Category: Business

By Luswepo Mutepuka LUKASHYA Independent Member of Parliament Mwenya Mukonge has reiterated his August 2016 commitment to develop the constituency located in Kasama District of the Northern Province. An accountant by profession, Mr. Mukonge says he is implementing infrastructure development in the education, health and skills sectors. Mr. Mukonge says improvement in the education and health sectors is facilitated by the annually provided K1.4 million Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and personal money earned as a parliamentarian and entreprenuer. Since assuming parliamentary office, classrooms and teacher’s accommodation cited as a thorny Siamese Twin is taking centre stage on Mwenya Mukonge’s Lukashya...

COVID 19 fuelled food deficit worries SEPA CEO Mailes Zulu-Muke By Derrick Sinjela Save Environment and People Agency (SEPA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ms. Mailes Zulu Muke is worried that Zambia’s Food Security is compromised due to the devastating impact of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID 19) which continues to wreck global impact on humanity. In a Tuesday 31th March 2020 Voice Recording Four Minute 25 Seconds Press Statement from Zambezi District, North-Western Province, Ms. Zulu-Muke observed that Zambia is likely to be burdened by food insecurity, as life in general has been negatively impacted by COVID 19 consequences. Ms. Zulu-Muke...

By Luswepo Mutepuka A LUSAKA resident Joe Kamutumwa has challenged Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) to provide evidence based statistics to the Zambian citizens that it is making loses for it to fire over 11, 000 workers on the Copperbelt. And a worried Mr. Kamutumwa has doubted if the Mopani Copper Mine has followed the laid down procedures warranting the mining fir to fire over 11, 000 workers, a rushed development that will worsen unemployment levels in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province. Mr. Kamutumwa said in an interview in Lusaka that Zambians will not accept such maneuvers by the mining company to lay...

By Luswepo Mutepuka National Assemblies of Pentecostal of Holiness Bishop Chrispin Zulu has cautioned political parties against politicizing the outbreak of Corona Virus which has resulted in Zambia recording two deaths, out of the recorded 40 cases. As Zambia’s cumulative Coronavirus Disease (covid 19) statistics released by the Ministry of Health were 40, out of which recoveries stood at 25, with two deaths and 13 active cases as at Good Friday 10th April 2020, Bishop Zulu encouraged citizens to forgo individual political affiliations and join hands in curbing the spread of the Coronavirus. With a cross section of citizens commending...