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Towards Addressing Fiscal and Debt Challenges for Sustained Macroeconomic Stability and Growth

Towards Addressing Fiscal and Debt Challenges for Sustained Macroeconomic Stability and Growth


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By Bernadette Deka Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) Executive Director On the 14th of June, 2018 the Honourable Minister of Finance Mrs. Margaret Mwanakatwe, MP released a statement addressing fiscal and debt challenges for sustained macroeconomic stability and growth. The measures announced by the Ministry of Finance are consistent with PMRC’s recommendations made to Parliament and Government ministries over the last three years. The proposed measures include; strategies to curb the debt stock and the pace of debt accumulation, Government arrears, unsustainable Government expenditure, revenue measures and communication on economic and financial matters. In relation to debt the following...

Guess Nyirenda condemns Nkandu Luo’s denial of 5 UNZA Students bursaries 

Guess Nyirenda condemns Nkandu Luo’s denial of 5 UNZA Students bursaries 


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By Derrick Sinjela OPERATION Young Vote (OYV) Executive Director Guess Nyirenda has condemned Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo unilateral decision to remove the five (5) University of Zambia (UNZA) students from Government sponsorship. Mr. Nyirenda described Professor Luo’s move as personal, appalling, unacceptable, an outright abuse of authority and office, infringement of human rights and blocking citizen right to education for the said students. Nyirenda implored Professor Luo, a Patriotic Front (PF) Munali Member of Parliament (MP) to adhere to laid down students’ affairs disciplinary code by granting affected learners an opportunity to be heard, instead of taking a unilateral...

INSTITUTIONS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING 2013 TO 2016 UNLOCKING ZAMBIA’S POTENTIAL

INSTITUTIONS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING 2013 TO 2016 UNLOCKING ZAMBIA’S POTENTIAL


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REPORT OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL ON THE ACCOUNTS OF PARASTATAL BODIES AND STATUTORY By Bernadette Deka PMRC Executive Director Dear Friends and Colleagues On the 30th of November 2017, the Report of the Auditor General on Accounts of Parastatal Bodies and other Statutory Institutions for the financial years ending 31st December 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 was released to the public. The report indicated fourteen institutions (five parastatals and nine statutory institutions) that had not produced audited financial statements for the financial years up to 31st December 2016. The report also indicated twenty-two institutions(two parastatals and twenty statutory institutions) with...

Electricity will Industrialize rustic Zambia’s, prods Pastor Geoffrey Musonda

Electricity will Industrialize rustic Zambia’s, prods Pastor Geoffrey Musonda


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By Ashton Kelly Bunda aka (BAK2BAK) WITH barely 900, 000 of the 17 million plus citizenry being connected on the national electric power grind, Rural Electrification Authority (REA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Pastor Geoffrey Musonda says industrialisation will develop rustic areas. Pastor Musonda hods a view that the Rural Electrification Master Plan is key in expanding access to electric power as it focuses on fast tracking electricity infrastructure development rural areas, largely viewed as low density settlements. Pastor Musonda noted in an interview with the author on the side lines of the Zambia Off-Grid Investors Forum at Radisson Blu Hotel...

PROFILE:-  Rural Back Ground Plots Football Academy Coach Jethrow Matalise

PROFILE:- Rural Back Ground Plots Football Academy Coach Jethrow Matalise


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By Ashton Kelly Bunda aka (BAK 2BAK) IT IS PLAIN to see from the retired Zambia Army (ZA) Military Staff Sergeant’s eyes, a clearly burning ambition confronting new football career challenges and frontiers despite being born and bred in a deplorable rural back ground. “That is why I relocated back to my roots in the rural areas in Chongwe, my childhood dream of setting up a Soccer Academy to improve grassroots football in Zambia is about to come true and I have been assured of goodwill support,” the former Green Buffaloes football club (GBFC) Captain proudly explains. Jethrow Matalise, was...

Launch of the Zambia Country Chapter of the Regional Refugee Response Plan for the DRC situation

Launch of the Zambia Country Chapter of the Regional Refugee Response Plan for the DRC situation


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VENUE: Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia Remarks of UNHCR Representative Ms. Pierrine Aylara given by OIC Ms. Giulia Ricciarelli-Ranawat The Minister of Home Affairs, Honorable Stephen Kampyongo (MP) The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ms. Pamela Kabamba The Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Abdon Mawere Ambassadors and Members of the Diplomatic Corps Senior Government Officials The UN Resident Coordinator, Ms. Janet Rogan and colleagues from the United Nations Invited Ladies and gentlemen Thank you for joining us at the Zambia country chapter launch of the Regional Refugee Response Plan for the Democratic Republic of Congo situation. We are gathered...

ZAMBIA AND RUSSIA MUST INCREASE THEIR SCOPE OF COLLABORATION, MATIBINI

ZAMBIA AND RUSSIA MUST INCREASE THEIR SCOPE OF COLLABORATION, MATIBINI


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Speaker of the National Assembly Rt Hon Justice Dr Patrick Matibini, SC, FCIARB, MP, has reiterated the need for Zambia and Russia to increase their scope of collaboration. Speaking when the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Zambia, Mr. Konstantin Kozhanov paid a courtesy call on him on Monday, 21st May, 2018 at Parliament Buildings in Lusaka, Speaker Matibini said the two countries need to further relations in areas such as agriculture, trade and the advanced nuclear energy. “Russia has greatly advanced in the production of Veterinary medicine which could be beneficial to our...

Keith Mweemba secures Fresher Siwale’s freedom

Keith Mweemba secures Fresher Siwale’s freedom


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By  Fullman James Mukobeko Nico Arguably Zambian best lawyer Keith Mweemba has objected the video evidence produced on a DVD by Muvi Television in New Labour Party(NLP) leader Fresher Siwale Defamation of the President case, heard by Magistrate Alice Walusiku. This is a ‘Mother Case in which Mr. Siwale allegedly called President Edgar Chagwa Lungu an identity fraud, in account that the plaintiffs real name is Jonathan Mutawale. Meanwhile, there was jubilation within the electronically wired Court Room Court when Magistrate Alice Walisuku varied her own earlier granted bail condition of Siwale, who by 17:00 was driven to Kamwala Remand...

Gareth Cliff takes the reins as Comedy Central Roast Master

Gareth Cliff takes the reins as Comedy Central Roast Master


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Click here to download the promo      THERE WILL BE TEARS!       #ROASTZA Johannesburg, 10 April 2018: Trailblazer and straight-talker of free speech,Gareth Cliff has a new role – Roast Master to the Comedy Central Roast of Somizi! Fellow radio and television personality Somizi Mhlongo will be in the firing line ofCliff’s burning wit when the Comedy Central Roast of Somizi in partnership with Showmax is aired on Comedy Central (DStv channel 122) on Monday 7 May 2018 at 21:00 CAT. The extended uncensored version will be available to Showmax subscribers from Tuesday 8 May 2018. Viewers can expect outrageous hilarity and quick-witted snaps from Roast MasterGareth Cliff, whose 18 years’ career span offer ideal preparation for...

I got the signal, Mama, I a going for Mayorship brags Chilufya Tayali

I got the signal, Mama, I a going for Mayorship brags Chilufya Tayali


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By Economic and Equity Party (EEP) President Chilufya Tayali   I WILL NOT WASTE TOR TIME, like a woman from the East, who keeps on skirting around, when a marriage proposal is made, pretending as if she doesn’t want yet she dying for it. I asked a question and you answered me positively, now, go tell the next person, that, Tayali is going for the position of mayor vote for him. The immediate question comes on my Presidential ambitions, I want to inform you that, this position will just be an opportunity for me to learn something more on leadership,...

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