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August 31, 2021

THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. ANTHONY BWALYA AS STATE HOUSE SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS IS WELCOME


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“The Appointment of Mr. Anthony Bwalya as State House Special Assistant for Press And Public Relations is welcome” By Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba – Speaking as a Journalist From the outset, let me state that the Appointment of Mr. Anthony Bwalya as State House Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations or as Official Spokesperson is welcome and will help foster sound debate from the presidency. However, his appointment has brought three key issues. 1. Is Anthony qualified for the job? 2. Why did President Hakainde Hichilema overlook the journalism, media or communication fraternity to make this appointment? 3. Does the...

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August 31, 2021

Maintain 8.50 per cent MPR, CTPD’s Boyd Muleya prods BoZ


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By Derrick Sinjela and Theresa Kalenga As the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets to announce its monetary policy decision on Wednesday 1st September 2021, Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) Head of Research Boyd Muleya expects the committee to maintain the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 8.50 per cent. In a Tuesday 31st August, 2021 Press Statement on CTPD’S Expectations on the Upcoming Bank of Zambia MPC Decision Announcement, Mr. Muleya insisted on a viewpoint that considering the high overall inflation, any adjustments to the policy rate should be upwards to arrest demand pressures and...

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August 31, 2021

Kasama Police Officer jailed 12 months for corruption


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By Derrick Sinjela and Theresa Kalenga The Kasama Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 34-year-old Police Officer, Arnold Mutunda in Kasama to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for corrupt practices involving bribery, confirmed Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Spokesperson Queen K. Chibwe (Mrs.) in a Monday 30th August, 2021 Press Statement. Mutunda, a Police Officer based at Kasama Police Station was on Friday 27th August 2021, found guilty on Two (2) Counts of Corrupt Practices by a Public officer contrary to section 19 (1) of the Anti-Corruption Act no. 3 of 2012 In Count 1, details are that Mutunda corruptly solicited and...

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August 31, 2021

Kelvin Chisanga wants Wednesday 1st September, 2021 BOZ MPR to back restoration of investor confidence!


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Written by: Kelvin Chisanga +260 97 9305194 A STRONG rebound in Zambia’s investor confidence has potentially given birth to a huge impetus in seeing a different set of marginal value pegged against this year’s projected Gross Domestic Product (GDP), though we are still seeing an uphill battle to contain inflation, which has been gaining very little traction towards achieving inflationary target range of 6-8%. Following some essential key economic developments that we have witnessed from metrics such as forex, balance of trade, multilateral engagements of development finance by International Monetary Funds (IMF’s) support base through mechanism such as the injection...

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August 31, 2021

“Let us build Zambian opportunities,” pleads UPPZ’s Charles Chanda


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By Derrick Sinjela and Theresa Kalenga in Lusaka, Zambia UNITED Prosperous and Peaceful (UPPZ) leader Charles Chanda is urging President Hakainde Hichilema to dialogue with him as mining can resolve Zambia’s teething unemployment, income inequality and high poverty, a tripartite woe that has not soared young people. Offering to complement government effort, in a Monday 30th August 2021 Online Facebook Media Engagement themed: ‘Let Us Arise and Take Investment Setiously’, Mr. Chanda argued that ‘Bally’ alone cannot fix the vulnerability confronting the Zambian people. An entreprenuer in his own right, President Chanda is pleading with the New Dawn UPND Alliance...

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August 30, 2021

“Thanks to Dr. Mizizi Wa Mizizi I have a man who loves me by my side”


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Most of us may be familiar with that painful, sinking feeling that follows after being rejected by someone you really liked…or loved. A Zambian lady struggled with one broken relationship after another, having been rejected by each of the men she dated.  A story of a woman being rejected again and again. For anyone who has been rejected by a lover or been in a relationship that seemed to have blossomed then suddenly it withered away and died, the reasons for rejection may not be so clear cut as they would seem. Some of the immediate thoughts border along whether...

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August 28, 2021

“Zambian opposition parties are vision less,” taunts Thabo Kawana


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Zambian opposition parties are vision less By Theresa Kalenga United Party for National Development (UPND) Alliance Media Director Thabo Kawana is laughing at opposition politicians for lacking foresight. In an apparent reference to delayed appointment of Cabinet Ministers and Senior Civil Servants, Mr. Kawana argued that it is both ridiculous and ludicrous for such sentiment to be raised. Kawana says the uncoordinated outbursts from the opposition are not worthy debutting, stressing that clearly indicating that the Patriotic Front (PF) and it’s surrogates have not settled down in opposition politics “The UPND Alliance Administration is still in transition and not in...

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August 28, 2021

Zambia Police hunt suspected Chililabombwe defiler


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By Esther Mwaata Katongo Zambia Police Spokesperson Saturday 28th August, 2021 – POLICE in Chililabombwe District of Copperbelt Province are looking for Weston Mwendia for allegedly defiling and impregnating his double orphan grade seven niece aged 14. The sexual abuse is alleged to have occurred on several occasions from April, 2021 at the suspects house in Chililabombwe District where the victim was being kept. The report was made by the grandfather of the victim aged 72 and the victim is reported to be five (5) months pregnant. The victim was staying with her uncle (maternal uncle) now suspect at the...

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August 28, 2021

Message of Goodwill to HH – Zambia’s Roads Sector Require Reforms


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By Mthoniswa Banda Group Admin – Zambia Roads & Highway Safety Group (ZRHSG) +260977 405086  Lusaka 26/08/21 – THE Zambian Roads & Highway Safety Group (ZRHSG) would like to express its message of goodwill to President Hakainde Hichilema for being elected 7th Republican President of Zambia and for the United Party for National Development (UPND) for emerging victorious in the just ended General and Presidential elections. The Highway Safety Group wishes President HH and the UPND success in their term of office. The Highway Safety Group is pleased to note that President HH is a proponent of a free market economy in which...

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August 27, 2021

CiSCA on HH’s victory in the 12th August 2021 General Elections


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By Judith Mulenga Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) Chairperson Lusaka, Tuesday 17th August, 2021: THE Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) congratulates the people of Zambia for once again demonstrating to ourselves and others of our unshakable belief in democracy. The large numbers that voted and in doing so unequivocally replaced a corrupt stifling dictatorship of President Edgar Chagwa Lungu with that of the President Elect Hakainde Hichilema under very oppressive and repressive conditions is nothing short of a miracle. CiSCA wholeheartedly congratulates the United Party for National Development for affirming the tenets of democracy by the Party’s consistency, perseverance in the...

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