By ALICE NACHILEMBE Zambia Revenue Authority has seized and forted to the state 3360×50 bags of sugar worth K1.4 million. ZRA Commissioner General Kingsley Chanda said the sugar was imported from Brazil purported to be going to Congo but unfortunate the sugar was offloaded in Chingola. Mr Chanda said this is a pure case of […]
By JOHN SAKALA President Edgar Lungu has given Chingola marketeers another K200, 000 as seed money for their buineseses. This is a continuation of Presidential Empowerment Fund to Chingola marketeers. In September and August, President Edgar Lungu had sent Chingola Member of Parliament Matthew Nkhuwa to delivered K160, 000 and K200,000 respectively to Chingola marketeers […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chingola Municipal Council Senior Legal Officer Jacob Njovu has told Chingola Magistrate Court that the Local Authority has no record that shows that the squatters in the Gymkhana land scandal have any legal documentation from the Council or the Ministry of land. This is in a matter in which five people have […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The Chingola Magistrate court has found sexual defiler guilty and has committed him to the High Court for sentencing. Enock Kapenda 27, of Soweto has been committed to the High Court sexually defiling his 15-year old step daughter and impregnating her. Kapenda, a Security Guard is facing one count of defilement contrary […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The Chingola Magistrate Court has committed to two people to the Kitwe High Court for gassing Chingola residents with poisonous substance. This is in a case where Aubrey Mulemfwe 22, and Derrick Munuka 27, stand changed with four counts of administering poisonous substance contrary to the Laws of Zambia. Particulars of the […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE A-45-year-old man of Chingola has been put on defense in the matter he is charged with incest. This is in a case where Chibwe Chongo of Soweto is facing one count of incest contrary to the Laws of Zambia. Particulars of the offence are that on date unknown but between August 1, […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chingola Business Executive Freddie Musonda says Chingola local businesses have been in a recession for a long time. Mr Musonda appealed to government to consider Chingola as a special case. Speaking in an interview with The Independent Observer, he likened Chingola to Ndola after the collapse of manufacturing industry by 2006-2020. Mr […]
By ALICE NACHILEME The Chingola Magistrate Court has sentenced a land fraudster of Chingola to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for forging letters of offer. This is in a matter in which Donald Malulu 58, of 71 Katunga Road in Chikola was facing six counts of which three were for forgery and three were […]
Dear Editor, I write to call on the Vice President Inonge Wina to make sure that she intervenes in land alienation in the country. There is a well calculated move where the elite are collaborating with councils countrywide to make land ownership difficult for the poor but very easy for the elite and security officers […]
By ALICE Nachilembe A-38- Year-Old woman of Chingola has told the Kitwe High Court how she found herself naked in an unfinished building in a matter were Kabaso Mulenga ‘Spax’ and five others are facing the charges of murder, rape and three counts of attempted murder. This is in a matter where Spax a small […]
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