By ALICE NACHILEMBE Mansa Sugar has introduced the long awaited 2 kilogram (KG) Sugar packet. Mansa sugar is a Luapula Sugar Company. Luapula Province Minister Nickson Chilangwa has congratulated the company for the job well done. Mr Chilangwa said the mega project has created over 1500 jobs. He has urged the people of Mansa to […]
At first, they look like any other young couple, saying their vows and taking their first tentative steps into a long and happy marriage. Then your eye is drawn to to the bride’s missing right arm, and the white bandages protecting what is left. Just five days before this footage was taken, Zanele Ndlovu was […]
A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after a court run by al-Shabab convicted her of having several husbands, the militant group says. Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was accused of marrying 11 times, without divorcing her previous husbands. She was buried neck-deep and pelted to death with stones by al-Shabab fighters, say residents of […]
By Staff Writer Chingola Women Activist Judith Kabemba has told women in Nchanga to press for progress. Speaking when she hosted women on Women’s Day who she later fed, Ms Kabemba said there is need for women to press for progress. She said women, children and their husbands are suffering because they are without jobs. […]
By JOHN SAKALA State House Minister Freedom Sikazwe has imposed an electricity bill of K300, 000 on Kitwe City Council. This electricity bill was consumed by marketeers at Nakadoli market from the time the market was constructed during the MMD regime. Adding salt to the injury Mr Sikazwe directed the Council to further slash the […]
By Thulasizwe Tembo Ndola Mayor Amon Chisenga said the police will be called in if the worst goes to the worst with street vending. And Mayor Chisenga said there is no compromise to street vending, vowing that no one will be allowed to go back to the streets. Commenting on the move by some vendors to […]
By Staff Writer CNMC Luanshya Copper Mines (LCM) is faced with union politics which in the large extent will directly affect production at the mine. The situation is stifled and the James Chansa led National Union of Miners and Allied Workers (NUMAW) seems to be rocked by political storm. Already State House has led it […]
By Mulenga Chapoloko in Kitwe Defiant Chingola based football administrator and business executive Blackwell Siwale has declared that he will soon bounce back into football business after being banned by FAZ recently. Siwale, who was expelled from the FAZ Executive as committee member in March 2017, suffered a double tragedy earlier in April when the […]
Alice Nachilembe
The Independent Observer
