good image of Bishop Banda. This criminal act has thus been reported to law enforcement agencies.”
“Dr Banda is on record for championing the Biblical teaching aimed at raising public awareness regarding the dangers of tokenism which results from the use and misapplication of religious emblems such as oil, water etc. which is rampant in our day. We thank all the well-wishers for their quick action in bringing this evil act to our attention.”
Rainbow Party Secretary General and presidential candidate Wynter Kabimba says he does not want to run a contaminated party.
Speaking when he featured on radio Phoenix’s Let the People Talk radio program Mr Kabimba said he will not run a party which is contaminated with corrupt individuals who keep moving from one political party to another for self preservation.
He said his party will neither allow individuals of questionable character in the public’s eye to join them nor will it accept any funding form any sources who he described as contaminated.
He said presiding over a contaminated party would simply mean that he is willing to run a contaminated government hence would not make any difference to the lives of the many poor Zambians who desire real change and not just changing the name of the party.
Meanwhile Mr Kabimba said if the statement attributed to Republican President that it was going to be difficult to control political violence was to by then it only meant that the president is either incompetent and can not control his cadres or he is the architect of the scourge.
“If the statement attributed to the president that he said that it would be very difficult to control political violence was indeed true and anything to go by then it only means two things, either the man is saying he is incompetent and he is failing to control his part functionaries together with the Central Committee or that he is the architect of the violence himself,” he said.
Mr Kabimba further said the peace talks organised by the Catholic Bishops was just an initiative in futurity as the country has not moved from square one as regards political violence.
He said the people that perpetrate violence and those that hold the power to stop the scourge have decided to ignore the good faith of the church and have continued doing the same things they are supposed to be preaching against.
He said the kind of insolence and impudence by those that perpetrate violence was frighting and that people should learn to respect decision such that of the clergy who are doing all they can for the sake of peace in the country.
A Chinese man who fell from a moving truck at the weekend at Sepco Maamba has died in the Livingstone Central Hospital.
Southern Province Police Commissioner Godwin Phiri said Yang Yuanig 43, died yesterday and had suffered a brain problem after the incident.
“The Chinese man who fell down from the truck at Sepco Maamba has died in Livingstone Central hospital. He had brain problem before he died,” he said.
The incident happened last Saturday April 2, 2016, and Yang was rushed to Livingstone Central Hospital were died yesterday.
In another incident an adult of Ngwenya Township was hit by a moving Zambia Railways train around 20 hours.
Mr Phiri who confirmed the incident said the adult who was about 35 years old died on the spot and the police have since picked up the remains of the deceased.
He said the remains have been deposited in Batoka Hospital awaiting identification.
“We recorded a train incident which occurred yesterday at 20:00hrs on the railway line near Ngwenya Township in which an adult male person aged about 35 years was hit by a train and died on the spot.
“The police have since picked up the remains and deposited in Batoka Hospital Mortuary,” he said.
Meanwhile a pedestrian died on the spot yesterday after the driver of a Toyota Corolla registration number BAB 1167 lost control near a bridge in Kalomo.
Mr Phiri said the driver Godfrey Sinanga aged 26, lost control and careered off the road and hit into a pedestrian.
He said the deceased sustained fatal injuries and the body has since been taken to Kalomo hospital mortuary.
“The unknown pedestrian died on the spot after sustaining head injuries and the body is lying in Kalomo hospital mortuary,” he said.
mealie meal
GOVERNMENT has warned small scale meali meal traders in Kalulushi against hiking the price of the staple food beyond its recommended of not more than K80.00 per 25kg or breakfast or risked their licenses be revoked.
District Commissioner Kenny Siachisumo yesterday issued a warning that any trader found hiked mealie meal price beyond K80.00 per 25 kilogrammes bag of breakfast would have trading license revoked.
He noted that small business entities in the area were exploiting people by selling them consumers by selling meali meal at exorbitant prices.
“In some out let’s a 25 kilogramme of breakfast is costing at K90.00 or K95.00 while some are packing in small transparent plastic bags,commonly as pamela.
All these two methods are making situation look as if we have some kind of shortage of mealie meal in Kalulushi while we have no shortage at all.
“Because on Monday Antelope had received 600 x 25kilogram and the other two were expected to receive the same on Tuesday,” he said.
Mr Siachisumo said the district had three major out let’s that always maintain enough stocks of mealie meal, but wondered why small traders had started hiking prices up to K95.00 per 25 kilogrammes of breakfast.
“We have the information that some small business traders, especially in the second class trading area are buying mealie meal in bulk from our three local major out let’s and later start selling at higher prices,” he said.
Mr Siachisumo said at Antelope a 25kg of breakfast was at K75.00, then at Super Mealile it was at K78.00 while at Olympic the same brand and quantity was at K80.00.
He cautioned all consumers to be weary of those unscrupulous traders, adding that most of them were trying to tarnish the image of the Government in power.
Patriotic Front Media Committee Chairperson Frank Bwalya
PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya says his party will not sit idle and let UPND President Hakainde Hichilema tarnish the name of the party by propagating lies about the PF government.
Mr Bwalya said members of the PF and those in government will continue responding to Mr Hichilema as long as he continues telling lies about the government.
He accused Mr Hichilema of lying on BBC radio that the Zambian government exported maize at US$200 and is now importing the same maize at $400.
“As long as Mr Hakainde Hichilema continues to say things about PF government which are not true we are going to respond. No one should think that we are panicking over him not at all as long as he says something that we don’t agree with, that we think is misleading we are going to respond.
“For instance his statement on BBC recently that the Zambian government sold maize at $200 per metric ton and is importing the same maize at $400 that was a lie and those in government including some of us in PF can not keep quiet, we need to respond.
“I must be very clear that we will not stop talking about President Hakainde Hichilema, about the things that he says when we don’t agree and in the same way no one should stop him from criticising government decisions or indeed the PF,” he said.
And Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services Chishimba Kambwili has appealed to the media to be ethical in their reporting.
Speaking during a press briefing in Lusaka, Mr. Kambwili said government is in receipt of information that some media houses have been paid to give positive coverage to selected political parties while painting others in the negative.
Mr. Kambwili has called on the body mandated to regulate ethics for newspapers to do its job because the government is concerned with the language and tone of some newspapers.
And Mr. Kambwili has called on former Vice President Guy Scott to leave active politics saying he has lost integrity.
Mr. Kambwili disclosed that Dr Scott was twice offered ministerial positions by President Edgar Lungu which he turned down.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kambwili said Democratic Front leader Miles Sampa was misleading the people over reasons why he chose to leave the PF.
Mr. Kambwili said all those that were fighting President Lungu were doing so out of hatred.
