Browsing Archive: October, 2012
Posted by Charles Mafa on Thursday, October 4, 2012,
In :
Education
From the centre of Lusaka, it takes 20 minutes by
car to reach Linda Compound on the southern side of Zambia’s capital city.
Heavy traffic and giant potholes make it hard-going and the closer to the
compound the worse the road becomes, eventually deteriorating into little more
than a bumpy pass.
A township-cum-settlement is home to more than
18,000 people, most of whom are unemployed.
It is here where you will find Linda Open Community
School, which provides education to more than 1,600... Continue reading ...
The Good, the Bad and the Chinese
Posted by Charles Mafa on Thursday, October 4, 2012,
In :
Commerce
China’s voracious appetite for natural resources
has driven a boom of investments and aid to African countries. In the Southern
African country of Zambia, Chinese companies are building roads, hospitals,
sports stadia as well as reviving copper mines abandoned in the country’s
Copperbelt region.
The Chinese have also chosen Zambia as the place to
set up its first out of five free trade zones in Africa. The Chambishi
multi-facility economic zone on the Copperbelt is anchored by a 200 m... Continue reading ...
Liberation City for Africa
Posted by Charles Mafa on Thursday, October 4, 2012,
In :
History
The South
African envoy has observed that Zambia’s contribution to the emancipation of
southern Africa makes the country ideal for the creation of a city to be a
“symbol of the liberation” in Africa.
Moses
Chikane said that he has been assigned by President Jacob Zuma to come up with
a “token of appreciation” for Zambia’s role in liberating southern Africa and
South Africa in particular. Chikane said Zambia was “the nerve centre of the
liberation movements” in Southern Afr... Continue reading ...
19-year wait for closure
Posted by Charles Mafa on Thursday, October 4, 2012,
In :
Sport
Nineteen years after the plane crash in
which the entire Zambian football squad was killed, the Zambian government has
yet to release the full official report of the inquiry into the disaster.
And as next week’s anniversary of the
1993 crash looms, a relative of one the dead players has called on the
government to come clean.
Michael Chanda, the elder brother of
former Zambian forward Kelvin Mutale, said that although the report will not
bring back his brother, it might prompt the autho... Continue reading ...
Fugitive Banda son in SA
Posted by Charles Mafa on Thursday, October 4, 2012,
In :
Corruption
The fugitive son of Rupiah Banda, Zambia’s
fourth president, has permanent residence in South Africa where he enjoys
business connections despite being on the police wanted list in his home country.
The Zambian former president
revealed to the Mail and Guardian that his son Henry has permanent residence in
South Africa and that he is a “successful businessman who has a highly regarded
business career.”
“It is well known that my son Henry
has permanent residence in South Afri... Continue reading ...
Former first son can't go home
Posted by Charles Mafa on Thursday, October 4, 2012,
In :
Corruption
The son of former Zambian
president, Rupiah Banda this week told the Mail & Guardian that he could
not return to Zambia because there was “reliable inside information that he is
a marked man”.
Henry Banda is wanted by the
Zambian authorities in connection with his alleged involvement in corrupt
government deals when his father was president. The Zambian police told the Mail
and Guardian that they have not made public the charges against Banda
because he has not appeared before them.
B... Continue reading ...
French Engeneering giant fined for bribery
Posted by Charles Mafa on Thursday, October 4, 2012,
In :
Corruption
By
Charles Mafa and Lionel Faull
The
World Bank has slapped a hefty $9.5 million fine on the Alstom Corporation; a
major French engineering company involved in the South African nuclear
industry, and blacklisted two of its subsidiaries, after it admitted to bribing
a senior Zambian government official.
The corporation was also fined by Swiss authorities last year after
being implicated in bribery scandals in three other countries.
The Zambian fine was imposed after Alstom admitted ... Continue reading ...
Zambian VIPs choose SA doctors
Posted by Charles Mafa on Thursday, October 4, 2012,
In :
Health
Zambian leaders, including
current president Michael Sata, have flocked to South Africa for medical
treatment at government expense, prompting a complaint by a leading NGO that
“they have no confidence in their own healthcare system”.
This week, a Zambian medical
doctor who has immigrated to New Zealand this week blamed the lack of
government investment in the state health sector for the skills drain and the
worsening crisis in the country’s health services.
Contacted in Christchurc... Continue reading ...
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