Category: Business

CFAO –STANBIC partnership shifts gears in car ownership

  By Derrick Sinjela PERHAPS taking cognizance of high poverty, high unemployment and high income inequality, and invariably lower interest rates, have resulted in Toyota distributor, CFAO Motors and STANBIC to actualize a loan vehicle ownership partnership. Speaking moments before a Nangwenya Road launch, CFAO Motors Zambia Limited National Sales and Marketing Manager, responsible for Toyota Automark brands, Andreja Ursic emphasized that lower interest rates had accelerated a new partnership between CFAO Motors and STANBIC Bank, enabling people to realistically own a dream car. On his part, STANBIC Bank Head of Vehicle and Asset Finance, Horis Mainza painted the enviable...

Dr. Canisius BANDA on ‘THE NATIONAL BUDGET’ [The Required Case of its Character and Emphases]

THE NATIONAL BUDGET [The Required Case of its Character and Emphases] _________________ It is called the national budget for a reason. It is OUR budget. We are Zambia’s nationals. Our voices, irregardless of how acerbic and unpleasant they might be, are required and should be heard Collectively, we are the employers of Hakainde HICHILEMA and his government. We remain the masters. They serve us Situmbeko MUSOKOTWANE, Zambia’s finance minister, will on Friday, 30th September, 2022, present to the nation our 2023 budget through parliament. The performance of his last United Party for National Development (UPND) budget puts egg on his...

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH INEQUITY A DEADLY MIX FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE:“USE HEART FOR EVERY HEART”.

                PRESS RELEASE ZAMBIA HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION Contact: Brenda Chitindi – Executive Secretary. Mobile +260979441781 Email: bichitindi@yahoo.com CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH INEQUITY A DEADLY MIX FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE:“USE HEART FOR EVERY HEART”. PRESS RELEASE Today, Thursday, 29 September, 2022 is the World Heart Day with campaign message “USE HEART FOR EVERY HEART”. The Zambia Heart and Stroke Foundation is calling for urgent action on climate change and health inequity, with millions more lives now at risk from cardiovascular disease, which is still the world’s biggest killer. Over 75% of premature deaths...

“I Want to See Zanaco win a Continental Cup,” prays Febian Kalunkumya

  “I Want to See Zanaco win a Continental Cup,” prays Febian Kalunkumya By Derrick Sinjela , Ashton Kelly Bunda and Saeed Simon Banda ZANACO Football Club Supporters Chairperson Febian Kalunkumya is faithfully waiting and anticipating for a historical and blessed day when the Zambia National Commercial Bank (ZNCB) sponsored childhood ‘dream team’ will lift one of the prestigious continental silverwares. Kalunkumya, the unsung hero who started his ‘ campaign for the bankers’ at the age of 15 years in 1987 in Lusaka told ‘The Bundas Incorporated Blog sports News’ that he wants ZANACO Football Club to the ‘Hub of...

THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION OF LESBIANS, GAY, BI-SEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI) IN ZAMBIA by Mudford Z. Mwandenga CHAIRPERSON HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

Tuesday, 27th September, 2022 Press Release For Immediate Release THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION OF LESBIANS, GAY, BI-SEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI) IN ZAMBIA By Mudford Z. Mwandenga CHAIRPERSON HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION The Human Rights Commission (the Commission) has, in the recent few days, received correspondence from various stakeholders expressing fear about the safety of suspected or real members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) community in Zambia. The expression of fear emanates from public statements made against perceived or real LGBTQI individuals following the alleged increased cases of sodomy. The Commission is...

Tuesday, 27th September, 2022 – Happy World 🌎 Tourism Day, Rodney Malindi Sikumba courts tourists to visit Zambia 🇿🇲

  Tuesday, 27th September, 2022 – Happy World 🌎 Tourism Day, Rodney Malindi Sikumba courts tourists to visit Zambia 🇿🇲  By Rodney M. Sikumba, MP Minister Of Tourism 🇿🇲 “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine Happy World Tourism Day Tuesday, 27th September, 2022 This year’s World Tourism Day is under the theme “Rethinking Tourism. In the words of the UNWTO Secretary – General, Zurab Pololikashvili, at #WorldTourismDay official celebration from Bali: “The most important assets in tourism are its people and the planet. We must ensure the best...

Ordaining Youths Key to Church Growth, Responsibility Elder Dube

Ashton Kelly Bunda CHURCH of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Zimbabwe mission Elder Dube’s ordinance of baptism is only pathway to keeping the covenant with the savior Jesus Christ. Speaking during the annual general meeting that took place on Sunday 11th of September 2022 at Lusaka stake elder Dube said ordaining young people and setting the apart to receive Aaronic and Melchezideck priesthood will instill responsibility as they will mentally prepare themselves to serve a mission in the near future. Elder Dube who quoted the book of Moroni Chapter 4 verse 3 to explain importance of renewing God’s covenant...

Planning, player determination key to Zambia’s KK Eleven First World Cup, prods Emmanuel Munaile

By Derrick Sinjela, Ashton Kelly Bunda and Saeed Simon Banda FORMER Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) vice president Emmanuel Munaile has advised Zambian coaches and players at every level of the local leagues to start planning for a maiden World Cup Qualification early if they wish to set foot at envied World Cup 2026 Tunisia finals for the first time. Asked by ‘The Bundas incorporated Blog Sports News’, as to why Zambia National Team, which has one of the best pedigree of players in the world and a rich soccer back ground of having reached Africa Cup finals in 1974 and...

Social Economist Kelvin Chisanga’s ‘Expectations of 2023 Zambia’s National Budget!

By Kelvin Chisanga Social Economist +260979305194 The national policy instrument of revenue and expenditure for the fiscal year of 2023 is earmarked strongly to be a private sector centred growth-driven investment, from the look of things the Government is likely presumed to spend an overall figure of around or just within the range of K210 to 216 billion in the upcoming financial year, of which this will represent with an estimated GDP represented between 34% and 40%. The main key interests likely to encounter, will be the changes in the essential allocations of revenue and expenditures columns on both ends,...

GOVT GOES FOR TB ELIMINATION-MASEBO

  Lusaka… Tuesday, September 27, 2022 HEALTH Minister SYLVIA MASEBO says the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had a disruptive effect on the implementation of tuberculosis-TB interventions. Ms MASEBO says at the peak of the first wave of the corona virus pandemic, the country recorded an 18 per cent reduction in weekly TB notifications. She said government through the ministry hastened to mount up a robust response program that extensively put in place mitigation measures. ” Central to our TB response to COVID-19 was the creation of the TB situation room. This situation room is our flagship intervention that has enhanced the...

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