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The Kabwe Municipal Council has bought a waste collection machine worth K300 million.
Kabwe Mayor, Jerry Chama ,confirmed the development in an interview with ZANIS in Kabwe today. He said the money used to purchase the machine came from the Ministry of Local Government and Housing.
“When we were given this money we saw it proper to buy the machine so it would be easy for waste collection in our communities,” he said.
Mr Chama said the machine would be able to pump the waste materials in the community and help reduce water-borne diseases.
He said the community would be asked to pay a fee through their representatives for them to use the equipment.
“The fee will be decided upon soon after the council meeting where we will sit and come up with the price that would be suitable for the community to pay,” he said.
Mr.Chama said the money that would be collected would be used for servicing the machine, buying fuel, and paying the operator.
Police in Samyfa have picked up and detained a cashier with Finance Bank in the district for allegedly defrauding customers’ bank accounts.
Police officer-in-charge, Ulaya Phiri, told ZANIS today that a cashier was picked up and detained yesterday after bank auditors from Lusaka reported her to police in connection with defrauding of customers’ accounts.
Mr. Phiri declined to disclose the actual amount of money that was reported missing from the bank, but said the initial report indicated that several millions of Kwacha belonging to customers were tampered with.
He said the cashier is being held to assist police with investigations as there are still some withdrawal slips bearing forged handwritings which will need to be sent to Lusaka for forensic examination.
However, bank sources revealed that K7.5 million was defrauded from customers’ accounts and the cashier being held by police is suspected to have taken the money.
In a related development, the headteacher of Kandolo Basic School has been detained by police after being found selling building materials suspected to have been stolen from the school which has a construction project.
Police officer-in-charge Ulaya Phiri and Zambia National Union of Teachers Secretary, Kupa Kunda, confirmed the detention of the headteacher.
Mr. Phiri said a Mr. Kaunda was found selling construction iron bars at a give-away price of less than K1,000 when the bars cost over K8,000 on the market.
He said, after interrogation, the headteacher claimed that the construction project was completed and he decided to sell the remaining bars.
Mr. Phiri said the headteacher was using the wrong procedure to dispose of building materials that belonged to government and police were investigating the matter.
children watching a cycling race in LusakaThe Lusaka City Council (LCC) has refuted claims from
sections of society that it has abandoned recreation facilities in the capital city.
Public Relations Officer, Henry Kapata said the council has been engaging the private sector in maintaining some of the recreation facilities in the city.
Mr. Kapata told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today, that some private sector organisations have helped in maintaining some of the recreation facilities such as play parks.
He said the local authority understands that recreation facilities were very important to the members of the public for them to relax hence the need to maintain them.
Mr. Kapata observed that most of the residents have not been using and accessing the facilities because of the conditions attached by the organisations engaged to maintain them.
He added that the local authority always wants to see the best recreation facilities in the capital city.
The council Public Relations Officer however urged the organisations it has engaged to run the recreation facilities to put up flexible conditions that can enable Lusaka residents to have access to the facilities.
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A concerned man of Mambova area in Kazungula district says women are given too much attention on issues of human rights.
Charles Nasambala said although he is happy with the Young Women Christian Association’s programmes which advocate for equal rights for both women and men, law should not be favoring women alone.
Mr Nasambala said it is important to advocate for mens rights as well, saying the issue of gender has made many women lose respect for their husbands.
He was speaking in Mambova yesterday during a sensitization programme on gender-based violence against women and children organized by the YWCA.
But YWCA Regional Coordinator for Southern Province, Dorothy Velemu, said law does not favor women alone, adding that anyone can be punished for committing a crime.
Speaking at the same occasion, German Development Service Advisor for civil society, Jan Kottner, said women’s rights need to be protected in order to bring development.
The Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) has embarked on a sensitization programme on gender-based violence against women and children in Kazungula district.
The programme, which kicked off yesterday in Mambova and Kasaya, has been made possible with the support from German Development Service (DED).
Speaking after a sensitization play by Liwase drama group, Southern Province Regional Coordinator for YWCA, Dorothy Velemu, stressed that women and children are the most vulnerable in society on issues related to human rights.
She observed that most cases of gender violence go unreported and urged women not to remain silent but report all cases of abuse to YWCA.
Mrs. Velemu urged women in communities to support each other and speak for their rights, pointing out that gender violence can lead to death. She also advised married women to remain submissive to their husbands in order for them to enjoy their marriages.
And Mrs. Velemu said parents have the responsibility to give a good example to their children by exhibiting good morals.
She said it is the duty of parents to teach their children about the dangers of HIV and AIDS because it is real.
And women in the two areas expressed their gratitude to YWCA for bringing such a sensitization programme in their communities.
Vice President George Kunda is today expected in Zambezi District in North-Western Province to check on the impact of floods.
The Veep is also expected to tour flood affected areas in Kabompo, Chavuma and Mwinilunga Districts and also address government’s developmental programme in the province.
Mr. Kunda’s plane is expected to land at Zambezi air strip at 09:00 hours in the morning after which he will have a briefing at area District Commissioner’s (DC’s) office Mr. Absalom Luwaile.
The Veep will pay a courtesy on two chiefs, Senior Ishindi and Ndungu of Lunda and Luvale peoples .
Mr. Kunda, who is also justice Minister is accompanied by local government Minister Benny Tetamashimba, Community Development Minister Sarah Sayifwanda and other governmental officials .
The Vice President and his entourage will be expected to visit flooded affected areas in the West Bank, and later leave for Chavuma district.
In Chavuma, Mr. Kunda will hold a public rally at freedom square.
The Vice President is on a three day official visit of North Western Province.
First Lady, Thandiwe BandaFirst lady Thandiwe Banda has appealed to the
international community to consider putting in place
mechanisms that will help stop the problem of human trafficking that has placed women at the centre of abuse.
Mrs. Banda said women and girls suffer the most as the perpetrators of the vice use these women as sex slaves.She advised women all over the world and Africa at large to gather courage in order to stand up and strongly speak against such vices.
Mrs. Banda said women hold the answers to their own problems in societies.She stated that the African continent which is the most affected by human trafficking should play a pivotal role in finding solutions to this problem.
The first lady has also described reasons that deprive women from achieving their heart-felt desires as unfortunate.She said women for a long time have been seen as inferior hence have been prevented from enjoying certain privileges of live.She said it is high time women stopped wearing a face of poverty and illiteracy and other work loads that deprive them of their rights to education, physical and spiritual freedom.
She was speaking during the official opening of the All Africa Girls Brigade fellowship organized by the African brigade that is being conducted at the Queens Hotel in Livingstone.
Mrs. Banda has further urged young women in Africa to be prepared to take up decision making positions in order to attain the SADC’s declaration of over 30 per cent women representation in decision making.
She has also advised the girls participating at the fellowship to take advantage of the Government institutions in their countries to fight gender based violence and abuse of women girls’ rights.
International Girls Brigade president, Ruth Chikasa said the girls Brigade aims at empowering the girl child with skills to help themselves in the future.
“Our aim as Girls Brigade is to bring the girls up to be responsible citizens by giving them skills which will enable them to sustain themselves in future,” She said.
The fellowship attracted Girls’ Brigade associations across Africa .
Countries that participated were Nigeria , South Africa , Bostwana , Tanzania , Zimbabwe , and the host Zambia.
Zesco United will play Djoliba of Mali in 2nd round of Caf African Champions League.
It will be Djoliba’s first outing against Zambian opposition in 27 years.
Djoliba booked their date with Zesco despite losing 1-0 at home in Bamako on Sunday to Tunisian side Club Africain but qualified 2-2 on aggregate on away goals rule.
Zesco will travel to Bamako in the first leg during the weekend of April 17-19 and later host Djoliba at the Trade Fair Grounds in Ndola on May 2.
Djoliba’s last meeting against a Zambian club was in 1982 in the defunct Caf Cup winners cup in a semifinal match-up against Power Dynamos that the latter won 2-1 on aggregate before finishing as runners-up in the same competition.
Winner of this second round, pre-group-stage clash will qualify to the lucrative group stage of the Caf African Champions League that kicks off on July 17.
Caf African Champions League 1st rnd, Rtn Leg
04/04/2009
Trade Fair Grounds, Ndola
Zesco United 2 (Maybin Mwaba 59″, pen, Enoch Sakala 69″)- Africa Sports 0
Zesco United qualify 2-0 on agg
Caf Confederations Cup 1st rnd, rtn Leg
04/04/2009
Ughelli, Nigeria
Ocean Boys 2 (Ifeanyi Eze 45″, ?”)- Red Arrows 0*
*Arrows win 3-2 on pp after 2-2 agg score 1st leg
Faz Premier Division Week 4
04/04/2009
Zanaco 1(Patrick Kabamba 87″)-Choma Eagles 0
Nakambala Leopards 0-Lusaka Dynamos 0
City of Lusaka 1(Felix Ludaka 24″)-Kabwe Warriors 0
05/04/2009
Forest Rangers 0- Zamtel 0
Roan United 0- Green Buffaloes 2(Brian Lubaba 25″, Tyson Chikwanda 90″)
Chambishi 0-Young Arrows 1(Moffat Sakala 43″)
Postponed:
Red Arrows- Konkola Blades
Zesco United-Power Dynamos
TOP SCORERS
After Games Played 05/04/2009
Patrick Kabamba (Zanaco): 4
Jack Chileshe (Zanaco): 4
Enoch Sakala (Zesco United): 3
Luka Lungu (Power Dynamos) 3
Clifford Chipalo (Zesco United): 3
Katanga province governor Moses Katumbi following proceedings during the Comesa-SADC and East Africa Community North-South Corridor
President, Rupiah Banda says the high cost of transport in Africa has negatively impacted on Africa’s competitive capacity on the global economic market.
Speaking during the official opening of the North South Corridor Donor Pledging Conference which opened in Lusaka today Mr. Banda said there is need for Africa to adopt an integrated approach for public and private sector partnership in efforts of improving the state of infrastructure.
He acknowledged efforts initiated at national and regional levels in efforts of addressing the challenges confronting the development of the continent.
He expressed hope that the North-South Corridor project, once implemented, would remove infrastructure bottlenecks along the corridor with the objective of contributing to sustained economic growth and development.
He welcomed the initiative by COMESA, SADC and EAC to embark on the infrastructure development effort aimed at reducing the cost of doing business in the region.
The project also focuses at simplifying and harmonization of customs’ procedure and legislation as well as developing the energy sector.
“The project will focus on the simplification and harmonization of customs procedures and legislation. Harmonization of information technology systems and electronic customs managements system, harmonization to axle load and vehicle dimensions of road transit charges regulations and carrier licenses, regulatory issues relating to performance monitoring as well as energy development in the sub region,” Mr. Banda.
President Banda expressed hope that the project could be replicated to other regions on the continent with a view to enhancing the flow of goods for enhanced trade.
President Banda noted that the economic crisis in Africa has been compounded by limited infrastructure and the lack of sufficient energy required for the expansion investment.
Mr Banda observed that increased foreign investment flow in the region has exerted pressure on the existing infrastructure.
“Africa’s situation has further been compounded by limited infrastructure and a lack of sufficient energy to cater for expansion in investment activities that have emerged in the recent past,” he added.
“ In addition, the increase in the flow of foreign investment and the expansion of economic activities in the region, in the recent past, has added pressure on existing infrastructure,” he added.
The Two day high level meeting attended by South African President, Kgalema Motlanthe, Kenya’s Mwai Kibaki and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni which has attracted about 350 participants is aimed at mobilizing resources for infrastructure development in the three regions.
Mr. Banda has assured the COMESA-EAC-SADC community of Zambia’s commitment towards the implementation of the North-South Corridor infrastructure development project.
He said said government is affecting policy measures focusing at infrastructure development through increased resource allocation.
Mr. Banda said Zambia is already making headway in the development of border facilities and streamlining border processes in line with the objectives of the regional infrastructure development project.
He indicated that the Chirundu Border is undergoing redesigning to a One-Border-Stop-Point while the Zimba-Livingstone Road is currently being upgraded.
Mr Banda is also confident that regional efforts to improve infrastructure and trade could help reduce effects of the current global economic recession on the regional economy.
Earlier, African Union Deputy Chairman, Erastus Mwencha, welcomed the collaboration by the three regional bodies as it is in line with the AU’s objective of promoting integration and cooperation in efforts of promoting economic development on the continent.
Mr Mwencha emphasized the need for infrastructure development as it is key to addressing economic challenges on the continent.
And speaking on behalf of EAC Chairman, Paul Kagame, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, attributed the economic problems the continent is facing to the absence of social economic transformation.
Mr. Museveni also criticized the exportation of raw materials from Africa as having deprived the continent of the required value for economic development.
He also emphasized the need for increased partnership on the global scale to effectively tackle the effects of the global economic current.
SADC Chairman Mr Motlanthe said there was abroad consensus on the need to develop infrastructure as it plays a significant in stimulating economic growth and enhancing intra-Africa trade.
The North South Corridor is a combination of two traditional corridors 9 Durban corridor and the Dar-es Salaam Corridor linking the port of Durban and others in Southern Africa to the Eastern Port of Dar-es Salaam .
The Durban corridor and others in Southern Africa to the Eastern Port of Dar – es Salaam .
Improvement to the corridor will implemented sequentially and will lead to transport cost savings and Africa based businesses in the order of US 150 million per year.
World trade Organization Director General Pascal Lammy said Aid for Trade is essential to support Africa’s own economic growth agenda.
He said the corridor is an example of a highly innovative regional aid for trade approach that can transform competitiveness and enhance regional trade flows.
“ The corridor projects will promote development and poverty alleviation in the southern Africa region and promote deeper regional integration, ‘ he said.
President Rupiah Banda and his Kenyan counterpart Mwai Kibaki A high level tripatite conference on the North South Corridor has opened in Lusaka.
The conference at Lusaka’s Mulungushi International Conference Centre, has attracted several delegates, including three heads of state.
The presidents who are in the country for the conference are Kenya’s Mwai Kibaki, Kgalema Mothlante of South Africa and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni.
The North-South Corridor Pilot Aid for Trade Programme is a joint COMESA-East African Community -SADC- initiative that aims to reduce the time and the costs of surface transport.
President Rupiah Banda has called on Africa to improve its infrastructure to remain competitive in the world economy.
Mr Banda says studies have shown that high transport costs impact negatively on Africa’s trade.
He was speaking in Lusaka when he opened the North South corridor aid for trade conference.
The conference has been called to mobilise resources from the donor community and the private sector for infrastructure development in East and Southern Africa.
President Banda said the conference will not only focus on infrastructure development but also on the customs procedures in COMESA, SADC and East African Community,EAC.
The North South Corridor is an initiative of COMESA, SADC and EAC.
MMD Chiba Ward Councilor Pilate Chilambe has advised small scale farmers to diversify their produce in order to avoid the high costs of conventional agricultural inputs that go into maize cultivation.
Mr. Chilambe said small scale farmers each year continue producing inadequate food because of high costs of fertilisers which are also in short supply. He advised the affected farmers to cultivate crops which do not use conventional fertilisers in order to improve on food production in rural areas where fertiliser is unaffordable to the majority of them.
The ward Councilor suggested that the small scale farmers instead grow Cassava, Finger millet, Ground nuts, beans and many other crops that do not need fertiliser.
Mr. Chilambe observed that small scale farmers do not manage to produce enough food because they depend on the subsidised Government Fertiliser Support Programme (FSP) which has not been supplied accordingly.
He said the Government may not manage to provide subsidised fertilisers to all small scale farmers in the nation but farmers should focus on crops that are not expensive to produce. He added that the global economic crisis should be faced in a level headed manner by planning to produce enough food crops with less input costs to sustain families and the nation at large.
Mr. Chilambe urged the Government to provide fertilisers to small scale farmers in cooperatives in good time to encourage improved food production in the nation.
Bank of Zambia Governor Dr. Caleb FundangaBank of Zambia (BOZ) Governor Caleb Fundanga says the
prevailing global economic crisis might reverse the hard
earned economic gains which the African continent has achieved in the recent past.
Dr. Fundanga said Africa has been adversely hit by the economic crisis, whose effects have quickly extended to the real economies, resulting into massive job cuts.
He said the global economic crisis has erased the economic growth rate of more than five per cent and a surge in investment flows in many sectors.
He said this today at a senior policy seminar on the effects of the global crisis that was organized by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) in Lusaka.
Dr. Fundanga said the global crisis has seriously affected the manufacturing industry, which has resulted into a decline for the demand of manufactured goods.
He said the decline in copper prices has resulted in the decline in export earnings and a change in investor sentiment towards investing in emerging markets.
Dr. Fundanga further said that the global economic crisis has affected the direct investments because donors have suspended their investment flows in Africa in a bid to save money and improve their liquidity for working capital in their countries.
He has however called for diversification of the economies to enhance competitiveness by increasing expenditure on infrastructure and social services in order for the continent to move forward and address the negative effects of the global economic crunch.
Dr. Fundanga said the continent should come up with a response framework on the financial system that will help reverse the effects of the crisis.
Speaking earlier, African Economic Research Consortium Executive Director, William Lyakurwa said the global economic crisis might put millions of Africans into poverty.
Professor Lyakurwa said sub-Saharan Africa will be the hardest hit by the current global economic crisis and will also be the last to get out of its grip.
He said the global economic crisis will have far-reaching consequences on the African continent, affecting the local investment, export earnings, tourism, remittances and aids.
1.An unidentified man and his wife making a majestic ride on one of the streets in Chipata
2.A bicycle is a valuable asset in Chipata district. Here traders cruising on the dusty road, transporting bread to their supermarkets
3.Children playing in contaminated rainy water in Kanyama township
4.A minibus driver contravening the law in Kitwe. Minibus drivers always put up cat and mouse fights with the traffic police officers for their nuisance on the roads
5.A policeman drags a minibus driver who was aprehended after causing a road traffic accident in Lusaka.
6.Policemen on horseback tame two minibus drivers who were arrested after trying to escape the dragnet for causing road carnage in Lusaka
7.A typical street in Kanyama township in Lusaka.
8.An aerial view of delegates inside the Mulungushi international conference centre during the national indaba
9.First republican president Kenneth Kaunda speaking before the close of the national indaba.
10.Former President Frederick Chiluba making a constribution before the close of the national indaba.
11.Chongwe MP Sylvia Masebo speaking at the national indaba.
12.Clowns Difikoti (l) and Bikiloni entertaining delegates at the national indaba in Lusaka
13.Bank of Zambia Governor Caleb Fundanga and Barclays Bank Zambia managing director Zafar Masud (c) talk to pupils from Matero girls and Kamwala high schools after launching the entrepreneurship programme.
14.German Ambassador to Zambia Irene Hinrichsen (l) welcomes a delegation of German MPs at Lusaka international airport
15.I didnt keep you waiting... President Rupiah Banda seems to tell defence chiefs who received him when he arrived from Swaziland where he went for a SADC meeting
16.Security and protocol officers in a tug of war when Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki arrived at Lusaka international airport
17.Kenyans resident in Zambia hoist their flags to salute Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki when he arrived at Lusaka international airport.
18.MMD cadres and traditional dancers outside the Ugandan presidential jet at Lusaka international airport.
19.President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni emerges from his presidential jet at Lusaka international airport on arrival
20.Yoweri Museveni and Defence minister George Mpombo at Lusaka international airport.
21.Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni at Lusaka international airport.
The Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA) has pledged to continue supporting business and financial writers’ forum in Zambia.
Briefing the press on the forthcoming ACCA media awards for business writers’ forum in Lusaka today, ACCA country manager for Zambia, Mukaba Mukaba said ACCA was pleased with the role business and financial writers were playing in the country.
Mr. Mukaba said ACCA would also continue to support the development of the media in Zambia through various projects and initiatives that will contribute to the development of the economy.
He said the profession of accountancy plays an important role in the development of the country and therefore, there was need for people to learn about the profession through the media.
He said in order to improve the profession and make it more responsive, ACCA-Zambia has since adopted the international standards.He disclosed that ACCA Zambia would also join the international ethics for accountancy.
Mr. Mukaba said the forthcoming sixth business and financial writers’ forum media awards are scheduled for 12th May this year at Hotel Intercontinental in Lusaka.
He also announced that the business writers eligible to vie for the awards should submit four articles based on the credit crunch, financial services markets, capital and commerce, trade and industry.
