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Ahead of the 2021 General Elections: CTPD’s Key issues on the Mining Sector

Wednesday 11th August, 2021 Issued by: Webby Banda (Mr) Senior Researcher (Extractives) The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) As the country goes to the polls on 12th August 2021, it is expected that the political party that forms government will transform the mining sector into a tool of national development. The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) wishes to note that this can only be attained if six critical issues facing the sector are resolved. Firstly, there is a need to resolve the taxation gridlock of non-deductibility of mineral royalty between government and mining companies. This is...

MultiChoice Zambia Appoints Leah Kooma as new MD

By Chilufya Mwelwa, Head of Corporate Affairs; Chilufya.Mwelwa@zm.multichoice.com Wednesday 11th August, 2021 Lusaka, Zambia MultiChoice is pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs Leah Kooma as the new MultiChoice Zambia Managing Director. Mrs Kooma took up her new role as Managing Director on 1st August 2021. Prior to her new appointment, she served as MultiChoice Zambia’s Chief Customer Officer. Leah holds a Degree in Development Studies and Economics from the University of Zambia and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Wales. She is a member of the Zambia Institute of Marketing and has served on the...

UPND protest over ECZ ballot printing witness red tape

By Pamela Mulenga United Party for National Development (UPND) Secretary General Batuke Imenda and Chairperson for Elections Gary Nkombo are still struggling to break through a rigorous United Arab Emirates (UAE) visa approval to witness printing of ballot papers in Dubai. Mr. Imenda and Mr. Nkombo regretted that out of 19 travel applications approved by the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ), two applicants Richard Njolomba, a UPND representative and Dilan Kasonde, head of the  ECZ Information Technology (IT) department at ECZ, had their visa applications denied, ostensibly on account that the UAE is currently grappling  with a serious Coronavirus (covid...

Livingstone, Zimba, Kalomo say ‘Yes to Change’

By Pamela Mulenga and Derrick Sinjela RESIDENTS of Livingstone, Zimba, Kalomo districts and surrounding areas of the Southern Province on Monday put off their busy schedule to welcome the UPND Alliance presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema. A jubilant community danced to different songs done in local languages especially one in Bemba, a most famous one; ‘2021 PF Kuyabebele Siyanabonanza”. There was a peaceful procession and the residents flashed symbol of UPND and shouting Bally ni Bally change is here within earshot of Zambia Police Force officers manning the road show route.   And the UPND Alliance leader, Mr. Hichilema encouraged the...

Commonwealth and EU witness HH cast a vote

By Pamela Mulenga It was a jubilant moment shortly after 13:00 hours witnessing of the United Party for National Development (UPND) Alliance Presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema’s cast his vote at Kabulonga Boys Secondary School in Lusaka Central Constituency. While, his main rival, the incumbent Edgar Chagwa Lungu cast his vote in Chawama Constituency, in a low key atmosphere  Mr. Hichilema and  wife Mutinta Hichilema and their  two children were received by expectant and resolute voters, who let the cat out of their individual hats chanting; Bally, Badly. Bally…Enough is Enough…We want Change!” Earlier a Commonwealth delegation headed by former Tanzanian...

The will of the people must prevail, insists Hakainde Hichilema

By Francis Maingaila and Derrick Sinjela United Party for National Development (UPND) Alliance presidential aspirant Hakainde Hichilema wants the Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government election,  which took place on Thursday 12th August, 2021 to reflect the will of the people. Hosting a Wednesday 11th August 2021 Media Briefing at the Community house in Lusaka’s New Kasama area, on the eve of a competitive poll, Mr. Hichilema prayed that the decision of who will win must be made by the voters and those who count the votes. “We demand that phones must be allowed in the polling station to enable the...

Rigging prospects worry Kelvin Bwalya Fube

By Francis Maingaila and Derrick Sinjela The opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) alliance has observed that the allegations of rigging of the coming elections seem real urging the Electoral Commission of Zambia to nip the worry in the bud. Zambia Must Prosper Movement president Kelvin Bwalya Fube (KBF) told journalists at a media briefing in Lusaka that he has taken a tour across the country and established prima facie evidence of rigging plans instigated by the Patriotic Front (PF). A lawyer by profession, Mr. Fube established worrisome grounds which confirmed allegations of a rigging plot by the PF...

Zambia needs more technical skills, insists UPPZ President Charles Chanda

By Derrick Sinjela Positioning himself as a better choice to become Zambia’s Seventh Republican President, United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) leader Charles Chanda is calling for more practical skills being taught to pupils and students While acknowledging some progress made since Zambia attained independence on Saturday 24th October 1964, Mr. Chanda says white collar jobs will not develop Zambia. 57-years after weaning herself from British Colonial rule, Mr. Chanda prefers blue collar jobs arguing that accountancy will not improve the economy. “Our education is in a mess and needs a cleaner. It is part of our national problem as...

“Our Zambian borders are open,” Judith Kapijimpanga invites Indian Manufacturers

“Our Zambian borders are open,” Judith Kapijimpanga invites Indian Manufacturers New Delhi, Sunday (August 8, 2021) Zambia’s High Commissioner to India Judith Kapijimpanga has urged Indian manufacturers to consider Zambia as their safest destination for investment. She said Zambia looked forward to attracting investors from approximately 600 paper mills in India which had twelve major players. Mrs. Kapijimpanga said there was need for more producers and converters of products such as printing, fine and writing papers, papers for packaging use, thin packaging papers, tissue papers, papers for corrugated board, fluting, testliner, wrapping paper, packaging papers and misc. This came to...

ZIIMA concerned with PF dragging The Media into their desperation

ZIIMA Jajah Coulibaly concerned with PF dragging The Media into their desperation By Jajah Coulibaly President Contact: +260978718044/ +260975094700 Email:ziimafreepress@gmail.com Sunday, 8th August 2021 WE have observed with much regret the reported cloning of one of Zambia’s leading privately owned newspapers, THE MAST, by suspected PF agents to suit their appetite for toxic hate speech. The said publication under headline, HH IS A SATANIST, has potential to draw the media house into unnecessary conflict with the UPND and the party President Mr. Hakainde Hichilema in person. We realise that most politicians from the PF have no agenda and message in...

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