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By Derrick Sinjela and Ashton Kelly Bunda THE six (6) member Zambia Consortium on Tobacco Control has reiterated a  call urging  the Zambian Government, though Health Minister Dr. Jonas  Kamima Chanda to table tobacco control legislation (the “Tobacco Control Bill”) before Parliament adjourns sine die on Wednesday 12th May 2021. In a Wednesday 17th March Press Release circulated by Zambia Media Network  Against Tobacco (ZAMNAT) National Chairperson Paxina Phiri, the CSOs believe that tabling of  The Tobacco Control Bill is in essence domestication of the World Health Organization  Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (“WHO FCTC”) to which Zambia became a...

  By Derrick Sinjela and Ashton Kelly Bunda   PARTY of National Unity & Progress (PNUP) President Highvie Hamududu’s visit to farmers of Kalumbila area of North Western Province was a success and has been described by the party membership in the province as a long overdue mobilisation and familisation tour.   Earlier, flanked by PNUP Secretary General (SG) Kasote Singogo and Lusaka Province Coordinator and Chairperson for lands Kauta Mantunta Mwale, Mr. Hamududu shared a message of youth progress, with Radio Icengelo journalist, in Kitwe during a spirited mobilisation exercise on the Copperbelt and North Western Provinces.   As...

Robert Katumba Kamalata eyes Mwinilunga parley seat By Derrick Sinjela and Ashton Kelly Bunda FORMER Senior Private Secretary to Dr. Guy Lindsay Scott, Robert Katumba Kamalata is in the race to Parliament seeking to represent for Mwinilunga Constituency, in the North-Western Province of Zambia. Mr. Kamalata successfully filled in his adoption papers at Mwinilunga UPND constituency office on Thursday 18th March 2021 before Mwinilunga Constituency Secretary Mr. Silver Kachong’u and Constituency Acting Chairperson Ms. Edith Mashindi. Mr Kamalata, who served in the Office of the Vice President as Senior Private Secretary for Dr. Guy Lindsay Scott is standing on the...

Thursday 11th March 2021 Press Release 10:00hrs – 11:00hrs VENUE: Plot189 Villa Elizabetha next to ZRA on Luanshya Road United National Independence Party By Lt Col. Henry Muyoba (Rtd) Interim UNIP President CELL: +260977513304 I wish to welcome members of the press, all ladies and gentlemen to this UNIP press briefing and kindly feel at home. I wish in the first place to state that I am one of the aspiring UNIP presidential candidates and with what I shall do for Zambian people. My political experience background is as follows. – I joined UNIP in 1959 as a freedom fighter and I...

REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON MEDIA, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON THE CYBER SECURITY AND CYBER CRIMES BILL, N.A.B. NO. 2 OF 2021 FOR THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE TWELFTH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Published by the National Assembly of Zambia REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON MEDIA, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON THE CYBER SECURITY AND CYBER CRIMES BILL, N.A.B. NO. 2 OF 2021 FOR THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE TWELFTH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TABLE...

Market Announcement – CEC Judicial Review Application In accordance with Section 3.4(b) of the Lusaka Securities Exchange Listings Requirements (“LuSE Listings Requirements”), the Board of Directors of Copperbelt Energy Corporation Plc (“CEC” or “the Company”) wishes to inform shareholders and the market that following the Minister of Energy’s declaration of CEC’s transmission and distribution lines as common carrier through the promulgation of SI No. 57 of 2020 dated 29th May 2020, and the subsequent decision of the Energy Regulation Board of 31st May 2020, directing a wheeling tariff equivalent to 30% of CEC’s standard network tariff, the Company took the decision to...