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Information and Broadcasting Minister Joseph Katema has expressed concern over the negative reporting by some sectors of the media as this will affect investment in the country.Dr Katema noted that some sectors of online media have continued to concentrate on negative issues even when the country has recorded successes in some sectors of the economy.
He wondered how online media could woo investments with negative stories that are in some cases not based on facts.
Dr Katema said this when he addressed Embassy officials at the Zambian Embassy in Congo DR in Kinshasa yesterday.
He stated that some Zambians living outside the country believe that there are problems in the country even when the nation has continued to enjoy peace and has been making steady economic progress.
He observed that the same people who complain about the weakening of the Kwacha still persist on writing negative stories even when it had gained value.
Meanwhile, Government has expressed confidence that it will beat the June 14 2015 deadline for the implementation of the digital migration.
Dr Katema said government has made headways in implementing the first phase saying most television stations in the country have already procured equipment required for digital television.
He stated government had educated the television stations from the onset to procure digitally compliant equipment which could be used for both analogue and digital broadcasting when the television stations were being issued with broadcasting licenses.
He stated that most television stations complied as some of them even started digitalizing earlier than ZNBC, the national broadcaster.
The Minister also noted that the Access to Information Bill had reached an advanced stage as it was currently awaiting the Ministry of Justice to go through the document and approve it before it goes to parliament for enactment.
Vice President Guy Scott says there is a perfect good reason why he does not have the information on when President Michael Sata will return from his private working holiday in Israel.
Responding to a question by UPND Siavonga Member of Parliament Kennedy Hamudulu during the vice president’s question time who wanted to know when the President will return, Dr Scott maintained that President Sata is on holiday.
Dr Scott said having a fixed date on which the President must return home may not feasible for various reasons.
President Sata left the country for Israel on Friday 20th June on what the government termed a working holiday.
Choma Central UPND MP Cornelius Mweetwa asked whether the vice-president was in order to issue offensive remarks that had the potential to cause tribal divisions in the country.
“Mr. Speaker sir, the irresponsible and insidious remarks by the vice-president during the BBC interview have gravely offended the people of Southern province, especially coming from someone who was a minority himself in Zambia.
The remarks by the vice-president are that of a racist with colonial mentality and have the potential to divide the people of Zambia,” Mweetwa told parliament, but deputy speaker Mkondo Lungu could not make a ruling.
And Scott maintained in the house that president Sata was in Israel for a ‘working holiday’ that may involve ‘some healthy tourism component’.
“Let me put it this way, if I visit my relatives in UK, there maybe nothing wrong in visiting a clinic,” Scott told the house.
Meanwhile Vice President Guy Scott has dismissed as an attempt to put pressure on government the announcement by First Quantum Minerals that it has postponed investment worth US$1 billion in capital projects in Zambia due to uncertainty on the fiscal regime.
Responding to a question by Lunte Member of Parliament Felix Mutati who wanted to find out what steps are being taken by government in order to forestall the investment withdrawal, Dr Scott said government is not put under pressure like that.
He said government will meet with First Quantum Minerals next week to resolve the issue amicably.
First Quantum Minerals Company Director of operations Matt Pascal said while the mining company has recorded remarkable growth rates at Kalumbila and Kasanshi mine projects, there has been a lot of challenges faced by the company, citing uncertainty on the fiscal regime and bureaucracy.
Government has admitted that there was communication breakdown over the absence of President Michael Sata at State House on Saturday which led to the continued presence of Zambia Army sentries at the main gate.
Defence Minister Edgar Lungu said it was miscommunication which resulted in the failure to inform the authorities in charge of sentries to withdraw the military guards following the President’s travel to Israel.
[pullquote]Father Bwalya said President Sata deserves a break considering that he has been working very hard[/pullquote]
Mr. Lungu has since apologized for the communication breakdown.
Meanwhile Alliance for Better Zambia (ABZ) president Frank Bwalya has wished President Sata well on his working holiday in Israel.
Father Bwalya said President Sata should take advantage of the working holiday to woo investors to Zambia.
He said President Sata deserves a break considering that he has been working very hard.
Fr. Bwalya told QFM News that initiatives like the one the Head of State has taken to visit Israel can help the country develop, stating that no investor can come to the country without being approached.
Acting Chief Government Spokesperson Mwansa Kapeya
Acting Chief Government Spokesperson Mwansa Kapeya has told the Voice of America (VOA) news that President Micael Sata has just gone Israel to woo some investors from that country.
“He has just gone there to woo some investors from that country. It’s a working holiday in fact,” he said. “We are a developing country so when the president travels out, he is there to market Zambia.”
Mr Kapeya also told that interviewer that Zambia and Israel have had strong bilateral relations since independence from former colonial power, Britain.
[pullquote]Mr Kapeya maintained that President Sata is fit and chaired a cabinet meeting shortly before making the trip to Israel.[/pullquote]
“The friendship has been cordial since independence. In fact we are an agricultural related country and Israel is also in that line,” he said. “Since the first republic…we were having a lot of Israelis coming to Zambia to move us ahead in terms of pushing agriculture forward, and indeed Israel has been a friend to Zambia since independence.”
Mr Kapeya maintained that President Sata is fit and chaired a cabinet meeting shortly before making the trip to Israel.
“He is on a working holiday in Israel. If he were sick, he wouldn’t have traveled,” said Mr Kapeya.
“In fact just last week Monday he chaired the usual cabinet meeting and before he left I was with him talking to him and we were always talking about developmental issues in the country.”
Citing security concerns, Mr.Kapeya declined to say how long President Sata will be out of the country. He chose Justice Minister, Wynter Kabimba to act as president during his absence.
THE Rastafarai community in Zambia has said the answer to drug abuse was employment creation because substance abuse in the country was mainly as a result of poverty.
In a Press statement released by the House of Rastafarai chief elder Chisi Khuzwayo in commemoration of the Day against drug abuse, the most effective way to end drug abuse was through job creation.
“We also wish to say drug or substance abuse, for example of alcohol, is related to poverty and unemployment and not necessarily crime. The answer to drug abuse is employment creation,” Mr Khuzwayo said.
The Rastafarai community also called on the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) to fairly enforce the law.
Mr Khuzwayo said DEC had the mandate to enforce the law fairly without abusing human rights and also had the duty to inform the public on both the negative and positive aspects of drugs like marijuana.
“DEC has not sensitised policy makers, Government and the public on differences between substance abuse, drug trafficking and crime.
“DEC has also not related marijuana use to the Government policy of human, medical, religious and cultural rights. It has not also commented on drug abuse of over-the-counter and prescription drugs except to create a link between drug use and crime,” Mr Khuzwayo said.
He said the DEC should concentrate on rehabilitating abusers and not punishing them.
Mr Khuzwayo said the way the DEC and other law enforcers like the police and the Immigration Department sometimes conducted their arrests was against public safety, public health, international trends, and awareness campaigns or research of medical marijuana.
He said the Rastafari community was like most Zambians, generally peace loving and law abiding citizens respected by society for messages of unity, peace, love and harmony and were sometimes misunderstood by the DEC as drug abusers.
HEALTH Minister Joseph Kasonde has disclosed that the Government spends about US $1 million annually to evacuate patients abroad for specialized treatment.
Dr Kasonde said in view of the colossal sums of money involved, he has been in support of the abolishment of sending patients outside the country to receive specialized treatment but that could only be possible if Zambia was able to treat certain medical conditions.
Dr Kasonde said this when he officiated at the planning launch for the 2015 to 2017 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and the 2015 Budget preparation in Lusaka yesterday.
“As you know, we are talking of something like a million US Dollars a year on sending patients abroad and we are obliged to do that because we know that in some cases we are unable to treat certain conditions, particularly child heart surgery and so we must ask other people to do it for us.
“But at the same time we must challenge ourselves, why do we have to be doing that? Can we not bring this back into our own country? What are the ways by which we could do that? And if those ways can be found, what’s the cost? What’s the framework to allow us to achieve that?” he asked.
Dr Kasonde said medical training institutions were important in human resource administration and thus the funding allocated to those institutions needed to be revisited.
He said if the country expected to have good quality medical practitioners such as nurses, doctors and laboratory scientists, among others, there was need to sacrifice resources towards that goal.
He said the formula of allocating resources needed to be reviewed so that it could be responsive to the needs of the country.
Dr Kasonde observed that there had been a significant increase in the number of skilled health workers saying it was unacceptable and did not make arithmetical sense for the country to continue with the same number of medical staff when Zambia’s population was at four million.
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Communication, Transport, Works and Supply Kapembwa Simbao
PARLIAMENT on Wednesday evening heard that records on the contract to lease out Luburma market in Lusaka’s Kamwala area to an investor for 65 years have gone missing.
Winding up debate on the on the report of the Committee on Communications, Transport, Works and Supply, Chairperson of the committee and Senga Hill MMD member of parliament Kapembwa Simbao said all records in the Luburma market deal were lost.
He said the committee followed up with records concerning the contract between the Chinese investor and the LCC who signed the contract with the investor to see exactly what transpired but there were no documents to that effect.
The committee recommended that the Luburma market deal should be renegotiated so that the Zambian people could benefit from it.
It was not clear who was behind the negotiation of the Luburma market concession 15 years after the project was done.
Mr Simbao said there was need for the Government to revisit the public private partnerships so that the Government and the Zambian people do not lose out.
He urged Government to take up the matter and establish where the documents in the PPP involving Luburma market were to enable it look at terms and conditions contained in the contract and assist map the way forward.
The 65 years lease of Luburma market has come under attack by many stakeholders who have said it was unacceptable.
Chongwe PF Member of Parliament, Sylvia Masebo told the House that the revelations by the committee on the 65 year Luburma concession for a structure that would not even last that long were shocking.
She called on Government to be cautious when entering PPPs to avoid raw deals.
Ministry of Finance Public Relations Officer Chileshe Kandeta (L)
GOVERNMENT exceeded its projection of domestic revenue collection last month, raking in K2.29 billion against and expectation of K2.23 billion.
Of the K2.29 billion raised, K1.75 billion was tax revenue while non-tax revenue amounted to K540.39 billion.
This is according to a statement issued by Ministry of Finance public relations officer Chileshe Kandeta yesterday.
A total of K572.01 million income tax was collected against a target of K735.91 million.
The failure to reach this target has been attributed to unremitted pay as you earn (PAYE) from some organisations and companies.
Government projected to collect K470.38 million as non-tax revenue last month but raised K540.39 million because of dividends and other receipts from various Government investments remitted to the treasury during the month.
And the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank provided K30.77 million as support to projects under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.
Meanwhile, K2.31 billion was released by Government to facilitate the implementation of various Government programmes and activities.
The money was used for constitutional and statutory costs such as salaries and debt service as well as the implementation of development programmes and activities under various ministries, provinces and spending agencies.
An increase in domestic interest payments allowed for Government to spend K392.13 million towards debt servicing and K1.14 billion was spent on salaries and wages, including salary-related emoluments for public service workers.
And K225.79 million was provided as grants to institutions such as the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA), road agencies and universities.
A total of K64.11 million was released towards the Farmer Input Support Programme, while K61.33 million was released under the Constituency Development Fund.
Government also released K126.21 million for various infrastructure works across the country and K23.6 million of the amount went towards the construction and maintenance of rural roads in the provinces.
The Public Service Pensions Fund received K21.17 million to facilitate the payment of benefits to retired public service workers.
Meanwhile, Government expects increased expenditures in the third quarter because of the disbursement of bond proceeds towards beneficiary institutions that have so far submitted implementation plans or certificates of works.
The treasury will also step up the current cash management efforts by ensuring that funding is withheld for ministries, provinces and spending agencies that accumulate huge idle balances in their accounts.
THE Government will extend forensic audits to all mining companies in the country to ensure they operated in a transparent manner, Mines, Energy and Water Development Minister, Christopher Yaluma has told Parliament.
Mr Yaluma informed the House during yesterday’s session that it was important audit works were conducted in the mining sector in the wake of a forensic audit at Zambia’s mine giant, Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), following indications of mismanagement by major shareholders, Vedanta Resources.
“Government shall penalise any fraudulent mining company to prevent loss of the much-needed revenue and save jobs. Government will be undertaking regular audits at all the mines to ensure compliance and avoid the recurrence of the situation at KCM,” Mr Yaluma said.
Mr Yaluma said this in a ministerial statement based on the attempt by KCM to lay off 1,529 employees as well as media reports in which Vedanta chairperson Anil Agarwal was quoted as having said that he was making US$500 million from KCM.
Mr Agarwal allegedly boasted that he bought KCM for a song, at $25 million, from the asking price of $400 mllion.
In view of Mr Agarwal’s remarks, Mr Yaluma said KCM was currently undergoing a forensic audit by the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) after a directive from Vice-President Guy Scott recently.
He said the decision not to nationalise KCM was taken in the best interest of the nation as such an action would have sent wrong signals portraying Zambia’s investment climate as unstable.
Mr Yaluma reiterated that it was against Government’s policy to nationalise as it wanted an economy driven by the private sector.
He said following the submission of the audit report, the Government engaged KCM’s major shareholders, Vedanta Resources, to find means and ways of steering the company out of insolvency.
“In view of the findings, the audit team recommended that Government should not take over KCM as doing so would mean nationalisation, which would be against Government policy of having a private sector-driven economy.
“This could also have a negative impact on the investment environment in Zambia. Government should ensure Vedanta injects the required funds into KCM to avoid liquidation and consequent job losses,” Mr Yaluma said.
He said Vedanta was given targets to meet following a process of dialogue entailing increasing production from 132,318 tonnes of finished Copper in 2013 to 178,994 tonnes by 2017.
Mr Yaluma said to achieve the set target, Vedanta committed to inject $250 million into production and $30 million into smelter operations to improve the flow of concentrates.
Additionally, the mine owners agreed to provide a bank guarantee of $400 million towards the outstanding loans that it owed.
Other commitments meant settling of the overdue credit balance owed to its suppliers and contractors amounting to $111million and re-starting production at the closed open pits by procuring its own equipment.
Human rights activist Brebner Changala delivering his message
Human Rights Campaigner Brebner Changala through his lawyers Makebi Zulu and Advocates has written to Acting President Wynter Kabimba to set up a medical board to investigate the health status of President Sata.
In the letter copied to all cabinet ministers, the Attorney General, the Speaker and the Law Association of Zambia dated June 26 2014, the lawyers said Mr Changala said it has become absolutely necessary, in public interest, that, a medical board be appointed to ascertain President Sata’s physical and mental capacity.
They said Article 36 of the Constitution of the Republic of Zambia obliges cabinet to consider the question of physical or mental capacity of the President when the question arises.
They stated that it is their considered view that this constitutional provision is intended to serve the greater good of the country and hat of his Excellency Mr Michael Sata as he will be relieved of the pressures of the Presidency much to the benefit of his health and wellbeing.
The lawyers said Mr Changala has demanded that Mr Kabimba performs the statutory function as enshrined in Article 36 of the Zambian Constitution failure to which they will process within seven days to compel him to exercise his statutory function.
“Whereas His Excellency Mr Michael Chilufya Sata was on the 20th of September 2011 voted into office as President of the Republic of Zambia in accordance with Article 34 of the Constitution of the Republic of Zambia, noting very well that at the time of the election he appeared to enjoy good health and was of reasonable healthy appearance in stature and coherent speech. Noting with concern that his public appearance in the recent past have raised public concerns and speculation as to his physical and mental capacity to discharge the functions of his office which include his appearance on May 1 2014 during the Labour Day commemoration at the Freedom Statue where he appeared frail and sounded incoherent.
The letter continued, “On the 9th of May 2014, in a public address to the ZAF commissioning parade for offer cadets in Livingstone, His Excellency Mr Michael Chilufya Sata, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces is reported to have stunned a multitude of people when he alleged that his security personnel had thwarted a possible plot to hijack by suspected UPND cadres. His appearance was much more frail than that of May 1st 2014.”
The lawyers also refer to President Sata’s recent appearance at the High Court in the Daily Nation case where Mr Sata is said to have appeared extremely frail and unkempt and was almost uncontrollable during proceedings and ignored the usual courtroom decorum and etiquette.
They also state that Mr Sata issued expletives in reference to the defendant lawyer and stated that he thought Mr Sakala (Richard-Daily Nation owner) whom he had sued had died a long time ago.
“On the 25th of May 2014 being Africa Freedom Day, President Sata appeared in public and unusually cut the commemoration and did not attend the commissioning of the Heroes Stadium. On May 30 2014, at the swearing in of Mr Mumba Kapumpa as Ambassador to North Korea, President’s speech was less coherent and gave rise to speculation to his mental and physical health and the President appeared on national television where he addressed the Vice President of China and his appearance deteriorate and shocked every reasonable Zambian raising concern,” they said.
They added, “On June 20th 2014, in the still of the night, The President left the country for what government spokesperson reviewed was a working holiday in Israel at the invitation outgoing President Shimon Peres, since that travel, there has been a lot of deeper speculation as to the state of the President’s health. It is further noted that it cannot be denied that the President is not enjoying good health.”
They said an attempt to obtain a ministerial statement from the government on the exact health status through Parliament has proved futile as the Speaker left the discretion to disclose to the executive, which has since remained non-committal to the cause.
“It has thus become absolutely necessary in public interest, that a medical board be appointed to ascertain the Republican President’s physical and mental capacity.”
FAZ has announced that it will extend the contract of Chipolopolo coach Patrice Beaumelle which expires next month.
Beaumelle has been working under the old contract of assistant coach since he took over the Zambia top job from his former boss Herve Renard last October .
FAZ spokesperson Nkweto Tembwe said the association will give the Frenchman either a short or long-term contract.
Beaumelle will be incharge as Zambia play the 2015 Africa Cup qualifiers.
“FAZ wishes to mention that, as much as the contract for Chipolopolo coach Patrice Beaumelle comes to an end in July, it is not looking for a new coach. Instead FAZ will consider a short to long-term contract for the Frenchman,” Tembwe said.
“There are qualifiers coming and the association will not engage in a search for a replacement for Patrice,” he added.
Chipolopolo are in Group F of the qualifying campaign for the Morocco finals with Niger, Cape Verd and the winners of the playoff involving Tanzania and Mozambique.
Nakambala Leopards coach Wilson Mwale says his side fully deserved the famous three points they got off Nkana on Wednesday.
The promoted side beat Nkana 1-0 in a delayed FAZ Super Division Week Six game to send the defending champions to their first league defeat of the season just four days after the Kitwe giants picked up its first away win of the season.
And Nakambala’s win came a week after they lost 3-1 away to second placed Zesco United in Ndola on June 21.
“It is a sweet victory. We deserve to win,” Mwale said.
The win lifts Nakambala slightly away from the relegation zone from 13th up to 12th on 14 points from as many games played.
Meanwhile, Nakambala have another chance to complete back-to-back home wins over Kitwe opposition when they host Power Dynamos on Saturday.
Coach Zeddy Saileti says Nkana will soon bounce back from the 1-0 loss they suffered at the hands of struggling Nakambala Leopards in a midweek rescheduled FAZ Super League match in Mazabuka.
Friday Konga scored a 55th minute solitary goal in the delayed Week Six encounter as Nakambala ended Nkana’s ten-match unbeaten run in the 2014 FAZ Super League season.
In a postmatch interview, Saileti said he was not disappointed with the loss at Nakambala Stadium.
“I am not disappointed because we will recover from this loss,” he said.
Nkana are seventh on the table with 20 points from 11 matches.
“We have accepted the result because a loss is part of football.”
Saileti added:”We had a lot of chances to win the match but we did not utilise them. The pitch was too hard and made our game difficult.”
Nkana are this Saturday scheduled to host National Assembly at Nkana Stadium in Kitwe in a Week 15 match.
The league champions have three more unplayed matches.
FILE: PRESIDENT Michael Sata addressing Cabinet and journalists at State House in Lusaka
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Zambian President Michael Sata was receiving medical treatment in Israel on Thursday, an Israeli official said without elaborating on his condition.
The disclosure came a day after Zambian Vice President Guy Scott told parliament in Lusaka that Sata, 76, was in Israel on a “working holiday”.
“(Sata) is here on a private visit and he is receiving medical treatment,” the Israeli official said. “He did not come to lie on a beach.”
Sata suffered a heart attack in 2008. Concerns about his health persisted and his opponents said he collapsed during a six-week election campaign in 2011 – an account he denied.
Before his victory that year, Sata had contested and lost presidential elections in 2001, 2006 and 2008.
Another Israeli official, who declined to comment on the nature of Sata’s visit, said the Zambian president would meet Israeli President Shimon Peres next week. Peres, whom the official said had invited Sata to Israel, was in Washington this week.
It made interesting yet sad reading to hear republican Vice-President, Dr. Guy Scot, MP, claim that a ‘Tribal Minority of the South of the Country’ is campaigning on the basis of President Sata’s perceived ill health and hope to win the 2016 general elections. That a republican vice-president of Scottish Origin, the minutest of minorities in Zambia and in cabinet could confidently speak to the entire world and assign a portion of indigenous people of Zambia as a ‘Tribal Minority’ is rather very unfortunate, strange, archaic, and derogatory, and has no place in modern day Zambia.
If Mr. Scot were in England as Deputy Prime Minister and issues such sentiments to the Scots who want independence, and label them as a ‘Small Tribe from the North’, I doubt he would be in government the next day. But I guess this is Zambia, where people are insulted left right and centre by one that holds no strong constituency of national governance, and we just sit there? Allowing the likes of Guy Scot to get away with such derogatory language leaves me wondering what our 50 years of independence is all about. It is shameful. I am ashamed of having a vice-president of the calibre of Dr. Scot, who seems to be failing to coordinate his governance mental faculties.
One wonders what the president’s health or holiday in Israel has to do with Guy’s Scot’ tribal derogatory. Clearly, we see a man here who is failing to coordinate his thoughts, and it seems the ‘small tribe from the south’ is on his head, for God knows what.
Yes, let us accept, that post Chiluba, Zambians have voted on tribal lines, and this is very unfortunate. Guy Scot was Minister under Chiluba, when the same ‘small tribe from the south’ gave the MMD resounding support even when Chiluba did not originate from there. But today, Guy Scot is caught up in a web of extreme tribalism in his party, and being a dummy vice-president he is without any power of a deputy, he sees it fit to use derogatory language to a constituency that supported the PF, to a group of indigenous Zambians that, like many other, only want a decent living, and look up to Guy Scot and his government, but alas, what do they get?
Indeed, I am worried and extremely disturbed that in this 21st Century people still vote on tribal lines. Guy Scot’s ‘Small Tribe from the South’ are not the only ones at fault. Strangely, the PF have MPs and other elected officials from this small group. Like those of many groups, this ‘small group from the south’ seem to be so uncompromisingly loyal to their kinsmen, just as the north, east, west etc is to its men- the whole world knows that.
But that all this is happening in 21st Century is very alarming and extremely dangerous.
But what is more dangerous is when you have the likes of Dr. Scot sowing seeds of tribal hatred, yet one would have expected him to be neutral owing to his ‘insignificance indigeneity’ in Zambia. At this point, I question heavily Dr. Scot’s allegiance to our country, and I ask the question, whose interests is he representing?
The tribal politics must end – the sooner, the better. Those in power have the invaluable opportunity to unite the country on its perceive tribal differences, and as such, we must not allow dummy leaders like Guy Scot sow seeds of division in our country.
The PF is made up of MPs and supporters from all parts of the country, irrespective of tribe. Guy’s Scot’ kinsmen, perhaps whom he can argue as the ‘large majority from the North of Britain’ cannot and did not make the PF win. The PF won because the ‘small minority tribes of Zambia’ got together and elected Mr. Sata. The sooner he gets that through his head and appreciates the diversity yet reinforcing support of our nation when voting for leaders, the better for him and his party.
Furthermore, Zambians want to hear all politicians speak out openly against tribal politics. It seems Guy Scot thinks that pitching one tribe against another can win him and his party a lot of votes in the next elections. But that has never worked, unless he suffers from political dementia he would easily recall how Mr. Sata went round speaking every region’s language during his campaigns. It is unity in diversity, or a promise of such, that Zambia needs.
If we don’t speak against tribal politics, a political mad cow will one day decide to call on his supporters to pick up machetes and hack off the limbs of his opponents in another tribe. Dr. Scot’s recent sentiments are clearly early signs of such a political mad cow, and this must be stopped by all peace loving and united Zambians.
Finally as a sign of maturity and all-encompassing leadership, Guy Scot would do well to retract such tribal sentiments, or avoid such gaffes in future interviews, and focus on bringing together the small perceived tribes.
