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ZDA to pick bidder for Njanji Cummuter

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THE Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has completed evaluation of two firms short listed to undertake the concession of Njanji Commuter Railway Services and is expected to make a decision soon.

ZDA communications manager, Margaret Chimanse, said the board was currently reviewing a report submitted by the technical committee which evaluated the bids.

Ms Chimanse said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that the board was still looking into the matter and was expected to make a decision anytime soon.

“The board is reviewing the situation and looking into it. It has not yet decided but will do that once it sits next time,” she said.

Last year ZDA was evaluating bids from two companies that showed interest to undertake the concession of Njanji Commuter Service (NCS) assets.

The assets are mainly the railway line within Lusaka covering a distance of 13.5 kilometers.

The two bids evaluated were one from a consortium of Lusaka Metro Limited with Circle Capital Global a South African company and City Rail Limited of Lusaka.

If the technical committee appointed to evaluate the bids failed to select a final bidder from the two submitted, the concession would have to be re-advertised.

The ZDA board is expected to approve selection of the final bidder to carry out a concession of NCS.
The concession period is for 15 years renewable based on performance.

According to the agency, bidders were free to propose the development and restoration of the original NCS railway line from Chilenje to George townships.

The technical proposals were to address possible re modeling and rehabilitation and investment methods such as Build and Operate and Transfer and variants of BOTs schemes.

The agency says the operator would be expected to invest in rolling stock and rehabilitation of the rail track.

Recently, two firms expressed interest to undertake the concession of NCS assets after ZDA invited qualified operators to undertake the concession.
The NCS has been dormant for 11 years after it ceased operation in 1996.

Government has also noted encroachments on the railway track route through the residential areas east of the city center.

At the peak of its operations, the commuter served the needs of thousands of passengers who found it cheaper than buses.

Zambia Daily Mail

National Olympic Committee lose funds

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By Edgar Musonda

While the government is trying hard to fight corruption, sports organizations such as the National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) still have an enormous task of fighting corruption ahead of them. For a long time now, reports have indicated that some NOCZ members have been found wanting and they have been left without external investigation from bodies such as the Anti Corruption Commission of Zambia.

The allegation story of NOCZ committee member Chenda Chilufya’s involvement in misapplying of funds during the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games shows how a “game of chance” is played at the NOCZ. This is not the first time Zambians are hearing stories of theft at the NOCZ office. There is strong evidence that in the past, some NOCZ members misappropriated funds and have never been jailed or questioned. Some members have also allegedly taken their wives, children and family members at the expense of athletes during Olympic Games since the 1980s. Their cases just went quiet.

We can not allow a situation where local and foreign based athletes are treated with no respect at the expense of traveling family members. As Zambians we need to fight for people like Amon Simutowe, the Nachula sisters and Easter Phiri, who are working so hard to be where they are now. Mirriam Moyo, the NOCZ president, who has been given the mandate to help develop sport in Zambia should understand the challenges all sports associations are going through now.

She must know very well how tough 2008 was for Zambia Basketball Association (ZBA) to hold the zone 6 club championship. ZBA had to pay for a playing surface from Zimbabwe due to a poor playing surface at the National Sports Development Centre (NASDEC). The Football Association of Zambia sent a team by bus to Namibia. The boys slept in the bus when they arrived in Windhoek. The Netball Association of Zambia has been struggling for more than ten years now to organize a proper league and to send a team to any major competition compared to the consistent Malawi national netball team which did very well at the last Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. There are many examples I can give but my point is that such funds could help struggling sports associations or help prepare athletes before they are sent to compete.

We can not remain quiet for a long time and watch our sports structures go down and then blame the government. We all know how such actions have lead to the collapse of national sports associations and yet we still want to hold the 2011 All Africa Games, and we still want to send athletes for major international competitions. We want to hold you (Mirriam Moyo) accountable when you send athletes and assure the nation that our athletes are well prepared and that medals will be won. We can not continue blaming associations when athletes are knocked out in the first round of the competition when you have not set up a minimum qualification standard for each sports code before they are allowed to travel.

For your own information Moyo, the IOC president, Jacques Rogge’s past speeches call for transparency, clean procedures, fair play and honest leadership from all its members. Chilufya must not just be dropped without explaining to the nation why he has been dropped when allegations of mismanagement of funds have been raised. Is this going to be another “NOCZ cold case”? You must by all means begin to put Chilufya on criminal defense. The NOCZ must also explain how they used funds (US$ 100, 0000) allocated to train athletes in 2006 for Delhi games.

Hunger threatens Magoye

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Villagers in Magoye area of Mazabuka have called on the Office of the Vice President to send relief food to the area before people start dying of starvation.

Area Development Committee Secretary, Kayombo Chiinda told ZANIS in an interview in Mazabuka that the villagers have now resorted to eating suspected poisonous wild-roots locally called ” Mabwabwa” which is cooked and later soaked in running water for 48 hours before consumption.

Mr Chiinda complained that villagers cannot afford the sky rocketing price of a 50 Kilogramme bag of maize currently selling at K 100,000.

He said government should also consider extending the sale of maize in villages being conducted by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA).

Mr Chiinda warned that school going children may not be able to report for school if nothing is done by government to address the hunger situation.

He named the affected areas as Ngwezi, Hanzala, Itebe and Magoye.

Most parts of the Mazabuka have been hit by severe hunger because of the floods that wrecked havoc on maize crops in the 2007/2008 farming season.

ZANIS/HC/Ends/MM

Govt happy with pace of plunder cases in courts

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Attorney General Mumba Malila says the Zambian government is satisfied with the pace at which courts are handling cases of plundered resources.

Mr. Malila says government is satisfied with the way the courts handled cases of corruption last year.

He said government will not interfere with the manner the courts are doing their work.

Some sections of society including the Human rights Commission are concerned with delays to dispose off cases of plunder of public resources.

[ZNBC]

Shoddy by private sector worries Govt

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GOVERNMENT is worried about poor workmanship by private sector institutions contracted to implement State-funded capital projects.

Ministry of Finance and National Planning deputy minister, Chileshe Kapwepwe, said in Lusaka that the poor quality of some works executed by the private sector on capital projects funded by Government was disturbing.

“It is disheartening to see that a number of road works and construction of clinics and schools in many parts of the country remain unfinished because of poor workmanship by the private sector,” she said.

She said this on Friday night at a Zambia Institute of Purchasing and Supply (ZIPS) fundraising function.

She said the erratic execution of the budget hampered development and that most failures in Government and the private sector could be because of questionable procurement practices.

Ms Kapwepwe said against the backdrop of current global financial meltdown, prudent management and cost-effective expenditures of Government resources was cardinal.

She said Government’s goal in the medium-term was to accelerate diversification of the economy with emphasis on agriculture, tourism and manufacturing – all of which are expected to significantly contribute to poverty-reduction and sustainable economic growth.

Ms Kapwepwe said the Government was working towards rationalising the tender process through the reform of the Public Procurement Act, streamlining and enhancing the structure of Zambia National Tender Board (ZNTB).
She said the ZNTB would evolve into a supervisory entity.

“Unless this is done, our organisations will find it difficult to deliver growth and expansion goals needed for Zambia to attain the Vision 2030,” she said.

She said Government was committed to good governance in procurement and supplies.

Ms Kapwepwe said Government would continue to put the private sector at the centre of the development process so that there is expansion in production of goods and services for sustained development and growth that would benefit all sections of society.

She appealed to ZIPS members to take the challenge and make a difference by providing better management of the procurement process in both public and private sectors.

“Please bear this in mind as you implement procurement and supplies decisions in your organisations,” she said.

Speaking earlier, ZIPS acting president, Jones Kalyongwe, said ignorance was generally the cause for failure to adhere to procurement procedures.

“Some people don’t know what to do. This is the more reason industries should employ qualified staff to carry out the procurement responsibilities,” he said.

Mr Kalyongwe said he hoped that the Ministry of Finance and National Planning would involve ZIPS in the implementation of projects this year.

[Zambia Daily Mail]

He has followed his fathers footsteps

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Dear bloggers,

My name is Mulenga (not real name). I grew up in Kabulonga Lusaka.My father was a businessman in the mid 80s to mid 90s. He was quite successful in what he did. I apparently had 6-8 siblings. Lost count through the years. The youngest of my fathers children JJ and I are from the same mother.The rest have different mothers. Most of my brothers and sisters lived with their mothers. My father however supported them.

Having a stranger show up with bags at our house with a claim that he was my fathers child was a normal occurrence in my childhood. Sometimes it was fun discovering I had a “new” big brother. These new big brothers always made my holidays interesting. My mother was never amused though and it was a source, I suspect, of the many quarrels my parents had.

When I was in grade 8 my father started falling ill. At first he would fly out of the country for weeks on end for treatment. Later he turned to Chinese medicine and witchdoctors. As he was spending more and more time from his business his business started failing. His brother used to help run things and I become aware that his brother was actually stealing money but my dad was too sick to do anything about it. My mother also become ill. She deteriorated more rapidly than my father and died within a year. By that time my grandmother had thankfully come to live with us. I was numb to any feelings. My younger brother stopped speaking for a long time. I think he was also very traumatized. He still behaves like he has a few screws missing upstairs to this day.

One by one relatives and friends abandoned our family as my father got worse. As a young man, I had to take care of my father. The big brothers who used to frequent our house were nowhere to be seen now. I was exposed to things a boy of 15 shouldn’t be. I was so disgusted with this man. How was it possible to hate someone and love him at the same time?

I got to know HIV/AIDS intimately if I can say so. It took both my parents. I vowed I would never walk in my fathers footsteps. As years went on I turned to alcohol to numb the pain I had. Soon I found out that women were a welcome accompaniment to the alcohol. Without realising it, I had become my father. I am so disgusted with myself, I drink to numb those feelings of shame. Its a vicious cycle.

Dear readers, this is a letter I wish my cousin Mulenga could admit to himself and write. I have watched him self destruct through the years and become the man he wished he would never become. I have tried talking to him. I’ve even invited him to go to church on numerous occasions. He says church is for losers. I joke that, that’s exactly why I’m inviting him! I pray constantly that one day he will change. Every night I know he is out drinking I pray for him.

Parents your actions will have an impact on your children and grandchildren long after you are gone. Are beer and women with the resultant HIV/AIDS worth destroying so many lives? Think about it.

Ruth

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Burundi hold 10-man Zambia

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Burundi maintained their unbeaten run against 10-man Zambia today when they rallied to hold the 2006 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup to a 1-1 draw in the latter’s penultimate Group B in Jinja, Uganda today.

Burundi beat Zambia 3-2 in the two sides last international meeting also in the Cecafa Cup in 2006 in both sides opening Group B match.

In today’s game, Zambia were reduced to 10 men after midfielder Kebby Hachipuka who is shortly expected to join Zesco United from Green Eagles on a 12-month loan was shown a red card in the 70th minute.

Burundi equalized deep into time added-on of the 90 minutes through Claude Nahimana who scored his third goal of the tournament after capitalizing on some slack defending by Zambia.

Zambia meanwhile took the lead in the 58th minute through Roger Kola whose goal benefited from an assist from his Zanaco club mate Given Singuluma to record his first goal of the tournament

Kola came off the bench in the 46th minute after replacing ineffective Zesco forward Lottie Phiri.

Zambia must now beat Sudan on Tuesday in their final Group B match to stand a chance of finishing in the top two to secure a place in next Sunday’s semifinals.

However, Herve Renard’s side are still unbeaten in the competition despite two successive Group B draws on 5 points from three matches, with Burundi on 4 points from two games while Kenya are third on 2 points from two games.

Defending Champions Sudan who have a point going into the later kickoff today against winless Djibouti have 1 points from one match played in Group B.

Zambia: Jacob Banda, Francis Kasonde, Nyambe Mulenga, Elijah Tana, Emmanuel Mbola, Kebby Hachipuka, Maunga Kabuki (Sub: Kondwani Mtonga 65″), Josphat Nkhoma, Jonas Sakuwaha, Lottie Phiri (Sub: Roger Kola 46″), Given Singuluma (Sub: Dennis Phiri 77″)

Ndola freedom fighter backs RB

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A former freedom fighter, Isaac Kanyanta, has defended President Rupiah Banda’s government over the partial increases in mealie-meal and fuel prices in Zambian.

Mr Kanyanta said price increases could have happened regardless of who was the president of the country because of their global mature.

Mr. Kanyanta told ZANIS in Ndola in an interview that economies of the World equally experiencing a financial melt down which manifests in various of local economies whose solution does not lie in one formula but several targeting various sectors.

The freedom fighter’s emphasised that tourism must be supported because it creates jobs and could help absolve those being laid off in the mining sector.

He said food production in the agricultural sector was another solution because even when there was an economic problem globally, when citizens were fed, they might not feel the effects of the global melt down at family levels.

He said enhanced production of food locally could lessen the unreasonableness that characterize the justification for public demonstrations because public demonstrations do not add value to finding solutions to economic problems.

Mr. Kanyanta added that even people involved in public demonstrations need food to have energy to demonstrate though such actions do not produce food in themselves.

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Courts not happy to grant divorces – Musona

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Deputy Director for Court Operations at Judiciary headquarters, Edward Musona, says courts are not happy to grant divorces.

Mr Musona said in Choma yesterday that courts however grant divorce so reluctantly because of the rebellious and unfaithful nature of people.

Mr Musona said marriage is a voluntary union of one man and one woman for life to the exclusion of all others adding that divorce is not permissible by both law and religions.

Mr Musonda was speaking at a reception for a newly wed couple of Choma, Kasamba and Given Hakamwaya, held at Choma trades training institute.

He said in marriage there may be problems and differences but that these should not lead to the separation of couples.

Mr Musona cautioned the newly wed couple against allowing differences to be the ground for divorce.

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Mealie meal prices to fall

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The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has projected a further reduction in mealie-meal prices but has urged Government to increase its budgetary allocation for it to effectively carry out its mandate of ensuring food security in the country.

FRA executive director, Anthony Mwanaumo, said in Lusaka yesterday that some milling companies were still using their old stock of maize bought at a higher price and they would be expected to reduce the prices of their mealie-meal when they start using stocks bought at a lower price from the FRA.

Dr Mwanaumo was speaking in Lusaka during the recording of “Culture Remodeling” television programme hosted by the Ministry of Finance and National Planning.

He said the FRA has worked out procedures for the release of stock and has effected protective mechanisms to ensure stabilisation and subsequent reduction of mealie-meal prices.

The FRA has reduced the price of a 50kg bag of maize from the previous K63,000 to K55,000.

The agency has also increased maize supply to millers from 30,000 metric tonnes to 60,000 metric tonnes per month.

When the country is not experiencing a maize deficit, the agency supplies the millers with only 30,000 metric tonnes each month. The quantity is half of the total amount of maize consumed nationwide each month.

The agency plans to purchase an additional 163,000 metric tonnes of locally supplied white maize to meet the millers’ requirements and to replenish the strategic reserves.
Dr Mwanaumo said that the agency has 80,000 metric tonnes of maize in its strategic reserves and that it needs more funding for it to operate better.

He said Government’s allocation of K80 billion for the 2008-09 marketing season was a 67 per cent reduction from the previous season’s allocation. In the 2007-08 marketing season Government allocated K240 billion.

He declined to say how much the agency would need to operate to expectations, but said that the FRA was in dire need of more funding.

“We have 80,000 metric tonnes in strategic reserves…Our stocks are relatively low. You have seen us of late importing and buying stocks from the local growers,” Dr Mwanaumo said.

He said the FRA has learnt something critical from borrowing in order to meet its objectives. This was in reference to the K270 billion that the FRA borrowed for the 2006- 2007 marketing seasons.

“When you borrow, you cannot achieve your desired goals considering that you have to pay back interest. We borrowed K270 billion and at least we managed to pay back the debt,” he said.

Dr Mwanaumo said that the FRA has a storage capacity of 2 million metric tonnes of maize and that it realised K7 billion in the last three years through the provision of market access to farmers.

He said most peasant farmers have improved their livelihoods because the FRA has been able to buy produce.

Dr Mwanaumo said the FRA has proposed a higher budgetary allocation for the next farming season to enable it meet its obligations of ensuring food security.

He said in view of the global credit crunch there was need for increased production and improved market access for the farmers.

He said that Zambia’s maize production capacity was far from being attained.

Dr Mwanaumo said Government must encourage irrigation farming, production of diversified crops and enhance the fertiliser support programme.

He has also noted that Zambia’s crop production belt had shifted from Southern Province to Northern Province.

Dr Mwanaumo said this was why the FRA closed some satellite depots in the Southern Province and opened more in Northern Province.

Daily Mail

Wise Men Still Seek Him

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Today’s Scripture

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…” (Proverbs 9:10).

Today’s Word from Joel and Victoria

After Jesus was born, the Bible tells us in Matthew chapter two that Wise Men came from the East to bow before Him and worship Him.  They went to great lengths just to get a glimpse of the child and traveled a long distance for many months, following the star. When they saw Him, they were so overwhelmed.  The scripture says they fell to their faces to honor and worship Him.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.  That means that we should have a reverential honor and respect for Him—just like the Wise Men did.  We are wise when we set everything else in life aside in order to seek Him.  We are wise when we worship Him and give Him everything that we are.  We are wise when we take time to honor Him.  Remember, God is a rewarder of the people who diligently seek after Him.  As you continue to put Him first in all you do, you’ll increase in wisdom and discernment, and you’ll move forward into the life of blessing He has in store for you.

A Prayer for Today

Father in heaven, I choose wisdom.  I choose to put You first and seek You in all that I do.  I honor You and bless Your name.  Thank You for the many blessing You have prepared for me.  In Jesus’ Name.  Amen.
Joel Osteen ministries

Grandstand: Can Fathy Find Glory at Power?

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Mohamed Fathy arrives at Power Dynamos on a two-year deal to reign over a club desperate for big things.

Fathy comes to Arthur Davies Stadium armed with no honors from his first season in Zambian football from another ambitious but underachieving side Kabwe Warriors.

Moreover, Fathy will be remembered at Warriors for relinquishing the BP Top 8 crown the Railwaymen won under the late Arnold Mtonga in 2006-though he played no part at all in the controversial departure of striker Emmanuel Mayuka to Israel club Maccabi Tel Aviv.

All this happened before Warriors went into their seasonal implosion with their gunsights aimed on a top-two league finishing before going on to end their campaign in 6th position- a place below Fathy’s new club Power.

The cavalier Egyptian-born Fathy is somewhat lucky to be coming to a Power side that is exorcising itself from all things suspect from its recent past.

With the departure of Power assistants in Arthur Davies stalwart Linos Makwaza and ex-teammate Lawrence Mweemba, Fathy has a fairly blank sheet to start from.

Fathy has surely learnt from his first season at Warriors what damage ambitious assistant’s can do especially for a foreigner in a new land looking to enhance his CV.

Shockingly, the Egyptian has been handed a totally inexperienced number 2 in ex-Konkola Blades midfielder John Munkonje who has had no track record on the bench since retiring as a player at Power last season.
It is hard to imagine Munkonje at the helm in the absence of an ailing or committed Fathy this season.

Overlooked for the number 2 job is the fans favorite and ex-Power midfielder Alex Namazaba who left a frustrated man four seasons ago after he was snubbed as youth coach despite gaining a coaching badge.

Namazaba left Power in 2004 after retiring due to injury following 9 years at the club and has been working his way up the coaching ladder firstly as an assistant coach with an academy in Lusaka.

He later joined division 1 club National Assembly in 2007 who fired him in December together with coach Dean Mwiinde after failing to secure promotion to the top-flight.

Meanwhile, Fathy becomes the third foreign coach to take charge of Power over the last 8 years after little impact from the last two
imported trainers hired in the Kitwe giants quest for glory.

Patrick Walters had a brief stint between 2000 and 2001 and enjoyed a good rapport with his first deputy Dan Kabwe but not with his number 2 assistant Guston Mutobo.

Eddie May came in 2005 but clashed with Makwaza and Mweemba in the half a season he was briefly in charge.

However, Power have scored successes with their previous two foreign appointments in Briton’s Jim Boone in 1990 and 1991 during a period they won the league and defunct Caf Cup winners Cup.

Boone’s reign took a leaf of Bill Margery’s successful Cup run in the early 1980’s for Power.

And now Fathy, handed a fresh opportunity at Power, must now try to revive his and the 5-time league champions fortunes.

Meanwhile, Power have not won the league since 2000 despite an impressive cup spree under the late Ben Bamfuchile from 2001 to 2003 that saw him leave an indelible mark at Arthur Davies with five cup triumphs and a league runner-up finish despite a four-year love-hate relationship in his second coming with the clubs hard-to-please fans.

Fathy will be tested in Power’s first three games which to most of their followers is a barometer of a coach’s staying power on the bench at Arthur Davies.

The loquacious Fathy will also do well to tone down on the talk.

Not even the very quotable and media-friendly Bamfuchile escaped his bosses reprimand after repeated hits of his name making the news on the back page on all issues regarding Power.

Meanwhile, Fathy has wasted little time to utter what he thinks of his move from the provincial giant on the midlands to the rusting former crucible of Zambian football.

“This team (Power) is professional and they are ready to go to fight continental,” Fathy said about the prospect of playing in Africa in 2010.

Libya donates tractors to boost food production

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PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda after driving one of the tractors donated by the Libyan government. This was at State House during a hand over ceremony
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda after driving one of the tractors donated by the Libyan government. This was at State House during a hand over ceremony

Libya has given Zambia several tractors for boosting food production in the country.

Speaking at the occassion, Republican President Rupiah Banda said Zambia appreciates the friendship and brotherhood Libya has always extended to Zambia.

Mr. Banda observed that mechanized farming is key to addressing the challenges of food production in Zambia.

He said the country was currently in need of mechanical farming equipment such as tractors in order to address the challenges being faced as a result of the global financial credit crunch.

Mr. Banda also noted that government considers agriculture as one of the key alternatives to the mining sector following the fall in copper prices on the world market.

He said government is looking forward to receiving more mechanical agriculture equipment as earlier pointed out by the Libyan government to ensure the whole country benefits from the gesture.

Mr. Banda has since assured the Libyan government that the equipment will be well distributed around the country and be used for the intended purpose of boosting food

AGRICULTURE minister Brian Chituwo driving one of the tractors donated by the Libyan government
AGRICULTURE minister Brian Chituwo driving one of the tractors donated by the Libyan government

production in the country.

Among those that witnessed the official handover were Agriculture Minister Dr. Brian Chituwo, Presidential Affairs Minister Gabriel Namulambe and Special Political Advisor to the President Akashambatwa Mbikusita Lewanika.

Libyan Ambassador to Zambia Khalifa Omar Swiexi said the gesture is aimed at helping to develop the Zambian agricultural sector.

Mr. Swiexi said his country is committed to providing assistance to friendly countries like Zambia through the provision of mechanical equipment such as tractors and other agricultural equipment.

He said the gesture is also a symbol of the long standing relationship between the two countries for the purpose of establishing cooperation and the exploitation of the natural resources.

Mr. Swiexi who described the relations between the two countries as excellent expressed confidence that President Banda and his Libyan counterpart Colonel Muammar Gaddafi would continue to provide guidance in developing and enhancing the already existing relations between the two countries.
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ZCCM-IH receives partnership offers from Singapore

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The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM) has received offers requesting partnership submissions from Nava Bharat Pty Ltd from Singapore and Vedanta Resources Plc.

According to a statement released to ZANIS in Lusaka today, signed by the Acting Chief Executive Officer a Mr W.S. Musama , the company acquired 100 per cent shareholding in Mamba Collieries Limited (MCL) in 2007.

This follows ZCCM-IH’s recent advertisement for qualified and experienced companies to bid as strategic Equity and Technical Partners in MCL.

The advert had requested for parties to submit proposals for the development of the coal mine and a thermal power plant in partnership with ZCCM-IH.

Mr Musama explained that ZCCM-IH’s Evaluation Team will commerce the final adjudication to determine the preferred bidder with whom negotiations will expeditiously begin as regards the development of the Coal Mine and a Thermal Power Plant.

Mr. Musama said that the adjudication will rank the bidders on the basis of the specified in the request for proposal documents availed to all the bidders that are listed.

ZCCM Investment Holdings Plc is an investment holdings company which is listed on the Lusaka Stock Exchange.

ZANIS/GP/ENDS/MM.

Don’t scare away investers, Pande warns politicians

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Foreign Affairs Minister Kabinga Pande has appealed to politicians to desist from making pronouncements that would threaten Zambia’s relationship with other countries and also scare away investors.

Mr. Pande said Zambia had in the past year enjoyed improved cordial relationship with other regional and international countries..

Mr. Pande who is also Kasempa Area Member of Parliament noted that Zambia needed to maintain and further enhance the cordial relations with other countries enjoyed in 2008 if it is to counter the current financial global recession and rising food prices.

He pointed out that 2009 will be a year when the country should witness true nationalists and advised politicians not to use language that would hinder investors and sour relations with other countries.

Mr. Pande was speaking in Kasempa in an interview with ZANIS at the end of his six days inspection of developmental projects in his constituency.

And Mr. Pande has called upon the media to double its efforts in their reportorial duties and help the country conquer the negative global trends that are hampering economic and social development.

Mr. Pande said the media should be objective in its reporting so that it does not derail efforts aimed at serving the country from being totally submerged in the financial and food crisis.

Meanwhile, Mr. Pande has described 2008 as one of the best years that Kasempa district had embraced a number of developmental projects.

He cited the soon to be commissioned community radio station, the construction of the Kasempa-Mumbwa and Kasempa-Kaoma roads and the construction of a number of schools and clinics as some of the many developmental efforts the people of Kasempa would remember 2008 for.

Mr. Pande however said the district will in 2009 focus on completing some projects which were embarked on in 2008 and to prioritize food production.

Earlier, Kasempa District Commissioner Henry Shantolo commended private and Non-Governmental Organisations for their continued efforts to work with government to develop Kasempa District.

Mr. Shantolo said the district is expected to record a boom in business once all roads are worked on.

ENDS/ZANIS

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