Coach Leslie Notsi has vowed that Lesotho will make it difficult for Ghana to win this weekend’s 2014 World Cup qualifier in Maseru.
Speaking after Saturday’s 4-0 loss to Zambia in Ndola, Notsi said Lesotho are now competing for pride as they are out of the race to Brazil 2014.
“The weekends match to us is all gona be about our pride, we have to play for our pride especially playing in front of our fans and in our own backyard,” he said.
“It is not easy for visiting teams to come out with maximum points in Lesotho so we are going to make it difficult for Ghana. Surely our pride is at stake, we need to come out with a positive result,” Notsi added.
Zambia leads Group D of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers on 10 points, one better than second placed Ghana, Lesotho have two points and bottom placed Sudan are stuck on one point.
Zambia captain Christopher Katongo says he is not moved by criticisms from fans.
Katongo said he does not focus on his critics.
The China-based forward on Saturday contributed a goal after making one assist as Zambia thumped Lesotho 4-0 in the 2014 World Cup qualifier in Ndola.
“We don’t focus on critics but we hear what people say,” Katongo said.
“I will keep on going. I don’t have pressure to perform,” he added.
Katongo received heavy criticism at the 2013 Africa Cup in South Africa over his questionable peformance.
The criticism forced coach Herve Renard to bench Katongo in Zambia’s last group match against Burkina Faso which ended in a draw.
An official not impressed with the cans and bottles thrown by fans.Alcohol made its way to the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium despite the Police ban
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Soccer fans during the Zambia vs Lesotho game at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola
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One of JK’s dancing queens showcasing her dancing skills during the Zambia/Lesotho game
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Soocer fans
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UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema cheers along at the Zambia Vs Lesotho match.. Picture by JEAN MANDELA
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UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema was among thousands of soccer fans at the Zambia Vs Lesotho match. Picture by JEAN MANDELA
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Crowds at the Zambia Vs Lesotho match held at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium
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Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili greets Zambia coach Herve Renard
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SPORTS Minister Chishimba Kambwili and FAZ president Kalusha Bwalya
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Chipolopolo fans giving their support
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Ching’polopolo fans giving their support
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JK and his dancing queens at Levy Mwanawasa stadium during Zambia vs Lesotho game. Picture by Jean Mandela
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Fans pose for a picture before the Zambia/Lesotho game held at the Levy Mwanawasa stadium
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Cheerleaders pose for the camera
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JK performing at Levy Mwanawasa stadium during Zambia vs Lesotho game. Picture by Jean Mandela
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Soccer fans at the Zambia Lesotho match
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Chipolopolo fans giving their support
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A chipolopolo fan makes his way to the stadium
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A chipolopolo fan makes her way to the stadium
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A family of chipolopolo fans
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A chipolopolo fan makes his way to the stadium as his son enjoys the ride on his shoulders
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A dad and his kids at the soccer match
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Support for the Zambia national team came from all ages
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The Zambia national football team were not short of supporters
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Chipolopolo iyee!
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chipolopolo fans during the Zambia Lesotho game
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Chipolopolo fan who rightly predicted defeat for Lesotho holds up a placard
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A soccer fan during Zambia vs Lesotho game. Picture by Jean Mandela
Proud Baby mother Rachal 13, with a year old baby John Kapapula having fan with former classmates before a public meeting held by Northern Province Minister Obious Chisala at Mutitima Sunkutu Primary School in Mporokoso
The Patriotic Front in Mansa in Luapula Province has warned teachers in the area to desist from abusing school girls but to rather offer them the necessary attention that is needed for them to excel in their studies.
Mansa Central Constituency PF Chairperson Steven Chenda said some teachers in the area had been reported to be in the habit of abusing their school girls in pretext that they would give them ‘leakages’ during the examination period.
He said he was saddened with the reports.
The Patriotic Front official said in a statement released in Mansa yesterday that any teacher that would be found wanting would lose his job, as the Government would not tolerate such behaviour.
He pointed out that teachers were supposed to be the second fathers to the children they teach, but if they turn and start raping or defiling them, they (pupils) would lose confidence in them and subsequently start fearing attending classes.
Mr Chenda further called on all parents and guardians of girls in the area to take keen interest in their girls as they were the future leaders of the nation.
He said parents should not marry off their girl children.
Mr Chenda said the PF Government attaches great importance to the education of both girls and boys’ education that was why it was endeavoring to build schools in all parts of the country.
File:Rural Roads Unit front road working on the 80 Km stretch Kalongola- Sioma roads at a total cost of K500million in Shangombo District in Western Province.
Residents of Shangombo district in Western province have given a two weeks ultimatum to newly appointed district commissioner Dominic Lisulo to vacate the office.
The development comes exactly three weeks after the dismissal of former district commissioner Martin Mwauluka who had his contract terminated for alleged misconduct.The residents are now demanding that the newly appointed DC vacates office because they want to have a district commissioner who was born and bred in the area.
Speaking on behalf of the residents, a Mr. Kafunya told ZANIS in a telephone interview today that they will not accept strangers in the office of the district commissioner anymore.
Mr. Kafunya explained that Shangombo unlike other districts in the province and the country as a whole has always been subjected to what he termed as “strangers and second class material for district commissioners”.
He added that it was not a question of whether Mr. Lisulo can perform or not but that the residents have decided to settle for Sioma district Commissioner Mubiana Mutomena who acted in the position for two weeks.
Mr. Kafunya stressed that government should show its commitment to the people of Shangombo by moving Mr. Mutomena from Sioma to Shangombo .The residents have claimed that Mr. Mutomena has not only demonstrated quality leadership in the two weeks that he acted as DC but that he was also born and bred in the area.
The good old days..the then Foreign Affairs Minister Given Lubinda celebrates the award with President Sata and First Lady Dr Kaseba
Kabwata Member of Parliament Given Lubinda has refused to be drawn into debate about him following the expiry of his suspension from the Patriotic Front on treachery charges.
Mr. Lubinda said he will remain firm and continue to work hard in areas where he will yield the best than responding to old debates that will not take him anywhere.
He explained that he is still a strong member of the Patriotic Front and will always be loyal to the party.He said he will never engage in any differenceswith anybody.
Mr. Lubinda stressed that he is not moved by comments home affairs Minister Edgar Lungu that there is no vacancy for him in government at present.
Mr. Lubinda pointed out that he will let those who enjoy discussing about him continue as he listens, adding that he will be unavailable to respond to issues that he had no time for.
Last week home affairs Minister Edgar Lungu was quoted as saying there was no vacancy in government that Mr.Lubinda can occupy.
[Source:QFM]
Acting Zambia Railways Muyenga Atanga has assured that the USD 120 million given out to the railway firm as part of the Eurobond is still intact.
“No part of that money has moved. The entire amount is sitting in a ZANACO account,” Dr. Atanga told Journalists in Lusaka Monday morning.
He continued, “This information could be supported by the law enforcement agencies who are watching over the activities at Zambia Railways. We have officers from DEC and the ACC investigating the company and they have confirmed that the US$ 120 million is still intact.”
“We have been very transparent about the manner we plan to run Zambia Railways. Everything is done above board.”
Dr. Atanga who is also Transport Permanent Secretary said the planned rehabilitations of the railway infrastructure are set to commence next month.
He also denied reports that he is on a double salary as Zambia Railways CEO and Permanent Secretary.
Dr Atanga said he is only been paid as Permanent Secretary.
“There has not been any use for that money yet. We are using our own generated funds to support the business. We are paying our own salaries without touching that money. We have told ourselves that we will not ask government for our salaries,” Dr. Atanga said.
He said the tendering for rehabilitation works is nearing completion and contractors are expected to be awarded contracts and be on site by next month.
“We are on course. We have increased the number of cargo we are moved, just in May alone, Zambia Railways moved 69,000 metric tons of cargo via Dar es Salaam which generated US$ 3.3 million for the company,” Dr. Atanga said.
He also revealed that the decision to move Zambia Railways Limited Corporate Head office from Kabwe to Lusaka is final.
“It’s government policy that the HQ should be in Lusaka. The issue is now water under the bridge. We are using the blocks here at Railway Station as the new Corporate office for Directors. We did some renovations to the two office blocks and we are happy here.”
File:Delegates to the Provincial Constitution Convention for Southern Province in Livingstone
The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has described the on going constitutional making process as a sham which may not produce a people driven constitution in the stipulated time frame.
This follows revelations that the Technical committee has written to the Ministry of Justice requesting more time and more allocation of funds to complete its work.
YALI president Andrew Ntewewe noted that to this effect his organization has joined hands with the Oasis Forum to ensure that a Private Member’s Bill is passed in Parliament to ensure that the constitutional making process and the contents of the new constitution are protected by a legal framework.
Mr. Ntewewe said that if the current constitutional making process continues without a legal frame it will continue to gobble colossal sums of public funds which can be used for other developmental projects.
Mr. Ntewewe further observed that without a new constitution the country will continue having stunted national development due to policies in the current constitution that do not effectively support such progress.
The YALI president was speaking in an interview with Qfm.
The book of Esther tells of a story of a Jewish girl who became queen of the mighty Persian Empire( 478 B.C). In the leadership at the time,there was an evil man named Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite who was second in command to the King. He persuaded the King to issue a decree with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day and to plunder their goods.Note this decree could not be changed.It was law.
The Jews were in distress when they received this news.
[pullquote]And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?[/pullquote]
Now Mordecai,Queen Esther’s cousin instructed her to go into the king’s presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people. But she declined saying it was against the Law to go to the King without being summoned.Infact doing so carried a death penalty unless the king extended the gold scepter.
In Esther 4:13 Mordecai said:
Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
Things are happening in the land of Zambia.Unprecedented events are taking place.There are Queen Esthers God has placed in different levels of leadership in Zambia.Do not think that you shall escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.You were placed in that position for such a time as this.You can change the course of an entire generation doomed to destruction( and/or poverty)
The later part of the story tells how tables were changed because of Esther’s boldness. To this day the feast of Purim is celebrated commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from their enemies.May Zambia too experience deliverance. By Zambian in Prayer Author of ‘That I might not disrespect the President‘
ZAMBIA Union of Financial Institutions and Allied Workers (ZUFIAW) Secretary General Joyce Nonde-Simukoko
The Zambia Union of Financial and Allied Workers has accused Blue Financial Services of externalizing funds from Zambia as it plans to hastily exit the Zambian market.
ZUFIAW General Secretary Joyce Nonde-Simukoko has since called on the Bank of Zambia to closely watch the manner in which Blue Financial Services is externalizing funds.
“These people are busy closing down branches and laying off workers at will. Government should watch these people closely, we believe they are just shipping out money and will soon close shop,” Mrs Nonde-Simukoko said.
She said Blue Financial Services had initially intended to fire 58 workers but that the union refused and asked to negotiate.
“In the middle of the negotiations, these people surprisingly started sending redundancy letters to our members. They have already fired about 30 workers and closed some branch,” She said.
“What is sad is that all these redundancies are being done outside the law. These South African have no regard for local employment laws,” Mrs Nonde Simukoko explained.
She said ZUFIAW supports the recent pronouncement by Labour Minister Fackson Shamenda that non Zambians should never be engaged to handle human resources functions in Zambia.
“The happenings at Blue go to support what the Minister is saying. You have South African remote controlling all decision making processes from there and the Zambian local managers are toothless.”
Blue Financial Services has indicated to the unions that it will lay off around 60 workers due to increasing operational costs.
ATTORNEY General Mumba Malila has described as “wild and disturbing” assertions by the Law Association of Zambia that immigration officers’ decision to stop former President Rupiah Banda from travelling to South Africa was illegal and bordered on contempt of court.
Last Friday, Mr Banda was blocked from leaving the country by immigration officers at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka as Minister of Home Affairs Edgar Lungu maintained that the former President may tamper with “evidence” and “witnesses” abroad.
And Mr Malila said in an interview yesterday that LAZ should have consulted his office or any other relevant authority before rushing to issue a “wild and disturbing” statement.
“It clearly shows that they did not research properly. They should have asked us what was happening,” Mr Malila said of LAZ.
He said if LAZ cared to consult, they could have realised that the court order to release Mr Banda’s passport to enable him travel and the reasons advanced by the State to block Mr Banda’s trip, are two different issues.
Mr Malila said law enforcement agencies are still investigating Mr Banda on other cases apart from those he is appearing in court for, hence his travel could have been prejudicial to on-going investigations.
“So, the reasons advanced by the investigations team not to allow Mr Banda to travel have nothing to do with the court order. There is no relation between the two issues,” Mr Malila said.
THE request by Supreme Court judge Phillip Musonda to resign from the bench is premature and does not clear him of the charges of alleged professional misconduct, some civil society organisations have said.
The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP), Southern African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) and Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) said in separate interviews in Lusaka yesterday that Justice Musonda should have waited for the tribunal to clear his name.
In a letter dated June 4, 2013 to President Sata, Justice Musonda said staying on at the Supreme Court will be discomforting to him and his colleagues and is therefore not feasible.
Justice Musonda and High Court justices Nigel Mutuna and Charles Kajimanga have been suspended by President Sata for alleged professional misconduct.
President Sata has since appointed a tribunal, to be chaired by Malawian Judge Lovemore Chipoka, to investigate allegations against the three judges.
“He is not supposed to resign because there is a pending case against him. Let him go through the drill of the tribunal and whatever the outcome, he can then consider retiring or resigning,” FODEP executive director MacDonald Chipenzi said.
Mr Chipenzi said Justice Musonda is supposed to go on leave from his duties and wait for the tribunal to clear him of the alleged professional misconduct.
He said Justice Musonda’s decision undermines efforts of justices Mutuna and Kajimanga, who are challenging the legality of the tribunal.
“He is admitting that he is guilty by resigning, he should have waited for the tribunal. The best he can do is to apologise and confess the allegations than to rush to retire,” Mr Chipenzi said.
He said Justice Musonda will be more dishonourable to resign without his name being cleared of the allegations.
Mr Chipenzi said President Sata should reject Justice Musonda’s request and should consider it after the tribunal finishes its sittings.
And TIZ president Lee Habasonda described Justice Musonda’s request to resign from the bench as unfortunate and an action which will rob Zambians of an opportunity to know the truth behind the allegation of professional misconduct he is facing.
Mr Habasonda said Justice Musonda’s resignation will seem as though he is trying to protect the judiciary but Zambians are interested to know if he is guilty or not of the alleged professional misconduct.
“The tribunal is a good platform that would have given Justice Musonda an opportunity to clear his name and the doubt in Zambians,” he said.
SACCORD information officer Obby Chibuluma said although it is right to resign, Justice Musonda should have waited for the tribunal to conclude its investigations.
Mr Chibuluma said Justice Musonda’s decision does not come at the right time because the action will not clear his name of the allegation he is facing.
“If the President accepts his [Justice Musonda’s] request, it will mean he will leave the judiciary with a tag of professional misconduct. We would love the judge to hang on until he has his name cleared,” he said.
Last year, President Sata rejected Justice Musonda’s request to resign after he suspended him along with Justices Mutuna and Kajimanga over alleged professional misconduct.
The trio has been suspended regarding the way they conducted themselves in a civil case involving Development Bank of Zambia as complainant and The Post Newspapers, JCN Holdings and Mutembo Nchito as defendants.
Since its appointment in May last year, the tribunal to be chaired by Judge Chipoka, retired judges Thomas Ndhlovu and Naboth Mwanza as members and Chipili Katunasa as secretary, has never sat.
This is because of the applications to block the tribunal by Justices Musonda, Mutuna and Kajimanga with the latest one being the challenge of the legality of the tribunal filed by Judges Mutuna and Kajimanga.
Last week, Ndola High Court judge Mwiinde Siavwapa granted Justices Mutuna and Kajimanga an application to commence judicial review challenging the legality of the tribunal.
This will also act as a stay of the tribunal proceedings, which were scheduled to start on June 18 this year.
File: Father Frank Bwalya addressing a PF rally during the run up to the 2011 elections
A RIFT has erupted at Saint Peters’ Anglican Church in Chimwemwe between some members and their priest, Father Richard Luonde who they have accused of using church funds to finance outspoken cleric Father Frank Bwalya’s political aspirations.
Some irate church members yesterday locked the church to the public following the same wrangles that have left the congregation divided into two factions with one group demanding the immediate departure of Fr Luonde and other opposing the move.
The anti-Fr Luonde camp was also accusing the priest of indulging in adultery activities with married women in the congregation.
Posters containing messages denouncing Fr Luonde were also found stuck on the walls of either side of the church building with one of them reading that anyone who should temper or enter the building would be dealt with.
Fr Luonde who was also found stranded outside the church building expressed shock at the development of the locking of the building and attributed that to a few people within the church he said harbored hatred against him.
He denied the allegations both allegations of giving church money to Fr Bwalya and flirting around with married women in the congregation.
“First they started by accusing me that I am indulging in adultery and now they are saying I am diverting church offering and tithe to Fr Bwalya which is totally untrue and I know even one priest is involved in this,” he said.
Fr Luonde who was flanked by Church treasurer Burton Phiri, said if people had issues, he expected them to approach him rather than embarking on moves such as locking of the church building.
Congregation spokesperson Cuthbert Chuza earlier on denied any knowledge why the members locked the building saying this happened as a surprise to him.
“We came here for the service which starts at 09:30 hours but when we arrived around 09:00 hours, we found the building locked with a chain and a new lock and they have gone away with the keys,” he said.
Congregation Lay leader who is also building caretaker said he was not aware of who locked the church because he only found it locked when he woke up in the morning.
Police were called in around 11:00 hours to go and assess the situation and around 11:30 hours Fr Luonde faction was still outside the locked building.
Forest Rangers were denied a chance to pick up their second win of the season after 10-man Red Arrows rallied to finish 2-2 at Dola Hill today in Ndola.
However it was Arrows who took the lead in the 5th minute through Bruce Musakanya.
Owen Kaposa struck twice in the 26th and 44th minutes as Forest looked like they were heading to their second win of the season.
Forests ambitions were seemingly enhanced after Musakanya was sent off just before halftime for a tackle on Kaposa.
However, Arrows staged a dramatic come back with eight minutes remaining on the clock to snatch an away point through Stanley Nshimbi.
Arrows exchange places with Nchanga Rangers in fourth and fifth place but go level on 17 points after 11 games played.
The Alliance for Human Rights and Governance (ALHURIGO) is up in arms against police on the Copperbelt for not granting them a permit to hold a closed door meeting.
ALHURIGO Zambia Chapter Interim Chairperson, Philemon Phiri, says Zambia was recently peer reviewed as a maturity of democratic practice with a high level of commitment to liberation movements on the Africa continent.
Mr Phiri says Zambia must not lose her dignity and status of peace and democracy because of a few selfish police officers that people and the Head of State have put into public offices.
He said this in a press statement released to ZANIS in Lusaka today.
“The meeting was scheduled to take place today (June, 8, 2013) at New Ambassador Hotel in Ndola whose objectives was, among other things, to strengthen our good governance advocacy and our participation in active politics and development and remain non-partisan.
“It’s regrettable that the Police in Ndola denied us a permit and access to association, freedom of expression and fundamental human right,” Mr Phiri lamented.
He stressed that the meeting was vital to discuss the four thematic areas of APRM, the UN 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and people’s rights.
He added that the Forum for Good Governance, Gender Equity and Justice International together with the Samaritan Strategy Foundation of Zambia were given a mandated to spearhead the organisation for Civil Society Organisations’ Consultative meeting in Ndola on the Copperbelt Province but, unfortunately, the meeting did not take place because of selfishness by some police officers.
He charged that holding a closed door meeting does not require a police permit but only did so not to be in confrontation with the law.
The ALHURIGO Interim Chairperson is, however, optimistic that the PF government would sternly deal with undemocratic people frustrating government’s efforts.
By press time, efforts to get a comment from Copperbelt Police Chief, Mary Tembo on the matter, proved futile.
