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...in another mukula scam

Saturnia has failed to deny that HH and Valentine Chitalu are partners in companies running Zambia’s largest multi employer scheme established Privatisation..

Mr. during Sampa Mr. Mucheleka

DECEPTIVE MATRIX WON’T STOP US

Hakainde Hichilema

Kasama MP warns UPND chief

…apologise or else, Mucheleka told [Page 4]

…Nawakwi vows to fight on with ex-miners

By NATION REPORTER ATURNIA operations are a complex matrix which cannot fool and stop the pensioners from claiming their pension, former Finance

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minister Edith Nawakwi has said.

Ms Nawakwi said the administrator and manager of the fund, Bencon and Aflife respectively are owned by companies in which UPND leader, Hakainde Hichilema and Zambia Privatisation Agency

former chief executive officer, Valentine Chitalu are shareholders.

She challenged Saturnia trustees to release the KPMG report, saying it revealed a lot of ‘insider trading and abuse of pension funds by African life and Benefit consulting.

Valentine Chitalu

The two trucks the Scania from South Africa and the Freightliner (right), Zimbabwean registered where found laden with Mukula tree logs. [Pictures Linda Tembo Soko] See story on Page 4

P.2 Be accurate,

Govt prods media

Information and Broadcasting Minister, Dora Siliya said this in a speech read by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr Amos Malupenga, during the launch of Millennium Television in Lusaka on Monday evening.

Mr. Lusambo

Teacher recruitment in offing

IMF talks on again

P.3 Zambia Demolish structures P.4 Protesting drivers asks for relief • truck Mwanakatwe reveals contributing to block Kazungula on Eurobond floods - Lusambo talks set for April P.4 debt servicing border See story on Page 3

By KETRA KALUNGA

WE are in the process of requesting Treasury authority from the Ministry of Finance to employ teachers, the Ministry of General Education has said.

This follows revelations that over 50, 000 trained teachers across the country were unemployed.

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Edith Nawakwi

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Kenyatta and Odinga pledge to heal divisions See story on Page 19

Commonwealth sidelines on Chakwera calls forZCID closer preps Zambia,dialogue Malawi ties

By PRISCA LUMINGU-BANDA

See story on Page 4

MALAWI’S President Lazarus Chakwera has called for strengthening of bilateral relations between Zambia and Malawi.

President Chakwera said the two countries had a relationship that was anchored on common history and the attachment to rural growth, democracy, respect for human rights and economic accountability which would create space for everyone to prosper.

ConCourt must explain Chilanga vacancy - YALI See story on Page 2

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TEACHER RECRUITMENT IN OFFING

By KETRA KALUNGA

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IMPROVING TIES PRESIDENT Lazarus Chakwera is right to call for strengthened bilateral relations between the two countries – Zambia and Malawi.

The two countries have a shared history – politically and otherwise.

They were both colonised by Great Britain and their independence struggles followed a similar pattern, both attaining independence in 1964, with Malawi’s coming a bit earlier in July.

Moreover, Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe as Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Southern Rhodesia formed the ill-fated Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland under British colonial rule.

This was established for the benefit of the settler community though and with the coming of independence for all three countries, the ties must reflect their aspirations.

President Chakwera’s day-long visit though short had a lot of substance – ensuring continuity.

It was his first international trip since his election last June as President followed Malawi’s disputed elections that saw the country’s Supreme Court annul the election of President Peter Mutharika.

We are elated that Zambia was his first international call as he gets to meet other African leaders – particularly from the neighbouring countries.

Zambians too like President Edgar Lungu are grateful that President Chakwera chose to visit Zambia first among other countries.

“It is indeed a great honour that out of so many countries in the North, West, East, and South you have chosen to visit Zambia. We feel greatly honoured. This is indeed historical and it emphasises how close the Zambian and Malawian people are,” Mr Lungu said.

By meeting President Lungu, the Malawian leader was not only following his predecessors but also ensured that the two countries renew ties even with the changing of the guard.

The founding presidents of both Zambia and Malawi – Kenneth Kaunda and Kamuzu Banda – laid the foundation on which their successors have based their relationships.

President Chakwera was mindful of the long standing ties and shared aspirations saying the two countries had a relationship that was anchored on common history and the attachment to rural growth, democracy, respect for human rights and economic accountability which would create a space for everyone to prosper.

“We want to see how we can enhance these relationships and economic levels as SADC and COMESA,” Dr Chakwera said.

“I want to underscore our need for peace and co-existence that we continue to share because we cannot undo history.

“We are the same people and it is important for us to see how our people can prosper knowing that we share similar aspirations,” Dr Chakwera said.

He said what troubled one country, troubled the other and now was time for economic prosperity and industrialisation that would change livelihoods.

But even as the two Presidents renew ties at international level, the people on the ground must also feel the change through increased trade between the two countries.

The rampant smuggling going on along the porous border must be channeled into formal trade to ensure there is a win-win situation for all.

We realise how difficult it must be to tell people whose villages straddle the border that they are trading illegally.

That is what makes the two countries unique and gives them a strong base from which to build on their diplomatic ties.

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E are in the process of requesting Treasury authority from the Ministry of Finance to employ teachers, the Ministry of General Education has said.

This followings revelation that over 50, 000 trained teachers across the country were unemployed.

Ministry of General Education spokesperson, Nondo Chilongo, said in an interview that the ministry would wait for authority from the Ministry of Finance to recruit more teachers.

Ms Chilongo explained that before they could go ahead and recruit teachers, they had to seek Treasury authority.

She said the Ministry of General Education was in need of teachers and had the desire to recruit even more.

Ms Chilongo said that as soon as Treasury authority was granted, the recruitment exercise for teachers would commence.

“Of course as the ministry, we have plans to recruit teachers, we have been engaging the Ministry of Finance because, for us to recruit, we need authority from the Ministry of Finance, so we are just waiting for a response,” she added.

Ms Chilongo said the ministry had been lobbying for teacher recruitment because of the increasing need for more teachers in schools while on the other hand the number of trained teachers who were not employed was rising.

Earlier, the Basic Teacher's Union of Zambia (BETUZ) urged Government to urgently recruit teachers because there are now over 50, 000 trained teachers without employment.

BETUZ Secretary-General Henry Sinkala said there had not been any teacher recruitment in the past two years and the number of teachers who had graduated was increasing.

PF to sue Nevers Mumba

…he must prove rigging allegations

By PETER SICHALI THE Patriotic Front has threatened to sue MMD president Nevers Mumba over his allegations that the ruling party rigged the Lukashya Parliamentary by-election in Kasama.

“We are contemplating taking Mr Mumba to court so that he can prove his rigging allegations,” PF deputy SecretaryGeneral Mumbi Phiri said.

Ms Phiri said allegations that PF rigged elections were serious and that it was prudent for Dr Mumba to prove his claims in the courts.

She said the party's legal team was contemplating on taking Mr Mumba to court.

"Those allegations are very serious and we are going to discuss with our legal team but I

can comfortably say we should take Dr Mumba to court," Ms Phiri said.

She said Dr Mumba should have reported his allegations to police as opposed to rushing to the media.

Ms Phiri said Dr Mumba would be taken to court so that he could be compelled to mention the name of the senior PF official who told him about rigging.

Ms Phiri maintained there was no rigging in Lukashya constituency as claimed by Dr Mumba and that the electorate voted for the PF candidate because they appreciated Government’s developmental agenda.

She dismissed allegations that the PF had set up computer servers to hack into the Electoral Commission of

Dr Mumba Zambia (ECZ) system.

Ms Phiri said lies that PF had hacked ECZ system were there even in 2016 but no one came forth to prove the allegations.

Be accurate, Govt prods media ‘Inadequate funding cripples Pave Zambia’

By NOEL IYOMBWA

GOVERNMENT has called on the media to avoid the pitfalls of sensationalism, rumour mongering and publishing stories without cross-checking details.

Information and Broadcasting Minister, Dora Siliya, said that there should be no room for negligent errors in the media, adding that journalists need to exercise the highest level of accuracy at all times.

The minister said this in a speech read by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr Amos Malupenga, during the launch of Millennium Television in Lusaka on Monday evening.

She said that a simple word mispronounced, misspelt or misplaced in a story could be dangerous and destructive.

Ms Siliya said that as freedom of the media continued to expand, so was freedom of expression, contrary to perceptions that freedom of expression was shrinking in Zambia.

The minister observed that the editorial agenda of most media houses was inclined towards politics at the expense and exclusion of other equally important sectors such as the economy and business.

Ms Siliya stressed that through the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), Government had licensed 44 television stations, four of which had been issued this year.

Additionally, she said, 132 radio stations had been licensed.

She commended Millennium Television for choosing to focus on business and financial matters which she said was timely in the wake of Covid-19 which had impacted adversely on the economy and people’s livelihoods.

And Millennium Television station manager, Patrick Chifwambwa, said that the station had started with an epiphany, adding that the light bulb moment was when trying to find information from a reputable source on business news.

By SILUMESI MALUMO GOVERNMENT says the 2000 Pave Zambia Project has stalled due to financial constraints.

Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development, Vincent Mwale, said since 2017 to date only 9 kilometres had been done.

Mr Mwale said the initially the plan was that 400 kilometres would be worked every year in order to ensure 2000 kilometres was done in five years.

The minister said but the plan was not actualized due to low funding which his ministry had been receiving during the period under review.

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Energy minister explains power generation capacity

By NATION REPORTER ENERGY Minister Matthew Nkhuwa has disclosed that the country’s average power generation is currently at 1,846 megawatts with a 810 megawatts deficit.

Mr. Nkhuwa says 1, 413 megawatts is from Zesco while 424 megawatts is from independent power producers.

Mr. Nkhuwa was speaking during a joint press briefing at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services in Lusaka.

He says the dam water level at Kariba North Bank Power Station fell from the previous 480.33 meters to 480.20 meters, representing 33.2 percent of usable storage.

The Energy Minister says the power deficit has remained at 810 megawatts and that load shedding for up to 10 hours is scheduled for different customer categories.

And speaking at the same event, Electoral Commission of Zambia Chief Executive Officer Patrick Nshindano said the online pre-registration exercise has kicked off on a successful note with 16,500 people registering online yesterday. Mr. Nshindano also clarified that there will be a new voters’ card issued with improved security features and that the old one will not be used.

He was responding yesterday to Kantanshi Member of Parliament, Anthony Mumba, who wanted to know how much work had been under 2000 Pave Zambia Project from 2017 to 2019 and how much was spent in procuring equipment for the project.

And responding to the matter, Mr Mwale indicated that this was a robust project but financial challenges had hindered progress.

He however said government would continue allocating funds towards the project to ensure that it was completed.

Mr Mwale said it was also important for the nation to know that about 2, 100 jobs were created for the local people.

Meanwhile Mr Mwale said the equipment which was acquired at a cost K154,795 had been given to Ministry of Youths and Sports in order for young people to be trained on how to use it so that they can use it to make pavers and sell them in order to improve their welfare.

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ZAMBIA ASKS FOR RELIEF ON EUROBOND DEBT SERVICING

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU and HELLEN ZULU

WE are current on all 3 Euro bonds and paid the $20 million interest payment towards the first euro bond of $750 million dollars, the Ministry of Finance has said.

Secretary to the Treasury, Fredson Yamba, told the Daily Nation in an interview that the country did not have any outstanding due or payment as at today.

“The next obligation falls due mid October,” he said.

And Government has requested a consent to holders of three Eurobonds for the suspension of debt service payments for a period of six months from October 14, 2020.

The US$750 million, US$1 billion and US$1.25 billion notes are due in 2022, 2024 From page 1 Ms Nawakwi said in an interview that there was serous conflict of interest in the management of pensioners’ funds and that shareholders were getting richer at the expense of poor ex-workers.

“These two entities have the same owners. They are the managers of the fund and administrators this is conflict of interest. They both model their business around Saturnia Regna Pension Trust,” she said.

Ms Nawakwi said a web of companies had been created from the pension funds and that the companies were benefitting from Saturnia.

Over 700 Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) ex miners are demanding their pension benefits from Saturnia Pensions Trust Fund.

They have also asked President Lungu to investigate how privatization chief Valentine Chitalu, who headed

and 2027 respectively.

Secretary to the Treasury, Fredson Yamba, said the six months debt service suspension would help effectively cover the upcoming three coupon payments due on October 14, 2020, January 30, 2021, and March 20, 2021 on the respective notes.

Mr Yamba said a combination of declining revenues and increased unbudgeted costs caused by the Covid-19 pandemic had resulted in a material impact on Government’s available resources to make timely payments on indebtedness.

This, he said, was leading to increasing debt servicing difficulties.

He said this was the reason why Zambia had applied for the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative in August 2020 and is requesting similar debt service suspension

from commercial creditors, including noteholders.

Mr Yamba said Government would continue to engage with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to secure financial assistance within a programme of reforms.

This would help in stabilising the macroeconomic outlook of the country and restoring its fiscal balance.

He said the government was committed to finding a consensual and collaborative resolution to the debt sustainability challenges it was currently facing.

Mr Yamba, however, explained that the announcement did not constitute a solicitation of an offer to sell or recommendation to buy the notes.

Deceptive matrix wont stop us

…Nawakwi vows to fight on with ex-miners privatization and HH formed companies that are running the fund in complete disregard of conflict of interest.

They named the companies as Menel Management Services through which they hold shares in African Life Financial Services and Benefits Consulting Services which were managers and administrator of the Saturnia Pension Trust Fund But Saturnia Trustees yesterday said the KCM exminers were not their baby, claiming that the belonged to the KCM Pension Fund and that they should claims their benefits from there.

Ms Nawakwi however said in as much as Saturnia had no shareholders, it had the trustees who had who had

revealed a lot of irregularities in their report to KPMG who were hired to audit the fund.

She said the trustees wrote in the report that “the situation where the Fund administrator and the Fund manager are controlled by the same entity and individuals possess particular risky to the Fund as the necessary checks and balances are either limited or non-existent,”.

Ms Nawakwi revealed that in the same report, the trustees wrote that they were very concerned about the nexus of undeclared related party transactions particular in the property portfolio, procurement and tender processes related to of these parties does not provide the trustees with sufficient comfort.

Court orders detention of Marshlands directors

By SILUMESI MALUMO THE Lusaka Magistrate court has revoked summons for another Marshlands consortium director, Nachi Musonda for deliberately absconding a court session under the pretext that he had come in contact with a person who tested positive to Covid - 19.

Lusaka Magistrate, Alice Walusiku revoked Musonda ‘s summons yesterday and detained him along with two other directors who are already in detention for equally absconding court .

This was after Magistrate Walusiku established that the documents which Mr Musonda presented before court relating to being in contact with a person who tested positive to Covid-19 were forged.

She said that the document which was presented by Musonda to the court from Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) was a clear forgery going by the Centre operations manager, Mabvuto Phiri who during his testimony denied having generated the document from CIDRZ. This is in a case in which three Marshlands Consortium Limited directors are facing 15 counts of forgery, obtaining money by false pretenses and uttering false documents, among them Ultimate Insurance Company Limited shareholder resolutions.

The three are Tobias Milambo, 48, Nachi Musonda, 33 and Richard Lubemba, 31 who are currently under detention after their summons

were revoked.

It is alleged that the accused forged documents purporting to show that they had been appointed as directors at Ultimate Insurance Company Limited.

However, during the proceedings, Magistrate Walusiku issued a bench warrant against Milambo and Lubemba who were not before court on grounds that they were in isolation.

Magistrate Walusiku, however, after investigations on September 7 2020 revoked summons against Milambo and Lubemba and detained them for absconding court session.

The defence had also told the court that Musonda was not before court as he had contact with a person who tested positive for COVID-19 and was in quarantine before presenting a medical report for their client.

But the State questioned the authenticity of the medical report for Musonda which was presented to the court and Ms Walusiku ordered that the medical personnel who attended to him appear before the court to confirm if he was indeed attended to and had tested positive.

When the case came up yesterday CIDRZ Operations Manager , Mabvuto Phiri who was the first to testify in the matter said the documents which were presented to the court by Musonda in relation to his Covid-19 status was not generated

by CIDRZ meaning it was a forgery.

He said that the analysis of the document which was presented to CIDRZ was different from what was not offered by the organisation and distanced it from issuing the said document.

She has now questioned the motive of the trustees for u-turning on their earlier stance.

Ms Nawakwi said the trustees were being hypocritical because they were playing double standards.

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Chakwera calls for closer Zambia, Malawi ties

By PRISCA LUMINGU-BANDA

MALAWI’S President Lazarus Chakwera has called for strengthening of bilateral relations between Zambia and Malawi.

President Chakwera said the two countries had a relationship that was anchored on common history and the attachment to rural growth, democracy, respect for human rights and economic accountability which would create a space for everyone to prosper.

“We want to see how we can enhance these relationships and economic levels as SADC and COMESA,” Dr Chakwera said.

Dr Chakwera said this when he visited President Edgar Lungu at State House yesterday during his one-day working visit.

“I want to underscore our need for peace and coexistence that we continue to share because we cannot undo history. We are the same people and it is important for us to see how our people can prosper knowing that we share similar aspirations,” Dr Chakwera said.

He said what troubled one country, troubled the other and now was time for economic prosperity and

Dr Chakwera industrialisation that would change livelihoods.

Dr Chakwera said he was looking forward to working with President Lungu and the people of Zambia.

And President Lungu expressed gratitude that President Chakwera chose to visit Zambia first among other countries.

“It is indeed a great honour that out of so many countries in the North, West, East, and South you have chosen to visit Zambia. We feel greatly honoured. This is indeed historical and it emphasises how close the Zambian people and Malawian people are,” he said.

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APPLICATIONS FOR ADOPTION AS CANDIDATE IN THE CHILUBI DISTRICT COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON BY-ELECTION Applications are hereby invited from bonafide registered members of the Patriotic Front wishing to contest as District Council Chairperson in the forthcoming Chilubi District Council by-elections whose date shall be announced by the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ).

Applications should be submitted to the District Committee with copies to the Provincial Committee and the Secretary General. Applications should be accompanied by application fees that should be paid to the Party organs as stated below:-

MILENGE DISTRICT COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON:1.

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Constituency Committee District Committee Provincial Committee Secretariat

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All applications for Chilubi District Council Chairperson should reach the District Committee by 30th September, 2020. The Chilubi District Committee shall interview the candidates on Friday, 2nd October, 2020 at 10:00 hours in Chilubi and the Northern Provincial Committee shall conduct interviews on Sunday, 4th October, 2020 in Kasama District at 15:00 hours. The Northern Provincial Committee Report should reach the Secretariat by Tuesday, 6th October, 2020.

Kindly verify the documents as required by the Electoral Commission of Zambia VOTE FOR THE PATRIOTIC FRONT FOR LOWER TAXES, MORE JOBS AND MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS.

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PROTESTING TRUCK DRIVERS BLOCK KAZUNGULA BORDER Stanchart stakes $50m for

By ANDREW MUKOMA

SOME Zambian and foreign truck drivers yesterday blocked the entry and exit point at Kazungula Border facility in protests against measures authorities in Botswana have introduced in view of the Covid-19.

The drivers closed the border crossing point on the Zambian side to prevent their counterparts from Botswana entering Zambia.

According to information

made available to the Daily Nation, the drivers were protesting against the slow pace at which they were being cleared by authorities in Botswana which had led to trucks being marooned on the Zambian side for over a week.

The situation had been attributed to the strict Covid-19 measures being implemented

by Botswana which has caused congestion of hundreds of trucks from Zambia while those entering from Botswana were flowing smoothly.

Kazungula District Administration Officer, Mbeha Akabondo, confirmed the development in an interview with the Daily Nation in Livingstone.

Mr Akabondo had a tough time convincing the drivers to open the crossing point and explained that affected drivers were not happy with the way the authorities in Botswana were operating.

He disclosed that authorities in Botswana informed their Zambian counterparts that

the situation was caused by a break-down of the escort vehicle. The vehicle was meant to be an escort for transit truck drivers.

“The issue was that the vehicle they were using to escort trucks broke down so they had to wait for it to be repaired and as we speak, they have informed us that the vehicle is back on the road,” Mr Akabondo said.

He said because of the vehicle which had broken down, authorities were not allowing a lot of trucks to enter Botswana.

future-makers

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU

ABOUT US$50 million will be raised by Standard Chartered Bank to empower the next generation to learn, earn and grow under an initiative called Futuremakers.

The funds will be raised between 2019 and 2023 under the Standard Chartered Bank global initiative to tackle inequality and promote greater economic inclusion for young people in the communities.

Standard Chartered Bank Zambia Chief Executive Officer, Herman Kasekende, explained that Futuremakers built on the success of the current community programmes, while growing the bank’s ambition to ensure that more young people across markets were reached.

He was speaking at the virtual launch of Futuremakers ‘Youth to Work’ initiative in Lusaka yesterday.

Mr Kasekende said the

Mr Kasekende programme would focus on the disadvantaged, girls and the visually impaired.

“Futuremakers has three pillars - education, employability and entrepreneurship: under the education, we already have the Goal Girls initiative which has already empowered some 15, 000 adolescent Zambian girls with life skills education using the power of sport.

At the same event, Youth, Sport and Child Development Minister, Emmanuel Mulenga, said strong partnerships with the private sector were key to driving youth empowerment and entrepreneurship in Zambia.

Malawi’s First Lady lauds Esther Lungu Foundation

By KALOBWE BWALYA and JOHN KOMBE MALAWI’S First lady Monica Chakwera has hailed her Zambian counterpart, Esther Lungu for her charity work for the less privileged and differently abled.

Monica Chakwera was delighted that the Esther Lungu Foundation had carried out various programmes aimed at uplifting the living standards of the less privileged in society.

Ms Chakwera made the observation when she visited the Esther Lungu Foundation Trust secretariat in Chongwe yesterday.

She observed that the work that was being done by Ms Lungu through the foundation was commendable.

Ms Chakwera appreciated that the foundation had touched so many lives and felt encouraged to equally contribute to her country with such life-changing programmes.

“I am a village girl and so I have a passion to help the village girl just as I was helped,” Ms Chakwera said.

And Ms Lungu thanked her Malawian counterpart for her visit and observed that it was a clear indication of the long-lasting mutual relationship that existed between the two countries.

She assured Ms Chakwera of her support, adding that her office would continue to cooperate in various areas of human endeavour.

Meanwhile, Esther Lungu Foundation, Coordinator Mildred Chumbwe said their main objectives were to support girl-child education, promote maternal and neonatal child health, improve water and sanitation facilities and support the disabled.

Four illegal land dealers nabbed

By SANFROSSA MANYINDA POLICE in the Chingola have arrested four illegal land dealers in Gymnkhana area.

Recently, the Chingola Municipal Council was given 1, 020 hectares of land in Luano Forest reserve, which was degazatted It has however discovered that the four had been promising to give out the same land to unsuspecting residents.

The suspects were identified as Harrison Mwansa 65, Asafu Banda 47, Henry Fube 72, and Jeff Musunga 67, all of Luano Forest off Chingola-Kitwe road in Chingola.

Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga said the four were arrested on Monday for the offences of obtaining money by false pretenses.

They had allegedly been obtaining money between June and July, this year and promising to give out pieces of land. Ms Katanga said the four were alleged to have obtained different amounts of money from a list of 248 persons on pretext that they had genuinely high cost residential plots in Luano Forest Reserve area in Chingola when in fact not.

“Out of 248 victims only seven officially reported on September 14, 2020, at Chingola Central Police station that their money amounting to K25, 430 was obtained by false pretenses,” she said.

Earlier this week, Chingola Mayor Titus Tembo has warned that the law would visit those that would be found wanting in the matter.

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PF urges police to arrest unruly cadres ...’Americans’ die hard disowned

By SILUMESI MALUMO PATRIOTIC Front (PF) deputy Secretary General, Mumbi Phiri, has urged the police to arrest all unruly party members who are engaging in political violence.

Meanwhile, Ms Phiri said the party leadership did not recognise camps known as PF die hard and Americans who were engaging in violence.

The deputy Secretary General indicated that those engaging in political violence had no blessings from the party, hence police must take action against them.

She said the PF had many times denounced political violence, therefore, it was important that all members embraced peace and unity.

Ms Phiri said the police should never fear anyone but ensure that those found wanting were arrested.

As a party, she said, PF would not shield anyone who is involved in violence as it was a party that believed in the rule of law.

“It is important that the police do their work and

the party leadership will not interfere because violence should never be tolerated.

“It is very hurting to see someone’s child being attacked in cold blood.

This is uncalled for and unchristian. So the police must ensure that anyone found in such acts should never be speared they need to be arrested.

Ms Phiri said those engaged in political violence were criminals and must be treated as such because no one was above the law.

“And if those found wanting are arrested and any official from the party starts pressuring the police to release them, record and expose them,” Ms Phiri said.

She said the party did not recognise camps which had been formed known as PF die hard and Americans.

Ms Phiri said many people had been complaining of the continued violence by the two camps and the police must take action.

She said the police should never be intimidated by the rival camps because they were denting the name of the party.

New Mwansabombwe MP hits ground running PETER MALASHA MY priority for the remaining months of the parliamentary term is to finish projects which were initiated before my election newly elected Mwansabombwe Member of Parliament (MP) Kabaso Kampampi has said.

Some projects were initiated by the late MP, Rogers Mwewa.

Mr Kampampi said improving water supply system was one of the projects he intended to complete as people wanted to have access to clean and safe water.

In an interview, the new MP said lack of adequate water supply was the biggest challenge people of the constituency were facing which needed urgent attention.

He said he would follow the Patriotic Front (PF) manifesto as regard development until 2021 that was when he would be able to come up with a new developmental agenda.

"It is all about continuity from where the late MP left. We will finish all works which were started and then come 2021, l will come up with my own agenda.

Mr Kampampi said he was not coming in as an individual but on PF ticket whereby there was already a developmental agenda in his constituency.

On the education sector, he said there was enough infrastructure and it was the matter of upgrading two or three primary schools to secondary level.

Mr Kampampi added that there were adequate health facilities only needed two or three health posts to be constructed and that a ground-breaking ceremony had already been done for the construction of a mini hospital.

GOVERNMENT should allocate enough funds to the health sector in the 2021 budget to mitigate the effects of COVID 19, The Medical for Quality Healthcare in Zambia (MQHZ) has advised.

MQHZ Director General Dr Quince Mwabu said in the midst of the Corona virus outbreak the health sector should be allocated not less than 17 percent of the total national budget to be presented to Parliament on Friday.

He said apart from having enough funds to recover from the current damage caused

by Covid 19, his organization expected that the Ministry of Health would need to recruit more health workers next year.

MQHZ, he said, expected that the Government would continue on the progressive trajectory of constructing more clinics and hospitals across Zambia.

“As an organization that wants to see more funding to

By NATION REPORTER THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has so far bought 323,000 tonnes of maize countrywide at a cost of K712 million.

FRA executive director Chola Kafwabulula said in Petauke on Monday that all farmers who had supplied the maize in the current crop marketing season had been paid.

Mr Kafwabulula said this during his ongoing inspection of the maize purchase in Eastern province.

Government has given FRA a target of buying one million tonnes of maize in the 2020

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MQHZ WANTS MORE FUNDING TO HEALTH SECTOR the Zambian health sector for quality healthcare, we have been disappointed with reduction in national expenditure to health.

“In the last three years, for example, funding has reduced from 16.1 percent in 2018 to 15.

3 per cent in 2019 and 8.8 per cent in 2020, respectively,” he said.

Dr Mwabu urged the Ministry of Health to seriously budget for purchase and maintenance of essential medical machinery for distribution to all district health facilities in 2021.

This, he said, would prevent poor citizens from traveling long distances when seeking medical services.

Dr Mwabu

FRA nets 323,000 tonnes of maize crop marketing season, which opened on July 1, 2020.

The exercise is scheduled to close on October 31 this year.

Mr Kafwabulula assured that his institution would go beyond the crop marketing season closing date as long as there would still be farmers willing to sell their maize.

“We will only close once the last farmer has delivered their last bag. This is about national food security and if we follow the book too much the country might be insecure as far as

food security is concerned.

“In this type of business you have to exercise flexibility and there’s no way we can close when farmers still want to supply their maize to FRA. We will not be disturbed by the closing date and we have done it before,” Mr Kafwabulula said.

He said FRA would not be bureaucratic and too stringent because the issue was about food security.

Meanwhile, Mr Kafwabulula announced that FRA would

continue to establish annual mobile satellite depots in the maize production areas.

This was after some farmers in Petauke explained their challenges regarding ferrying their maize to FRA depots and other crop markets located in far places from their homes.

Mr Kafwabulula told the farmers that Government has given him mandate to set up mobile satellite depots in areas where the farmers were willing to sell their maize to FRA

Government has given FRA a target of buying one million tonnes of maize in the 2020 crop marketing season, which opened on July 1, 2020.

‘Uncooperative MPs have betrayed voters’

By NATION REPORTER

IT IS sabotage and betrayal to electorates for some elected opposition Members of Parliament to refuse to work with Government in delivering the much-needed development in their respective constituencies, the Zambian DNA has said.

Zambian DNA spokesperson, Spuki Mulemwa said he was elated with President Edgar Lungu’s call on traditional leaders to work with Government in delivering development in their respective chiefdoms.

Mr Mulemwa said some elected MPs had betrayed the people who sent them to Parliament to represent their interests.

“We are also delighted with President

Lungu’s tacit commitment to take development to all parts of the country by not only his continued tour of duty to check on developmental projects, his able leadership to ensure each of the country’s 10 provinces gets it’s equal share of development,” he said.

Mr Mulemwa said it was pleasing that President Lungu makes time out of his busy schedule to visit and interact with traditional leaders in his quest to trigger trickle-down social and economic benefits of his development agenda to all citizens regardless of their political or religious affiliation.

“However, we have noted with dismay how some elected opposition Members of Parliament have betrayed the people who sent them to Parliament to represent their interests by refusing to work with

Government in delivering the muchneeded development in their respective constituencies,” he said.

Mr Mulemwa said traditional leaders were strategically placed in particular to work with Government in delivering the much-needed development in their respective chiefdoms.

He however said it was sad to note how some traditional leaders have taken a partisan stance in an alliance with the said elected representatives instead of engaging them on how to work with Government in fostering development in their respective areas.

Mr Mulemwa advised traditional leaders to engage their elected representatives on how to work with Government in delivering the much-needed development in their chiefdoms.

DBZ loan servicing improves

Average Exchange rates: 08-06-2020

Microfinance exceeds targets

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU

CurrencySOME ofBuying Selling the 75 enterprises which owe the Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) have

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU servicing an USD started 18.2918their loans following 18.3418

aggressive approach by the institution to collect K700 million Non-Performing Loans.

AS the Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact on all sectors, GBP Zambia 23.1574 23.2262 Last month, Finance Minister, Bwalya Ng’andu, Microfinance has exceeded key performance DBZ this to immediately pursue all loan indicators fordirected the firstthe quarter year. defaulters and restore the bank’s financial health.

Such include liquidity and profitability despite the EURindicators 20.6532 20.7170 Dr Ng’andu expressed concern that the quality Covid-19 pandemic thatbook has for significantly thepoor industry. of the loan DBZ was affected extremely due This is according Microfinance Zambia to clientstofailing to pay back theiracting credit.Chief Executive Officer, Mpimpa DBZ Miyoba.

In response, Managing Director, Samuel

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU “I am pleased withsaid our promising start to the year 2020 Bwalya, some of the clients had started

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24 June, 2020 prioritised foreign investors over the locals. more than ever before. was to improve service delivamong the top three micro-finance institutions for in terms of HE Zambia GOVERNMENT should rehe aegeEto mob e against ne wo k iswith setting the Kalene Hills Fruit impact P nnac e Cthe eaup on Ch ecu epost O ce because of Covid-19,”should Dr Bwalya saidsome in an taxes resources the fight working local manufacturers and other THE Nakonde-Tunduma one-stop border was reduce and hestudying Democ a cthe Repub c It isCh because of such initiatives which have led He was reacting to the US$2.5 million ZAMBIA has advanced discussions with South Company Limited in Mwinilunga in North-Western, ope a o o e ng ne wo k a a S machembe e duce and defer some taxes He said the responsibilRevenue Authority profit in the country. the pandemic which has also which will be caused ery to customers. stakeholders inStrategy accelerating the country’s THE National for Development of Wednesday interview. yesterday re-opened for critical essential goods, to S&P Global rating agency to affirm AfDB’s AAA

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Mr Sikalinda said various ity of collecting revenues, (ZRA) estabMr Miyoba was a keen positive performance Dr saidthis DBZ was to ensure that allfor to that country, says Commerce, Trade Wednesday and awith cashew in company Karma Investment for gold continue operating. acannot wa oprocessing how ne e statement. cou daWestern e Bwalya that ysaid Mcompany Kabwe duandexplained 9 has September, Zambia attain growth targets ifAfDB o mpGovernments ove evenue co ec onall 2020 improve the statistical capacity responsive hebu inthat a ZAMTEL connd den ha sioner General, Kingsley Chanda.

27 May, 2020 13 May, 2020 ties have slowed down in The rating agency indicates the will play from to remit Industry Minister, Christopher Yaluma. provinces, respectively. processing investment. uch a c ea ng ano he eam o ncome He a d he M d Yea 2020 clients weredespite up to date with their loan servicing at initiatives had continued such facilitating trade, promoting lished an online Micro Finance Zambia the macro-economic headwinds stakeholders fail to growAfrica-Verein theregion, manufacturing sector He also appealed to the 16 September, 2020 toMr the ever-changing demands of the has over he This n o ma on and Com and ade ac a on du ng he a key role in supporting the particularly in the is after the border post was closed on Monday discussions had reached the wake of Covid-19, The will provide market w Yaluma hfactories n the heofsaid compan du ngready hAgency cu ennd taxes over andWednesday above mineral Ma ke abring Repo ca ed expertise will they which as“What this is the most important sectors of any country, Zambia Statistics (ZSA) least by the endthe of thisBank yearof orZambia the beginning of thefacilitate move was also aimed to expedite 500 members of mun ca on Techno ogy context ofdone Covid-19. interface of prearriv- as the launch of Tax on phone local business growth and the market experienced. to screening and disinfecting of German the border an advanced stage that Government was to small-scale farmers and other small-scale COV D 19 od Co 19 pe odand ha he po ve a ec o y Zambia Micro and Small Zambia doesn’t have?

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26 August, 2020 dynamics.

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The and has covered a lot of ground as an institution in promoting He explained that the ripple effect of this The Repo how ha Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry.

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Kasumba esa bo de c oss ng Mr Sampa explained that some companies m n h n n un p n n p Th h d du d h percent decline in revenue to in a statement. m R e v e n u e whole idea is to improve Mr Sikalinda also anannounced the appointment Ackim Chalwe as Chiefand they financial inclusion organs,” Mr Angilla said. partnership,” he said. schemes, will be the major suppliers of the feed Be ween Augu and that enable customers toWe purchase pre-paid grant ineva partnership swindle unsuspecting entreMs Phiri warned the mempleasure an advert going efforts in at restoring the cost ofemedical supplies and Standards and other units. outcry and call for the Cenhave come with bands. are trying to up of foreign currency reserve exchange rate.

“If this does actualise, foreign We can ee ha he e alty tax was paid in dollars since Mr Sikalinda said the taxes, levies and fees Zamb a Revenue Au ed demand wa n ad u o ma ke cond TA 2020 M d Yea Ma ke d up on o n e na to inform policies. and industry-leading Tier One asset portfolio.

You b and wha ou apa om NATSAVE has reached out Meanwhile, Mr Bristow said over US$20 “Focus during the Covid-19 outbreak which provide stimulus for 2020 announced stimulus damaging the reputation and prospects interchanging transactions from their various injected the necessary energy for the country to by Covid-19 ends, "he said. was not as severe as the market had Exchange (ShFE) rose 0.9 percent to He said this in a speech for the Mr Yaluma said a taskforce teamlearn has been payments. are making money, they will be able to service the lockdowns imposed to contain Covid-19 p d ng bo w de wtaking nbe whe mpo un becoming u d m ndmillion upp Digital n msa financial K62 million in the first half of US$50 “We decided topay comefor to the “The rest are doing their testing, they are inpublic were up to three months to their Ms Muyenga d ance sha s ween Zamb a services are stock to the factories. as Zambia like other Pastor Mwansa said: “We can from services such as electricity.

Sep embe 14 h yea increasing the threshold to about ha ou mee ng w ocus on transfer tax. exempted from paying customs duty on preneurs and the general pubbers of to be wary of around social media pureconomy. provide social cash transfers The disinfecting exercise will also be extended to Mr Sampa tral Bank stimulus emergenwere collected from any individual or company ho y ZRA h ough on he e o e a c add on o con nued gu e peak o he nve He said his organisation was working with with the Ministry of Repo whwill ch ha hwhich gh gh ona and dec n nd “Captured benefit of higher gold prices owmute he compan e noted and we a value estores o be en A utonne. hother odZulu rade itoty,” vice delivery ton the million contribution had by the on health and safety of ofour nounced that ZRA would soon Executive Officer for said Microfinance Zambia, subject to Bank of to clients across the country us institutions to monetary measures supplatforms,” heZambian said. and energy demand petroalso the country exchange activity furforever.

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Trump on Friday ordered 44,660 Yuan (US$6,274.94) their pilot phase but hopefully before end fuelled expectations of healthier Mr Chitimbwa Govwhile others went important Zambia, like will leverage the relationship loans.

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October all the banks will be ready to integrate the elimination of special US treatment for “Earlier the session, the contract hit leum among others. still remained the view that ther in the Zambian market," paid in an Kwacha.

“A lot of businesses lost cash flow, what we M r people,” he said. demand. launch application which Zambia approval. countries, grapples with spread and out-grower schemes through its project unit on ado shared agent banking platform enable notify. emissions surtax, insurance premium levy, Benefit Organisations like churches Nonmistake.

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Prices for the red metal rose to their for a very big merger.

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Wednesday 23 September, 2020

AngloGold Ashanti reinstates trimmed 2020 output guidance JOHANNESBURG - AngloGold Ashanti reinstated but trimmed its annual production guidance on Monday citing improved operating certainty including the expected conclusion of its sale of its South African assets.

The miner withdrew its guidance in March as the pandemic accelerated and many governments responded by restricting travel, closing borders and ordering some businesses to cease or limit operations.

AngloGold, which has mines in several African countries as well as Australia and South America, said it now expected production including its South African assets of between 3.03 million ounces and 3.10 million ounces.

That is slightly lower than its February outlook which saw output of between 3.05 million and 3.30 million ounces, while capital expenditure was anticipated between $920 million and $990 million.

“The company benefitted from its diversified global portfolio and careful management during the intervening period, with the impact in the first half of the year limited to approximately three percent of production and five percent of the all-in sustaining cost (AISC) during the period,” it said.

The guidance was also reinstated in anticipation of the conclusion of the sale of its South African assets to Harmony Gold at the end of September.

Its South African assets are expected to have produced around 240, 000 ounces in the nine months to September 30, at an AISC of approximately $1, 300 per ounce, the firm added.

Excluding the South African assets for the full year, AngloGold Ashanti said it expected production of between 2.80 million and 2.86 million ounces. – REUTERS.

China outlines policy for new storage bases for energy, agri imports SINGAPORE - China is directing authorities in East China’s Zhejiang province to start planning to build stockpiling bases for energy and agricultural products, part of a push to develop regional free-trade zones (FTZs), a government document said on Monday.

The directives call for looking at building above-ground and underground facilities to stockpile oil, gas and chemicals in FTZs that encompass 120 square km, including in parts of provincial cities Ningbo, Hangzhou and Jinyi. “(The government will) support experiments to build oil and gas reserves, to undertake greater tasks of government stockpiling and also boost corporate stockpiling,” China’s

State Council, the country’s Cabinet, said in the policy document.

This would expand a plan to build Zhejiang’s Zhoushan port, made up of many islands, into a marine fuel hub to challenge Singapore, the world’s largest supplier of ship bunkers.

The oil storage facilities, once built, would have the potential to become part of China’s national reserves, it said.

Zhejiang FTZ should also plan to build bonded storage and transfer centres for imported grains that can provide special quarantine approval and customs clearance on shipments, starting with soybean imports, the document said. – REUTERS.

FAKE SCOTCH? …SA-made vodka that tried very hard to look like whisky has failed in a strange appeal

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OHANNESBURG A long fight between a local producer of vodka with caramel colouring dressed up as whisky and guardians of the Scottish tradition has again seen a South African company banned from trying to intimate a link to Scotland, this time in the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Local company Milestone Beverage, which sells “Afrolicious” vodka and “Premier” gin, was told to destroy all material that is so much as “evocative of Scottish origin,” or else.

That company had tried to appeal a similar high court ruling that the Scotch Whisky Association had celebrated as

proof of SA’s strong legal protections.

Like the high court, the Supreme Court of Appeal was not impressed by the sometimes peculiar arguments Milestone offered, including that, while it was selling what it called a whisky-flavoured drink, there is actually no such thing.

Because taste is subjective, Milestone said, it is impossible “precisely to identify when a product will be deemed to be whisky flavoured.”

Carried to its logical conclusion, said the Supreme Court, that argument would allow the company to put whatever it liked into a bottle and call it whisky.

Actually in the bottle was

MANTASHE: Nuclear will play 'bigger role' in clean energy initiatives JOHANNESBURG Nuclear is the "technology of the future" and it will continue to play a "vital role" in South Africa's energy mix, said Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe.

The minister, on Monday, was speaking at the 64th regular session International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) where he relayed that government is still bullish about including nuclear power in the country's energy mix – and has started

consultations with suppliers of nuclear power reactors to provide information scheduling, costing and possible ownership models.

This comes after the department issued a Request for Information for 2500 MW in June, Fin24 previously reported.

Mantashe also said that nuclear power would support efforts towards clean energy.

"In addition to energy security, there is a bigger role for nuclear in clean energy initiatives, to transition us from

vodka, with artificial caramel colouring, which by the evidence of Scotch Whisky Association experts could be said to taste of apple, orange, and other fruit, but nothing like whisky – which the association maintains has a definite and undeniable taste that can indeed be defined.

The outside of the bottle, though, offered something different.

Older versions of the banned Milestone branding for its flavoured alcoholic drinks. “The first impression on a customer passing through a liquor store is likely to be that each product is a whisky,” said the SCA – even after Milestone dropped tartan as part of a design and made other small adjustments high to low carbon emissions, while expanding our power sources at the same time.

"We need to contest the space in the energy debate, for nuclear as a clean energy technology. Scientific evidence is available to support our position," he added.

South Africa also pledged €234 642 (about R4.6 million) towards IAEA's technical cooperation fund, for 2021.

The fund includes voluntary contributions from member states, to implement national, regional and interregional technical cooperation projects proposed by memb e r states and

to its branding.

Milestone claimed one of its brands, Royal Douglas, had been named for a grandfather in its controlling family, Douglas Haupt. It did not explain where another brand in its stable, King Arthur, had come from, or the caramel colour of its vodka, or why it had reached for Scottish rather than Russian imagery in its designs. The company had also offered a “Jennesons” brand, and one named “Mills.”

The drinks sold for around a third of the price of mainstream brands of whisky, at one point with a large “whisky” on the label, followed by a much smaller “flavoured spirit.” – BUSINESS INSIDER SA. which are approved by its board of governors. – FIN24.

Improved ICT access to ignite growth opportunities in marginalised areas HARARE – The Zinbabwean government is committed to providing Information Communication Technology (ICT) in marginalised areas to promote development so that the country can attain the envisaged 2030 agenda of an upper middle income economy a Cabinet Minister has said.

I n f o r m a t i o n Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services Minister Dr Jenfan Muswere

said improved access to ICTs will not only promote growth and development in marginalised areas but will have spill over growth and development in country as a whole.

He was officiating at the commissioning of the NetOne’s base station at Chatumbama under Chief Matope in Mt Darwin. Dr Muswere said it is his ministry’s mandate to improve mobile accessibility as the world is now being driven by

innovation, information and communication technologies.

The area has been relying on the base station at Mavuradonha but the signal was not very good because of the distance and extensive congestion.

The new base station has provision for infrastructure sharing and Telecel has already come on board giving the community more options.

“As the Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services,

our mandate is to use information technologies and communication solutions to improve the livelihoods of all Zimbabweans irrespective of location, throughout our great nation,” he said.

“The World is being driven by innovation. ICTs have become fundamental in the attainment of Zimbabwe’s Vision 2030 and becoming a middle income economy.

– THE HERALD, Zimbabwe.

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UPND IS CLUELESS, INEFFECTIVE U

Dear Editor, PND needs lessons, because currently, they are clueless and ineffective. Their loss in the recent two by-elections exposes it as a regional and weak political party that has failed to create and maintain structures countrywide despite being older than the PF. UPND thrives on regional manipulation, propaganda and fake news to sustain its existence which cannot be replicated in other regions as people there understand the importance of one Zambia one nation.

Garry Nkombo has opened UPND’s Pandora box by his public confession that the party is very weak and highly demoralised and disorganised to win any election, worse still face PF in next year’s elections in its current status.

There are now serious considerations for UPND to use underhand methods to gain more votes including escalating propaganda and the Mapatizya formula as well as changing approximately 80 percent of UPND’s top structure including HH if any need be, for UPND to make meaningful strides towards winning next year’s elections.

Speaking when he featured on Radio Phoenix’s “Let the people talk,” Nkombo said the UPND needed to do some buttoning up if they had to have a chance to win elections next year and that required serious

sacrifies too.

Their loss in the recent two by-elections exposes it as a regional and weak political party that has failed to create and maintain structures countrywide despite being older than the PF. UPND thrives on regional manipulation, propaganda and fake news to sustain its existence which cannot be replicated in other regions as people their understand the importance of one Zambia one nation.

In its current state, UPND is as good as a headless chicken that has no direction or ideology to sale to the people of Zambia. UPND has continuously accused the PF government as being corrupt but has failed to provide evidence when called upon.

They have day and night painted the PF government as failures and our country as a failed state, while PF has continued with its infrastructure agenda countrywide including opposition strongholds.

UPND has continued to demean the same country they want to govern to the outside world as being ungovernable and worse than Libya, what a tragedy.

With the recent two by-election defeats, UPND is behaving like a person who blindfolds himself and pretends all is well on the road, and only when they fall into a ditch, do they cry the loudest for foreigners to save them. That is the state of the UPND’s political strategy since 2001- blind walking and

crying.

Firstly, the UPND should have looked back to their 2001 election petition, and seen where Anderson Mazoka’s team went wrong - but they did not.

By the time of the 2015 election, they should have petitioned that election to test the waters and understand the judicial system. Instead, they cried a bit and then went back to their blind walking.

When 2016 elections came, they landed in another ditch.

Having launched their strongest challenge in what was clearly a tough election, the UPND should have been prepared to launch a formidable Dear Editor, BLACK Lives matter! Yes, very true, but the biggest problem with us, people from Africa is that we easily fall prey to any idea without sitting down and think.

There is no way an African living in America can be called an African-America? This is a wrong concept, foreign to the African way of living.

All lives matter, white or black yellow green or brown!

The reason why blacks have been treated like that in foreign lands is that the Africans always want to pretend, proud idiots not shy to borrow foreign accents. But when they are alone, at night they cry like orphans. For they know where they came from!

For they know that they do not belong to these lands and

petition.

Instead, their legal team, failed to argue their case before the Supreme Court. They did not even know exactly how much time they had to argue their case, until the final days, at which point they gave up and left HH to embarrass himself in court.

If the UPND is serious with its next challenge in 2021, perhaps they must immediately dispatch a team to Kenya, to go and learn political strategy from Raila Odinga. UPND needs lessons, because currently, they are clueless and ineffective.

DR JOZE MANDA.

There is nothing like pre-marked ballots in zambia Dear Editor, THE tale or myths about pre-marked ballots have been with us for a while not only in Zambia - but worldwide. From my little experience with election reporting (journalist) and observer/monitor, since 1996, I can attest to the fact that no one has ever convinced me of this tale.

Here is the thing; Each ballot paper has a distinct serial number. A voter’s name is called in the presence of the agents of each candidate or political party, who also crosses the name of their voter registers.

The name of the voter corresponds with the picture and NRC number.

At the end of the polling, all the ballots are counted to ascertain the total number of votes cast before separating them with actual votes for each candidate. The remaining ballots can be scrutinised even afterwards through verification.

So at what point do the pre-marked ballots find themselves in the ballot boxes? Mind you, all the agents are required to sign off the votes counted - unless of course you do not have credible agents who understand the process.

In 2011, I went to monitor the elections in DRC. Reports of pre-marked ballots were raised by the opposition but unverified and no one provided any evidence.

What we saw, however, was the manipulation of elections by shifting polling stations in opposition strongholds to defranchise the opposition. For example, if you vote in Matero, your name is then sent to Kabwata.

When you arrive in Kabwata, you’re advised that your name is in Kanyama and so on and so forth.

This kind of displacement had high numbers - which

effectively knocked out hundreds of voters.

Coming to the allegations of pre-marked ballots. I really want to meet someone who can demonstrate it to me and show how this works. This brings me to Dan Kalale - former Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Director.

When opposition leader then, Michael Sata, accused him of vote rigging and stuffing pre-marked ballots in 2006, he challenged him to demonstrate how it was done. He went further and asked Sata to reveal how the pre-marked ballot scheme is done because he was once National Secretary of MMD and therefore should have known how it is done - if it ever existed! Off course it ended there.

No single candidate has ever produced evidence in court of pre-marked ballots. All the cases have been hinging on violence, intimidation, vote-buying, media bias, police brutality, public order act, charcter assassination etc. These are the known electoral malpractice that exist in our jurisdiction! Never pre-marked ballots!

Just make sure you train your agents well like PF (in opposition) did in 2011 with the Anti-Rigging Zambia Limited. Pay your agents well and provide them with adequate food and support system so that they do not leave the polling stations!

There is no pre-marked ballots in Zambia! That is why no such evidence has ever been produced in court even by former senior members of the ruling party who crossed to the opposition!

DICKSON JERE.

It is African lives, not Black! culture. It is even worse when they travel back to the mother land, Africa, they still want to pretend.

They come from the 1st world where they are killed like wild animals. No God forbid, they are Africans. Trump is not ashamed to be called an Irish.

Africans wherever you are, you are an African.

There is nobody to free the minds of an African not even a bullet, apart from yourselves.

Tell the world, African lives matter, not black. Not Black! Not white!? Or yellow.

We as Africans are probably the only people on earth and beyond who have accepted to dream, USING THE

MASTER'S VOICE! Africans in Africa are you not ashamed, you are also not spared by this complex, you name your children in local names and yet these African Angels can not speak their mother's or father's languages! I was named Roy after one of the governors of Northern Rhodesia, Zambia, Sir Roy Welensky, I thank my parents who never allowed us to speak English in our family house, it was a taboo, lack of respect. I learnt how to write my mother tongue at elementary school.

Unfortunately today both the African-American and those living on the African soil are samethey have accepted to be called,

Black Lives!

They speak in borrowed accents, they do not know what it means, to keep one's teeth white without tooth paste.

Is Africa, a lost generation or a people without principles?

Africans wherever you are identify yours as Africans, I do not give a damn, I challenge, all of you living outside Africa, brothers or sisters to sit back and reflect. And those in Africa I am sorry, I have kind words for you Black Lives! I am proud to be African and Zambian.

Do not be shy let us debate, African culture is bigger than the rest of this planet.

ROY KALUSA, Lusaka.

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EMERGENCY FUND ACCOUNT - WHY EVERYONE NEEDS IT

By PATSON KATONGO WE grew up in a culture where our parents never taught us the importance of saving. Emergency fund to meet unexpected expenses was equally not in their vocabulary.

Sadly, today, even when we are more enlightened than our parents were, in terms of knowledge about banking and the importance of saving, we still have continued to entertain the same poor saving culture and are unfortunately passing it over to our children.

Most of us find it a challenge to manage our financial resources. For instance, a number of us who survive on employment income normally have a tendency to withdraw all our salaries immediately we

are paid by our employers.

Such habits leave us with nothing to deposit in the emergency fund.

However, when we are faced with unexpected expenses, we end up contracting expensive credit either from the banks, friends or our relatives.

Such situations expose us to financial stress and the risk of virtuous circle of debt. It is not unusual to hear of colleagues who have ended up losing their jobs.

Setting aside funds in an emergency fund account is critical as it can be a good fall back in an event of huge unexpected expenses An emergency fund is money which one sets aside from other savings.

The fund serves as a fall back and assists in dealing with unexpected events such as funerals, loss of employment, repair of a broken car, or illnesses in the family. One of my neighbours lost his job when the company he

Banks like Indo Zambia Bank offer a spectrum of attractive products such as IZB Privilege savings account, IZB-Save plus account, Bumi fixed deposit account as well other traditional savings accounts which can save this purpose.

worked for suddenly shut down due to loss of business following the outbreak of Covid -19. In his current situation, my neighbour has still continued to meet the

needs of his family surviving on the emergency fund while looking for another job.

How much funds one should keep in an emergency fund account on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis is dictated by his or her financial situation.

Different schools of thought suggest that an emergency fund which can cover three to six months or even one year’s worth of living expenses is recommended. To be consistent in growing the emergency fund account, it is prudent to enter into a standing order arrangement with the bank. On a monthly or quarterly basis, the bank will automatically transfer

the funds from one’s traditional savings account to the emergency fund account.

Emergency funds should be placed in interest earning accounts such as saving accounts or flexible fixed deposits accounts as it is easier to have access to the funds in case an unexpected event strikes.

It is also important to ensure that an emergency fund operate independent from the normal traditional savings account.

Further, no attempts should be made to disturb the savings account as this should only be used to cover regular normal expenses.

Are you thinking of

opening an Emergency fund account? Banks like Indo Zambia Bank offer a spectrum of attractive products such as IZB Privilege savings account, IZB-Save plus account, Bumi fixed deposit account as well other traditional savings accounts which can save this purpose.

Setting aside funds in an emergency fund account is critical as it can be a good fall-back in an event of huge unexpected expenses.

If you currently do not have an emergency fund account; it is time to think about having one.

The author is a Senior Manager Finance at Indo Zambia Bank.

One of my neighbours lost his job when the company he worked for suddenly shut down due to loss of business following the outbreak of Covid -19.

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Munshya wa Munshya

Wednesday 23, September 2020

TOLERANCE OF CRIMINALITY IS DANGEROUS On Friday

PUS indicates a dangerous health threat in tissue of a living creature. Below is a scientific brief of its causes and effects.

“If you have an infection that’s causing pus, you’ll probably also have some other symptoms. If the infection is on the surface of your skin, you might notice warm, red skin

BY KANYANTA E. KAUMA

around the abscess, in addition to streaks of red surrounding the abscess. The area might also be painful and swollen.

Depending on the location and type of infection, pus can be many colours, including white, yellow, green, and brown. While it sometimes has a foul smell, it can also be odourless.

On Wednesday

Pus-causing infections can happen when bacteria or fungi enter your body through broken skin, inhaled droplets from a cough or sneeze and poor hygiene.

Pus generally forms in an abscess. This is a cavity or space created by dna breakdown noisserggarevO,ssof enittissue. the Abscesses can form on your

must be mature and brave enough to face justice without sucking in the public or engage in political discourse. Go to court and get out stronger and confident if you win or face the consequences without using the perceived wrongs of others as your defence.

Most importantly, if you are in politics tell your supporters not to protest on your behalf, but wait until the wheels of justice have turned the full circle.

Another wound keeping a lot of pus in this country is the alleged misconduct of certain fund managers. Numerous complaints have been launched by workers from BP Zambia, former Anglo American guards and now hundreds of retired miners from Konkola Copper Mines.

Surely, there must be some provable criminal activities in the conduct of the people who managed the pension schemes that have been complaining.

What surprises every Zambian is the lack of interest by the state in the complaints of workers whose money has made their managers the richest in Zambia.

The Zambia Police Service command has been mute in cases that have been reported to them for investigation.

They make no comments on allegations that officers who were assigned to investigate pension matters were fired or moved to rural stations.

What is even more shocking is the failure by the judiciary to conclude pension matters where the Supreme Court of Zambia has ordered assessment of the benefits due to the plaintiffs.

One starts to wonder, who really is controlling our institutions of governance. Is it the pension fund managers or some other strange power?

Keeping pus in the nation’s tissue motivates wrongdoers to feel powerful and get the temptation to go to extremes including causing civil war to protect and launder their crimes.

DRAGER TON OD SREDAEL YNAM SREDAEL YRGNA SA SEVLESMEHT

elbayojne ekam ton od slau citsimissep riehT .ynapmoc

dna dennuhs eb ot meht se

ew dna ,sserts lanoitome se stnuocca siht gnikaeps yllaci

By Pastor Jasper Mutale

skin’s surface or inside your body. However, some parts of your body are exposed to more bacteria. This makes them more vulnerable to infection.”

According to one Bemba saying, “ukutukila amafina muchilonda kubi” (keeping pus in a wound is very dangerous).

The description and development of pus in the human body is a very good analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies.

In a society, the development and occurrence of crime can be compared to the development of abscesses and the pus that forms in them.

Individuals with criminal minds will always want to exploit weaknesses in the law and the institutions that have been in place to regulate individual and group conduct.

Crime can come in different colours; white, brown, green or red. It depends on where and how it is committed. The dangerous thing for any country is to tolerate the occurrence of crime just as it is dangerous to keep pus in a wound.

Without any reference to any individual or company, it is now apparent that Zambia has been keeping a lot of pus in its tissue. So much has been said about the abuse that took place during the privatisation of the Zambian economy.

A lot of people made so much money that they even had some to spare and stash away in offshore accounts in tax havens in the Paradise and Panama papers. That people were able to make such kind of money points to criminal dealing.

We also have the dubious exchange of shares in companies that were privatised under the MMD government.

Companies were sold to multinational companies and then the shares later transferred to individuals who played a key role in the management of the Zambia Privatisation Agency.

We are keeping a lot of pus in this wound. It should not just come up in each Presidential and General Elections cycle. All those we engaged in dubious activities during the privatisation exercise must save the nation time and pain and go to court to clear their names.

Those that are in politics

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Those that are in politics must be mature and brave enough to face justice without sucking in the public or engage in political discourse. Go to court and get out stronger and confident if you win or face the consequences without using the perceived wrongs of others as your defence.

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Wednesday 23 September, 2020

By SANFROSSA MANYINDA

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HE traffic flow at Kasumbalesa border in Chililabombwe has improved by about 80 percent, the Zambia Revenue Authority has disclosed.

There were a lot of trucks that were marooned at the border in the recent past especially those that were headed to the

CB UPND welcomes privatisation inquiry

By SANFROSSA MANYINDA THE United Party for National Development (UPND) has welcomed calls to institute the privatisation commission of enquiry on party president Hakainde Hichilema.

Copperbelt provincial chairman Elisha Matambo said that the party agreed with Mr Hichilema’s views that he was ready to face the privatisation commission of enquiry.

Mr Matambo however suggested that the commission of enquiry should cover all aspects of public financial processes and not only picking on one person.

“If they are really genuinely seeking to know how the privatisation process was

KASUMBALESA BORDER CONGESTION DROPS BY 80P.C. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to certain procedures and the size of the road.

Last month, ZRA expressed confidence that the measures that were put in place at Kasumbalesa border would see the flow of traffic.

The Zambian officials made

carried out by the MMD more than 25 years ago, they would have simply looked at government records and would find the document on how the MMD privatised public companies,” he said.

Mr Matambo said that Government would have simply made it public to the general public than what he described as unnecessary comments doing the rounds.

He alleged that Government had ulterior motives of targeting at a political opponent, and that it was also trying to divert the attention from a collapsed economy.

He hoped that the Commission of Enquiry would not be selective but scrutinise and record proceeds of all the 270 public companies that were privatised during the MMD regime.

Mr Matambo advised Government not to incite a peaceful nation against an innocent citizens.

‘No one wants HH out of UPND’ REPORTS purporting that some UPND officials are calling for the resignation of party president Hakainde Hichilema and SecretaryGeneral Stephen Katuka are malicious and meant to divert attention from real issues, the UPND has said.

UPND Copperbelt provincial information and publicity secretary, Lawrence Mwanza, said such malicious reports must be dismissed with the contempt they deserve.

He said this was because they were only aimed at creating an impression that there was division in the opposition party.

Mr Mwanza said some enemies of the party were busy posting fake stories on social media to discredit Mr Hichilema and create an impression that there was an uprising against him.

In an interview in Kitwe yesterday, Mr Mwanza said loyal UPND members should ignore such postings and rally behind Mr Hichilema who he said was providing quality leadership.

"We know that some people have been hired to discredit

our party president Hakainde Hichilema because he is a threat to the ruling party, but we will not succumb to the cheap social media propaganda. Our party members should ignore such postings purporting that officials have risen against Mr Hichilema and Mr Katuka.

"Yes, such postings are naked lies and not worth wasting time on. They are coming from the ruling Patriotic Front which is dead scared of the UPND," Mr Mwanza said.

At the weekend, there were some stories on social media suggesting that UPND national chairman, Mutale Nalumango, had called for the resignation of Mr Hichilema following its crushing defeat in Mwansabombwe and Lukashya parliamentary by-elections.

But Mr Mwanza said senior party officials quoted in the stories had dismissed them as fake and meant to create divisions in the party.

"So the whole thing is a well calculated propaganda. It has no element of truth. Enemies of the party are busy trying to create an impression that there is division in the party," he said.

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KOPALA NEWS

an agreement with their Congolese counterparts to have certain procedures carried out on the Zambian side so that trucks were not taking long to be cleared.

An integrated border clearing system was initiated.

The two countries also

agreed that the working hours be increased instead of knocking off at 18:00 officers were now operating up to 21:00 hours.

ZRA Corperate Communications Manager, Topsy Sikalinda, said the improvement of the flow was due

to the use of the new coordinated border management system.

"This involves all border agencies working together to ensure that the process and procedures at the border are streamlined to achieve one purpose, improve efficiency

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and seamless flow of traffic," Mr Sikalinda said.

He said that the queues had been reduced to manageable levels and that ZRA was working to completely eliminate the queues.

Mr Sikalinda added that an average of 600 trucks into the DRC and about 550 into Zambia were cleared on a daily basis.

INVITATION FOR TRAINING PROPOSALS FINANCING SKILL TRAINING FOR;

A. EMPLOYER BASED IN-SERVICE TRAINING WINDOW B. SMALL AND MICRO ENTERPRISES (SMES) AND INFORMAL SECTOR TRAINING WINDOW

Background The Skills Development Levy was established in 2016 under the Skills Development Levy Act No. 46 of 2016. The main objective of the levy is to provide financial resource for the TEVET sector for skills development in collaboration with the Technical Education, Vocational, and Entrepreneurship Training Authority (TEVETA), which was established under the Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Act of No. 13 of 1998 and the amendment Act No. 11 of 2005. The Skills Development Fund (SDF) plays an important role in assisting the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) to develop a high quality, sustainable, demand-driven, and equitable TEVET system, and one of the mechanisms used in achieving this objective is the TEVET Fund.

The TEVET Fund establishes a financing platform that purchases training services from public providers, on a competitive basis, for skills development in both the formal and informal sectors of the economy, at an arm’s length transaction. It plays a critical role in the reform of the TEVET system by separating the provision of training from its financing. It also shifts the focus from quantity to quality.

As a financier of training being procured from TEVET providers, the TEVET Fund is able to introduce standards and accountability to the system for the desired outcomes.

The Fund also introduces performance incentives for training providers and, through its stakeholders, establishes rules for spending on training services that promote national development objectives, including equitable access.

Invitation to Employers and Training Providers The Government of the Republic of Zambia, using proceeds from the SDF, has set aside funds towards the implementation of the Employer Based Training (EBT) and the SMEs and Informal Sector Training activities through the TEVET Fund.

The TEVET Fund is hereby inviting Employers in collaboration with Training Institutions registered with TEVETA, under the Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Act No. 13 of 1998 and the amendment Act No. 11 of 2005, to present proposals for support through the TEVET Fund towards skills development for EBT. TEVET providers are also invited to present proposals for support towards skills development for SMEs and the Informal Sector Training. This financing is available to Employers and TEVET providers whose request for financing will be considered responsive to the disbursement criteria. Focus is on provision of training that meets the current market demands.

Submission of Proposals Training Providers will be required to submit five (5) copies of each of the proposals in a sealed envelope. The envelope should be clearly marked with the Name of the Applicant Institution and the Window for which the institution is applying.

The closing date for submission of proposals is Friday 30th October 2020 at 15:00hrs. Proposals sent by Telefax or email will not be accepted. Opening of proposals will immediately follow closure of the Tender Box. Applicants are welcome to witness the Opening of the Tender Box. DETAILED TERMS OF REFERENCE HAVE BEEN EMAILED TO ALL TEVET REGISTERED INSTITUTIONS. HOWEVER, THESE MAY ALSO BE OBTAINED FROM TEVETA OFFICES AT THE ADDRESS BELOW. Please note that the costs of preparing the proposal and of negotiating the contract, including a visit to TEVETA, are not reimbursable as a direct cost of the proposed funding.

TEVETA is not bound to accept any of the proposals submitted. All proposals submitted will remain the property of TEVETA. The Director General Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Authority (TEVETA) Bird Cage Walk, Longacres Private Bag RW 16X LUSAKA. Tel: 253331-4; WhatsApp: +260954590783 Email: tevetfund@teveta.org.zm; cnyirenda@teveta.org.zm; hntankula@teveta.org.zm;

Wednesday 23 September, 2020

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HE rehabilitation of the SolweziMwinilunga road will enhance development in the North-western province and beyond, a civic leader in Mwinilunga has said.

Kawiko Ward Councillor, Boswell Kanema, said the deplorable state of the road had made the delivery of goods and services to the area extremely

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‘SOLWEZI-MWINILUNGA ROAD REHAB WILL SPUR GROWTH’ difficult and expensive.

Mr Kanema said the rehabilitation of the road would restore and increase economic activities in the district and the province. He said this in a statement issued in Mwinilunga District yesterday.

“I wish to thank the

government for the gesture taken for thinking of working on the Solwezi to Mwinilunga road which is in such a deplorable state,” Mr Kanema said.

He said the deep potholes on the road posed danger to motorists as they were potential points of accidents.

Mr Kanema has since asked Government to consider working on some parts of the road before the onset of the rains as they wait for the whole road to be rehabilitated.

He said the current state of the road did not inspire investors who could have interests

to invest in various economic activities in the area.

Recently, Foreign Affairs Minister, Joseph Malanji, visited the area and revealed that plans by Government to work in on the road had advanced.

Meanwhile, Mr Kanema has appealed to Government

to engage a reliable contractor to work on the MwinilungaIkeleng'i road which was equally in a deplorable state.

He said Ikeleng'i District was the major supplier of pineapples, hence the need to work on the road to avoid the commodity going to waste. -ZANIS

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ACQUIRING a national registration card (NRC) should not only be seen as tool for use in the 2021 general elections, the UPND in Livingstone has said.

District youth chairperson for politics and security, Philip Musela, said that an NRC was an important document, which has many uses including when seeking employment.

Therefore, Mr Musela said, the mobile issuance of NRCs which commenced in Livingstone yesterday was an important undertaking to the young.

In an interview in Livingstone, he encouraged school leavers and all those who had attained 16 years to take advantage of the exercise.

Mr Musela appealed to the youth in the far flung areas to remain calm because the officers engaged in the exercise would be visiting such areas.

“I would like to encourage the young people who do not have NRCs to take advantage of the mobile registration exercise which has commenced in Livingstone.

“Yes, it might be used as a decider of their future in 2021 but it is an important document that gives anyone an advantage when seeking for employment,” Mr Musela said.

He said that it was against that background that he wanted more than 80 per cent of those that had attained 16 years to acquire the constitutional document.

He was optimistic that the 40 days given for the exercise were enough capture the expected target.

Ex-UPND official tips PF to win ward election

By ANDREW MUKOMA FORMER UPND Livingstone district vice chairperson Lutangu Fwanyanga has predicted victory for the Patriotic Front (PF) in the Maramba Ward by-election.

However, Mr Fwanyanga cautioned the ruling party to go in and mobilise people as a team and not in a disintegrated manner.

He said the ruling party had a better chance of grabbing the seat from the UPND because the opposition party was not strong on the ground.

Maramba Ward fell vacant following the resignation of UPND Councillor Moses Simbaya who defected to the ruling a fortnight ago.

Mr Fwanyanga told the Daily Nation that the PF must start mobilising so that campaigns could be easy.

He was quick to state that unity matters most in an election for any political party to perform well.

"PF has to win the Maramba Ward and can only do so if we work as a team and in unity. In politics, there is no old or new member everyone is just the same when it comes to putting efforts.

"I just want to appeal to the provincial leadership, district and constituency to show maturity in dealing with party issues as we go into Maramba Ward. We are a team and we should do so," Mr Fwanyanga said.

But UPND provincial information and publicity Secretary, Neto Halwabala, said it was wishful thinking for the ruling party to go into Maramba expecting towin.

Mr Fwanyanga “I just want to appeal to the provincial leadership, district and constituency to show maturity in dealing with party issues as we go into Maramba Ward.

We are a team and we should do so,”

Mr Halwabala said that PF could never win in Livingstone because the party had lost its popularity.

"Whether they come with trunks of money or not, vote buying or not, PF cannot win here. We will be waiting for them," he said.

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Tshisekedi meets Kabila over troubled coalition KINSHASA - The Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi held a rare meeting with his predecessor Joseph Kabila amid tension in their coalition.

The two leaders discussed “the progress of the coalition,” the Common Front for Congo (FCC) coalition wrote on Twitter.

Despite winning the presidency, Tshisekedi has had to come to an accommodation of Kabila’s party, which controls the majority of seats in parliament.

Negotiations between the two parties took seven months before a consensus was found so that a government could be formed.

Relations between the two parties have been tense with rival politicians exchanging verbal abuse and in some cases using physical violence.

The meeting between Tshisekedi and Kabila did little to calm the tension that has been rising for months and “points of contention” remain, the two camps told AFP news agency on Monday.

Meanwhile, armed men killed at least a dozen people and kidnapped several in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday night, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks they have blamed on Ugandan Islamist rebels.

Armed men attacked the city of Mbau in Beni territory, North Kivu province, near the Ugandan border, killing and kidnapping people and burning houses before fleeing into the bush, officials and a civil rights groups said. – BBC/REUTERS.

Zim teachers demand pay rise and Covid-19 allowance HARARE - Zimbabwe's biggest teachers' union said on Monday its members would not return to work for the first time since March next week unless they are paid a Covid-19 allowance and given a pay rise.

The government shut schools in March in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which has infected 7, 683 people and led to 225 deaths. Most schools are due to re-open next week, although only for students sitting their final exams.

The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA), in a circular to its 42, 000 members, called for monthly pay to be a minimum $520 (Z$42, 488), compared to the 4, 000 Zimbabwe dollars that the lowest paid teacher earns.

Pay has been eroded over the past two years from a minimum of $480 as Zimbabwe has switched from using the U.S. dollar as its main currency to using the local currency, as its financial crisis has deepened. – REUTERS.

BRIEFS Zim teachers demand pay rise, Covid-19 perks

HARARE - Zimbabwe's biggest teachers' union said on Monday its members would not return to work for the first time since March next week unless they are paid a Covid-19 allowance and given a pay rise.

The government shut schools in March in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which has infected 7, 683 people and led to 225 deaths. Most schools are due to re-open next week, although only for students sitting their final exams. – REUTERS.

Cameroonian soldiers jailed over atrocities

YAOUNDE - Four Cameroonian soldiers received 10year prison sentences on Monday for the killing of two women and two children in an incident that sparked international outcry, their lawyers said.

They and three other soldiers were arrested after a video surfaced on social media in July 2018 showing uniformed men levelling rifles and firing at the victims, one of whom had a baby strapped to her back. – REUTERS.

US imposes Iran sanctions

WASHINGTON - The United States on Monday slapped new sanctions on Iran’s defense ministry and others involved in its nuclear and weapons programme to support the U.S. assertion that all U.N. sanctions against Tehran are now restored, which key European allies as well as Russia and China reject.

Iran said the new U.S. sanctions, which targeted 27 Iranian entities and people in the nuclear, missile and conventional arms sectors, would have no effect and accused the United States of seeking publicity. – REUTERS.

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AIROBI - Kenya’s Chief Justice David Maraga has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to dissolve parliament because it does not have enough female MPs. In a letter to President Kenyatta, the chief justice said the failure to have more female MPs was in breach of the constitution, and tantamount to discrimination against women.

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KENYA'S TOP JUDGE WANTS PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED one gender group cannot occupy more than two-thirds of parliamentary seats.

However, women hold far fewer than the mandatory 116 seats in the 350-member parliament.

Parliament had either failed or neglected to enact legislation required to implement the gender rule, despite four court orders to do so, the chief

justice said.

He was now legally required to advise the president to dissolve parliament, the chief justice added.

Parliamentary Speaker Justin Muturi said the dissolution of parliament was an unrealistic option.

Kenya’s new constitution was introduced in 2010, and the two-thirds gender rule

should have been enacted within five years.

While there has been debate on the matter, the male-dominated parliament is yet to find a formula for getting more women into parliament, with several members arguing against creating more seats specifically for women and challenging them to compete more at the ballot box. – BBC.

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AMBIA Under-15 national team will today begin its campaign at the “Vlatko Markovic” eight team invitational tournament in Croatia with a tie against North Macedonia.

The fixture to be played behind closed doors will see coach Chisi Mbewe leading the Junior Chipolopolo in their first ever youth championship in the history of the Zambian game.

Mbewe, who is being assisted by Aaron Kawangu, will hope for maximum points in their first fixture to have a chance to advance to the second round of the youth championship.

Speaking in an interview after the team set up base in the Croatian capital city of Zagreb yesterday, Mbewe said his team had done all the homework both in Zambia and Egypt where the boys camped for two days and were ready for the opener against North Macedonia.

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IN unexpected circumstances, 2019 MTN/FAZ Super Division champions Zesco United have reportedly fired head coach George Lwandamina with exactly 27 days to go before the kick off of a new soccer season.

According to the Ndola giants’ Public Relations and Media Officer Desmond Katongo, Lwandamina and Zesco United Football Club management mutually agreed to separate.

Meanwhile, the club’s Chief Executive Officer Richard Mulenga has thanked Lwandamina for his services to the club.

Zesco first hired Lwandamina in 2014, and he won the league and cup double in his first season, retaining the league title the following year.

He also won back to back Zambian Coach of the Year awards before he left to coach Tanzania’s Young Africans from 2016 to 2018.

The former Mufulira Wanderers legend returned to Zesco United in 2018 and went on to win two Super Division titles and one ABSA Cup title before his sudden dismissal.