Category: Education

ZAMBEEF’S ZAMLOAF ‘SELLING LIKE HOT-CAKES’

ZAMBEEF’S ZAMLOAF ‘SELLING LIKE HOT-CAKES’

Zambeef’s Mtendere Macro outlet customers wake up to freshly baked bread LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – ‘Fresh, hot and soft’ is how Zambeef’s Mtendere Macro outlet customers will be served their daily bread with the re-opening of a pilot Zamloaf outlet. The food nation’s largest processor and retailer – motto: feeding the nation – is using the latest precision baking techniques to make the finest bread in Mtendere, using local wheat from its Zambian farms “Zambeef is big on value addition that is aimed at closing the gap between the primary production of local produce and food processing, so we have taken...

UN Assembly President rings Nasdaq bell; sounds alarm on behalf of world’s endangered ocean

UN Assembly President rings Nasdaq bell; sounds alarm on behalf of world’s endangered ocean

By Via UN News Centre The President of the United Nations General Assembly opened the trading day in New York this morning to send the message that the world’s ocean health is in distress. “The ocean is in trouble,” said Peter Thomson prior to ringing the Opening Bell of the Nasdaq Stock Market in its Times Square headquarters. Outlining the perils that lie ahead for the world’s oceans – including warming, acidification, declining fish stocks and a growing hypoxic zone where no life exists – Mr. Thomson noted that as for marine pollution, “there will be more plastic in the...

Youtap launches mobile money QR code solution and apps for growth markets in Africa and Asia

Youtap launches mobile money QR code solution and apps for growth markets in Africa and Asia

Karen Knott Head of Communications Youtap Karen.Knott@Youtap.com +64 9 360 9719 On the web: www.Youtap.com Twitter: @youtap2pay New smartphone apps designed to simplify mobile money payments NAIROBI, Kenya, August 21, 2017/ — Youtap (www.Youtap.com), a global provider of contactless mobile payments and financial services software, has launched a QR code solution and smartphone apps for mobile money services in Africa and Asia. Youtap’s solution enables customer-initiated or merchant-initiated QR code payments for smartphones and smart point-of-sale devices. The solution conforms to the BharatQR industry standard developed by Bharat, Mastercard and Visa. Youtap’s apps can be white-labelled and branded with the logo...

Absa Bank Limited refinances and upsizes Harmony Gold Limited’s existing Term Debt Facility

Absa Bank Limited refinances and upsizes Harmony Gold Limited’s existing Term Debt Facility

By Calvin Mashigo  Absa Group Media Relations 011 350 4663, 076 400 9349 Email: Calvin.Mashigo@BarclaysAfrica.com PRmedia@Absa.co.za   The transaction was oversubscribed with the debt syndicated to a total of 8 Lenders, including 3 new Lenders   JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, August 18, 2017/ — Absa Bank (www.Absa.co.za) has successfully refinanced and upsized Harmony Gold Limited’s existing USD 250,000,000 Term Debt to a 3 year USD 350,000,000 facility. Absa Bank acted as Bookrunner, Co-ordinator and Mandated Lead Arranger. The transaction was oversubscribed with the debt syndicated to a total of 8 Lenders, including 3 new Lenders. This allowed Harmony to broaden its...

Absa Bank Limited and China Development Bank Conclude a $100 million Agreement

Absa Bank Limited and China Development Bank Conclude a $100 million Agreement

By Lerato Matsaneng  Absa Group Media Relations 064 757 4716 Lerato.Matsaneng@Absa.co.za PRmedia@Absa.co.za   This is the first major transaction between the two lenders and is geared towards providing funding to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, August 18, 2017/ — Absa Bank Limited (www.Absa.co.za), a subsidiary of the Barclays Africa Group (BAGL) (www.BarclaysAfrica.com), has successfully concluded a five year $100 million Special Facility Agreement with the China Development Bank (CDB). This is the first major transaction between the two lenders and is geared towards providing funding to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). This will also benefit BAGL’s existing...

Ministry of Community Development and Social Services  Permanent Secretary Rev. Dr. Howard Sikwela  Monday 21ST AUGUST, 2017  SCT-ZAMPOST speech

Ministry of Community Development and Social Services Permanent Secretary Rev. Dr. Howard Sikwela Monday 21ST AUGUST, 2017 SCT-ZAMPOST speech

  AT THE SIGNING CEREMONY OF THE SOCIAL CASH TRANSFER (SCT) ZAMPOST PAYMENT SYSTEM OF THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE SOCIAL CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMME HELD AT PAMODZI HOTEL   Monday 21ST AUGUST, 2017   THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE, REPRESENTATIVE, THE POST MASTER GENERAL, THE ZAMPOST DELEGATES, THE COOPERATING PARTNERS PRESENT, DIRECTORS PRESENT, SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PRESENT, MEMBERS OF THE PRESS, MAY I SIMPLY SAY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,   I AM HONOURED AND DELIGHTED TO OFFICIATE AT THIS SIGNING CEREMONY OF THE SOCIAL CASH TRANSFER ZAMPOST PAYMENT PARTNERSHIP FOR THE SOCIAL CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMME. MY MINISTRY IS COMMITTED TO ENSURING THAT THE...

Professor Enala Mwase showers praise on Musanje Maggie Bukowa’s ‘She Inspires’ Mazyopa donation

Professor Enala Mwase showers praise on Musanje Maggie Bukowa’s ‘She Inspires’ Mazyopa donation

By Thomas Kabwe Mulenga   An organisation formed and led by some University of Zambia students known as “She inspires” donated assorted items to the underprivileged Mazyopa Township people in Lusaka’s Munali Constituency on Saturday 19th August 2017.   Mandevu Constituency is under the jurisdiction of Member of Parliament (MP) Ms. Jean Kapata, who is Land and Natural Resources Minister.   ‘She Inspires’ Good Samaritan’ donation included mealie meal, cooking oil, soap, clothes, to name but four items”.   “She inspires” founder Musanje Maggie Bukowa, a third year student of media and communication studies said the organisation was moved by...

Zambia holds Dr. Levy Patrick Mwanawasa’s 9th memorial Saturday 19th August 2017

Zambia holds Dr. Levy Patrick Mwanawasa’s 9th memorial Saturday 19th August 2017

By Derrick Sinjela Sad, today Saturday 19th August 2017, marks nine years from Friday 19th August 2008 our pal Levy Patrick Mwanawasa rested…really sad can vividly recall interviewing Zambia’s Third Republican President, the late Dr. Levy Patrick Mwanawasa State Counsel (SC)…@Kudu road in Lusaka after which to paraphrase my National Mirror peer Francis Lungu, I wrote a jolly good story for Multimedia Zambia …which feat or journalistic heritage inspired and mentored Fullman James Mukobeko Nico and I to conceive or literally birth the widely respected Rainbownews Zambia Rainbow Zambia Rainbow Traveltourismzambia Zcyp Development and Zambian Developmental Media Alliance (ZADEMA)  www.derricksinjela.blogspot.com… #PromotingDiversityInMediaCoverage  ...

Ian Banda on disabilities

By Caesar Edw ard Sindele A physically challenged Mandela Washington Fellowship graduate Ian Banda has bemoaned the poor DisabilityPolicies in Zambia.   In an interview with Pan African Radio today, Banda who is a disability advocate and member of the Youth Equality Disability pressure group, a wing of the Zambia Association of Parents of Children with Disabilities (ZAPCD), said government and disability organizations should partner to promote the rights of people living with disabilities. Banda, whose mobility is restricted to a wheelchair, noted that his disability is no longer a challenge but a cost because he pays for his wheelchair...

Isaac Mwanza chekmates DPP Siyunyi

Isaac Mwanza chekmates DPP Siyunyi

By Isaac Mwanza Today we discussed the following issues on Comet Radio – 93.7 FM concerning the release of Mr. Hichilema and his co – accused. Following our discussions with members from our legal team of young lawyers and students that went into the early hours of this morning; We fully agreed that Mr. Hichilema and other accused persons were discharged based on a Nolle entered by the DPP. The words of the DPP in court were as follows: “At this juncture I would like to inform the honorable court that I am entering a nolle prosequi in respect of...

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