By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chililabombwe Municipal Council has re-opened a Chinese shop that was shut down for flouting compliance obligations. The newly constructed Zam CC shopping mail was shut down by the local authority for lack of proper ventilation and operating without occupation certificate. Chililabombwe Council Assistant Public Relations Manager Chilufya Chungu has told The Independent […]
…RTSA must be dismantled; it has become a revenue collector By Joe Zulu (Personal View) The news on the death of ZNBC Rooftop film maker indeed makes a sad reading. I recall many months ago a picture of a cameraman standing on the rooftop of ZNBC outside broadcasting truck was posted on this very site. […]
By Martin Chawanzi in Chipata President Edgar Lungu is disappointed with tribal based campaigns in the Kasenengwa Parliamentary by-election of Eastern Province. President Lungu he was disappointed with political campaigns centered on tribal lines. Speaking during campaign rally in Chiparamba yesterday to drum support for PF parliamentary candidate Sensio Banda, Mr Lungu said he heard […]
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia has learnt with great sadness the death of Mr Munyemesha Munyemesha the producer of the Roof Top Musical programme on Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC). His death is a blow to the media fraternity and the nation at large. He will be remembered for his great contribution […]
Fire has swept through the whole of Namanda village in Chief Imbwae’s chiedfdom, in Libonda ward, gutting 13 houses to ashes. Kalabo District Commissioner Fridah Luhila confirmed the incident during a Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) emergency meeting held at her office on Friday. Ms Luhila who is also DMMU Kalabo Chairperson said the […]
By Staff Writer Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) TV2 Rooftop film maker Munyemesha Munyemesha has died after falling off a moving vehicle while filming a funeral procession in Kabwe, ZNBC has confirmed his death. Munyemesha the director and film maker of Rooftop died in the early hours of yesterday August 26 close to midnight. The […]
By KANCHELE KANCHELE Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) National Secretary Raphael Nakacinda has announced that MMD will this weekend be holding Luapula provincial conference. In a statement issued to the media Mr Nakacinda said the party’s National Executive Committee resolved during a meeting held on June 9, 2018, to commence the holding of provincial conferences […]
By JOHN SAKALA The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has closed seven Driving Schools in Lusaka for operating illegally and outside the provision of the Road Traffic Act No.11 of 2002. The Schools have since been ordered to immediately close and stop offering driving lessons. The affected Driving Schools are Galaxy Driving School, Puma […]
Police in Mkushi have arrested a 34 year-old man for allegedly burning seven members of the same family. Deputy Police Spokesperson Rea Hamoonga who confirmed the arrest in a statement, identified the man as Obert Bubala on One count of Arson and Seven counts of murder which took place in Mkushi yesterday. Mr Hamoonga said […]
Tributes from former US presidents and across the political spectrum have poured in for Republican Senator John McCain, who has died aged 81. Barack Obama, who beat Mr McCain to the White House in 2008, said they shared a “fidelity to something higher”. George W Bush described him as “a patriot of the highest order”. […]
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Alice Nachilembe
