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By The Speech Analyst (Mike Sichula)   Dr Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda has been discharged from University Teaching Hospitals (UTH) this morning Saturday 22 July 2017amid social Media talk that Zambia’s first president had died.   Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya said Dr Kaunda had recovered fully prompting the hospital to discharge him.   Dr. Chilufya, who is Patriotic Front (PF) Member of Parliament for Mansa Central in Luapula Province said Dr Kaunda was stable and that a team of specialist doctors would continue monitoring his condition.   Dr Kaunda was admitted on Tuesday this week to the UTH in...

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 A LUSAKA District Agriculture Cooperatives (LDAC) Committee Member Mary Sakala has called on women in the rural to take keen interest in agricultural activities for them to contribute to ensuring household and national food security. Sakala says time has come for women till the land pointing out that desist spending time on gossip and idle talk would not empower them economically. Sakala wants the Zambian Government led by President Michael Chilufya Sata to treat women farmers as equal partners in development process as this particular gender had the numbers to economically...

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 CHIEF Chipepo of the Tonga people of Siavonga in the Southern Province says his chiefdom is grappling with early marriage due to poverty and has since called on Patriotic Front (PF) Government to stiffen as an effective check on the rampant vice. Chief Chipepo says prioritizing sensitisation programmes in the area is yet another intervention viewed as an effective curb against early marriages in his chiefdom. Alluding to the hunger situation in the Southern Province, Chief Chipepo bemoaned that poverty was exacerbated as a result of climate change which had negatively...

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 ZAMBIA has too many business licenses and regulations which makes the business environment un-conducive and the cost of doing business in Zambia high in terms of financial costs, effort and time. Zambia needs to establish a Business Regulatory Reform Unit, and the main purpose of the Unit will be to ascertain and vet the quality of all new business licenses to ensure that they meet high quality standards before being legislated and deposited in the e-registry of licenses, recommends ZDA. According to a statement made available by the Zambia Development Agency...