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Govt gives Serenje district 208 school desks

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Serenje district Commissioner Musonda Chunga has expressed disappointment that some contractors were not taking government projects seriously.

Mr Chunga said this after inspecting some development projects in the area awarded
to various contractors.

The DC noted with sadness hat some contractors did not bother to move to the site
but just asked villagers to do the work on their behalf.

At Mambwe Locha school in Muchinga constituency, where a one by three classroom
block is being constructed by a Kigwe based contractor, Mr. Chunga found the
villagers engaged by the contractor, putting concrete in piecemeal without anyone
from the company to supervise them.

The DC said government wanted serious contractors to carry developmental projects
so that communities are well served.

The school was allocated K83 million by government to put a modern structure to
replace grass thatched classroom blocks.

Works at Miswema Basic school, which was also allocated K83 million was going on
well and headmaster Lawrence Mazuba expressed happiness that government had
considered funding the school.

Meanwhile, government has given Serenje district 208 desks to be shared among the
three constituenmcies

Serenje district education board secretary Patson Sichone confirmed the development
ZANIS in Serenje today.

Sichone said the desks were being distributed to the needy schools in Muchinga,
Serenje Central and Chitambo constituencies.

He said in Chitambo constituency, Mukando Basic school will receive 29 desks while
Katikulula and Kaundu schools in the same constituency will receive 20 desks each.

Fikondo will get 10.

The DEBS said in Serenje Central constituency, Chikubula Basic school will get 28
desks, Miselo Kaika 21, and Mutale Basic school 20 desks.

Controversial PF speech at Harvard University on sale

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Go to fullsize imageThe controversial speech presented by opposition Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata at the United States of America (USA) Harvard University a fortnight ago is selling like hot cakes in the mining town of Mufulira.

Residents mostly miners are paying dearly and queuing to have a copy of the speech dubbed” Chinese Investment in Africa and Implications for International Relations, Consolidation of Democracy and Respect for Human Rights, the case of Zambia”.

The 11 paged speech presented on October 24th 2007 by the PF leader is selling at as
much as K 16,000 per copy and residents especially miners are besieging internet
shops where they are downloading the dossier.

A check by ZANIS at a popular internet cafe found miners making copies of the
document which has been the centre of discussion amongst civil society, political
groupings and political leaders in recent weeks.

Inflation reduction recipe to investing – Maureen

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First Lady Maureen Mwanawasa says the reduction in inflation rate is a recipe for financial institutions to consider investing in communites.

The First Lady attributes to this to the good fiscal micro-economic policies put in
place that have started benefiting the people and expressed gratitude to what
government is doing in the macro-sector.

She however says women face the major challenges of accessing financial services.

The First Lady was speaking in Lusaka today when she addressed scores of mandevu
women who thronged her.

This happened soon after she launched the ‘Make Zambia Clean and Healthy Week’ in
Lusaka’s Mandevu Compound.

She urged women to meaningfully participate in the Make Zambia Clean and Healthy
Week which runs from November 1 to 7, 2007.

The First Lady hailed Barclays Bank Zambia which has sprung its operations in
communities like Chawama, Chilenje, Matero and Mtendere among other compounds
investing in peri urban communities in Lusaka in an effort to empowering vulnerable
women who seemingly carry the face of poverty, hunger and HIV/AIDS.

She appealed to women to be bold, united and to speak with one voice if their
challenges were to be adequately addressed.

”Women continue to bare the most challenge of vulnerability. This New Deal
government is working because of the good economic policies put in place. As a woman
and speaking for women, we need more doors to be opened to women so that they could
stand on their own materially and financially,” Mrs Mwanawasa said.

Recently, Central Statistical Office Acting Director, Elfreda Chulu, announced a 0.3
percent reduction in inflation rate for the month of October, 2007 from 9.3 percent
to to a single digit, nine.

Ms. Chulu attributed the reduction in inflation to the decline in the cost of food
and non-food products.

Maureen launches Make Zambia Clean and Healthy Week

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First Lady Maureen Mwanawasa says inadequate safe water supply and sanitation, inadequate personal hyiene and poor eating habits, coupled with low levels of knowledge on basic health matters, have continued to affect people in communites.

Mrs. Mwanawasa also lamented that the sitaution worsens during the rainy season and
challenged commuinites to exhibit high levels of cleanliness around their
environment, noting that communities experienced out-breaks of epidemic dieases such
as cholera, dysentery and other water borne dieases .

Mrs. Mwanwasa says it is cognizant that people in communites value the importance of
keeping their surroundings clean, a practice that will help speed the attainement of
achieving the MDGs as a primary goal for a clean and better Zambia.

The First Lady was speaking in Lusaka’s Mandevu compound today when she launched the
‘Make Zambia Clean and Healthy Week runing from November 1 to 7.

The First Lady demonstrated the Keep zambia Clean by cleaning the mandevu clinic
wards and other surounding areas.

She also planted a tree as a preservance measure of conserving the environment.

Mrs Mwanawasa said the success of this programme calls for communities to actively
partticipate in improving access to clean and safe drinking water, provision of good
sanitary facilities, changing the mind set of people against indiscriminate throwing
of litter, encouraging proper garbage collection and disposal points.

She further pointed out other clean measures as promotion of health awareness as
well as enforcement at individual, community, institutional hygiene agaist high
levels of nuisance in trading places and homes.

The First Lady expressed happiness that the Fith National development Plan and the
Vision 2030 programmes have given cleanliness and health the prominence it deserves
and challenged govermnet organs to institutionalise this clean saving national
programme.

Mrs. Mwanwasa reteriated that unity and cleanileness are powerful factors because
their values go beyond social, political and religious differences and paid
gratitute to government for providing leadership shown by overwhelming support
received from stakeholders aimed at ensuring Zambia is made and kept clean and
healthy.

And speaking earlier, Ministry of Health Director of technical and suport services,
Dr. Velepi Mtonga, urged communites to comply with medical experts if the keep
Zambiua Clean is to effectively succeed.

She said the ministry is challenged by the disease burden but reteriated that
government will win the keep Zambia Clean campaign in accordance with the global
mandate of provision of quality health services closer to the people to making
Zambia disease-free and malaria free among other major challenges.

And Mandevu Clinic Nursing Sister In-charge, Annie Silondwa, said Mandevu, with a
catchment of 76,708 people, is burdened by shortage of water, poor sanitation
conditions as well as limited garbage collection points.

Mrs. Silondwa said the situation exposes Mandevu compound to water borne disease
such as cholera and dysentery.

2007 Barclays Cup Semifinal Preview

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2007 Faz Premier League champions Zesco United are 90 minutes away from reaching their third cup final this year
when they face Green Buffaloes in a Barclays Cup
semifinal doubleheader at Nchanga Stadium in Chingola.

The other semifinal clash at Nchanga will be between promoted Chambishi FC and Konkola Blades who meet in the opening game at 12:30.

Zesco have already won the season opening Samuel “Zoom” Ndholvu Memorial Charity Shield and the Coca Cola Cup on top of the league title they secured last month.

This will be the second time Zesco and Buffaloes will be meeting in a cup tournament this season.
Zesco and Buffaloes faced-off in the semifinals of the “Zoom” Charity Shield that the former won 2-1 last February on the Ndola teams long road this season to picking up their first honor of 2007.

Zesco have gone on to enjoy a competitive edge over Buffaloes this season with a 3-0 away win and 1-1 home draw in Week 1 and 16 league games respectively this season.

Zambia midfielder and this seasons current joint top scorer Rainford Kalaba on 21 goals has scored four goals against Buffaloes-two of them in the 3-0 demolition at Independence Stadium in that delayed Week 1 match played on March 25.

Together with his co-top scorer and Zesco striker Enoch Sakala they are expected to help inspire against Buffaloes as they aim for an unprecedented fourth debut cup honor in one season by a top-flight club.

Buffaloes meanwhile will be hoping their prolific form in the Barclay’s Cup in which they have averaged two goals a game will continue in contrast to their current form in the league.
Zambia Under-23 striker Reuben Tembo, Ezekiel Tembo including influential midfielders Noel Mwandila and Sebastien Mwansa are all available as George Lwandamina’s team searches for its first competitive win over Zesco this season.

And Aggrey Chiyangi will be looking to cap a very eventful season after guiding Chambishi back to the top-flight on the first attempt following their relegation last term when his team takes on Blades in the other semifinal tie.

Blades will be wary of Chambishi who have already claimed the scalp of two big league teams in as many cup competitions they have played in this season including the Barclays Cup where they beat troubled 2006 league champions Zanaco 2-1 in the preliminary round.

Chambishi on Independence Day, October 24 beat a resurgent Power Dynamos 2-0 in the pre-quarterfinals of the Mosi Cup.

That victory over Fodson Kabole’s Power is a clear sign that Chambishi mean business with promotion secured and out of the way as they dream of a fruitful visit to the bank after the final on November 23 at Woodlands Stadium in Lusaka.

Scorecard

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FAZ PREMIER LEAGUE WEEK 29

27/10/2007

National Assembly 0- Red Arrows 1(Simon Lupiya 57″)

Nakambala Leopards 3(Daniel Masumba 47″ 62″, Masautso Banda 82″)- Zamtel 0

Young Arrows 1(Judge Mukandawire 89″)- City of Lusaka 0

Lusaka Dynamos 0- Nchanga Rangers 0

Konkola Blades 0- Green Buffaloes 0

Roan United 0- Forest Rangers 0

Kabwe Warriors 0- Power Dynamos 1(Francis Kombe 43″)

Zesco United 2(Rainford Kalaba 27″, Enoch Sakala 33″)- Zanaco 1(Winston Kalengo 64″)

MOSI CUP 7TH ROUND

24/10/2007

Premium Sport 0- Konkola Blades 2

Kasanda Police 1- Lusaka Dynamos 2

Tazara Express 0- Zanaco 0*

*Tazara win 7-6 on pp

Chambishi 2(Allan Kombe, Bobby Chola)- Power Dynamos 0

Nkana 0- Nchanga Rangers 2(Boyd Chanda, Ephriam Banda)

INDENI 0- City of Lusaka 0*

* City win 3-0 pp

Prison Leopards 1 -Zamtel 2

Green Eagles 0- Forest Rangers 1

Lusaka City Council 3 -Roan United 1

Nampundwe 0- National Assembly 0*

*Assembly win 7-6 pp

Riflemen 0- Young Arrows 0*

Young Arrows win 6-5 on pp

Zamcoal Diggers 0- Zesco United 3(Jonah Sakuwaha, Clifford Chipalo, Enoch Sakala)

Lime Hotspurs 1(Lameck Kapaya 7″)-Kabwe Warriors 3(Maonga Kabuku 29″ 79″, Emmanuel Mayuka 86″)

Kalomo Jetters 0- Nakambala Leopards 0*

*Nakambala win 4-2 pp

Lusaka Celtic 0- Green Buffaloes 1(Reuben Tembo)

Lusaka Tigers 0- Red Arrows 0*

*Red Arrows win 7-6 pp

TOP SCORERS (27/10/07).

Rainford Kalaba (Zesco United): 21.

Enoch Sakala (Zesco United) 21.
Winstone Kalengo (Zanaco): 12.
Emmanuel Mayuka (Kabwe Warriors): 12.
Felix Nsunzu Jr (Konkola Blades):12.
Lottie Phiri (Young Arrows): 12.

Mumamba Numba (Zanaco): 11.

Lyson Sikaonga (Nchanga Rangers): 10.
Nicholas Zulu (Zesco United): 10.

Maonga Kabuku (Kabwe Warriors): 9.

Simon Luipya (Red Arrows):8.
Francis Kombe (Power Dynamos): 8.
Josphet Nkhoma (Lusaka Dynamos): 8.
Siloni Jere (Kabwe Warriors): 8.
Elson Mukandawire (Power Dynamos) 8.
Noel Mwandila (Green Bufffaloes): 8

Dan Masumba (Nakambala Leopards): 7.
Musonda Mweuke (Kabwe Warriors): 7.
Yonah Mwango (Zesco United): 7.
Kruger Mwansa (Young Arrows): 7
Ben Mwanza (Roan United): 7
Sebastian Mwansa (Green Buffaloes): 7
Mazuba Mukandawire (City of Lusaka): 7.

Christopher Musonda (Forest Rangers): 6.
Ezekiel Lungu (Green Buffaloes) : 6
Simon Bwalya (Power Dynamos):6.

FAZ DIVISION WEEK 30

28/10/2007

NORTH

Konkola Mine Police 5- Police Blue Eagles 1

Kitwe United 2- Prison Leopards 1

Ndola United 1- Muchindu 1

INDENI 2- Mufulira Blackpool 0

Afrisports 0- Kalewa 2

Chambishi 1- Medical Stars 1

Nkana 1- Chindwin 0

Mufulira Wanderers 1- Lime Hotspurs 1

SOUTH

NKkwazi 2- Riflemen 0

Lusaka City Council 2- Young Buffaloes 2

Chilanga Heroes 3- Lusaka Tigers 1

Kambuku Warriors 3- Zamcoal Diggers 2

Builders Brigade 3- Kalomo Jetters 1

Green Eagles 3- Nampundwe 0

Not played:

Profund Warriors-Livingstone Pirates

Communite- Lusaka Celtic

WEEK 29

22/10/2007

NORTH

Prison Leopards 0- Chindwin 2

Kitwe United 1- Konkola Mine Police 2

Kalewa 0- Nkana 1

Police Blue Eagles 0- INDENI 1

Lime Hotspurs 1- Afrisports 0

Mufulira Blackpool 1- Ndola United 1

Medical Stars 0- Mufulira Wanderers 0

Muchindu 0- Chambishi 0

SOUTH

Kalomo Jetters 1- Green Eagles 2

Riflemen 2- Young Buffaloes 1

Nkwazi 2- Chilanga Heroes 0

Zamcoal Diggers 1- Lusaka City Council 1

Lusaka Tigers 1- Profund Warriors 2

Livingstone Pirates 1- Builders Brigade 1

Lusaka Celtic 1- Kambuku Warriors 1

Not played:

Nampundwe 0 Communite

Tortoise threatens man

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Tortoise threatens man
Another bizzare incident has occured on the Copperbelt in which a man has received a letter delivered by a tortoise threatening him for failing to settle a debt.
In September, a Kitwe resident received letters from NAKONDE delivered by a tortoise and a dove asking him to pay K50 million he owed.
This time the incident involves a Ndola resident, Mumena Mushinge, who allegedly owes a Tanzanian national, Sumba Wanga K26.9 million.
The tortoise carrying the letter written in Swahili was found at Mr. Mushinge’s residence on President Avenue Thursday morning.
The letter from a Mr. Jean Marie has given Mr. Mushinge three days to pay the money or face serious consequences, which include death.
A ZNBC news team that rushed to Ndola found scores of residents trying to catch a glimpse of the tortoise at the central police station.

The tortoise wrapped in white cloth had a suspected human borne tied on its back, and some beads.

Police had a tough time controlling the crowd which was demanding to see the tortoise.

Levy disputes HIV AIDS figures

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President Levy Mwanawasa says more Zambians have died of HIV AIDS, contrary to the official figure of 90 thousand people.
Dr. Mwanawasa has directed Health Permanent Secretary, Simon Miti, to revise the current statistics because they are out-dated.
The President issued the directive when United Nations HIV AIDS envoy for Africa, Elizabeth Mataka, called on him at State House in the Southern African nation’s capital, Lusaka, Friday.
Dr. Mwanawasa also said HIV AIDS is the biggest hindrance to Zambia’s economic development.
He said Zambia is among the worst hit by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Mwanawasa said over 200-thousand Zambians require Anti retro Viral drugs.
He however said 100-thousand are currently accessing the HIV/AIDS drugs.
The Zambian leader said a high level committee of cabinet ministers has been constituted to provide leadership in the fight against HIV AIDS.
And Mrs. Mataka said African countries need to scale up efforts towards eradicating the HIV AIDS pandemic.
Mrs. Mataka pledged to enhance promotion of universal access to HIV AIDS drugs.
She also promised to scale up efforts towards empowering women to enable them contribute to the fight against HIV AIDS.
Courtesy of ZNBC

Maamba retrenches clash over withheld One billion Kwacha

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By Tovin Ngombe
Confusion has erupted among the Maamba coal mine retrenched workers over the withholding of one billion Kwacha that government released to pay them three months ago in Southern Province.

The retrenched workers wives and widows stormed Maamba police on Friday demanding the withdrawal of the injunction that their former Chairperson Boniface Chola together with his splinter group failed in the Lusaka High court.

Mrs Christine Mbengela told ZANIS that they have suffered for a long time at the hands of few people’s selfish motives to have their money withheld in ZANACO bank.

Mrs Mbengela said they decided to go the police to assist them in summoning Mr. Chola to explain why he has tortured them by broking their money.

She said they have reached at a stage where they could not tolerate the misery they have been subjected to when government has released their money to pay them.

Ms. Christine Kakene a widow said she has run out of food and they have no other means of sustaining her life.

The widow said she has failed to take her children to School when her money was in the bank.
She threatened that the widows were ready to fight their former chairperson who had filed an injunction to withhold their money.

“We have finished all the channels of negotiation and now we have reached a stage were we can not ‘stomach’ it any more, does want us to be involved in prostitution?” Ms. Kakene said.

Ms. Mary Mungwelu a widow said the total number of retrenched workers were 341 out of which 202 have died without getting their benefits.

When contacted in a telephone interview Mr. Chola who is leading a splinter group among the retrenched workers said the matter would have not reached the court if the current committee adhered to their complaints.

Mr. Chola said they differed in opinion over the allotting of asset and they decided to seek legal assistance.
However, the Secretary in the committee Peter Siavuulwe said Mr.Chola’s camp was bitter for being voted out of the retrenches’ committee because their were no asset to talk about as the current committee was using the same method of sharing the money which he left.
Mr. Siavuulwe who is also Maamba ward councilor challenged Mr. Chola and his splinter group to tell all the retrenched workers there hidden motives than making the innocent people to surfer.
He said currently their was another issue in court in which retrenched workers were supposed to be getting their salary from Maamba coal mine but they were not when the judgment ruled that they were supposed to be getting it.

Mr. Siavuulwe said it was only government which was paying them when they were supposed to be getting their salaries from Maamba mine until government finishes paying their retrenchment package.

Out the 341 retrenches Mr. Chola defected with 70 people after he was voted out of the committee for alleged incompetence.

Fertilizer shortfall hits Sinazongwe farmers

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By Tovin Ngombe

Sinazongwe district Marketing officer has said the bags of fertilizer that were sent to the district are not enough to cater for all the farmers in the district.
Mr.Afred Mungaza disclosed that government has sent 500bags of Urea, 500 D compound fertilizer, and 38 by 10 kg bags of seed which forms up a pack.

Mr. Mungaza said last year government sent 300 packs of inputs while this year 125 packs have been sent.
He disclosed that the district has 27 cooperatives and out of 20 farmers in each cooperative only four people would benefit from the inputs that government has sent.

Mr. Mungaza said the distribution of inputs which starts next week is expected to last for one week because of the high demand among the farmers.

He noted that there is also a severe shortage of seed in which out of the 250 bags expected only 38 has been sent to the district and there is shortage of 212 bags of seeds.

“I hope the remaining seed will be sent on time to address the shortage,” Mr Mungaza said.

World Bank says Zambia needs to raise mining taxes

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The World Bank said on Thursday Zambia should raise mineral royalties paid by foreign mining firms and even introduce windfall taxes if feasible to gain more benefit from higher global metals prices.

New World Bank country manager for Zambia Kapil Kapoor said the mineral-rich southern African country should take advantage of higher metal prices and raise taxes so that its citizens could profit from the good prices.

Last month Zambia’s finance minister Ng’andu Magande said the government had engaged a team of foreign consultants to help it renegotiate mineral royalties and taxes with foreign miners.

“Given that commodities prices have gone up, Zambia needs to get high benefits from the increased prices,” Kapoor told journalists.

“Zambia needs to raise the taxes, whether it is withholding tax or windfall tax because this is not unique to Zambia and it’s up to the government to decide what taxes it wants to raise (and) we really support that,” Kapoor said.

Kapoor said the country required revenue to spend in social sectors and one way of achieving this would be through revenue raised from the mining taxes.

Zambia’s government has previously said it wanted to raise mineral royalties to 3 percent from 0.6 percent and corporate tax rates to 35 percent from 25 percent.

The country previously scrapped a 15 percent withholding tax to allow mining companies some financial stability after they made huge capital investments in the country, which depends upon mining for much of its foreign earnings.

Key foreign investors in Zambia’s mining sector include Canada’s First Quantum Minerals, Australia’s Equinox Minerals, London-listed Vedanta Resources and Swiss firm Glencore International AG.

Although copper mining is the economic lifeblood of Zambia, some analysts argue the country does not reap enough benefit because the mines are owned by foreign companies.

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Faz announces patchy Zambia preps for Ghana 2008

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The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) today released a patchy
itinerary for Zambia national team’s pre-2008 Ghana Africa Cup
training camp that is expected to kickoff on November 6.

36 regular home based squad members and fringe players-18 each from
the Copperbelt and Midlands- will gather in Kitwe and Lusaka
respectively for a two-day training camp.

FAZ, strangely, will then select a provisional team of home-based
players and the team is expected to play three high level
international friendly matches before Christmas the end of the year.

According to sources, one of the high level matches that has suggested
will be against Angola and that the match is still pending FAZ
approval.

According to the programme released by FAZ today, the team will then
regroup after the festive season and will be joined at an appropriate
time by the foreign based call-ups ahead of the Ghana finals.

FAZ however, did not give the full details of Zambia’s post-festive
season training camp.

And FAZ today confirmed that they would be staying in the Cosafa
regional football body putting to an end speculation that they were
plans to return to Cecafa.

A high level FAZ source said recently that Zambia had more to gain
from being in Cosafa in a regional body that has a higher caliber of
opponents like Angola and South Africa.

Both nationals are regular competitors on the current international
tournament calendar and took part in the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cup
tournament.

Zambia lags behind in local Content production

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                                           By Tovin Ngombe  Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) experts have charged that the country was not doing enough in the production of local information being updated on websites.The ICTs experts who spoke in separate interviews told ZANIS that poor production of local content has been as a result of limited access to computers and to internet usage.An ICTs expert and a consultant Millner Makuni says Zambians fail to  produce enough local  content hence much of what  is on the internet is western and it was not suitable for local consumption.Mr. Makuni who is also a member of E-brain Forum Zambia said out of the seven main languages including English, there is no local language content on the Internet to talk about.

 He said  the Internet usage in Zambia is still  low estimated at about 500,000 internet users and about 16500 internet subscribers from the 10 Internet service providers that the country have. About 50% of subscribers are still on dial up hence the usage is more for sending and receiving mail rather than contributing to the presence of local content for the benefit of Zambians. Mr. Makuni pointed out that the value added services on the internet like intranets, extranets, e-applications (e-business, e-government, etc) have not been fully utilized and the majority of websites are still static with outdated content which is not interactive. 

 Zambia National Farmer’s Union (ZANFU) Communication Manager Kunda Mwila said that there was still a wide disparate in the production of local content as most of it was generated from the western countries.Mr. Mwila noted that most Zambian content is produced from websites that were hosted outside the country adding that currently the Internet Service Providers have increased their bandwidth that could host many sites in the country for allowing of local content production.“The way forwards is for the country to be able to produce content and post it on websites hosted within the country,” He said. He disclosed that there was an improvement in the people hosting websites but there was a gap in the production of local content to be updated on those websites. The communication Manager noted that there should be a deliberate policy to have the local content translated in local languages unlike the scenario where all the information was in English.Content Manager and an ICT expert for Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMSESA) under the Regional Customs Transit Gallant (RCTG) Michael Zulu said most people setting up websites fail to update their content timely.Mr. Zulu pointed out most of the websites in the country were static  and have no impact because the owners fail to update their information and people would not want to visit a site that has the same information for many months.He says it was only the Media websites that were up date with information while most of the sites it was a sad story.

The content manager noted that that the failure to have webmasters was the major hindrance to the production of local content as most organizations fail to have people to be updating their information.

“You find a site have been in existence for a year but the information is still the same, an indication to the surfers that the organization only want presence on web but fail to use it to showcase their  services or products,” he says. 

Ephraim Mateyo salutes Nkwazi

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INSPECTOR-General of Police, Ephraim Mateyo has challenged Nkwazi Football Club to confirm their come back to the Super Division by wining one major cup event next season.

Mateyo said in an interview yesterday that players needed to put in 100 percent commitment next year to make this a reality.

He said he was happy with the achievement the team had made saying he would do anything possible to help the team stay in the Premier.

Mateyo expressed confidence that the team would remain in the Super Division because the players were committed.

He said that he would engage the team in an intensive preparation before the start of next season.

Mateyo also said that he was planning to organise a victory ceremony for the players before the end of the year as a way of honouring them.

Nkwazi who were demoted to the lower ranks last year, on Sunday bounced back to the Super Division after beating Riflemen 2-0 at Edwin Emboela Stadium in a week 30 fixture.

“I trust my officers and I can assure everyone that we have come back in the Super Division to stay,’’Mateyo said.

And Nkwazi coach, Shex Chipoya has asked their sponsors, Zambia Police to help the technical bench get more experienced players before the start of next season.

In an interview after his team beat Riflemen 2-0, Chipoya said the team needed to be reinforced if they were to compete favorably in the Super Division.

“Our major objective for next season is to have a formidable team that will make other teams feel our presence,”Chipoya said.

Chipoya said he was indebted to have taken the team back to the Super Division.

“I am glad to give our sponsors the happiness they were lobbied of because Nkwazi is a big team and it was just unfortunate that we had to play Division One football,” he said.

Nkwazi ended the Division one (south) League in second position on 65 points. Eagles, the other team that was promoted from the southern zone, finished top of the table on 67 points.

PF denies resignation reports of its councillors in Kawambwa

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The Patriotic Front (PF) in Mwansaboambwe constituency in Kawambwa has denied reports that some of its councillors in the area have resigned to join the ruling MMD.

Consituency chairman, Fewdays Mwape says the reports are false.

Mr. Mwape who was flanked by Mununshi ward councillor, John Nsompa was speaking to
ZANIS in an interview in Kawambwa yesterday.

He said it is unfortunate that the former councillor, a Mr Mumba announced that
other PF councillors had also resigned from the party to join the MMD.

Mr. Mwape said challenged Mr. Mumba to come out in the open and disclose the names
of the PF councillors that have resigned to rejoin the MMD.

He said all PF councillors in the area are intact and have no plans of resigning
from PF to join the MMD.

Mr Mwape notes that no other councillor has resigned from the PF in the apart from
Mr Mumba and Phillip Chama of Lufubu ward.

Mwansabombwe constituency has one MMD councillor and five PF councillors.

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