Government has dispelled reports that the Special division of the office of the President is tapping into phone conversations of citizens. Communication and Transport Minister Christopher Yaluma says the rumors are not true, stating that government can never authorize such because it respects the rights of citizens. Mr. Yaluma says it is time some citizens… Read More »
KCM fires 11 bosses
February 23, 2013 Leave a Comment
ABOUT 11 senior managers at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in Chingola have been dropped, highly-placed sources have disclosed. The sources said KCM fired the managers in a bid to ‘reduce the labour force’ and that the matter had created uncertainty among the remaining Zambian senior members of staff. Those affected include senior manager upper ore… Read More »
Lungu takes Lubinda’s seat
February 23, 2013 Leave a Comment
FOREIGN Affairs Deputy Minister Effron Lungu has taken up Given Lubinda’s seat in Parliament following the departure of the Foreign Affairs Minister to the back bench. Dr Lungu, who is also Chama South Patriotic Front (PF) member of Parliament, sat on the seat reserved for the Foreign Affairs minister throughout Parliamentary proceedings yesterday. Mr Lubinda… Read More »
Pistorius spends night out of cell
February 23, 2013 Leave a Comment
South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius – who faces murder charges over the shooting of his girlfriend – has spent his first night out of custody after being granted bail. At a pre-trial hearing on Friday, a Pretoria magistrate ruled the state had not made a case that he would flee, or that he had… Read More »
RB seeking asylum in SA – says Sata
February 15, 2013 Leave a Comment
PRESIDENT Michael Sata says former Republican President Rupiah Banda, MMD leader Nevers Mumba and his UPND counterpart Hakainde Hichilema travelled to South Africa to seek asylum but were snubbed by that government. Mr Sata has since challenged Mr Banda and the two opposition leaders to be brave enough and answer charges they are facing instead… Read More »
Nurse nabbed after ‘Malukula’
February 15, 2013 Leave a Comment
THE SAGA in which a morgue attendant locally known as a Malukula’ was arrested for allegedly stealing from the dead in the Post bus accident has sucked in an unlikely suspect—a male nurse at Liteta Hospital who also allegedly participated in the shocking theft. About 54 people perished in the road traffic accident last Thursday… Read More »
TIZ wants demonstration against Rupiah’s immunity
February 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
RUPIAH Banda is running away from crimes he has committed by going to the Commonwealth through his proxies, says information minister Kennedy Sakeni. And Sakeni has maintained that former president Banda and his former press aide, Dickson Jere, had travelled to South Africa almost at the same time as UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema and MMD’s Nevers… Read More »
3 death-row prisoners escape
February 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
THREE prisoners on death-row have staged a movie-style escape from Mukobeko Maximum Security Prison in Kabwe for the first time in 30 years shattering the holding facility’s ‘impregnable’ record. The inmates, identified as Derrick Mwape, Shadrick Phiri and Barnard Kapaso, have baffled guards at the heavily fortified and guarded prison through this escape. Zambia Prisons… Read More »
UPND MP Monde appointed minister
February 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
PRESIDENT Michael Sata has appointed Itezhi Tezhi United Party for National Development (UPND) Member of Parliament (MP) Greyford Monde as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. Meanwhile, President Sata has swapped Commerce Minister Robert Sichinga with his Agriculture and Livestock counterpart Emmanuel Chenda. Mr Monde becomes the first UPND MP to be… Read More »
Nigeria soccer body wanted Renard
February 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
COACH Stephen Keshi has said that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) wanted to sack him during the just-ended Orange 2013 Africa Cup and replace him with Chipolopolo trainer Herve Renard. But when contacted for a comment, Renard, who has 18 months remaining on his Zambian contract, denied Keshi’s claims saying he had no idea of… Read More »
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