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A microscopic view on RB and Sata

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By Patrick Hatontola
Zambia has dawned a new political dispensation; an era in which one is judged by their own works. Days are past when one could ride on a party’s good name or indeed another person. Politicians now stand to thrive on what they have done and risk for what they fail to, on the mandate received and/or seek to.

Many people are convinced that RB narrowly sneaked to presidency by riding on Levy’s Legacy. There is no doubt that his regime has willfully trashed this legacy they pledge to uphold. Consequently, there is a general uproar amongst Zambians following this betrayal. This has stiffened the political terrain for RB and his regime. To them, the journey is on a constant incline while it seems on a slanting side for Sata and the PF! RB is like a man working against the forces of gravity. Chances for retaining power are daily growing dim. But most intriguing is that against all odds, their insatiable appetite for power remains constant.[pullquote]On the one hand, Sata’s CV is enriched on a rock of success and not on a piece of paper prone to deletion. Despite numerous years of public service, the man has no record of theft. Rather, he has an impeccable track record of service delivery. His strong personality gave birth to a value system in which a revolution was started to free Zambia from a lazy working culture[/pullquote]

Cognizance of their impending fate; the regime has no choice but to hibernate and operate in a desperation mode. The apex of their desperation is seen when Political witch-hunts like Lameck Mangani and Ronnie Shikapwasha acting together with political pedestrians like Mike Mulongoti unleashed all sorts of arsenals on Sata to dent his political career. Political light weights in their amateur days like Dora Siliya jumped on the wagon to reinforce the scandalizing campaign against Micheal Sata. But in all this, it is like trying to extinguish a fire using paraffin!

Running out of time and steam, the regime is moving from the desperation to the destitution mode. In this transition, they have become alien to substance and logic in all their dealings. Consideration to others is remote and tertiary on their agenda while self-preservation is primary and paramount.

This has brought RB to a political mountain- too high to climb. There is no known political muscle to push him that high so that beyond this mountain he can see a re-election. He has a dented name, now synonymous with grievous evils to society such as: Abandoning the fight against corruption; failure to act on the auditor general’s revelations, Tribal appointments; Reducing Parliament into a playing field; lavish spending on international trips and Interference with the judiciary to mention but a few. No matter how much faith one has, it cannot convince them that RB is still in the electro race with Sata.

On the one hand, Sata’s CV is enriched on a rock of success and not on a piece of paper prone to deletion. Despite numerous years of public service, the man has no record of theft. Rather, he has an impeccable track record of service delivery. His strong personality gave birth to a value system in which a revolution was started to free Zambia from a lazy working culture. His message of putting more money in people’s pockets through affordable taxes has proved that he has ideals of the 21st century. Sata is a disciplined man who ensures that his colleagues live by the same and disciplines them when they fall short. Zambia needs a President who can be seen to discipline erring members rather than shielding them. In most ways, Sata identifies with the people and this is an ideal virtual that Zambians have found in him.

What happened to the Zambian woman with alcohol?

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A Mansa woman on the business end of Mosi, one of the lagers on the Zambian market.

By Daimone Siulapwa & C.M

This time around, forget the politics for a moment and let us look at the social aspect of life…. Am sure my newly acquired blog friends like, Red Card-Free at Last, Senior Citizen , Mr. Capitalist – 3 E’s steering economic growth , msana wanzili , Observer , Zed Patriot , MB, realist, Maestro Hhehhehhehhe for 2011 would-b President of Zambia HH, Independent Observer, georgeWbush will enjoy this one and continue to guide us in our free of insult discussions.

WHAT would the world be without women?

They encompass everything that makes man able to face another day. They are child bearers, home-makers, multi-taskers, intelligent human beings and everything that a woman should be.

They are nurturers who have this inborn quality to face any trial and temptation and still come out the victor. Women face many battles and many a man has been impressed at the resilience of a woman.

But women nowadays are throwing all those powerful traits to the wind and adopting a vice so bad that mother Theresa would weep if she saw the state of things now.[pullquote]These women walk into kitchen parties and ask the first person they meet, ‘where’s the booze and thank you for inviting me to Mwaka’s kitchen party’. The person they ask usually looks bewildered and stammers, ‘uhm! The booze is to your left and it’s not Mwaka’s kitchen party, it’s actually Daniel’s funeral’.[/pullquote]

Sobriety has flown out of the window with that once virtuous nature of a woman. Show me a woman without an alcoholic bottle in her hand and I will show you 10 women with almost five in one hand. Zambian women have re-defined the term, ‘party hard or not at all’.

The question is has it always been there and we just did not notice or it is actually on an increase now. Women in this day and age do not need a man for anything. They are all work smart and strutting around in heels clocking endless hours at the office trying to make more and more money to fund a rather expensive lifestyle. They are becoming even more powerful than men and are able to hold their own, be it conversation or liquor. Women are a powerful species. They are able to see past the dirt and muck and bring out the best in their children, husbands, workmates or even friends. Women have been gifted with the undeniable ability to see through the sand and pick out the diamond. That was back in the day, lately Zambian women are so boozed out, and they wouldn’t even be able to distinguish the difference between a diamond and a rotten apple.

Zambian women have taking drinking to another level. What was once seen as unacceptable and almost taboo is now an everyday thing. The rare woman that doesn’t drink is seen as an outcast and a party pooper while the drunken nut boob falling out of her shirt is seen as the ‘in’ thing. It’s a sad day when women drink like they are fish trying to drink all the water in the Kafue River, but it’s a heartbreaking day when girls start emulating what they see. Kids see what adults do and they copy that. A young girl sees the so called joy a drunken woman goes through and they envy that. Instead of being the upstanding and brilliant pupil they were meant to be, you find them sitting next to sixty year olds in the bar. It’s a vicious circle and once ensnared by its sharp claws, very few manage to climb out sober and carrying bruises only.

Now drinking for recreation is understandable and social drinking is acceptable. No one wants Zambian women to become the Pope. It’s just that even social drinking now turns into ten tequila shots and fifteen castles all in one hour at the club. Zambian women are drinking like there’s no tomorrow. Some say they drink to forget the hardships of life. Others drink because they feel it will make them an equal to men who still greatly dominant the peaks of the business world. Some women drink for fun and lose all their inhibitions in the process. Some women drink as an escape from the entrapment of poverty whilst others drink out of peer pressure.

They are many reasons why women drink. Zambian women drink to relax and party with their friends. There’s nothing wrong with that. The only qualm that arises is when Zambian women start drinking more than they are able to stand straight. Drinking from sun up till sun down is almost a cry for help and drinking from sunrise till sunset is almost like driving from Kitwe to Lusaka and using a route through Malawi; taking the longer route to solve a problem that should never have existed.

Could it be that Zambian women are competing with men? Are they trying to set their mark and set the pace for this new 21st century? Now, I’m not categorizing every Zambian woman under a drunken stupor umbrella. There are four categories of Zambian women drinkers that I have come across. They could be more but I don’t have the brain space to sit in every bar in the country with a notebook writing it down. The first are the no nonsense ‘I will drink until I drop and you will only stop me if you shoot me first’ women. They are obese, loud and obviously proud though lo and behold, no one really knows why. They dream of the next kitchen party, bridal shower, wedding, heck even funeral, to have a good time. They move around in packs and when one is drunk, look no further, for the rest of the pack is equally inebriated. They do not even wake up with hangovers anymore. They are so used; they wake up with talk time so they can call their pack up and find out where the next kitchen party is. These women walk into kitchen parties and ask the first person they meet, ‘where’s the booze and thank you for inviting me to Mwaka’s kitchen party’. The person they ask usually looks bewildered and stammers, ‘uhm! The booze is to your left and it’s not Mwaka’s kitchen party, it’s actually Daniel’s funeral’.

The second category is the calm and normal Zambian woman. She works hard and gets by. She has plenty friends and is generally a nice person. One, two, six bottles later and she’s the vampire from the dark side. Once drunk, she will beat up anything in sight and will argue with anyone who questions her intelligent thought. She goes from the woman you could take to meet your parents to the woman your parents would have arrested if they met her. All normal thought evades her mind and she becomes loud and boisterous sharing all her so-called ingenious abilities. She could be a student, a mother, a working class woman but once drunk, she resembles a monkey fighting for a half eaten banana. These women are on the rampant and they are unstoppable. Lo and behold you get on their wrong side when they are drunk for they will whip you with a bottle of booze and hug the broken pieces hoping to catch the last sip of the alcohol you made them waste on your head.

The third category is the Zambian woman who has it all. She’s hot by any man’s measure and she knows it. The more she drinks the louder she gets and even the wedding ring on her finger will not remind her when she gets all cozy with the stranger in the bar that she actually is married. No one knows where she fits all that alcohol in because at the rate she drinks, you’d think the whisky would be pouring out her ears. She’s the kind of woman who doesn’t pay for her own alcohol. Men, entrapped by her beauty and skin revealing attire will be at her mercy and they will buy drink after drink hoping they will be rewarded by night end.

The fourth and final category by my standings is the generally all right Zambian woman. She does her own thing and struts her stuff proudly because she’s a woman on the go. She parties hard and still keeps on going. She’s one who knows her limits and even if she goes overboard, she has a plan that will see her ending up in her own bed at the end of the night and not in the dustbin at the back of the club. She drinks to have fun and she knows that at the end of the day, its only alcohol and if it comes for free, then right on, pass me that Redds and if it comes at a cost, ‘thank you but I’ll pass’. She wants to fit in and she does so well, be it a barbeque or a social drink-up with the big boys. She knows her worth and doesn’t let alcohol dictate the order of her day. She uses booze as a relaxation technique rather than a life or death weapon.

Now I know, some who will read this article will be baying for my blood and calling for my head. They’ll probably be the same boozers that feel I’ve unjustly discriminated against Zambian women who just want to have fun. All I say is go on and have fun. Drink and socialize and enjoy the day. Just don’t drink to the point of shameless agony. Don’t drink like the sun will never rise again. Some will argue that who am I to say the things I’ve said. Well, I’m a nobody but I’m a nobody that’s hoping that Zambian women will regain that dignity they once possessed and that gift that men once envied. I’m hoping Zambian women will sober up and dress up.

“Violent UPND youths are causing cracks in Pact’’

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Centre for Election and Governance (CEG) has attributed cracks in the opposition Patriotic Front /United Party for National Development (PF/UPND) Pact to violent UPND youths who have continued to issue derogatory remarks against PF leader Michael Sata.

CEG Chairperson Gershom Musonda said the behaviour by the UPND youths was an expression of lack of discipline and respect towards their leaders in the pact which include PF president Sata.

Mr Musonda said actions perpetrated by youths in the UPND explained why there had always been violence during by-elections like the Mufumbwe by-election which left many people injured.

Mr Musonda said this in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today.

Recently, Opposition United Party for National Development UPND National Youth Chairperson Joe Kalusa charged that Mr Sata had reverted to what he termed as his old thuggery ways

Meanwhile, the CEG Chairperson has urged the two leaders in the pact to show maturity and respect towards each other rather than concentrating on name calling.

Mr Musonda said the pact was a national asset which required noble leadership from the two leaders to instill trust in the public if they were to form Government next year.

“The PF and UPND are the strongest opposition political parties in the country and they should lead by example to upcoming political parties if our political environment is to be conducive” he said

“Name calling and self motives among political players will not build their reputations or our country but it will just bring disunity and confusion in the country” Mr. Musonda has observed.

Mr Musonda has since urged the pact to come up with a candidate and form one movement if they were to remain strong.
[pullquote]“Name calling and self motives among political players will not build their reputations or our country but it will just bring disunity and confusion in the country” Mr. Musonda has observed.[/pullquote]

He further noted that divisions in the pact were as a result of lack of good leadership and direction from the two political parties who seemed to be running the pact as separate political parties.

“If they think it is a political tack they are playing not to reveal the pact candidate then it is a bad one because it is just discrediting at the expense of building them”.

“Their Electorate are now losing confidence in them because they seem not to have any direction in as far as the pact is being managed and if these issues are left an attended to, then the worst is about to come in the pact” Mr. Musonda said.

Bickering and name calling has marred the pact with the two leaders and youths throwing mud against each other rendering the alliance ineffective.

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Protesting Namwala teachers told to resume work

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– Southern Province Education Officer Mr Festus Mungo has pleaded with teachers in Namwala District to return to work as government is frantically looking into their various grievances including rural hardship allowances and anomalies on their pay slips.

And Mr Mungo appealed to stakeholders in Namwala District to help the Ministry of Education to prevent any examination malpractices from occurring.

Speaking when he paid a courtesy call on Namwala District Commissioner Wilson Siadunka, Friday, Mr Mungo said he was concerned about the sit-in protests by teachers in the District and called on them, to
return to work as all their problems would be sorted out as soon as possible.

ZANIS reports that some teachers at Namwala High School, Baabwe Basic School, Lubanga Shabongwe Basic School, and Kalundu Basic School went on a sit-in protest last week disrupting normal classes.

During a meeting on September 27, 2010, teachers at the affected school resolved to go on a sit-in protest after they accused the Ministry of being insensitive to their plight despite numerous follow
up meetings by their Union representatives over rural hardship, remote allowances, and anomalies on some teachers’ pay slips.
[pullquote]“I have come here to request teachers to return to work and assure them that the Ministry of Education was doing everything possible to address their problems as soon as possible,” said Mr Mungo.
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But Mr Mungo said the sit-in was not necessary as their matter was been looked into.

“I have come here to request teachers to return to work and assure them that the Ministry of Education was doing everything possible to address their problems as soon as possible,” said Mr Mungo.

Mr Mungo also appealed to stakeholders to assist the ministry to prevent any examination malpractices from happening in the District.

He observed that examination malpractices such as leakages did not only dent the image of the Ministry but also compromised pupils’ academic qualifications and ultimately retarded development in the nation.

“We are appealing to all stakeholders to help us in preventing examination malpractice so that at the end of the day we produce a cadre of qualified pupils to steer the country’s developmental agenda
forward,” Mr Mungo said.

Meanwhile, Mr Siadunka said teachers in the District should be patient and allow government to solve their problems instead of resorting to protests.

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UTH situation Pathetic

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National Revolution Party (NRP) president Cosmo Mumba has described the situation at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) as pathetic.

This is as a result of the continued strike action by doctor’s country wide.

And Mr Mumba has challenged republican President, Rupiah Banda, to cancel all his other international trips until the problem between government and the striking workers is resolved.

Mr Mumba said that the president should not become a tourist at the expense of the people who are suffering as doctors enter another day of striking.

He has,therefore, called on the political leadership of this country to pay a little more attention to the calls being made by the doctors and address them as soon as possible.

He insists that the republican leader suspend all his programs and focus on cleaning up the health system before traveling out again.

Mr Mumba has also advised the UTH management to try and negotiate with the doctors to come back for work.

However, this is contrary to claims by the UTH public relations manager, Pauline mbangweta stating that the institution’s operations have not been affected by the strike.

Mrs Mbangweta said operations at the hospital are normal as Student doctors, senior doctors,and their foreign counterparts are currently attending to patients.
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Road linking Luapula and Northern underway

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Government is in the process of developing a new road link between Luapula and Northern Provinces through Musaila-Kasaba road in Samfya, Luapula.

President Rupiah Banda announced this yesterday in Samfya during the celebration of the Kwanga ceremony of the Ng’umbo people.

This was in a speech read for him by Luapula Province Minister Dr Boniface Kawimbe.

The President said Government would construct an embankment at Kasaba that would connect Musaila-Kasaba road to Luwingu district in the Northern Province.

“My Government is in the process of connecting Luapula to Northern Province through Kasaba to Luwingu district,” he said.

The President described the Musaila-Kasaba road via Luwingu as an important route that would easy the transportation of fish, maize and other products thereby increasing trade between Luapula and Northern Province.

“I am confident that once the roads rehabilitation and construction works have been completed it will become easier for farmers to transport their produce to selling points,” he said.

He explained that increased trade between Luapula and Northern provinces would contribute to poverty reduction as the people would create wealth through marketing of their various crops

President Banda also appealed to the people commuting between Samfya and Chilubi Island to use the Post Boat which was the safer mode of water transport and not canoes.

He said Government facilitated the refurbishing of the Post Boat at a cost of K880 million which had improved transportation of goods from Samfya to Mbabala, Chishi and Chilubi Islands.

The President noted that the Post boat had helped to reduce accidents on Lake Bangweulu compared to previous years when the boat was not in use.

“My appeal is that people should make use of the boat to avoid unnecessary accidents that come with use of dugout canoes,” he said.

Earlier, Kwanga ceremony organising committee chairman Eustace Bobo appealed to Government to upgrade the Musaila-Kasaba road to tarmac standard and build an embankment to connect the road to Luwingu district.

He also said Government should work towards tarring the pedicle road, saying the benefits of improving the two road networks would bring immeasurable benefits to the province.

Mr Bobo said upgrading the road and creating a link to Northern Province would open up the area and enhance commerce, trade, mining, fishing and tourism activities.

He said the tarring of the Pedicle would result in increased transportation of goods from Northern and Luapula Provinces to markets on the Copperbelt.

“When tarred, the Musaila-Kasaba-Luwingu and Pedicle roads will greatly improve transportation of produce and other goods from Luapula and Northern Provinces to markets on the Copperbelt and elsewhere in the country. The benefits of these road developments will be immeasurable in the future,” he said.

Mr Bobo further urged Government to consider giving Lubwe area district status as one way of accelerating the anticipated development activities.

He said turning Ng’umbo area into a district would help the area quickly get a police station and other Government departments.

He said police presence in Lubwe would ensure safety and security for investments and investors as well as act as a catalyst to peaceful co-existence between investors and the local people.

He challenged the local people in Lubwe to adopt health life styles, including hard work and reducing illicit beer consumption.
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Help prevent exam malpractice, teachers told

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Southern Province Education Officer Mr Festus Mungo has appealed to stakeholders in Namwala District to help the Ministry of Education to prevent any examination malpractices from occurring.

And Mr Mungo has pleaded with teachers in Namwala District to return to work as Government was frantically looking into their various grievances including rural hardship allowances and anomalies on their pay slips.

Speaking when he paid a courtesy call on Namwala District Commissioner Wilson Siadunka, Friday, Mr Mungo said he was concerned about the sit-in protests by teachers in the District and called on them, to
return to work as all their problems would be sorted out as soon as possible.

ZANIS reports that some teachers at Namwala High School, Baabwe Basic School, Lubanga Shabongwe Basic School, and Kalundu Basic School went on a sit-in protest last week disrupting normal classes.

During a meeting on September 27, 2010, teachers at the affected school resolved to go on a sit-in protest after they accused the Ministry of being insensitive to their plight despite numerous follow
up meetings by their Union representatives over rural hardship, remote allowances, and anomalies on some teachers’ pay slips.

But Mr Mungo said the sit-in was not necessary as their matter was been looked into.

“I have come here to request teachers to return to work and assure them that the Ministry of Education was doing everything possible to address their problems as soon as possible,” said Mr Mungo.

Mr Mungo also appealed to stakeholders to assist the ministry to prevent any examination malpractices from happening in the District.

He observed that examination malpractices such as leakages dId not only dent the image of the Ministry but also compromised pupils’ academic qualifications and ultimately retarded development in the nation.

“We are appealing to all stakeholders to help us in preventing examination malpractice so that at the end of the day we produce a cadre of qualified pupils to steer the country’s developmental agenda
forward,” Mr Mungo said.

Meanwhile, Mr Siadunka said teachers in the District should be patient and allow Government to solve their problems instead of resorting to protests.
ZANIS

RB directs funds release for Mansa cultural village

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President Rupiah Banda has directed the Ministry of Finance to release funds meant to construct a cultural and tourism village in Mansa of Luapula Province

President Banda issued the directive Saturday in a speech read for him by Luapula Province Minister Boniface Kawimbe during the Kwanga ceremony of the N’gumbo people of Lubwe area in Samfya district.

ZANIS reports that the President said Government has tasked the department of cultural affairs under the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services to construct a cultural village at the Provincial headquarters Mansa.

He said construction of the cultural centre, which would eventually be replicated in other districts, would facilitate the preservation of traditions, norms and cultural values in Luapula.

Once constructed, the centre would provide space for training, production of cultural products and services, including handicrafts, artefacts, visual arts, music and dance among others.

President Banda said he wants to see the construction of the cultural and tourism centre commence before the rainy season and directed the ministry of finance to release the funds.

“I request the Ministry of Finance to release funds for the cultural and tourism infrastructure for Luapula Province so that the project can commence before the onset of the rainy season,” President Banda.

And President Banda said Government recognises the role culture plays in national development, saying it is imperative for all people in Zambia to work together to preserve the country’s cultural heritage.

He said it was through culture that Zambia as a country was able to discern values and make meaningful choices.

He said all Zambians must work together to preserve the country’s cultural heritage as culture was a treasure, a source of strength and unity.
The President said Government had put in place a deliberate policy of providing support to traditional ceremonies, as a way of augmenting the effort of traditional rulers in promoting the country’s tradition and culture.

He said traditional events like Kwanga were also important as they created an opportunity for young people to learn and appreciate true values of culture.

President Banda also announced that the number of beneficiary farmers under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) had been increased by 35 percent in Luapula Province.

President Banda said Luapula Province would have 36,440 farmers benefiting from the FISP for 2010-2011 farming season, 35 percent increase from the 27,000 beneficiary farmers in the 2009-2010 season.

He said Government worked tirelessly in mobilising resources for the FISP hence, the increase in the number of beneficiaries from the inputs programme.

He also commended the people of Samfya for being among other farmers in Luapula who contributed to this year’s bumper harvest.

He told senior chief Mwewa and several other traditional rulers of the Ngoma clan that it was gratifying that his working Government had ensured Luapula province had started receiving inputs for 2010-2011 farming as early as in April this year.

The Kwanga ceremony is celebrated among five chiefs of the Ng’umbo people in Samfya to pay homage to their ancestors through music, dance and rituals.

It is also a thanks giving ceremony to God for guiding their fore bearers and settling them in a land endowed with abundant natural resources that include water, fish resources and agricultural land.

This year’s Kwanga ceremony was special as it was also attended by senior chief Chisamamba of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who is part of the family clan to which the Ng’umbo chiefs trace their origins.

Meanwhile, President Banda has said Samfya is one district experiencing a lot of succession disputes resulting into three chiefdoms staying without a chief for a long time.

The President said Mulakwa, Kasomabangweulu and Mbulu are the three chiefdoms that have now stayed three to four years without a chief due to succession wrangles.

He said Government was not interested in seeing chiefs dragging each other to courts of law over succession disputes.

He appealed to the House of Chiefs to take a pivotal role in ensuring that succession disputes become the thing of the past so that harmony could be realised in all chiefdoms.
President Banda said it was not acceptable to continue seeing situations where chiefdoms have no chiefs for a long time.

He said relevant offices must deal with the problem especially that surrounding the Mulakwa chieftaincy as the issue of succession dispute was not even before the court of law.

“Samfya district is one district which is experiencing a lot of succession disputes resulting in three chiefdoms without a chief. These chiefdoms include Mulakwa, Kasomabangweulu and Mbulu. I would like therefore to appeal to relevant offices to work on these issues especially Mulakwa chiefdom because the issue is not even in court,” he said.

Speaking earlier, Kwanga Organising Chairman Eustace Bobo thanked Government for many development projects undertaken in Samfya district particularly and Luapula Province as a whole.

Mr Bobo said the Kwanga ceremony organising committee was indebted to the Government for rehabilitating and constructing new education infrastructure, and also for the education programmes aimed at improving the girl-child education.

He also thanked Government for the rehabilitation and resurfacing of Tuta road which he said was going to improve the transportation of people and goods, while reducing the cost of maintenance on vehicles.

Mr Bobo also said that the Ng’umbo people were happy with the speedy recognition of their three new chiefs, who include senior chief Mwewa, chieftainess Mulongwe and chief Mwansakombe.

However, he expressed sadness over the continued succession wrangles that have resulted into litigations, pledging that the Ng’umbo royal establishment would in future work with Government to forestall such disputes.
ZANIS

Seeing the Dream Come to Pass

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Seeing the Dream Come to Pass

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE

“Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses”
(1 Timothy 6:12, NIV)

TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria

One of the keys to seeing your dreams come to pass is to see them come to pass in your mind’s eye first. One of the greatest baseball players of our time told me that all through the day he sees himself hitting the ball. Before he gets up to the plate, he visualizes getting on base. He has this picture of himself succeeding. It’s gotten deep down on the inside and now he’s moving toward it.

Of course, it takes more than just visualization to see our dreams come to pass. It takes obedience; it takes prayer, and it has to be a part of God’s plan for our lives. But what I’m saying is that if you’ll keep the right pictures in your imagination, seeing yourself rising higher, seeing yourself healthy and whole, that’s going to get deep down on the inside and set the course for your life. When your mind is in agreement with God’s Word, it will help guide you toward your destiny. You will have a supernatural strength and power to see those dreams and desires come to pass in your life!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY

Heavenly Father, today I submit my dreams, desires and thoughts to You. Use my imagination for Your purposes. Help me to see the dreams You’ve placed within me coming to pass. Help me to see myself rising higher in every area and bring You glory in everything I do. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Joel & Victoria Osteen

FAZ Executive said to be no more

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Football Association of Zambia president Kalusha Bwalya and general secretary George Kasengele (left)

Former Football Association of Zambia FAZ Disciplinary Committee chairperson Sunday Nkonde says the Kalusha Bwalya led executive has dissolved itself.

Nkonde explains that resignations of the four committee members have rendered the remaining five not capable of forming a quorum of six.

He says this is according to article 27 sub section 3 of the FAZ Constitution which stipulates that six members of the executive committee are needed to form a quorum .

Nkonde said this in a statement released to ZNBC Sports in Lusaka Saturday evening.

The former FAZ Disciplinary Committee chairperson also stressed that the Executive committee can co-opt a person to fill a vacancy in comformity with article 26 sub section 7 for remaining period of office.

Nkonde noted that the constitution stipulates that the executive committee shall meet at least once every four months or any time at the request of the President or three committee members.

On Friday, FAZ Vice president Emmanuel Munaile resigned from his position to joine three others Pivot Simwanza, Violet Bwalya and Henschel Chitembeya stepped down citing administrative shortcomings.

On Thursday FAZ President Kalusha Bwalya accepted the resignations of the other three executive members. Below is the Audio of the Press briefing he held at Football House. Click on the Play Button Below to Listen

President Banda back home

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President Rupiah Banda has arrived back home from Nigeria where he went to attend that country’s 50th independence anniversary.

President Banda arrived at the Lusaka International Airport Saturday evening at about 19:40 hours aboard the Presidential challenger.

ZANIS reports that Vice President George Kunda was on hand to receive the President.

Others who welcomed President Banda included Home Affairs Minister Mukhondo Lungu, Sports Permanent Secretary Teddy Mulonga, Lusaka Province Minister Charles Shawa, Secretary to Cabinet Joshua Kanganja, Service Chiefs and other senior government officials.

While in Nigeria where he was special Guest at the 50th Independence anniversary of Nigeria, the President also attended the Zambia-Nigeria Business Forum among other engagements.

And President Banda has since expressed his deep sadness over the bombings in Abuja Friday as Nigeria celebrated its independence.

According to the Zambia National Broadcasting Services (ZNBC) website he told President Jonathan that the Nigerians will pull through even in the face of many challenges.

Meanwhile, President Rupiah Banda is tomorrow expected in Chibombo district, Central Province to grace the Kulamba Kubwalo traditional ceremony of the Lenje- speaking people.

ZANIS

President Banda is deeply saddened by Abuja bombings

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President Rupiah Banda among other invited guests leaving the main arena of Eagle Square after attending the 50th independence anniversary celebrations of Nigeria in Abuja

President Rupiah Banda has expressed his deep sadness over the bombings in Abuja Friday as Nigeria celebrated 50 years of independence.

Mr Banda said he delivered his condolences to Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan at State House Saturday morning when the two leaders met.

According to the Zambia National Broadcasting Services (ZNBC) website he said he told President Jonathan that the Nigerians would pull through even in the face of many challenges.

Mr Banda was speaking to reporters at the Mnandi Azikiwe international airport Saturday shortly before leaving Abuja for Lusaka.

Mr Banda said it is sad that the bombings took place on a happy day.

And President Banda said he is sure that the ties between Zambia and Nigeria would continue to grow.

He also praised the business people who have helped to market Zambia in Nigeria.

Meanwhile Reuters reports that the death toll from car bombs that exploded near a parade marking Nigeria’s 50th anniversary of independence rose to 12 today.Authorities admitted they had been warned of the attack.

Jimoh Moshoo, police spokesman in the capital, Abuja, said 17 people were wounded in Friday’s blasts, which went off about an hour after an emailed bomb threat from a rebel group in the oil-producing Niger delta.

Nigerian paper This Day, citing presidency sources, said British intelligence had got wind of a plot and passed on a warning to Abuja. Britain’s Duke of Gloucester, who was due to represent Queen Elizabeth II at the event, pulled out.

The secret service in Africa’s most populous nation confirmed it had received foreign tip-offs and had stepped up security accordingly, including towing 65 vehicles from the streets and cordoning off roads leading to the parade ground.

“If we had ignored them the situation could have perhaps been worse than what happened,” State Security Service spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar said.

News outlets including Reuters received an emailed bomb warning about an hour before the explosions, signed by Jomo Gbomo, principal spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

Ogar said Henry Okah, a senior member of MEND, had been arrested in South Africa. Police there declined to comment.

MEND has been fighting for years for a greater share of oil revenues for the delta, home to Africa’s biggest oil and gas industry, but signed an amnesty with the government last year.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who faces an election next year and who is from the impoverished delta region, has condemned the attacks and vowed to bring those responsible to justice.
[ZNBC,Reuters]

‘’Church has failed to provide leadership’’

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Zambia Direct Democracy Movement National Coordinator Edwin Sakala has charged that the Church in the country has failed to provide the much needed leadership.

And Mr Sakala has accused pastors, Bishops and priests of preaching hatred in this country instead of uniting the Zambians a scenario he described as unfortunate.

In a press statement made available to ZANIS in Lusaka today, Mr Sakala accused the Clergy for taking sides with the secular leadership at the expense of preaching the word of God as well as praying for peace in the country.

ZANIS reports that Mr Sakala said the Zambia Direct Democracy Movement would always support a crop of God fearing and Charismatic leaders to occupy various leadership positions in society to liberate Zambia from demonic forces that he noted had taken toll on people’s minds.

He said Zambians must be helped to understand that the Church, Government and Citizens were all part of one living organism called Zambia and that the Movement did not understand why some priests have decided to take sides with people in political circles.

He advised some priests in the country to take up the role of uniting than politically dividing the nation as the 2011 general and tripartite elections were imminent.

Mr Sakala has further charged that Multi -Party Politics maybe good for developing countries but not for countries like Zambia.

He observed that multi-party politics were dividing the people on tribal political groupings adding that this had been identified as a source of ethnic violence and poverty in many African Countries.

He further charged that multi-party politics in Zambia had become a dividing factor and for the ordinary citizens, they could not help noticing that Church leaders of the seven big religious organisations were siding with their tribesmen.
Without disclosing the churches he was referring to, Mr Sakala added that tribalism was a product from hell because tribe had nothing to do with one’s personality.

Mr Sakala called on all peace loving Zambians to condemn all those priests and church leaders busy preaching hatred at the expense of uniting the nation.

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Zambia joins Commonwealth countries in games

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Zambia was yesterday among 71 commonwealth countries participating in the 19th commonwealth games in New Delhi, India with the national flag hoisted in a special welcome ceremony by the Mayor of the Commonwealth Village Dalbir Singh.

First Secretary for Press at the Zambian mission in India Bwalya Nondo in a statement to ZANIS today said the raising of the flag which was witnessed by the entire Zambian contingent to the Commonwealth games and officials from the Zambia High Commission in New Delhi went with the playing of the national Anthem.

Mr. Nondo also said a replica of the Queen’s button was thereafter presented to the delegation leader Geoffrey Yun’gana.

He revealed that that the Zambian team comprising a cross section of sports disciplines has been conducting training sessions since their arrival in that country adding that the team was confident of reaping medals for the country.

The official opening of the Commonwealth games competition will take place at Jaharlal Nehru Stadium tomorrow.
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Nkhulungo Basic School wants desks

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Authorities at Nkhulungo Basic School in Chipata’s Chipangali constituency have appealed to Government to consider giving the learning institution some desks to enable pupils sit comfortably.

School Head Teacher, Kezias Phiri, said from the time the school was upgraded it had not received desks from the office of the District Education Board Secretary ( DEBS).

Mr Phiri said the school which had been upgraded after construction of a 1x 3 Classroom Block with help from Cargill Cotton Company under its corporate social responsibility programme, had been given an examination centre number.
[pullquote] ‘’ After the school was given an examination centre number, we are wondering how the pupils will write their exams this year. We hope that government will consider giving us some desks,’’ Mr. Phiri said.[/pullquote]
He was speaking when District Administrative Officer, Masauso Banda, visited the school yesterday to commission the Ventilated and Improved Pit (VIP) latrines built by Cargill at the learning institution.

‘’ After the school was given an examination centre number, we are wondering how the pupils will write their exams this year. We hope that government will consider giving us some desks,’’ Mr. Phiri said.

He also said the school had no accommodation for teachers following the construction of a 1 x 3 classroom block.

Mr. Phiri observed that his family was accommodated in one of the classrooms, while one teacher was in the Deputy Head’s office and the other one was living in a grass thatched house.

He said four teachers who were posted to the school left because of lack of accommodation, adding that, currently there were four teachers who were manning all classes from grade one to seven.

‘’ Am afraid to request for teachers from the DEBS office because of lack of accommodation,’’ Mr. Phiri said.

And District Administrative Officer, Masauso Banda, said there was need for the school to inform the DEBS office before the national budget was presented to Parliament so that the issue of procurement of desks for the school was considered.

Mr Banda also said cooperating partners who wanted to help communities in areas they operated from, should start planning together with sector Government departments so that everything that was put in place was in conformity with Government’s standards.

He was reacting to the construction of a 1 x 3 classroom block at the school which had no teachers’ houses in its initial planning stage by Cargill Cotton Company.

Mr Banda said some cooperating partners may not know the requirements by Government when putting up any infrastructure, hence the need to involve Government personnel during planning to ensure all requirements were put in place.

And Cargill Field Operations Manager, Saul Zulu, said his company’s plans were to be closer to society by ploughing back to the community which deals with the agro-company.

Mr Zulu said safety of the community Cargill dealt with was priority, adding that, before construction of a 1 x 3 classroom block, the pupils were learning from grass thatched structures which were very dangerous to conduct lessons from, especially during the rainy season.

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