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Freedom of the Press and Expression at Risk as Government Suspends Prime Television Broadcasting License, cries Nalucha Nganga Ziba

Freedom of the Press and Expression at Risk as Government Suspends Prime Television Broadcasting License, cries Nalucha Nganga Ziba


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ActionAid Zambia 38G Kabulonga Road Ibex Hill P.O. Box 51407 Lusaka, Zambia Telephone: +260 (0)9 664 53677 Email: info.zambia@actionaid.org FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND EXPRESSION AT RISK AS GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS PRIME TELEVISION BROADCASTING LICENSE ActionAid Zambia is deeply concerned with the draconian decision by the Zambian Government to suspend the broadcasting license of the privately owned Prime Television. The Patriotic Front (PF) Government through the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA,) on Thursday, 9th April 2020, suspended the broadcasting license of Prime television under the guise of public interest. The decision by the Zambian government to cancel the broadcasting license of Prime...

Nkeyema Member of Parliament Kapelwa Mbangweta protests cancellation of the Prime TV station’s Broadcasting License as matter is still active in Courts


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By Luswepo Mutepuka UNITED PARTY for National Development (UPND) Nkeyema Member of Parliament (MP) Kapelwa Mbangweta of Nkeyema District is a district of Western Province has doubted the motive behind by government through the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) to cancel the Prime TV station License when the matter is still active in the Courts of Law. Mr. Mbangweta said in an interview in Lusaka that he expected the Zambian government to first listen to his apology and stakeholder protestations as opposed to revoking his license, a development that will result in job losses. Mr. Mbangweta says it is unfortunate that...

General Education Minister Minister David Mabumba says pupils will not to pay tuition fees once classes resume


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By Luswepo Mutepuka General Education Minister David Mabumba says school user fees that paid before the end of term one should be carried through to term two as learners did not get any form of education mentorship in the stated period. Mr. Mabumba, a Patriotic Front (PF) Member of Parliament (MP) for Mwense in Luapula Province says when President Edgar Lungu announced the current closure of schools, only three weeks remained before the end of term one. And Mr. Mabumba has announced that the Ministry is still consulting education sector technocrats and stakeholders on how the grade twelve General Certificate...

Senior Citizen Joe Kamutumwa challenges Mopani Copper Mines to reverse a decision to fire 11, 000 workers


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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...

Bishop Chrispin Zulu preaches against politicizing the outbreak of Coronavirus in Zambia


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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...

Zambia must ban plastic carrier bags, insists Integrated Community Litter Initiative National Chairperson Pascal Chikumbi


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By Luswepo Mutepuka The Integrated Community Litter Initiative (ICALI) National Chairperson Pascal Chikumbi has called for a total ban of plastics countrywide by the Ministry of Commerce Trade and Industry a means of maintaining a clean and green environment. Noting the undegrading nature of plastics, Mr. Chikumbi says encouraging paper carrier bags and wrappers is the only way the country can save the environment from mounting mountains of used plastic waste pollution. Noting Zambia’s lack of capacity to clean the environment through plastic recycling, Chikumbi expressed dismay at the continued disposal of waste in both public and private institutions located...

Panos urges IBA to rescind the cancellation of Prime TV broadcasting license


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Issued by: Vusumuzi Sifile Executive Director, Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) Email: vusa@panos.org.zm Lusaka, 09 April 2020: Panos Institute Southern Africa is saddened by the cancellation of Prime Television’s broadcasting license, and calls on the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) to rescind its decision and reinstate one of Zambia’s leading privately owned media houses. In a letter to Prime TV proprietor Gerald Shawa on 09 April 2020, the IBA Board Secretary/Director General Josephine Mapoma said the TV station’s broadcasting license had been cancelled “with immediate effect”. The IBA said the cancellation of Prime TV’s broadcasting license was in line with provisions of Section...

Accelerating Africans’ industrialisation based on agriculture as a business, prods Thomson Silomba


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  ACCERALATING AFRICAN`S INDUSTRIALIZATIONS BASED ON AGRICULTURE AS A BUSINESS WRITTEN BY: SILOMBA THOMSON – Agents of Change Foundation Zambia (ACFZ) +260971602312 Kabwe, Central Province Most of African countries got independence in the early 60s. Since then, this has remained only political independence, that, evidently, this has been the thick genesis to most of countries experiencing conflicts and pandemonium provisions that have left most of people homeless and bursting them in informal sector. Without a thick doubt, most countries has suffered economically due to lack of accountability, transparency and not knowing the game they are in, leaders. I say so,...

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