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January 5, 2021

Zambia’s political climate worries Bishop Hard Mambo


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By Derrick Sinjela FORMER Civil society for Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) Board Chairperson Bishop John Hard Mambo is alarmed at the deteriorating human rights situation in Zambia ahead of the country’s 2021 polls, worsened on Wednesday 23rd January 2020, when a National Prosecution Authority (NPA) Prosecutor Nsama Nsama Chipyoka and Joseph Kaunda of the United Party for National Development (UPND) were killed by two live bullets. A fortnight and a day after the shooting, Bishop Mambo has noted with dismay the increased hostility by state officials and security agents in Zambia towards the media and opposition elements in the run-up to...

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January 5, 2021

Clean your house, Zambia Historian Professor Bizeck Phiri implores ECZ


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By Derrick Sinjela A UNIVERSITY of Zambia Historian Professor Bizeck Phiri has advised the Electoral Commission of Zambia to put its house in order so as to guarantee a free, fair and credible Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government election on Thursday 12th August 2021. Professor Phiri has noted that as at Tuesday 7th January 2021, the electoral body had 219 days within which to put to ‘Elections House’ in appropriate order to ensure the team led by Chairperson Justice Essau Chulu and Chief Electoral Officer Patrick Kryticous Nshindano do not become ‘Blame Ducks’ due to failure to do their work...

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January 5, 2021

Electricity reaches Senior Chief Ntambu and Chief Sailunga’s area’s


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By Derrick Sinjela AS Zambia increases access to electricity, the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) Chief Executive Officer Clement Silavwe is delighted that Kasanjiku Mini Hydro Power Station in Mwinilunga District of the North-Western Province is set to benefit over 12,000 people at a cost of US$8.6 million and scheduled for handover in 2021. An elated Mr. Silavwe said in an interview in Lusaka that the Kasanjiku project located on the Kasanjiku River in Mwinilunga District of the North-Western Province will improve the quality of life for beneficiaries at household and community level in both Senior Chief Ntambu and Chief Sailunga’s...

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January 4, 2021

Lying, bullying and bribing people


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Fred M’membe President of the Socialist Party Garden Compound, Lusaka January 4, 2021 As we approach August 12 lies will increase from our politicians. As they always do during election periods, attempts will be made to deceive and manipulate our people with mealie-meal, salt, sugar, cooking oil, soap, chitenges, t-shirts and some little amounts of money. This is the way they try to buy votes cheaply. But the Zambian people shouldn’t forget Michael Sata’s great teaching on this score: Don’t Kubeba – take whatever they bring, and even ask them for more, but don’t vote for them! Don’t let them...

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January 3, 2021

Review and Forecast for the 2020/2021 Football Season


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By John Dino Banda THE world’s popular and beautiful sport football suffered a blow from a sucker punch inflicted by the deadly Coronavirus (covid 19), menace together with other sports disciplines world over not being spared. For soccer fans globally, the past year 2020 was rather a calendar gone without action on the pitch as the world soccer governing Body – the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) but also continental confederations halted games in Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America, and else where halted games to help curtail the spreed of the disease. This was done in line with guidance from...

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January 1, 2021

PRESS BRIEFING –STATEMENT BY NATIONAL BIOSAFETY AUTHORITY (NBA) COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER SANDRA LOMBE


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PRESS BRIEFING DECEMBER 30, 2020 VENUE: ASMARA HOTEL TIME: 08:00 HOURS PRESS BRIEFING –STATEMENT BY NBA COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER SANDRA LOMBE GOOD MORNING, I WELCOME YOU ALL TO THIS BRIEFING. THANK YOU THAT YOU FOUND TIME FROM YOUR BUSY SCHEDULE TO COME. THE NATIONAL BIOSAFETY AUTHORITY (NBA) HAS ENJOYED A CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MEDIA FRATERNITY. WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THE YEAR 2020 HAS HAD ITS OWN CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES AND THE AUTHORITY HAS HAD A SHARE OF ITS FATE WHILE EXECUTING ITS DUTIES. CHALLENGES THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC AFFECTED US JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE. THE PANDEMIC...

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January 1, 2021

Statement on President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s Measures Following the Extra Judicial Killing of Two Citizens


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  Issued by: Judith Mulenga CiSCA Chairperson Lusaka, 31 December 2020: The Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) considers the measures taken by President Edgar Chagwa Lungu following the Police extra judicial killing of prosecutor Nsama Nsama and UPND supporter, Joseph Kaunda as tokenistic, dismally inadequate and mere window dressing.   On Tuesday, President Lungu announced that he had fired the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Operations Bonnie Kapeso and his counterpart in charge of Administration Eugene Sibote, and that he had given Inspector General of Police, Kakoma Kanganja a six months’ improvement contract. Dismissing the Inspector General of...

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January 1, 2021

REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA REMARKS DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MR. EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA AT THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONY FOR SENIOR OFFICERS OF THE ZAMBIA POLICE SERVICE THURSDAY, 31ST DECEMBER, 2020 STATE HOUSE LUSAKA


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BEFORE WE GO FURTHER WITH OUR CEREMONY, MAY WE OBSERVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN HONOUR OF OUR DEPARTED BROTHERS WHOSE LIVES WERE ABRUPTLY TAKEN AWAY IN VERY UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES, NAMELY, MR NSAMA NSAMA AND MR JOSEPH KAUNDA (SILENCE).   MAY THE SOULS OF THE DEPARTED REST IN ETERNAL PEACE.   THE EVENTS OF LAST WEEK HAVE NOT ONLY BROUGHT OUT SO MUCH SORROW TO THE FAMILIES OF THE TWO DEPARTED INDIVIDUALS; THE EVENTS OF LAST WEEK HAVE BROUGHT GRIEF TO THE WHOLE NATION.   AS PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE DEFENCE  FORCE, I MOURN WITH THE FAMILES OF THE...

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January 1, 2021

REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MR. EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA ON THE EVE OF THE NEW YEAR THURSDAY, 31ST DECEMBER, 2020 STATE HOUSE LUSAKA


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COUNTRYMEN AND WOMEN, GOOD EVENING. IN A FEW HOURS TIME, THE NEW YEAR WILL ARRIVE. THE COUNT DOWN TO 2021 WILL BE OVER.  WE ARE GRATEFUL TO THE ALMIGHTY GOD FOR HIS GRACE THAT HAS ENABLED US TO REACH THIS FAR, AS WE END THE YEAR 2020 AND ENTER THE NEW YEAR, 2021. THIS IS THE MOMENT WE LOOK BACK AT THE JOURNEY WE HAVE TRAVERSED TOGETHER IN 2020.  IT IS TIME TO REFLECT ON THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES WE FACED TOGETHER AS A NATION.  IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE OUR SUCCESSES WITH RENEWED HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. COUNTRYMEN AND...

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December 27, 2020

Triumphant Foundation Trust clocks a year ‘Sowing seeds of love’ beyond Zambia


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By Derrick Sinjela & Nakamba Mwinji THE physical tenacity and emotional energy exhibited Triumphant Foundation Trust (TFT founder Holla Kunda-Simbeye has a huge heritage her mother Clara Kalunga-Kunda, as she raised a saint in her daughter from a humble ground. When this author reached by phone through in Ndola, Ms. Kalunga-Kunda nostalgically reminisced purchasing a unit of eggs (10)) which once boiled Ms. Kunda-Simbeye was tasked to resell as a form of raising domestic income. On her part the families ‘Kasuli’ a Bemba  reference to a last born sibling, Otensia, a general trader now blessed with a 7-year-old son, Kunda,...

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