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City of Lusaka Football Club turns down request by PF to host a final rally at Woodlands Stadium

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Woodlands stadium in Lusaka

Football Association of Zambia Division One (South) City of Lusaka club has rejected the request by Patriotic Front (PF) to host their final political rally at Woodlands stadium because the party never settled the amount owed to the club the last time they held a similar event at the stadium.

In a response to a PF request dated June 7, 2011 asking for the use of Woodlands Stadium, club secretary Silva Daka said that Woodlands Stadium and its surrounding areas will not be available for use on hire for political party rallies until after September 20 presidential and general elections.

PF owes City of Lusaka K5 million over the use of Woodlands Stadium for a political rally.

“The executive committee wishes to inform you that we are unable to grant you your request due to the reason that the last time you used our grounds, you did not pay us. City is a community club which relies on the community and the hire of its facilities to survive. However, if the bill of K5,000,000 is settled, we may consider your request,” Daka’s letter addressed to PF vice-secretary for the finance committee reads in part.

On political parties not using Woodlands Stadium for rallies, Daka said: “This serves to inform all political parties and members of the public that with immediate effect, Woodlands Stadium and its surrounding premises will not be available for use on hire basis for political party rallies until after the 20th September, 2011 presidential and general elections.”

[Zambia Daily Mail]

RB scores in Rural Zambia

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Rural Roads Unit working on the 80 Km stretch Kalongola- Sioma roads at a total cost of K500million in Shangombo District in Western Province.

Shangombo District Commissioner Masheke Kabayo says President Rupiah Banda deserves a five year mandate in office because he has fulfilled almost all the promises he made to the people of Zambia during his campaigns in 2008.

Mr. Kabayo said President Banda’s administration has in the past three years scored remarkable development in meeting the needs of its people most importantly those in rural areas.

He noted that Shangombo being the remotest district in the country has experienced fundamental economic and infrastructure development which is being felt by the common man in the outskirts of the district.

The DC pointed out that among other projects, the K1.8billion water reticulation programme has cheered the people as the district will be having safe and clean drinking piped water for the first time.

Mr. Kabayo said about 95% works of the water reticulation programme have been done adding that works are expected to be complete by the end of this month.

He said another project is the gravelling of the 80Km Kalongola –Sioma road which is being worked on by the Rural Roads Unit at the cost of K500million.

Mr. Kabayo has since commended government for it commitment in ensuring that development trickles down to all the parts of the country.

He also appealed to people in the district to ensure that they vote for President Banda in the 20th September general elections to enable him continue his development agenda for Zambia.

Shangombo District Commissioner Masheke Kabayo talking to Rural Roads Unit grader driver at Kalongola area in Shangombo district in western Province.
Contractors doing final touches on the just erected water tank for the K1.8billion water reticulation programme in Shangombo district in Western Province.

Government re-classifies four districts to award hardship allowances to affected civil servants

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Lake Itezhi-Tezhi in Itezhi Tezhi district

Government has re-classified four districts and has awarded all civil servants in the districts the long awaited rural hardship and remote allowances.

Itezhi Tezhi District Commissioner Mary Mukwiza disclosed in an interview , yesterday, during a meeting for all heads of government departments and Union leaders at her office.

She disclosed that her office is in receipt of Cabinet circular No. B7 OF 2011 signed by Public Service Management Division (PSMD) Permanent Secretary Gorge Kawatu.

She said according to the circular which was sent from Southern Province Provincial administration, government has re-classified the district following a verification exercise undertaken by the government and Public service Union officials for the purposes of payment of rural hardship and remote allowances.

“It has been decided to re-classify Zambezi, Isoka, Chinsali and Itezhi Tezhi Districts from category ‘C’ as specified in 2010 Public Service Management Division circular on Review of salaries and conditions of service for employees in the civil service to category ‘D’, “ she said.

The re-classification of the district is with effect from 1st September, 2011 and shall be implemented on government payroll in September, 2011.

And The Itezhi Tezhi District Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) Chairperson Chrissy Ng’andu has commended government for re-classifying Itezhi Tezhi district into category ‘D’ for rural hardship allowance.

Mr. Ng’andu has also thanked ZCTU, Zambia Union of Nurses (ZUNO) and other Unions national leadership for having worked tirelessly for the achievement.

The Union leader made the commendation in an interview with ZANIS after the meeting at Itezhi Tezhi District administration.

“Under the D category workers serving within the township will be entitled to 20 percent while those in the outskirts would be entitled to 25 percent remote hardship allowance, “Mr. Ng’andu said.

He said the news had excited workers in Zambezi district as it would provide for all the civil servants to qualify for the rural hardship allowance of 20 percent of their basic salary.

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A message to PF followers

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By Musonda Bwalya:

Dear brothers and sisters of the Patriotic Front It is with great sadness that I have to sit in my room wondering what pain and anguish you must be going through considering how your leadership has over the past year taken your feelings, emotions and health for granted.

How long will you let them lie to you and treat you like you are simple machines whose purpose of existence is to merely satisfy…their hunger for power by giving them the support and votes they need to be ushered into office?

Time after time they have lied to you, raised your emotions and tampered with your blood pressure just for their selfish desire and amusement. Some of the incidences in which they have taken you for mere puppets are as follows:

1. PF/UPND Pact

Some time ago a union between your party and the United Party For National Development was formed on account that neither of them could defeat the ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy alone. While this was true, the UPND were looking at a more bigger picture of giving Zambians meaningful change by providing a leadership with a national face (UPND’s major strongholds are PF’s weakest areas and vice versa) and harmonizing social-economic policies considering that the two parties were different ideologically i.e the PF being socialist and the UPND with a propensity towards capitalism, the PF’s main preoccupation was that of sharing leadership positions; kind of saying lets take care of our selfish interests first and then the wishes of Zambians will come later. When the UPND did not agree to this they were called all sorts of names including UNDER 5’s and that they were so shallow that they THINK WITH THEIR TRIBES.It is these insults and other irreconcilable differences that led to the demise of the Pact. Its almost easy to blame the PF for they have shown on other occasions that they cannot work with other parties and are intolerant of divergent views. In 2006 their pact with the United Liberal Progressive party collapsed because they ULP wasn’t consulted and did not agree on the stance taken by the PF to promise to liberate FTJ (mhsrip) without a fair trial because he was innocent and that as a way to gain votes in areas were the late was popular.

2. APRIL FOOLS DAY CIRCUS

After the collapse of the pact, the PF went on a solo campaign and lied to you by telling you that the elections would be held on 01st April, 2011. They again psychologically prepared you to cast you votes on a day reserved for FOOLS! More fictitious dates were announced by your leaders and you still believed.

3. TEA-PARTY GET TOGETHER CONVENTION

In a bid to create a picture that they were a democratic party, your leaders hosted a convention were 3500 delegates were in attendance. To everyone’s shock and dismay, not a single ballot was cast yet proving to you that democracy and divergent views were alien to the PF. Sadly however such tenets are enshrined in their constitution which they have promised to deliver within 90 days of assuming office.

ARTICLE 57: ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE

(1) The election of twenty (20) Members of the Central Committee shall be held at the General Conference of the Party.
(2) Candidates shall indicate to the President of the Party not less than one day before the day of the Conference their intention to stand for the office of the Member of
the Central Committee.
(3) (a) The President of the Party shall submit his list of candidates together with the names of other candidates for the office of the Member of Central Committee to the
National Council for consideration and approval.

The question is why should the constitution demand that someone aspiring for higher level needs seek first the approval of the president? Is the president a god?

4. MASS DEFECTIONS

Your leaders promised you defections to you party in large numbers from the ruling MMD. The yet again prepared you psychologically to receive people you called liers, corrupt, selfish and incompetent and whose failure and betrayal prompted you to seek change of government.

They demanded that you accept these “rejects” as your leaders because politics was not about SERVICE but about NUMBERS. THEY TOLD YOU TO REJECT AND ABANDON MEMBERS WHO FOR 10 YEARS HAD BEEN LOYAL TO THE PARTY AND ITS CAUSE AND INSTEAD OPT FOR JOB SEEKING POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS.

5. DESPERATE MEASURES

Seeing that they were ill prepared for the polls after the election date had been announced, your party had gone into panic mode.First was when they filed an injunction restraining the candidate of the ruling party from standing on flimsy charges of parentage. When this failed they demanded the halting of the election date on other false and baseless claims including those to do with the printing company contracted to print ballot papers, and the source of funding for campaign materials.

As if this wasn’t enough they together with their public relations wing newspaper published a false opinion poll suggesting that your leader would win the elections by 55%. SADLY HOWEVER THE UNIVERSITY THEY CLAIM HAD CONDUCTED THE POLL ISN’T EVEN IN EXISTENCE.

They then brainwashed some of you to the point of having voices inside your heads telling stories that not even three year olds cannot believe. I CANT HELP BUT ASK: HAVE YOU BEEN BEWITCHED? HAVE BEEN TURNED INTO ZOMBIES? These questions silly as they may sound remind me of a story I read early this concerning fears among some of your members that that some leaders had become so desperate that they had resorted to witchcraft.

6. PARANOIA

It seems in the end that your party is trying to use lies, rumour and gossip to create in you a sense of insecurity, hatred, and paranoia that these elections will not be free and fair through constantly attacking the ECZ, the police and the judiciary thereby creating a false impression that you cannot trust the above institutions and as such the only to acquire justice is through unrest and violence.

But remember WE ARE ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION AND THIS COUNTRY IS BIGGER THAN ANYONE OR ALL OF OUR LEADERS. LET US NOT BE FOOLED INTO BELIEVING THAT INSTABILITY IS THEY KEY TO SUCCESS AND THAT PEACE IS STUPIDITY! THIS IS THE OCCULT VIEW OF PROGRESS AS WAS WRITTEN BY A MASTER MASON IN THE 1940’s

7. DONCHI KUBEBA

Finally I leave you with the real meaning of donchi kubeba. That which your leaders wont tell you about the selfish dictatorial manner in which they will run this country. Have you noticed that non of you never reports on anything progressive or developmental that your leader said except the” crowd was big and ni donchi kubeba” ? Thats because they never engage you in issue based debates but just vilify other people. Tell me how will talking about Rupiah, Dora or HH put any food on your table and send your children to school? How will rumours improve your lives?

So this is how your party intends to govern you. I urge to analyse these methods objectively and see if this is the way to govern a country for democracy, development and tolerance for divergent views. Please vote wisely.

ARTICLE 3: PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

The Party shall ensure that all the public institutions, State-owned enterprises and popular mass and similar organizations are led by persons who are members of the Party and who are uncompromisingly committed to achievements of the Party.

ARTICLE 4: STRUGGLE AGAINST EXPLOITATION

The Party shall wage a relentless struggle against all domestic and international forces of reaction. It shall fight for the eradication of Capitalism, with its offshoots; poverty, with its offshoots of Hunger, Ignorance, Disease, Crime, Corruption and the exploitation of man by man.

ARTICLE 15: OBLIGATIONS OF A MEMBER

1) It is the obligation of a member of the Party:

(d) To support and implement all Socialist oriented decisions and projects proposed or Adopted by the Party;

DISCIPLINARY  ORGANS

(a) The Appointments and Disciplinary Committee of the Central Committee shall be responsible for the discipline of the following leaders irrespective of the locality where the offence is committed;

(i) Members of the Central Committee, Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Provincial Political Secretaries, and Heads of Zambian Missions abroad;
(ii) all officers of and above the rank of Assistant Secretary in the Party and Government;
(iii) all officers of and above the rank of High Court Judge including Director of Public Prosecutions;
(iv) all officers of and above the rank of General Manager of a parastatal organizations

Ps: It is my hope and prayer that your leadership had nothing to do with the tricking of KK into signing a statement concerning the elections

FISP increament unrealistic-CSPR

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Civil Society for Poverty Reduction-CSPR in Southern Province has received recent announcement by government stance to increase the number of beneficiaries under the Farmer Input Support Program-FISP for 2011/2012 farming season from 891,500 to 914,690 beneficiaries with serious exceptions.

Southern Province CSPR Chairperson Bright Jalila told Lusakatimes reporter in an interview yesterday saying government should have considered concerns raised by stakeholders before embarking on the increase.

“Whereas the government of the Republic of Zambia under the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives has made considerable efforts to come up with poverty reduction programs such as the Fertilizer Input Support Program to enable farmers have access to fertilizer and seed. The program has proved ineffective”,Jalila said.

“CSPR took a study designed to generate information and offer analysis of the implementation and recommendation for improving the impact of the program on food security and poverty reduction among others but we regret that our government has continued to give a deaf ear and we wonder what sought of government we have that which cannot listern to the concerns that affect our farmers”, he added.

“The research revealed that belonging to a cooperative was the overriding requirement for farmers to access the inputs;however some vulnerable farmers had challenges in raising the upfront required by the cooperatives.Respondents raised alot of major concerns on late delivery of the inputs and inadequacy of the quantities supplied. The study noted that no farmer had graduated from the FISP in all the cooperatives of both Monze and Mazabuka districts”, said Jalila.

And after the research, Civil Society for Poverty Reduction-CSP made some recommendations to the government including the call on the government to put in place mechanisms to ensure that inputs are delivered on time.

“There is need for the FISP to include the aspect of vulnerable but viable farmers as one of eligibility criteria for beneficiaries because at the moment those with capacity to buy inputs at market price are benefiting.There should be more sensitization on graduation from FISP and a clear cut strategy on weaning off farmers from the program”,said Jalila.

CAF Sets Group C Kickoff Dates & Time

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CAF has said both 2012 Africa Cup Group C games will be played simultaneously October 8.

According to a statement from CAF, both Group C games will kickoff at 15:00 hours Zambian time.

The games are Zambia hosting Libya at Nchanga Stadium in Chingola and Mozambique playing Comoros in Maputo.

Group A
119 Liberia v Mali- 8th October at 15h00 GMT
120 Cape Verde v Zimbabwe – 8th October at 15h00 GMT

Group B
121 Ethiopia v Madagascar -8th October at 13h00 GMT
122 Nigeria v Guinea -8th October at 13h00 GMT

Group C
123 Zambia v Libya-8th October at 13h00 GMT
124 Mozambique v Comoros -8th October at 13h00 GMT

Group D
125 Morocco v Tanzania-9th October 19h30 GMT
126 Algeria v Central Africa -9th October at 19h30 GMT

Group E
127 Mauritius v Senegal-9th October at 13h00 GMT
128 RD Congo v Cameroon- 7th October at 14h30 GMT

Group F
129 Gambia v Burkina Faso-8th October at 16h30 GMT
130 Mauritania v Namibia (Mauritania withdrew)

Group G
131 Egypt v Niger-8th October 15h00 GMT
132 South Africa v Sierra Leone – 8th October at 15h00 GMT

Group H
133 Benin v Rwanda- 9th October at 14h00 GMT
134 Cote d’Ivoire v Burundi -9th October at 14h00 GMT

Group I
135 Swaziland v Congo-8th October at 13h00 GMT
136 Sudan v Ghana -8th October at 13h00 GMT

Group J
137 Uganda v Kenya-8th October at 14h00 GMT
138 Guinea Bissau v Angola- 8th October at 14h00 GMT

Group K
139 Chad v Malawi -8th October at 15h00 GMT
140 Tunisia v Togo-8th October at 15h00 GMT

TP Mazembe Target Thomas Nyirenda

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TP Mazembe of DR Congo are said to be chasing Zambia and Konkola Blades utility midfielder Thomas Nyirenda’s signature.

Blades secretary Michael Nsefu said in an interview that TP is one of three foreign clubs that has expressed interest in Nyirenda.

“It is true. Mazembe, a Chinese club and a South African club are interested in Nyirenda,” Nsefu said.

Nyirenda is one of dozen regular home-based players in the Zambia national team.

He played in Zambia’s 2-1 away win over Comoros on September 5 in a 2012 Africa Cup group C qualifier.

2011 All Africa Games: Netball Wins Bronze

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The Zambia netball team made history today in Mozambique after winning its first ever medal at the All Africa Games.

Zambia netballs win was also the country’s first medal so far at the games in Maputo that come to close this Sunday.

Zambia secured bronze after beating Ghana 106-16 in their final round-robin game played on Thursday.

However, Zambia was denied silver on a technicality which went to Tanzania despite overhauling the latter’s superior goal difference in the game against Ghana.
Uganda took the gold.

Tanzania secured silver thanks to a 43-25 win over Botswana in the later kickoff on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Zambia netball teams’ win puts a shine on a disastrous All Africa Games outing especially in boxing.

Swimming, karate, badminton, tennis and table tennis all failed to yield any medals.

Judo and chess are still in contention with action coming up on Friday although a gold or silver should be in the offing in the individual chess category.

VJ urges southern to vote for RB

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Vernon Mwaanga (left)

Veteran politician Vernon Mwaanga has urged people of Southern province to reject politics of tribalism.

Mr Mwaanga says it is the wish of President Rupiah Banda to work with all Zambians including people of Southern Province.

He says the people of Southern Province are industrious and should therefore embrace the historic opportunity to work with President Rupiah Banda.

Mr Mwaanga was speaking during a mammoth rally in Munyumbwe Gwembe district on his continued campaign tour of Southern province.

He says there is need for people in the Province to focus on building a better and more prosperous Zambia.

Mr Mwaanga has appealed to the people of Southern Province to vote for President Banda because he deserves another mandate in order for him to continue with his development crusade.

ZNBC

MUZ requests Mining companies to declare next Tuesday as half day to allow miners to vote

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Mine Workers Union of Zambia (MUZ) has appealed to mining companies in the country to allow their employees to exercise their right to vote next Tuesday.

MUZ Acting president Charles Mukuka says all mining companies should consider declaring the Election Day as half day to allow all miners to cast their vote.

Mr. Mukuka said this in a statement released to ZANIS in Kitwe on Wednesday.

Mr. Mukuka further appealed to the miners to ensure that next week’s elections are held in a peaceful, free and fair atmosphere.

He urged miners to vote for parliamentary and presidential candidates that are going to spur the country to greater development, peace and stability.

He says the country has been holding peaceful, free and fair elections in the past.

He says this time again peace should be guaranteed by ensuring that all leaders of participating political parties lead by example and denounce all forms of violence.

ZNBC

Mbesuma Ends Goal Draught

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Collins Mbesuma on Wednesday evening broke his three-match goal draught to inspire Golden Arrows to a 3-1 home win over Platinum Stars.

Mbesuma scored a brace to help Arrows to their first league win of the season and rise out of the demotion zone for the first time this season after three successive defeats.

The Zambia striker also completed the 90 minutes in this game that saw arrows move up to 12th place on the table.

His two goals should come as good news for Zambia coach Dario Bonetti who has backed Mbesuma in the midst of a two-match scoreless run with Chipolopolo.

Bonetti had earlier said he expected Mbesuma to peak by December in time for the Africa Cup should Zambia qualify and the striker stays healthy.

Mbesuma scored 11 goals for Arrows last season and has scored twice for Zambia in five games played this year.

PF bars and roughs up ZNBC crew

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File: A ZNBC outside broadcast van

The opposition Patriotic Front PF Wednesday afternoon barred journalists from the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation -ZNBC- from covering its campaign rally at the Freedom Park in Kitwe.

Irate PF cadres said they have nothing to do with ZNBC reporters because they allegedly peddle lies against the opposition party and its leader, Michael Sata.

About six unidentified body guards for Mr. Sata wearing tags written PF Security pushed a ZNBC camera person assigned to cover the rally away from the podium where Mr. Sata was sitting.

The PF security personnel ushered the ZNBC News crew away from the rally after a senior PF member identified the team.

The situation was further aggravated when Mr. Sata told the crowd that he was annoyed with a story in the 13.15 hours Radio News bulletin.

Meanwhile, Mr Sata has claimed that ZNBC News aired a false story which alleged that his rally in Kitwe was a flop before it had even started.

But ZNBC News never carried such a story.

At the same rally PF members were seen pushing and forcing a man wearing a European Union Election Observer Mission T-shirt to take photographs of the crowd.

And Electoral Commission of Zambia Director Priscilla Isaac the PF’s action against the ZNBC crew as unfortunate.

Ms Isaac said political parties that are turning away the media from covering their rallies are doing a disservice to the electorate.

She noted that people need to be fully informed on the campaigns being conducted by all political parties.

Ms Isaac says ZNBC News as a public broadcaster should be given an opportunity to cover all political parties in a fair and balanced manner.

[ZNBC]

Don’t celebrate too early – RB

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President Rupiah Banda address a public rally at Mulambwa Ground in Mongu
File:President Rupiah Banda addressing a public rally

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has said the Zambian people should avoid premature celebrations for their respective candidates in Tuesday’s presidential and general elections until the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) officially declares the winner and warned people intending to fan violence that they will be dealt with severely.

Mr Banda said agitation for chaos would be stopped and assured the Zambian people that his Government was ready to stem a breach of the law by dealing with politicians planning to frustrate peace as he addressed one of the final rallies before the close of the campaigns on Sunday.

Addressing a mammoth rally in Petauke yesterday, President Banda also explained that his seven-point plan would ensure improved living standards at household level if implemented in the next five years and urged Zambians to give him chance to unlock his pledge for their benefit.

Mr Banda said Patriotic Front (PF) leaders were taking Zambians for granted by unleashing a vague symbol called ‘Don’t kubeba’ instead of telling the people what they intended to do if they were elected into office. He said it was primitive to persistently flash a symbol that presumes secrecy instead of being transparent.

The president also addressed a rally in Nyimba District where a senior PF member of the national mobilisation committee, Pembele Mumba resigned to join the ruling party alongside 58 other members of the opposition party.

President Banda called on all Zambians to pray for peace and advised them to be wary of some PF members who were threatening to cause chaos and had been shown on television preparing weapons.

He said the Government was still functional and that anyone engaging in such activities would be arrested and dealt with in line with the Zambian laws. The president said the PF was eager to stir violence after realising that it was not ready for the elections.

Mr Banda said the elections did not depend on PF, adding that he set the date of elections because he was the Head of State. The president said PF leaders had pressed him to call for early elections for about a year but when he did, the opposition leaders engaged in activities that suggested that they were not ready for the polls.

He said he was impressed with the huge crowds that had been attending his rallies in every part of the country and that he would address one tomorrow in Ndola after which he would have another one on Saturday in Lusaka.

“Every rally I have addressed has been like this. When they see these pictures tonight on television, they will not sleep. We must work together to protect peace and build tomorrow’s Zambia,” President Banda said.

Mr Banda said the people of Eastern Province should vote for him not because he hailed from the area but because he was a good and humble servant who had performed well in the last three years despite many Zambians doubting his capacity when he assumed office in 2008.

He said MMD was the only party that had a national character having fielded candidates in all the 150 constituencies countrywide. “We have come this far together. You can vote to move forward or you can vote to go backwards after working so hard with your Government.

“This is our final week of campaigning. After Sunday, it will be up to ECZ to prepare for D-day. Let us work hard until the final day of campaigns,” President Banda said. He said the development the people of Nyimba were witnessing was being undertaken everywhere in the country and would continue if he was re-elected on Tuesday.

Mr Banda said he wanted to open more mines, improve the performance of agriculture further and invite foreign direct investment in order to create jobs for the youth. Meanwhile, 1, 860 cadres from the PF led by Petauke District women’s chairperson Precious Zulu resigned from the party to join the ruling party, accusing Mr Sata of promoting divisions in the country.

Ms Zulu, who spoke for the defectors, said her engagements with Mr Sata, who did not have any vision of his own, were restricted to scheming against the progressive ideas of President Banda.

[Times of Zambia]

Ferrying of Cadres is self deception- Hanseluka

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RB's MMD Campaign vehicle
RB's MMD Campaign vehicle

United Party for National Development (UPND) says the ferrying of party cadres from district to district by the ruling MMD is self deception of being popular in Southern Province.

UPND Southern Province General Secretary Mayaba Hanseluka was speaking in an interview this monring.

Mr. Hanseluka said ferrying of MMD cadres whenever President Banda goes in Southern Province is as much self deception by the MMD in the same way the PF’s Post Newspaper magnifies crowds at Mr Micheal Sata’s rallies which he described as a ‘fools paradise.

”President Banda and the MMD are ferrying cadres from district to district in the province claiming that they are popular but let me tell you that these cadres are from all the eleven districts of Southern Porvince and not Monze as claimed by the MMD”, said Hanseluka.

”This is self deception by President Banda and his MMD thinking that they are popular here.Its the same way the POST is portraying the PF to be popular by magnifying their crowds during rallies but come next tuesday, you will be shocked what the people of Zambiaa will do for their country”, added Hanseluka.

He claimed that the MMD has, in their panic stricken state, introduced a new dimension to corruption by dishing out mealie-meal,sugar, cooking oil among others to to voters after checking their voter’s cards.

The UPND Provincial General Secretary, however alleged that MMD’s outdated tactics will not work claiming that the real change wind is unstoppable world-over as can be seen in Middle-East and North Africa.

”Only those who have never worked with Sata who the Post painfully and shamefully want to make Zambians believe is the saviour of the people when the same paper which claims to dig deeper continues covering up hackings and arming of Kadobis in the Chawama bye-election when he was MMD National Secretary, so for us in the UPND, Sata and William Banda are the same”, Hanseluka said.

MMD lawyers demand K6bn from Wynter Kabimba

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Patriotic Front Secretary General Wynter Kabimba
Patriotic Front Secretary General Wynter Kabimba

LAWYERS representing the MMD have demanded payment of K6.475 billion from Patriotic Front (PF) secretary general Wynter Kabimba as costs after the Lusaka High Court dismissed a matter in which he sought to restrain the MMD from distributing its campaign materials.

According to a letter dated September 14, from SBN Legal Practitioners representing the MMD and addressed to AMC Legal Practitioners and Ellis and Company, who represented Mr Kabimba, the lawyers were demanding payment of the amount within seven days.

The lawyers represented the MMD, through its national secretary Richard Kachingwe, as third defendants in a case they were jointly charged with the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) and the Attorney General as first and second defendants respectively.

The letter stated that the lawyers were demanding payment of K6.475 billion from Mr Kabimba, who had sued in his capacity as the PF’s secretary general, following the dismissal of the case by the High Court and order to pay costs.

“Please note that while we appreciate that the case was determined and has ended at a preliminary stage, there is an undeniable fact that the level of responsibility and care required and involved was very high,” the letter reads in part.

The letter also states that the case required a considerable amount of legal skills to be applied and that the fee earners in the case were two former solicitors general, Patrick Mvunga and Sunday Nkonde, former Justice minister Eric Silwamba and two assistant advocates Lubinda Linyama and Bwalya Mubanga.

Meanwhile, some Lusaka-based lawyers have questioned Mr Kabimba’s credibility as a lawyer following his string of failed legal suits against the MMD. Welcoming a Lusaka court’s dismissal of an injunction by PF, which was filed by Mr Kabimba, to restrain the MMD from distributing campaign materials, Hobday Kabwe said yesterday the PF secretary general should have known from the beginning that the matter was frivolous.

Mr Kabwe described the action by the PF to drag the MMD and ZRA to court as a sheer waste of time and resources. He said the whole process was of no benefit to the PF and MMD.

He wondered why PF leaders decided to waste time instead of channelling their energies and resources to campaigns considering that time was not on their side. Mr Kabwe said it was surprising that Mr Kabimba, who was a senior lawyer, could allow the matter, like others before it, to reach the courts despite lacking merit. “I mean the whole process was extremely frivolous and of no benefit to both parties. Actually the end was known from the beginning.

“Mr Kabimba should have advised his party officials accordingly but now they will end up paying costs instead of channelling the same monies to campaigns. This is a serious miscalculation,” Mr Kabwe said. State Counsel Sakwiba Sikota from Central Chambers described the action by PF as one which had only worked to deplete the opposition party’s resources.

Mr Sikota said yesterday that the PF should have used the money it was spending on legal suits to buy campaign materials which the party was allegedly struggling to purchase. He said he was surprised that Mr Kabimba found it fit to take such a matter to court before conducting any research so that he could offer correct advice to his party.

Mr Sikota said the PF was using such tactics to sway people’s attention and described them as kicks of a dying horse. He said it was clear that PF had lost popularity and confidence from the people of Zambia.

The Lusaka High Court on Tuesday dismissed an injunction by PF restraining the MMD from distributing campaign materials. That was in a matter in which PF had sued ZRA, the Attorney General and MMD national secretary Richard Kachingwe.

Mr Kabimba, in his capacity as PF secretary general, had sued the ruling party and ZRA for allegedly failing to collect import duty from the party for importation of campaign materials worth about K3.5 billion brought into the country. High Court Judge Florence Lengalenga threw out the injunction restraining the MMD from distributing motor vehicles, bicycles, chitenge materials and T-Shirts until the duty payable was assessed by ZRA and payable by the MMD on grounds that the relief sought was not practical and was unsustainable.

Judge Lengalenga in handing down the judgment stated that she dismissed the PF’s action due to its irregularity and that it was not properly brought before the court.

[Times of Zambia]

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