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Govt won’t protect unruly workers

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Sacked Chambeshi Smelter Copper Mine workers will not be protected because they did not follow procedure in airing their grievances.

Copperbelt Permanent Secretary, Jennifer Musonda said the workers at Chambeshi Smelter should blame themselves for the action taken by management to dismiss them.

Mrs. Musonda said the government will not protect unruly behaviour by workers especially where they over look dialogue and grievance procedures.

She told ZNBC news that the behaviour of the workers was uncalled for in a country which is in a hurry to develop.

Mrs. Musonda said it was wrong for the workers to resort to violence when management was ready to meet with their union leaders.

The Permanent Secretary said the workers might have genuine complaints but the course of action, they took was counter productive and should not be supported.

She said police will remain at the plant to provide security while the Chinese nationals continue with construction work at the plant.

Chambeshi Copper Smelter dismissed all the 500 unionised employees who went on strike recently over poor conditions of service.

The Zambian workers also fought with their Chinese workmates.

Mugabe Blames Zambia’s ‘Lack of Urgency’ for Hunger

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President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday said his government had paid for more than 400 tonnes of maize from Zambia and Malawi but blamed Lusaka’s “lack of urgency” for slowing down efforts to fight off hunger.

Addressing a campaign rally of about 6 000 supporters at Mahusekwa rural business centre, about 90km south-east of Harare, Mugabe said his government would dispatch a team of officials to Zambia to assist authorities there to speed up delivery of maize. “We are trying (to provide food) but our maize is still across the Zambezi (river between Zambia and Zimbabwe),” Mugabe said. “It seems they have no sense of urgency. They are working as if everything is normal.

We have talked to the Zambian government and they have agreed to be assisted so we are sending our team there. We have set up an emergency team because of the high level of hunger,” he said. Mugabe – who urged the villagers not to vote for former finance minister Simba Makoni because he was a “man of no principles” – said the government paid for 150 000 tonnes of maize from Zambia, 300 000 tonnes from Malawi and a “few thousand” tonnes from South Africa.

Zimbabwe, also in the grip of its worst ever economic crisis, has battled severe food shortages for the past eight years after Mugabe’s controversial land reforms displaced established white commercial farmers and replaced them with either incompetent or inadequately funded black peasant farmers.

A joint crop assessment report by the agriculture ministry and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released this week says Zimbabwe could face another grain shortfall this year because if a shortage of seed and fertilizers that affected the cropping season. International relief agencies say up to four million Zimbabweans or a quarter of the country’s 12 million people require food aid between now and the next harvest in about a month’s time.

Mugabe said his government sympathised with the people’s worsening plight telling the rural voters who have been loyal to his party not to be swayed by Makoni, who rebelled to challenge the veteran leader in the March 29 presidential poll. “If you vote for him (Makoni) you are lost, this is the truth. You do not have to join a man of no principles,” said Mugabe, who mocked his challenger as a dreamer who thinks he could just wake up as the new president of the country.

Mugabe, who could clock more than three decades in office if he is re-elected for another five-year term, denied responsibility for Zimbabwe’s economic crisis and instead blamed a profiteering business community of unjustifiably hiking prices to worsen the misery of consumers.

Zimbabwe is in the grip of an acute economic recession critics blame on mismanagement by Mugabe and seen in the world’s highest inflation rate of more than 100 000 percent, 80 percent unemployment and shortages of food, fuel and foreign currency. However, analysts say an unfair playing field guarantees Mugabe victory at the polls. The 84-year old Mugabe has promised a landslide victory against Makoni and main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Chinese Plant Sacks all unionised Zambian Workers

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Chambeshi Copper Smelter has dismissed all the 500 unionised employees who went on strike recently demanding improved conditions of service.

Copper Smelter Company Secretary, Sun Chuanqi, confirmed the sacking of the Zambian Workers.

And a check by znbc news at the construction site in chambeshi found CCS officials waiting for the workers to collect their dismissal letters.

Kalulushi District Commissioner, Joshua Mutisa regretted the workers action.

However the sacked workers have not been to collect their dismissal letters.

Mr. Mutisa said the workers behaviour deserve the kind of punishment which has been meted on them.

Zambian workers, Tuesday fought with their Chinese colleagues at the smelter and damaged company property.

Zambia hosts a sub-regional Indaba on Air Pollution

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Zambia is co-hosting the southern Africa sub-regional policy dialogue on air pollution with five cooperating partners against the backdrop of air quality in Africa rapidly deteriorating due to increased energy use, motorization, economic growth and urbanization.

The three-day event under the auspices of the Air Pollution Information Network-Africa, United Nations Environment Programme, Stockholm Environment Institute, Swedish International Development Agency and the United States Environment Protection Agency is a follow up to the third policy dialogue held in Kenya.

Ministry of Tourism Public Relations Officer Bwalya Nondo, in a statement released to ZANIS in Lusaka today, said it was at this meeting that environment ministers recommended a sub-regional approach to addressing air pollution in Africa which would set specific targets and timeframes in areas of transport, industry, mining, waste management, open burning and in-door pollution.

Mr. Nondo noted that the Lusaka Dialogue is expected to culminate in the Lusaka Agreement focusing on a regional policy framework on air pollution to be endorsed by SADC Environment Ministers.

He said the agreement will among other issues, center on encouraging regional cooperation to address trans-boundary pollution issues with harmonization of legal frameworks for industrial regulation across SADC, including emission standards.

Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Michael Kaingu will grace the Ministerial session on Friday at Mulungushi International Conference Centre.

The event is attended by 14 SADC Environment Ministers, the academia, civil society, scientists and other stakeholders.

Meanwhile, government has expressed concern on the increasing impact of Air pollution in the Southern African region.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources, Eustern Mambwe says air pollution, which is mainly in the form of dust and gases, has been caused by industrial processing establishments and poor ventilated houses adding that this has posed great danger to human health, the environment and infrastructure.

Dr Mambwe said this in Lusaka today when he officiated at the Southern African Sub-regional policy dialogue meeting on Air pollution.

He noted that air pollution is a source of concern because it aggravates the living conditions of the people especially those that are already ill from chronic illnesses.

Dr Mambwe explained that issues of air pollution need to be addressed as an integral and important part of poverty reduction strategies.

He noted that the knowledge on sources and magnitude of pollution and its impacts at local and regional levels are critical for any mitigations and remedial measures.

” It is important to note that many of pollutants are greenhouse gases which indirectly affect climate change,” Dr Mambwe said.

Dr Mambwe said therefore that regional agreements on the reduction of air pollution can provide the needed policy interventions.

He noted that the meeting will review the status of air pollution and its impacts on health and the environment in the southern African countries and agree on concrete actions to address air pollution.

Dr Mambwe added that the dialogue meeting will come up with a policy framework which will be adopted by the ministers in charge of the environment in the region at the end of the meeting.

The meeting is attended by Permanent Secretaries in charge of environments in the region, directors of environmental protection agencies, donors and various stakeholders.

Ministers in charge of environmental matters in the southern region are also expected to arrive in the country tomorrow to convene at the same meeting.

DFID to provide K660 billion direct budget support to Zambia

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The United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) has announced that it will provide K660 billion as direct budget support to Zambia’s 2008, 2009 and 2010 national budgets.

Head of DFID Zambia Joy Hutcheon said the first payment of K140 billion will be disbursed to the Zambian government this month.

Ms. Hutcheon said the support funds will be transferred directly to the national budgets and not channeled through individual projects or programmes.

Ms. Hutcheon said the support is consistent with the department’s long-term commitment to Zambia’s development agenda as outlined in the 10 year partnership arrangement signed between the UK and Zambian governments in June 2007.

She said the decision to increase budget support follows a period of good performance by the Zambian economy which also coincides with increased allocations to the health and education sectors in this year’s national budget.

She added that Zambia has made significant progress since DFID commenced budget support in 2005 hence the decision to continue supporting the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP) which aims to reduce poverty through economic growth, enhance the quality of education provision and improve access to health care.

Ms. Hutcheon said the Zambian government and DFID along with other cooperating partners providing budget support have agreed a framework to monitor the benefits of budget support and progress towards poverty reduction goals.

She said the framework includes indicators on FNDP priority sectors such as agriculture, private sector development, health, education and infrastructure which are strongly linked to the performance indicators in the FNDP.

Ms. Hutcheon urged government to continue making progress under the Public Management and Financial Accountability (PEMFA) and Public Sector Management (PSM) reform programmes which underpin its budget provision of budget support.

AG Anne Chifungula calls for accountability of public resources

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Auditor General Anne Chifungula says there can never be gender equality if resources aimed at enhancing the lives of people are not accounted for.

Ms. Chifungula says the national theme for this year’s international women’s day “financing for gender equality and accountability of public resources” is a step further to underscore the importance of accounting for all public resources in the financing of gender equality.

She was speaking in Lusaka today when she made a donation of assorted items to City of Hope ahead of the international women’s day which falls on March 08.

The items donated include mattresses, cooking oil, detergents, a television set, books and other things which amounted to 8 million kwacha.

She said the commemoration of International Women’s Day should inspire women across the global to look beyond their appearances and see in themselves what they can offer to society.

Receiving the donation, City of Hope Sister in-charge, Pyszarda Piejko, thanked the Auditor General’s office for the gesture.

She said the centre is currently running 13 projects which include providing education from grades one to nine and provides some training skills for vulnerable children.

She said the school has over 800 pupils and requires new facilities in order to improve the quality education offered.

This year’s global theme of International women’s day is “shaping progress’, through investing in women and girls.

Former Secretary to the Treasury Regrets Receiving Stolen Money

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Former Secretary to the Treasury, James Mtonga today testified in the Lusaka magistrate court that he regrets having received money obtained fraudulently during his service as a civil servant in government of Zambia.

Mr. Mtonga, 60, who retired from the civil service in 2003, was testifying in a case in which former Finance Minister, Katele Kalumba, former Finance Permanent Secretary Stella Chibanda, former Chief Economist Bede Mpande, former Secretary to the Treasury Ben Mweene, former Director for budget, Boniface Nonde and two former Access Financial Services limited Directors Faustine Kabwe and Aaron Chungu are charged of corrupt practices.

They are all accused of having signed, facilitated and authorized the release of money from the Zambia National Commercial Bank (ZANACO) Zamtrop account, a transaction which resulted into an overpayment to Systems Innovations and Wilbein Incorporation, the two companies which were contracted by government to install security gadgets in key government institutions in the 1990s.

He said he recalls going on a Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM) sponsored trip to London on a ZCCM privatization negotiations mission.

He told acting High Court deputy Registrar, sitting as Principal Resident Magistrate (PRM) Edward Musona that he went to London for the same mission on two occasions, both of which were fully paid for by ZCCM.

Mr. Mtonga said during examination-in-chief led by state prosecutor, Mutembo Nchito, that although the trips were sponsored by ZCCM, he received a total of US$ 7,000 from former Director General of the Zambia Security Intelligence Service (ZSIS) Xavier Chungu.

He told the court that the money was relayed to him by the then Zambia National Commercial Bank London branch manager, Bridget Kaluba.

He said upon his return to Zambia, he confirmed to Chungu that he had received the money which the latter sent to him while in London.

Mr. Mtonga explained that he later learnt that the money which was given to him by Chungu was fraudulently obtained, saying “I regret having received the funds”.

He said at the time he received the money, he regarded it as a good gesture from Chungu and not anything else.

He further said he was paid the money at the time the Zambian government was under pressure to pay the two American companies the debts owed to them.

Mr. Mtonga said at one time, the two companies threatened to sue government in an event that it defaults the contracts entered into.

Mr. Mtonga was once jointly charged with the seven accused persons but he, together with former Auditor General Fred Siame, was released after the state entered a nolle prosequi in their case.

The matter has been adjourned to March 17th this year for continued trial.

Wednesday Zambia Football Briefs

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Rainford Kalaba is set to sign a five-year deal with Portuguese Superliga Sporting Braga.

Portuguese daily Record says the deal is worth just under Euros 100,000.00 and is set to commence in from the start of the 2008/2009 season until 2013.

Kalaba is set to travel to Braga on March 25 to wrap-up personal terms that is subject to passing a medical with the 8th placed Superliga team.

Should the deal successfully go through, it will mark Kalaba’s second stint in Europe after previously playing for French Ligue 1 team Nice from 2005 to 2006 before returning to Faz division 1 north club Afrisports.

Kalaba is currently on loan to Zesco United from Afrisports where he has been since July 2006.

He was influential Zesco’s 2007 league title win and victories in the Barclays and Coca Cola Cup’s.

He scored 24 competitive goals in all competition last season-13 of those in league action for Zesco and was also voted 2007 Faz Footballer of The year.

Kalaba played two matches for Zambia at the 2008 Africa Cup finals in Ghana.

And midfielder Ian Bakala has been training with City of Lusaka for the last two weeks.

Bakala has been clubless since the start of the year since leaving his Angolan club 1 Clube Desportivo 1 de Agosto.

He recently attended trials in China that were unsuccessful just after returning from the Africa Cup in Ghana.

Chinese Collum Coal Miners end strike

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Miners at the Chinese Collum Coal Mine (CCM) have ended their five days strike in which they were demanding for improved conditions of service.

Nkandabwe ward councilor Patson Mangunje said the miners resumed work following their Union leaders’ failure to come to address them on the proposed increment that management had failed to effect.

Mr. Mangunje said three of the arrested workers at Sinazongwe Police Station were released yesterday.
He named the two of them as Lacky Chingobe and Watule Siatwiinda who police arrested for inciting others to stop work.
He disclosed that management has told the three miners who were arrested to stop working until the Ministry of labour handles their case.

A Check at the Mine found the situation has turned back to normal and trucks were loading coal.

On Tuesday Gemstone and Allied Workers Union of Zambia (GAWUZ) President Sifuniso Nyumbu said the Ministry of labour was handling the matter in which CCM has refused to increase the salaries for workers.

Mr. Nyumbu reaffirmed that the workers were supposed to be given an increment of K600, 000 across board with effect from September 2007 but Management has failed to honour the promise despite signing an agreement.

The highest salary that miners get at the CCM was between K500, 000 and K450, 000 per month.
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42 nabbed over human trafficking

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FORTY-TWO Congolese nationals on a human trafficking mission to South Africa have been intercepted and detained by the Immigration Department in Lusaka.
Immigration Department public relations officer, Mulako Mbangweta, said in Lusaka yesterday that 26 of those arrested in Lusaka last week were yesterday repatriated to the Democratic Republic of Congo while 16 were still in detention in Kabwe.
“We could not detain the Congolese nationals who were arrested in Lusaka because most of them are women with children as young as six months old,” Ms Mbangweta said.
She said the ones in Kabwe would remain in detention until the department completed its investigations. Those repatriated were arrested in Lusaka’s Kanyama Township some five days ago.
“From the interviews we have conducted so far, they look like they were being trafficked to South Africa. When people are being trafficked, they do not know where they are going and where they are,” she said.
Immigration officers arrested 16 Congolose nationals in Kabwe last week and picked up leads from them that another larger group had proceeded to Lusaka.
An unknown group of human traffickers is behind the scheme to move the Congolese nationals to South Africa.
Meanwhile, Minister of Home Affairs, Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasha, has warned immigration officers against engaging in corrupt practices because it frustrated Government’s efforts at improving the country’s economy.
Speaking at a senior officers’ workshop at King Fisher Lodge in Lusaka yesterday, Lt.Gen. Shikapwasha said the Immigration Department was among the Government wings that were involved in the embezzlement of public funds last year.
“I would like to warn you that I will not take kindly to those embezzling Government funds. I am urging officers to examine themselves in terms of corruption in the rank and file of the department by ensuring accountability,” he said.
He was happy that the Immigration Department had raised significant revenue within a short period following the abolition of visa waivers in January this year.
He urged regional commanders to ensure accountability for revenue collections by controlling banking procedures and observing banking regulations among subordinate officers in order to stamp out corruption.
He urged the department to ensure that revenue collections did not dwindle.
He called on the officers to be disciplined because their department was a security wing of Government.
The minister directed the Chief Immigration Officer, Ndioyi Mutiti and regional commanders to strategise and help the country to be on time with the milestone economic achievements it was recording.
Gen. Shikapwasha said the country had embarked on economic revival ventures such as the multi facility economic zones that were attracting investment.
The minister commended the officers for performing well last year and for their intensified operations that sustained security of the country.
“The worst thing is to have foreigners harassing local people. You should continue with the operations but with a human heart. Zambia is a Christian Nation,” he said.
And Ms Mutiti said her department had continued to perform well despite transport and other logistical obstacles.
Immigration officers have flushed out undesirable immigrants. They detained 2,843 prohibited immigrants and deported 2,759 while 494 were prosecuted in the courts of law.
Ms Mutiti said the prevailing conducive environment had continued to attract investors into the country.
This has resulted in the department issuing 234 self-employment permits to investors, especially in the manufacturing industry. The department also issued 3,471 work permits last year.
She said the department collected over K57 billion against the targeted K24 billion last year.
Ms Mutiti said the tourist inflow has continued to rise and the department collected about K8 billion from five border controls in Livingstone.
“I wish to report that the same border controls have collected K1.7 billion within a five week period this year,” Ms Mutiti said.
[Zambia Daily Mail]

Zambia, China to sign a Tax Free Zone Deal

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Fifty Chinese companies plan to invest over $800 million in a tax free zone in Zambia within the next five years under an agreement to be signed shortly, trade and commerce minister said on Tuesday.

Felix Mutati said Zambia and China would sign an investment deal to allow foreign companies, mainly from China, to start construction at the Multifacility Economic Zone (MFEZ) in the Chambishi town on the copperbelt.

Negotiations between Zambia and Chinese authorities were currently under way and an agreement was expected to be reached soon for the companies to start setting up in May, Mutati told Reuters in an interview.

Zambia had planned to allow only Chinese companies to invest in the zone. But Mutati said there was a change in policy.

“Initially we had agreed that this should only be a Chinese zone, but they (Chinese) want other foreign firms to come and invest in the multi-facility economic zone,” said Mutati.

“We are looking for a cocktail of companies that will add value to our raw materials to use the Chambishi zone. China is helping to attract other foreign companies on our behalf.”

Preliminary data provided by China indicated that the Chambishi zone would generate in excess of $900 million per year in turnover by firms that would invest in the processing of copper into finished products.

Zambian officials have not given details on which Chinese companies would invest in the zone but China Non-Ferrous Metals (Group) Co Ltd. is one of them.

China has drawn fire from Western nations and aid groups, who accuse Beijing of turning a blind eye to misrule, corruption and human rights abuses.

China argues it is spreading prosperity in the world’s poorest continent where the West has failed.

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has vowed to fight political opponents who try to limit or frustrate Chinese investments in the country.

The growing presence of Chinese firms in Zambia has prompted an anti-Chinese backlash in some parts of the country, with the main opposition party accusing Mwanawasa of allowing the Asian newcomers to exploit workers.

Workers at Zambia’s Chinese-owned Chambishi Smelter rioted over pay on Tuesday, injuring a Chinese manager and damaging property as a wage dispute entered a second day, a union official said.

Mutati said the Chambishi zone, which should be fully functional within five years, would initially create 6,000 jobs and offer incentives such as tax relief and easing customs duties on imported equipment and machinery.

Zambia’s government would build roads and set up telecommunications, and water facilities in the zone, said Mutati.

Payback or No Grant, Namulambe Tells FAZ

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Government says they will only resume their administrative grant to Faz after the association repays what it spent outside their approved budget for Zambia’s 2008 Africa Cup of Nations outing.

Sports minister Gabriel Namulambe said this in Parliament today when he presented the eagerly awaited for 2008 Africa Cup Report to the House.

Namulambe said Faz should pay the overshot incurred from the player allowance dispute that threatened to disrupt Zambia’s Group C match against Cameroon in Kumasi on January 26.

He said the players were only due US$2000.00 but were misled by unnamed Faz official who alleged that they owed an extra US$500.00.

“This resulted in confusion when the players were paid US$2000.00 as winning bonuses after the game against Sudan (That Zambia won 3-0),” Namulambe said.

“As a result Government had to pay an additional US$500.00 to each player and official as not to dampen morale for the team.

“I regard such expenditure as wasteful and motivated by a few individuals in Faz for their own selfish ends. I feel this must be curbed.

“Mr. Speaker, it is against this background that I have stated that the administrative grant to Faz be suspended until we recover the money that they deliberately spent outside the approved budget.”

Namulambe however said that the administrative grant ban would not affect any funding to go directly to the Zambia national team’s international engagements for this year.

He also revealed that Government approved K5.8 billion budget for Zambia’s Africa Cup final campaign in Ghana out of which K2.4 billion was initially released for tickets and allowances.

That initial sum released included logistics for Zambia’s training camp in Spain.

“Thus, there was no shortage of money in the Zambian camp,” Namulambe said “.Had the team progressed; the whole budget would have been released.

“Faz had the approved budget before the team left for Spain for preparatory matches.”

And Namulambe said should money spent outside the approved budget not be refunded, the incoming Faz executive after the associations March 29 executive committee elections would have to justify their need for resumption of the administrative grant from Government.

Chiluba’s medical review on

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Second Republican President, Frederick Chiluba has been given the go-ahead to travel to South Africa for his scheduled medical review.

Dr. Chiluba's Administrative Secretary, Emmanuel Mwamba has confirmed the development in a statement to ZNBC news.

The former head of state has been going to South Africa for medical check-ups for his heart condition since 2006.

Mr. Mwamba said arrangements for the trip are underway and these include the application for the release of Dr. Chiluba's and his wife's passport from the court.

He said Dr. Chiluba is expected to leave for South Africa as soon as all arrangements are completed.

Dr. Chiluba is scheduled to under go a medical review for two weeks begining March 7.

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Chinese-Zambians in ‘fists of fury’

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Zambian and Chinese workers at the Chambishi Copper Smelter fought running battles at the construction site of the new smelter.

Two Zambian workers and one Chinese worker were injured in the fight that began around 07:30hours - Tuesday morning.

A ZNBC news found angry Zambian workers outside the plant armed with stones and chanting anti Chinese slogans.

The Zambian workers at the company are demanding improved conditions of service.

Company Secretary, Sun Chuanqi explained that the Zambian workers reported for work but decided to stay outside the plant where they started making noise.

Mr. Sun said the workers later started throwing stones causing extensive damage to windows in the kitchen and sleeping quarters and also destroyed the Multi choice dish.

He said it was at this point that the Chinese workers moved in to try and stop the Zambians from causing further damage.

Riot police were called in to quell the situation.

National Union of Miners and Allied Workers (NUMAW) Branch Secretary, Steven Kabwe described the situation at the plant as serious.

Mr. Kabwe said the Chinese workers were armed with stones, sticks and knives.

[ZNBC]

Strike continues at Chinese Collum Coal Mine

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Miners at the Chinese Collum Coal Mine (CCM) have continued with their strike action while Management together with the Sinazeze police has picked three workers for allegedly inciting others to stop working in Southern Province.

A check at the Mine by ZANIS in Sinazongwe district found a few miners have started work while the majority has vowed to continue the strike and wait for their Gemstone and Allied Workers Union of Zambia (GAWUZ) President Sifuniso Nyumbu to address them.

The strike has entered day five since Friday last week when workers refused to go under ungrounded until the Chinese management effect the new salary increment that was signed in September 2007.

GAWUZ President Mr. Nyumbu said in a telephone interview from Lusaka that the Ministry of labour was handling the matter in which CCM has refused to increase the salaries for workers.

Mr. Nyumbu reaffirmed that the workers were supposed to be given an increment of K600, 000 across board with effect from September 2007 but Management has failed to honour the promise despite signing an agreement.

He revealed that in their desperation to have the workers get back to work, the Chinese connived with the Sinazeze police to arrested three workers who they alleged to have incited others to go on strike.

The GAWUZ president said it was unfortunate that even after talking to the Sinazeze Officer in-charge to release the workers they have continued to be detained over an industrial matter.

He said he has written to the Inspector General of police to intervene in the matter and have the workers be released because they were not violent as the issue was being handled by the Ministry of labour
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Mr. Nyumbu said after the workers strike the Chinese Management decided to increase their salaries by K1000 which was far below the agreed amount and the workers have rejected it.

He said the K1000 increment meant that those who were getting K10, 040 per day would then be getting K11, 040 per day.

“The situation is purely a violation of industrial matter the police should not get involved if the workers are peaceful,” he said.

Mr. Nyumbu noted that Management was also imposing on the workers to belong to a union that they wanted but they have rejected.

On Friday the miners said they do not want to belong to the Mine Union of Zambia (MUZ) because they failed to improve their conditions of service with management.

Mr. Nyumbu said belonging to Union was the workers right not for management to impose on them.

[ZANIS]

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