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Ndola pastors Praying for Nevers mumba
MMD members on the Copperbelt have refused to allow their party president Nevers Mumba to contest the 2016 general elections without the mandate of the national convention by joining their Central Province counterparts who are demanding a party national indaba early next year to elect new office bearers.
And Central Province vice chairman George Kangwa has said threats from party president Mumba and insults from his ‘‘henchmen’’ will not help in strengthening the former ruling party.
Copperbelt Province MMD chairman Moses Mumba has said that holding a convention next year is a constitutional matter that must not be stopped by anyone.
He said all those who were appointed or elected in between the last convention in 2011 would cease to hold office and seek a fresh mandate from members.
In a press statement to the Daily Nation, Mr. Mumba said in line with article 4 of the MMD constitution, a convention must be held every five years and afterwards the elected officials must seek a fresh mandate from the people.
He said that accordingly, the Dr Mumba-led executive was bound the convention of April 2011.
“Holding of a convention in 2016 is a must for our party, MMD. Article 4 of our constitution stipulates that, and I quote ‘National leaders shall hold elections for five years and shall be eligible for re-election’, end of quote. Now the current National Executive Committee was elected on 7th April 2011, meaning on 7th April 2016 they cease to hold office and go back to seek re-election,” Mr. Mumba’s statement read in part.
He further advised that Dr. Mumba should not mislead the public that his mandate shall expire in 2017 because he was elected to fill a vacancy created when former President Rupiah Banda resigned.
Mr Mumba explained that when a member was elected to fill a vacancy, they did not start a term of office of their own but rather complete the remainder.
He called on founder members of the party to come on board and salvage the party.
The PF Central Committee chairperson for Information Frank Bwalya says it is political propaganda to assume that the PF government does not care about the People.
Father Bwalya says his party is aware that there IS some opposition political parties that are trying convince people that the PF government does care about the challenges that people are going through.
He says this is despite the many developmental projects and initiatives that the PF government is putting in place to alleviate the suffering of the people.
Father Bwalya states that this is why it has been resolved that the immediate task of the information committee he is chairing shall be to put in place measures and strategies to dispel such propaganda that has been spread by the opposition.
He says his committee wants people in the Country to be enlightened about what government is doing to improve the situation in the Country.
Father Bwalya states that his party is mindful that Zambia is at a stage similar to the state the people of ancient Israel were at on their way from the House of bondage in Egypt to the Promised Land.
He has recalled that at that stage the people of ancient Israel were going through a lot of challenges but did not decide to go back to Egypt or ask for someone else to lead them to the Promised Land because doing so was not the solution to their challenges.
Felix Mutati with HH during the 2015 election campaigns
Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) Northern Province Chairman Mr Noah Mulenga has told Lunte Member of Parliament Felix Mutati to go back to the party he supported during the January 2015 presidential election, the United Party for National Development (UPND).
Reacting to the brewing controversy surrounding Mr Mutati who is alleged to be going around the country saying he shall contest for the MMD Presidency at the next convention, Mr Mulenga said Mr Mutati has no chance in hell of defeating Dr Mumba in any electoral contest.
“We are very disappointed with Mr Mutati. He has enjoyed being an MP under MMD and been paid a lot of money as a parliamentarian. At the first opportunity he got, he went and made a deal with HH and campaigned for him. He was expelled from MMD and then given a second chance. Now he is bringing confusion in MMD. We won’t tolerate this.”
“I speak on behalf of Northern Province when I say that there is no way we shall allow Mutati to hijack the MMD presidency from Dr Mumba who has defended the party from the PF the last 4 years. All this time Mutati has been sitting doing nothing and he thinks he can get the presidency without paying the price. He must be joking,” said Mr Mulenga.
Mr Mulenga said that Dr Mumba won the MMD presidency in 2012 fair and square but some of the other candidates he defeated such as Felix Mutati, Kapembwa Simbao and Situmbeko Musokotwane did not even attend his inauguration ceremony at Mulungushi Conference Centre.
“Instead of supporting and defending MMD the mother of democracy in Zambia, some of these MMD leaders are busy supporting undemocratic parties like PF and UPND where one man makes all the decisions and appoints people in the party anyhow. Some of these party presidents haven’t been to a convention for ten years,” said Mr Mulenga.
Mr Mulenga also sounded a warning to any other MMD leaders who may want to rebel against the leadership of Dr Mumba that they would not be tolerated and they would be removed from the party because time for indiscipline was over and it was time to work hard for the 2016 elections.
One of the beneficiaries of the grant Mrs Mweemba demonstrates how to use a knapsack as FDD President cheers her
FDD President Edith Nawakwi has accused Republican President Edgar Lungu of putting the country’s peace and stability at risk saying hunger was a recipe for war.
Commenting on the late delivery of farming inputs, Ms Nawakwi observed that keeping people hungry would bring anarchy and promote civil strife in the country saying “a hungry man is an angry person.”
She further explained that national security was not just about guns but that the greatest war was in one’s stomach adding that the nation’s security depended on people not being hungry.
“I think that President Lungu wants to bring war in this country because if people are hungry they are likely to start fighting. If we don’t eat that’s a State security issue, State security does not only mean guns but people’s stomachs as well. A hungry man is an angry person,” Ms. Nawakwi said.
Ms. Nawakwi further accused agriculture Minister Given Lubinda of being ignorant of the country’s agriculture sector saying he just sits in his office at Mulungunshi House were he drinks coffee.
“That Minister of agriculture is lazy, he just sits in his office at Mulungunshi House, he doesn’t even know that farmers have not received their inputs. He doesn’t know anything about Agriculture and he is completely ignorant about the operations in the Agriculture sector.”
She called on the Government to put their acts together and ensure that inputs are given to the farmers before the situation degenerates to another Copperbelt where over 10,000 workers lost jobs.
Ms. Nawakwi said this in Chikankata where she was monitoring the delivery of Soya Beans seed to cooperatives in the area.
The FDD has donated Soya Beans and Maize seed, requisite chemicals and knapsacks valued at over K27,000 to ten cooperatives.
Remy Mainga of MRI Syngenta explains how to plant Soya Beans for maximum yield as FDD President Edith Nawakwi looks on.
Meanwhile, the opposition leader said a farmer should not only be given seed and fertilizer but should be fully supported with all the necessary requirements including technical support to ensure a maximum yield when harvesting.
” As FDD we want Small Scale Farmers to succeed. We believe that if a farmer is fully supported he will grow enough to eat and sell so that you can build better houses, take your children to good schools and remain with something for a rainy day or for medicine. this is the difference between us and our friends in the PF, for them farming is about growing enough for stomach only”.
“They think that farmers in the country are only interested in eating and not bettering their lives. Everyone in this country wants to be better off but how can you move from the state of poverty and squalor when your government can not fully support you? I know even in these village you want your children to do better, produce more and buy Canter trucks so that they can drive to Mazabuka and Lusaka.”
“When we form government we will fully support the farmers for 3 years and by that we mean providing all the necessary inputs, chemicals and technical support to ensure that they succeed in moving from the state of poverty to successful farmers.”
Eunice Mweene who spoke on behalf of the women called on fellow women across the country to support their fellow woman in next years elections saying she had demonstrated that she was more than capable of leading the country.
She said women for a long time had looked down upon their fellow females and that it was now time for them to stop thinking that only men can be leaders further encouraging them to aspire for leadership positions and stop the self pity.
She also thanked the FDD President for the gesture and promised to ensure that they get the maximum yield as all the requirements had been provided including technical support by a trained Agriculturist.
In pictures
Remy Mainga of MRI Syngenta explains how to plant Soya Beans for maximum yield as FDD President Edith Nawakwi looks on.
One of the beneficiaries of the grant Mrs Mweemba demonstrates how to use a knapsack as FDD President cheers her.
A 23 YEAR old taxi driver of Ndola’s Ndeke township has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour by the Ndola High court for stabbing a woman with a screw driver after she booked his taxi.
Judge Charles Chanda has convicted Derrick Kunaka,of house number 0901,in Ndeke, of aggravated robbery contrary to section 294(1) of the laws of Zambia,on the basis that the evidence against by him the prosecution was overwhelming.
Kunaka is said to have, on May 1,this year, in Ndola, attacked Petronella Mulenga and stole money amounting to K2000 and personal belongings which were in her handbag.
Kunaka denied the charge.
“i have no doubt in my mind that the prosecution have proved their case against you to the requisite standard of beyond reasonable doubt.”Mr Justice Chanda said.
The defence asked the court to be lenient on Kunaka as he was a first offender and that a married man with two children.
But Mr Justice Chanda noted that Kunaka not only threatened to use violence but did use actual violence on Ms Mulenga and inflicted injuries on her.
” I take note of the circumstances pleaded on your behalf. But i wish to state that these circumstances should have been taken in to consideration before you engaged in criminal activities. However, i find that you inflicted injuries, using a screw driver, on an innocent woman.”
“It is not in dispute that Ms Mulenga was abducted and attacked by Kunaka as her earrings and neck chain were found in his car.I therefore, find accused guilty as charged and i accordingly convict him.I sentence you to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour with effect from the date you were arrested.You are informed of your right of appeal to the Supreme court within 14 days,”Mr Justice Chanda said.
The evidence before court was that on the material day at around 20.30 hours,Ms Mulenga booked Kunaka’s vehicle to take her to her home in Masala, but instead decided to drive to Bwana Mkubwa where he attacked her by way of stabbing her with a screw driver and stripped her of her personal belongings.
But Kunaka denied having attacked Ms Mulenga stating that the two were lovers and that they had gone to the bush in Bwana Mkubwa to have sex on the material night.
Kunaka told the court that Ms Mulenga only sustained injuries after he lost control of the vehicle which plunged in a ditch as she was caressing him whilst he was driving.
He further, told the court that she screamed because she feared her husband would question her on the injuries.
But Mr Justice Chanda dispelled Kunaka’s evidence saying it was concocted and an afterthought.
Coach Fighton Simukonda says his Under-23 players need encouragement after their disastrous outing at the 2016 Junior Africa Cup in Senegal.
Zambia last night ended their outing at the CAF Under-23 Cup with a 1-0 loss to the host nation Senegal.
Mahamadou Diallo’s 4th minute goal condemned Zambia to their third consecutive loss at the tournament.
In a post-match interview, Simukonda said Zambia were unfortunate to leave Senegal without a win nor a point.
He said football can be cruel some times.
“We are out but it is not the end of the World. But like I always say, football can be very cruel.
The players we have now are the future of the Zambia national football team. We need to encourage the boys,” Simukonda said.
The Junior Chipolopolo squad returns home without accumulating a point on top of failing to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Zambia finished bottom of Group A with no points after losing to Tunisia 2-1 before South Africa handed them a 3-2 defeat on Tuesday.
“We lost all our matches because our players thought we had easy games. Most of the time we were marking late and giving space to our opponents. That’s how we lost all the three games,” he said.
Simukonda added:”In the beginning we came here to qualify but unfortunately we failed to qualify.”
Senegal and South Africa progressed to the semi-finals from Group A.
Headman Mulando laments to FDD President Edith Nawakwi that his subjects have no idea on how to use the E- Voucher system.
Small scale Farmers in Chikankata have asked FDD President Edith Nawakwi to extend her Party’s Agriculture Start-Up Grants to their area as Government has not delivered any inputs to date.
Headmen from10 villages gathered and waited for hours to present their challenges to Ms. Nawakwi after they heard that she would be in Mulando village to monitor the delivery of Soya Bean seed to women from 10 cooperatives in Chikankakata.
Speaking on behalf of the 10 headmen, headman Osborn Mwanza of Simuyandi village asked the opposition leader to come to their aid as hunger will be inevitable if no one helped the small scale farmers in the area.
He explained that Government had initially taken fertilizer to the area but that the supplier had gone back to the area and collected the commodity. He further said the fertilizer has since been given to Agro dealers who are dealing in the E- Voucher system at exorbitant prices.
Headman Simuyandi called on President Lungu and his Agriculture Minister, Given Lubinda to stop playing politics with people’s lives as their claims that they have delivered farming inputs was untrue further advising them not to let what happened to mine workers happen to the farmers in the country.
“We heard that you were coming to meet women from our villages and we decided to gather and wait for you because we have heard that your party is helping small scale farmers. We also want you to talk on our behalf and take a massage to President Lungu and his Agriculture Minister that we have not received any inputs here. We had received some fertilizer but even that is no longer here because the supplier came back and took it to some agro-dealers who are dealing with the E- Voucher,”Osborn Mwanza who is headman Simuyandi said.
Meanwhile Headman Mulando of Mulando village lamented to the opposition leader that his subjects did not understand the use of the new system in accessing inputs as no one had taken time to explain it to them.
He added that the E- Voucher cards could only be accessed in Mazabuka hence adding to their costs while not increasing the number of bags for fertilizer and seed.
“We are being told to get some cards for us to access these inputs but no body has taken time to educate me and my subjects on how we should use these cards to access farming inputs. Our leaders have not come here to help us with the knowledge we need to use this E-Voucher thing of theirs”, he complained .
And responding to the headmen, FDD President Edith Nawakwi said the only reason Government was delaying to give them inputs was for President Lungu to use the hunger situation in the country to secure votes next year.
She told the headmen that President Lungu was deliberately creating a situation which he will use to ask for votes by giving the voters free mealie meal which he will get from his solar powered hummer mills.
She advised the headmen to devise plans and use alternative sources of manure such us cow dung as relying on Given Lubinda and his President will only make their families suffer and in the worst cases die of hunger.
The opposition leader was in Chikankakata to monitor how the FDD Agriculture Start-Up Grants Project which she launched last month was progressing.
Women of Mulando, Mulezema, Mweene, Kagoka,Hamunleala, Kasas, Kalinda, Nyaadu Choongo, Haachamba and Simuyandi will benefit from the grant in Chikankata, Southern Province.
FDD President Edith Nawakwi meeting headmen from Chikankata.
The doors are open at iStore in Lusaka’s East Park Mall. iStore, which has 23 stores in Africa, is the ultimate destination to get everything Apple and with the official launch of the East Park Mall store, you’ll now be able to shop for your favourite Apple products.
At the new store, you can enjoy the unique iStore experience that no other store can offer. Friendly local staff members are trained to assist you with any Apple-related queries you have. You’ll receive complimentary in-store services such as technical support, in-store product setups and training, so you can learn everything about Apple products, and get the most out of them. Customers can also try out products in store, making for a hands-on, interactive and engaging store experience.
iStore also stocks a large range of accessories such as Knomo bags, Beats headphones, Fitbit fitness trackers, Griffin iPhone and iPad covers, plus Apple cables, chargers and adapters.
iStore wants to celebrate its’ opening for more than just a day, and has some incredible opening specials that you can take advantage of until 6 December 2015: You can save on everything from iPhone and iPad covers to headphones and screen covers. Visit the store for more information.
iStore is an Apple Premium Reseller (APR), which is a dedicated hub for Apple products and accessories. With 23 stores in Africa, iStore is the largest APR in Southern Africa. iStore aims to maximise customer value offerings by providing an authentic Apple experience and offering customers exclusive services such as in-store complimentary training, technical support, and technical set-up.
Movement for Multi-Party Democracy(MMD) President Nevers Mumba has urged Zambians to Protect the country when they are abroad. In a statement released to the media, the MMD leader said that international diplomacy and political maturity always dictates that when you are abroad, make sure you speak well of your country and never denigrate it even if you know that things may not be going well.
Below is the full statement
Fellow Zambians, international diplomacy and political maturity always dictates that when you are abroad, make sure you speak well of your country and never denigrate it even if you know that things may not be going well.
This same principle is what we all follow even in our families. We can call each other names and even fight, but we rise up to fight an outsider who calls us the same things that we call ourselves.
I have been invited to several international business fora with the most recent one in South Africa during the 5th Global Business Round-table on 13th March 2015 and my speech on that occasion is displayed below and many will see this is the principle I live by because I believe in it.
Zambian politicians should learn from opposition leaders of such parties as the Republican Party of the United States and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the Labour Party of the UK.
These parties may have viciously fought each other internally but never voice their differences outside the country. They keep their fights internal and show solidarity outside the country.
You can never hear them speak ill of their country or Presidents. Let us all mature and keep flying the Zambian flag and stand proud and free.
SPEECH BY DR. NEVERS SEKWILA MUMBA AT THE 5TH GLOBAL BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, SANDTON CONVENTION CENTRE, JOHANNESBURG, RSA
11-13TH MARCH 2015
By Dr Nevers Sekwila Mumba Leader of Opposition Party – MMD and former Republican Vice-President, Zambia
REPAINTING A CONTINENT
Dr Nevers Mumba Addressing the Roundtable
Africa is a piece of art pinned against the minds and consciences of art lovers. Those with money and capacity to buy the paint and pay the painters are the ones who have presented today’s image of Africa to the world. This is a continent they scrambled for because of its unlimited resources at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85. They then painted the continent in colours that would favour their superiority over the inhabitants.
Today, we are battling with a distorted image of our continent and of ourselves which hangs heavily over our heads. It is in Summits like this when Africa’s best hearts and minds meet to undo the distortion of our continent’s image created over the years. We must repaint our continent in our own colours.
The way Africa is perceived by both the world and ourselves dictates how Africa performs in the next number of years. My assignment today is to highlight the effect of perception on the development of a people. We need to ask the necessary questions. Who painted the current picture of Africa and what was the intent of the resultant piece of art? In whose interest is this picture?
Today’s picture of Africa demands that we depend on foreign powers to live our lives. We depend on Europe, America, China, India and other developed nations to do for us things we can do for ourselves. My message has nothing to do with minimizing our role in the global community. Indeed we must participate in the global debate and economy but not at the expense of our local debate and economy. We should never only take from the Global debate and economy but we must contribute to it in real terms.
Not too long ago, the African Union in Addis Ababa received help from China to build the $200million headquarters for us. A commendable contribution, but I believe that if all the 54 OAU member states contributed only $3.7million each, we could have done it ourselves using African material, builders and engineers.
The Bible in John 19:17-22 clarifies my point.
… And Pilate wrote a title (introduction) also, and put it on the cross. And there was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Whosoever writes your introduction defines you and limits you according to the introduction as authored by them. Africa has been introduced by others and is therefore seen through their eyes.
It is time that Africa printed her own business cards. It is time Africa wrote her own books. It is time for Africa to sing her own songs. The Jews did not like the inscription on the cross but Pilate had written it and they could not take it down. Two thousand years later, we still declare that, not only is Jesus the King of the Jews, but he is also the King of Kings. This is the power of introduction.
To subjugate a people, you first have to distort or steal their identity. You have to mess with their introduction. The type of education you are given determines your ultimate identity and destiny. To introduce apartheid here in South Africa and to sustain it for as long as it was, the focus of the perpetrators was to dictate the type of education a black man could get and therefore limit his participation in the affairs of his nation. They brought an educational system which was designed to produce a disadvantaged African population.
The Minister of Native affairs at the time, the architect of apartheid Hendrik Verwoerd stated that:
There is no place for the Bantu in the European Community above the level of certain forms of labour… What is the use of teaching the Bantu Child Mathematics when he cannot use it in practice?
They have used camera and film to repeatedly brain-wash our view of ourselves. They allowed a few amongst us to stick out like middle fingers in order to divide us into thinking those who have failed to attain those heights are just lazy.
Our challenge is that someone has written our introduction and made us buy into it and has limited us for generations. We have been conformed to the vision our “masters” have carved out for us.
How do we correct this?
Re-orient ourselves. Re-educate ourselves. Re-write our educational books. Re-think our theology. Take responsibility for our future. We must be free to make our mistakes as we work our way up. We cannot be free until we can experiment ourselves out of this trap.
This is time to initiate Africa’s most ambitious educational project which should include up-skilling entire communities, all villages, compounds, shanties, suburbs and entire nation states in computer skills for instance. An educational system which highlights our values as a people.
An education which is original; An education which does not exhort the Queen of England above our own Zulu King. An Education which does not glorify everything done by Western powers and rubbishes the efforts being made by our people. An education which does not segregate based on who has an American accent and who does not. We must deliberately work towards these goals.
We must change our curricula and teach more about the Chirundu and Beit Bridges than the famous London Bridge. This project is long term, but must start now. The strategy must be clear and the African Union must incorporate this aspect in their 50 year strategic plan. We must scientifically strategize that the type of education we offer, the type of religion we teach, the type of films we watch and make about ourselves which should shape a new, positive mindset to effectively restore our dignity as a people. Money poured on paralyzed minds will continue to be wasted in Africa.
We must repaint Africa. We must introduce ourselves to ourselves and to the world. We must have a goal to score. We may have some of the best players on the pitch, but without a goal we shall not record any victory. When students go to a medical school, we expect to produce Doctors. This is because the studies are specially designed to produce a pre-determined product.
It is time for Africa to package for herself an educational culture that shall ultimately produce an enviable African, an African of our corporate dream, standing confidently, shoulder-to-shoulder with the best brains in the world.
The long term benefits of a massive education project cannot be overstated as a large chunk of perennial problems in Africa shall be solved. An educated population is more productive; investors are attracted by the availability of a large skilled workforce; Democracy flourishes and matures as citizens are better able to understand national issues and not be easily manipulated by corrupt leaders.
Civil wars are diminished because people have better things to do with their educated minds than take up arms. Crime reduces as people engage in productive activities. Wealth increases as Africans invent new ways to make money with their knowledge. Even the health of a nation improves as people get educated in hygiene and basic cleanliness. The positive benefits are incalculable.
We must not shrink from this project due to concerns on the high costs it shall impose on us. No matter how expensive, we must find the money to create relevant localized education in order to give Africa a massive leg up which will be good in long run. We must not just copy and paste foreign education systems. We must edit first and tailor-make our own by a process of amalgamation and experimentation according to our unique circumstances.
As we educate the African populace, we must simultaneously create enabling business environments within our individual countries. The time for Socialist centrally controlled economies has long past. We must embrace free markets and the private sector because they ultimately are the drivers of significant economic growth. Fast growing economies shall absorb into a productive workforce the millions of newly educated Africans we shall be churning out of our universities and colleges.
Each one of us in this room today, in this generation, have been handed a paint brush and paint, an opportunity to repaint the pictures of our individual countries to make up the full piece of art of a new Africa. An Africa which shall be the envy of the world; an Africa free from the stereo-typical image of violent ethnic and political conflict, poverty, AIDS and now Ebola, hunger, corruption, bad governance and under-development. An Africa that has left behind Stone Age Politics and modernized its political and economic structures.
We must repaint Africa.
We should each ask ourselves the question, now that I have an opportunity in my generation, what picture shall I paint of my country? What shall I do to help birth this new image of my country and contribute to the full beautiful art piece of a new Africa?
In these last few moments, kindly allow me now to paint the picture I have of my own nation of Zambia.
For the investor who is searching for high returns, Zambia offers one of the most liberal economic policies in the SADC region. Zambia offers a 50 year culture of political and social stability.
It is a nation whose borders could only have been designed by a supreme being as the bible says. A nation with only 14.5 million people, known the world over for their warmth; a country carved out from the centre of the Southern African region, a natural hub land-linked by eight sovereign nations with their combined populations presenting a huge market for any business, such as motor assembly plants, to set up its headquarters in Zambia.
It is a country of rare beauty, perched on a high plateau of moderate average annual temperatures of 21 Degrees Celsius and annual average rainfall of 1,270 millimeters and one of the most beautiful country-sides of a typical savanna country with breath-taking rivers and waterfalls like the Victoria Falls and abundant unspoilt wildlife.
It is a country with an abundance of most known mineral resources, the world’s fourth largest producer of copper and holds six percent of the world’s known reserves thereof. It is also the world’s second largest producer of cobalt and holds reserves of about 350,000 tonnes. Furthermore, Zambia is also famous for the abundance of other mineral deposits, including lead, zinc and gemstones such as emeralds, aquamarine, topaz, opal, agate and amethysts.
It is a country of abundant water resources, hosting 40% of the total water systems of the entire southern African sub-region with four major lakes and four major rivers plus numerous tributaries. It is a country of large expanses of fertile uncultivated land, a potential bread-basket to feed the entire Southern African region and beyond. We still have over 80% of our arable land unused and waiting to be exploited fully.
Zambia is a country waiting to be repainted into one of the most developed nations not only in Africa but in the world, currently undergoing massive transformation ignited by major infrastructure investment into the roads and bridges to unlock the massive potential of this great Central Southern African country.
I ask the question; what picture do you have of your country, of Africa? The brush and paint are now in your hands.
I thank you.
Dr Nevers Sekwila Mumba
Awaiting to deliver Keynote addressDr Nevers Mumba Addressing the RoundtableMinister of Swaziland Lindiwe Ndlamini addressing the summitWith the Chief Justice of South Africa Mogoeng Mogoeng at GBR Galla Dinner
Zambia on Friday evening ended their disastrous outing at the 2015 CAF Under-23 Cup in Senegal with a 1-0 loss to the host nation.
Mahamadou Diallo’s 4th minute goal helped Senegal to condemn Zambia to their third straight loss at the tournament.
Fighton Simukonda’s Junior Chipolopolo squad returns home without accumulating a point on top of failing to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Zambia finished bottom of Group A with no points as they lost to Tunisia 2-1 before South Africa handed them a 3-2 defeat on Tuesday.
The team scored three goals in the three defeats via Ronald Kampamba, Conlyde Luchanga and Billy Mutale.
This was the first time Zambia was taking part in the Under-23 Africa Cup. Meanwhile, Senegal and South Africa have advanced to the semi-finals from Group A.
Impressive Senegal finished top with nine points while South African ended as group runners up with six points after beating Tunisia 1-0 in their final group phase match.
Bob Sichinga
Zambia has been urged to maximize investment opportunities offered by the 10-year extension of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
Honorary Consul for Zambia in California Robert Sichinga has called for more education and awareness creation on the benefits AGOA offers to Zambian businesses.
Mr. Sichinga noted that Zambia is not taking enough advantage of the AGOA, which is meant to give the continent the opportunity to export to the US market.
He has attributed this to lack of awareness on the part of African businesses of the benefits of AGOA.
Mr. Sichinga said that he wants to see Zambia prosper in order to encourage more American companies to find Zambian partners and do business in Zambia so as to improve the economy.
Mr. Sichinga stated that Zambia has depended too much on copper which has affected the performance of the country’s economy.
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a non-reciprocal trade preference programme that provides duty-free treatment to U.S. imports of certain products from eligible sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries.
FILE: First Lady Dr Christine Sata with Mulenga Sata, Indian High Commissioner to Zambia Gaddam Dharmendra, Tourism minister Jean Kapata and other diplomats during the Golden Jubilee Anniversary of Zambia’s Independence and the 50th Anniversary of India -Zambia Diplomatic relations in Lusaka on October 18,2014 -Pictures by THOMAS NSAMA
State House Deputy Minister Mulenga Sata says there is nothing sinister about the delay in settling former First Lady Dr. Christine Kaseba Sata in her new House.
In an interview with QFM News, Mr. Sata has since dismissed as untrue that government has been inconveniencing the former first lady.
Mr. Sata who is also the eldest son of the late President Michael Sata says the delay in settling the first family is due to some lapses in communication in the whole issue.
The State House Deputy Minister has since expressed confident that the whole issue of accommodating the former First Lady will be resolved within the next couple of weeks.
Early this week the Daily Nation reported that former first lady Christine Kaseba had not yet taken occupation of the house that Government found for her after leaving 8 Reedbuck Lodge in June this year.
The Government secured the residence occupied by the former World Bank country representative in Woodlands along Mutende Road.
The house has however remained vacant for many months, a situation which may raise serious audit queries as the Government is paying for a vacant house.
The house was identified some months ago and the information was communicated to the former first family.
“To date, the house still stands vacant and it is not clear if the former first lady will move in although some of the children have indicated an interest to move,” the source said.
Asked to comment, permanent secretary for administration at Cabinet Office Margaret Miyoba confirmed that Dr. Kaseba had not moved into the house but asked that the matter should not be publicized because it was only going to antagonize the former first lady and her family.
Mrs. Miyoba said it was not correct to discuss the accommodation of Dr. Kaseba in the press, claiming that the story was not only going to injure her family but also the late president.
She said Dr. Kaseba as a former first lady was a respectable citizen who should not be seen to be antagonising Government and the story should therefore not be pursued.
Cleo Ice Queen has released the track-list for her debut album “Geminice” . The album , whose executive producer is Chrispin Musosha (Shom-c) , will have 15 tracks.
1.falling 2.Mama yo 3.I dont mind 4.wonderful 5.Goodbye 6.oxygen 7.Ninaka 8.Addicted 9.Turn up 10.Autobahn 11.Saturday 12.Turnt up 13.Boys talking 14.Go hard 15.Autobahn remix
Other Producers are Terence “mr Kamera” Tatenda Kamera ,Jonah Banda , Zamba Anamela.
Some of the featured artist include Wezi , Kaladoshas ,Urdan Hype , Nigerian female rapper Eva Alordiah , South African female rapper Nadia Nakai, Kenyan female rapper STL , among others.
The album will be Launched on 5th December , in a joint album launch with Kaladoshas . The event will take place at the Lusaka Grand Hotel at 19hrs . It will be hosted by KillaBeats
Minster of Youth and Sport Vincent Mwale officiates at the Zamtel Swim Challenge Grand Finale while attending were Zamtel Acting Corporate Communication Manage Patricia Mulenga, OYDC Director Clement Chileshe and participants drawn from OYDC neighborhood at OYDC on Saturday, November 14th, 2015.Sports minister Vincent Mwale says Zambia must not be laughing stock when they host the 2017 African Youth Championship.
Zambia are set to host the continental Under-20 tournament in two years time at venues in Lusaka.
His comments come in the wake of the senior and junior teams group stage elimination from all CAF tournmanets they have qualified for in 2015.
“We must work hard for the tournament we are hosting because when you look back most teams that host competitions do well and we will be a laughing stock if we failed to perform well and I think it is important that preparations for both the team and hosting the tournament start now,” Mwale said when he received a CAF inspection team in Lusaka on Friday.
The inspection team led by CAF official Yasmine El Ehwany will inspect proposed match and training facilities including support services for the tournament.
