Archive: 21 May 2020
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Get ready to penetrate AfCFTA, Yaluma urges local producersCOMMERCE Minister Christopher Yaluma has urged local producers to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare themselves to access the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), whose instruments will soon be handed over to […]
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HH an angel of death – SundayPATRIOTIC Front media director Sunday Chanda says UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema must stop projecting himself as an angel of light when he is an angel of death who has committed a number of criminal activities […]
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Corruption fight has become a farce – SacikaFORMER Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Sketchley Sacika says Zambia can still re-introduce the Leadership Code if it is serious about curbing rampant corruption in government circles. And Dr Sacika says the fight against corruption […]
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Cops nab 9 in Nakonde riots, shoot one in both legsPOLICE in Muchinga Province have arrested nine people believed to have been involved in riots that rocked Nakonde yesterday in connection to the lockdown. And Nakonde member of parliament Yizukanji Siwanzi says the confusion was […]
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Zambia records 34 new COVID-19 casesZAMBIA National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI) Professor Dr Victor Mukonka says Zambia has recorded 34 new cases of COVID-19 out of 418 tests done in the last 24 hours. And Prof Mukonka says 105 patients […]
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MISA backs IBA’s call for broadcasters to air pre-recorded programmesTHE Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has backed calls by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) to air pre-recorded programmes to avoid attacks. And Mwale says people that are disrupting radio programmes are trying to […]
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Arresting officer testifies in CK’s defamation of the president caseAN arresting officer has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that the alleged defamatory words uttered by NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili against President Edgar Lungu were not fit to be used on a human being. And […]
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Saasa takes over BCCET chairmanshipTHE Business Coalition Council Emergency Taskforce (BCCET), a group of business interest groups focused on initiatives that will help minimize the COVID-19 pandemic impact in Zambia, has reconstituted its steering board of governors to be […]
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Ensure food security, buy maize, not gunsLAST month, president Edgar Lungu said his government would be buying more than one million tonnes of maize this year for strategic reserves during the forthcoming maize marketing season. This is a huge quantity of […]
