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2017 AMI DECLARATION DECLARATION OF THE 8TH ALTERNATIVE MINING INDABA

2017 AMI DECLARATION DECLARATION OF THE 8TH ALTERNATIVE MINING INDABA

By Malcolm Damon, AMI Secretariat 1 2017 AMI DECLARATION DECLARATION OF THE 8TH ALTERNATIVE MINING INDABA “MAKING NATURAL RESOURCES WORK FOR THE PEOPLE: DOMESTICATION OF THE AFRICA MINING VISION: FROM VISION TO REALITY’’ We, representatives of over 450 members of faith-based organisations, civil society organisations, community-based organisations, Pan-African networks and organisations, labour movements, women movements, human rights activists, media, students from African countries and our international partners met on February 6 – 8, 2017 in Cape Town to share experience, lessons and deliberate on the role and the impacts of extractives on communities, national economies, the environment and society at large....

NGOCC SUPPORTS THE PAYMENT OF “LOBOLA”

NGOCC SUPPORTS THE PAYMENT OF “LOBOLA”

Press Release For Immediate Release 26th  February 2017   The Non Governmental Organisations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has noted the ongoing debate that has engrossed the country on whether government should regulate or abolish the payment of bride price commonly referred to as “Lobola” in Southern Africa. As an organization, we note that payment of bride price in Zambia called “Lobola”, “Chimalo”, “Impango”, “Lubono“ and so forth, depending on what part of the country one comes from, is a tradition that defines how we as a people celebrate our marriage rite. However, NGOCC is deeply concerned with the commercialisation of “Lobola”...

Poverty Reduction Begins with Children

Poverty Reduction Begins with Children

By Tendai Posiana CHILDREN are often the hardest hit vulnerable age-group by poverty, as it causes lifelong damage to their spiritual minds and physical bodies. Like women, children especially the girl-child carry the brunt of poverty coined in the slogan ‘feminisation of vulnerability.’ Poverty becomes to greater extent an inheritance as impoverished people are more often than not likely to pass on to their biological children, thus perpetuating the poverty cycle. It is against this backdrop that poverty reduction work must begin with children, by teaching or imparting life-living skills. In addition, I concur with a school of thought imploring...

Faith Real Estate N Property Consultants

Faith Real Estate N Property Consultants

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Faith Real Estate N Property Consultants

Faith Real Estate N Property Consultants

    PLOTS FOR SALE: 250 HECTARES=K50, 000 ‘PER ACRE ON TITLE NEAR ECONOMIC ZONE ALONG LEOPARDS HILL ROAD.SILVEREST:28MX35=K130, 000. ON TITLE. 70MX65M=K150, 000. 00, ON OFFER 50MX40M=K95 60MX55 ON OFFER, CHONGWE: 10 HECTARES ALONG MAIN ROAD K130, 000. 00. 5 HECTARES=K55, 000. 00. 3.5 HECTARES=K45, 000.00. 7 HECTARES=K60, 000. 00 ALONG MAIN ROAD 10 HECTARES=K60, 000 20 HECTARES=K80, 000.00 CALL: MR MBEWE -0977644111

King Cobra Sata offered me a job-Prince Bryce Mfune

King Cobra Sata offered me a job-Prince Bryce Mfune

….recalls Zambia’s Spy-Smasher …after saving Zambia from a planned attack by the SA Boer-led Apartheid regime By Ashton Kelly Bunda, Fulman James Mukobeko and Derrick Sinjela FORMER Zambia State Security Intelligence Services (ZSSIS) Intelligence Officer Prince Bryce Mfune brands himself a victim of interference by Office of the President (OP) operatives who continuously frustrated a compensation pledge by 5th Republican President, the late King Cobra-Michael Chilufya Sata However, Mfune remains confident that the good offices of Patriotic Front (PF) Government led by a ‘Listening’ Republican President Edgar Chagwa Lungu will compensate him for saving ‘Mother Zambia” from Apartheid aerial and...

Nissan scientifically proves the UEFA Champions League’s most exciting moments

Nissan scientifically proves the UEFA Champions League’s most exciting moments

Nissan Excitement Index, in partnership with Loughborough University, scientifically proves FC Barcelona as the UEFA Champions League’s most exciting team to date Dani Alves, Mesut Özil and Lionel Messi all feature on the ‘exciting eleven’ team sheet from the tournament’s group stage FC Borussia Dortmund and Legia Warsaw’s twelve goal thriller in November scientifically the ‘most exciting game’ of the UEFA Champions League season so far   Rolle, Switzerland (Feb 13th, 2017) – Nissan and leading scientists have created a formula that officially proves the UEFA Champions League’s most exciting games, teams and players this season. The unique method called...

Antananarivo the place of a thousand warriors

Antananarivo the place of a thousand warriors

Travelogue by Emmanuel Mwamba Antananarivo- 15th February 2017 “You cannot point using your fingers, claw it or fold it to point at anything” advised the guide. Wooden structures represented life while stone buildings and bricks were for the dead. “When entering the palace you step with your right foot first.” He demonstrated. “And when coming out kindly exit walking backwards”. A young lad acting as our tour guide from the tourism office had nuggets of frequent advice when he led us on a tour of the Queen’s Palace in the topmost hill of Antananarivo. “And eggs were forbidden to eat...

If Britons Honored Dog; what about me-cries  Prince Bryce Mfune

If Britons Honored Dog; what about me-cries Prince Bryce Mfune

By Ashton Kelly Bunda, Fulman James Mukobeko and Derrick Sinjela FORMER Zambia State Security Intelligence Services (ZSSIS) Intelligence Officer Prince Bryce Mfune says an opportune exists for the Patriotic Front (PF) Government led by a ‘LISTENING’ Republican President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to compensate him for dying a little for ‘Mother Zambia.” A 67-year-old straight-talking Prince Mfune is not amused that a citizen is honoured for merely singing ‘bubble-gum’ music while his peers who put life on the ‘imperialist’ chopping board remain unsung heroes and heroines. Following his recruitment into the secret service, a tart Prince Mfune nostalgically reminisced sacrificing his...

Felix Mutati is a lucky man

Felix Mutati is a lucky man

By Fulman Mulongoti and Derrick Sinjela PEOPLE’S Party president Mulongoti says the Patriotic Front (PF) is the most generous party in the world after offering an Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD)  leader Felix Mutati to run the national treasury as Finance Minister. Asked by Pan African Radio News Feedback programme presenter Caesar Sindele as to whether or not President Edgar Chagwa Lungu can offer Mutati an opportunity to act as President in his absence, and that of Vice President, Inonge Mutukwa-Wina, Mulongoti said unfortunately the constitution does not see Mutati as Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) but as a cabinet...

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