CHIEF Chipepo of Siavonga says the involvement of traditional leaders in improving and maintaining good sanitation in communities is cardinal to keeping Zambia clean and healthy.
NATIONAL Energy Sector and Allied Workers Union (NESAWU) president Robinson Nyirenda has said Zesco workers are against the unbundling of the company into small entities to be managed by the private sector because the move would not benefit ordinary Zambians.
ZAMBEZI Airlines has dismissed six employees in Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe after it discovered that they were involved in irregular transactions.
POLICE in Mongu have picked a body of a 22- year-old ex-convict.
CHIEF Mumena of the Kaonde people of Solwezi has said bad cultural practises that promote the spread of HIV/AIDS and hinder the progress of the girl-child should be discarded.
THE National Union of Communications Workers (NUCW) has said no unionised Zamtel employee has been forced to sign redundancy letters or threatened with dismissal.
SOME Soweto Marketeers who were recently allocated stands at the new Soweto Market have refused to operate from the new market and opted to trade from outside.
THE Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines-Investments Holdings (ZCCM-IH) has said the lead contamination levels in Kabwe are not harmful to human health.
THE MMD needs credible leaders that will inspire and add value to the leadership and vision of President Rupiah Banda, Forum for Leadership Search, executive director, Edwin Lifewkelo has said.
GOVERNMENT has called for an urgent meeting to discuss how it would proceed with President Rupiah Banda's directive that Zambian National Marketeers Association (ZANAMA) should be given title deeds.
TWO LUSAKA residents have petitioned the Speaker of the National Assembly over members of Parliament (MPs) who have refused to be part of the National Constitutional Conference (NCC).
MEATCO will stop slaughtering pigs at its Windhoek abattoir from the middle of January, but alternative measures have been put in place.
Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of the Standard Bank Group, has partnered South African Airways (SAA) to launch an e-ticketing solution in Nigeria aimed at reducing travel costs. The launch took place in Lagos, Nigeria.
IT CAN be a terrible thing when your wishes come true, but the truth is that I never liked Tiger Woods. Now I know that it's not nice to kick a man when he is down. And I know when a man is down, it's a very convenient time to suddenly decide that you never liked him. But to me, Tiger Woods just seemed empty and soulless.
IS BOLIVIA about to become one of the world's most important places? I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable about the science of it, but a recent report -- which states grandly that the era of oil is over -- says the era of electricity has begun.
WHAT an unadulterated pleasure it has been to watch African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema sulk and pout and kick and scream since he was so rudely booed at the South African Communist Party congress last week. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
THE introduction next year of the demerit point system for traffic violations will turn the country's roads into a giant nudist camp with corrupt traffic cops as mosquitoes.
BUSINESSMAN Patrice Motsepe's limp-wristed and irresolute response to the question of nationalisation is perhaps the most unwittingly revealing statement about black economic empowerment we have yet heard. What happened is that Motsepe was eventually cornered on the question of the nationalisation issue by an SABC radio reporter.
A PROPOSED board reshuffle by Simmer & Jack to resolve a bitter boardroom wrangle with Vu lisango Holdings has failed to placate the empowerment partner, which has slapped down attempts by the junior miner to resolve the issue by appointing an interim board.
UNCLE Sam is fighting back and his currency is gaining strongly against almost all others. Can it last? The bad news for us is that as gold is used as a hedge against the dollar, it suffers when the dollar booms. The loss in the rand's value is already making our exports more competitive, bringing the end of the actual, rather than statistical, recession closer.
TELKOM is giving nothing away in response to rumours that it is negotiating to buy 60% of Zimbabwe's state-owned telephone operator, TelOne.
As debate rages within the tripartite alliance over economic policy and, more particularly, over inflation targeting, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has insisted that maintaining a low and stable rate of inflation is vital to support sustainable growth.
EMPLOYMENT figures may steal some of the thunder from news on inflation this week, given that job security is key to any recovery in flagging household demand.
PRIVATE providers of higher education have welcomed a North Gauteng High Court ruling that the Department of Higher Education could not stop a local company from assisting foreign universities in providing education in SA.
NOT many people became rich in SA this year. In fact, in an economy that has shed almost a million jobs since the start of the year, South Africans have struggled to keep afloat.
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