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Levy in North-West to inspect developmental projects

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President Levy Mwanawasa is  in North Western Province to inspect developmental projects in the area.

President Mwanawasa arrived at Solwezi airport 09.30 hours aboard a ZAF plane.

Addressing the crowd that received him at the airport , Mr  Mwanawasa said he was
sad to learn that workers at Kansanshi mine have downed tools demanding increased
salaries and other conditions of service.

Mr. Mwanawasa said work stoppage was not the solution and urged the striking workers to go back to work.

President Mwanawasa said he was determiend to bring development to North
Westernprovince and needed the support of everyone to succeed.

And President Mwanawasa said the adoption of the new constitution will be done
through the Constitutiona Conference because the Constituent Assembly was going to
be very expensive as money was needed for development.

President Mwanawasa has since appealed to MMD party cadres to be united and
strengthen  the party in the province.

Later, Mr. Mwanawasa visited Lumwana Mine to see the progress on the site where a
new town at the mineis to be established.

The President said a committee of experts will be constituted to design Lumwana and
come up with a powerful coucil.

Mr Mwanawasa was accompanied by Minister of Energy Kenneth Konga, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Grace Njapau, Deputy Minister at State House Richard Taima, Deputy Minister  for community development Elijah Muchima and other senior government officials.

FRA disburses K6bn for maize purchase in Eastern province

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The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has dispersed K6 billion for the purchase of maize in Eastern province.

FRA executive director Dr. Anthony Mwanaumo told ZANIS in an interview today, that
his agency has started paying farmers who sold their maize to FRA in this year’s
marketing season.

”40 farmers are expected to be paid today as we have started paying, and the
process will be done in a systematic manner where a limited number of farmers will
be paid each day,” he said.

Dr. Mwanaumo said the agency was overwhelmed with the  maize production in the
province and was compelled to open more satellite depots, as the buying points in
the province were not sufficient.

”We opened 18 satellite points in Chipata district and 13 in Petauke district to
cater for the surplus though the average was 10 for each district in the province.

He revealed that the process of buying maize was slow in the Northern part of the
country because the grain still  has high moisture content as compared to the grain
in  Southern province.

Dr. Mwanaumo also explained that FRA will soon start refunding farmers who used
their grain bags when selling to the agency last year soon.

Constitution – no easy way

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The Consitinuent Assembly is not an easy route to take in making a costitution. 

The Chief Government Spokesperson said this is because setting up a Constituent Assembly will call for parliament to surrender some of its powers.

Mike Mulongoti said it is not likely that parliamentarians can agree to surrender their powers to facilitate the establishment of a Constitutent Assembly.

Mr. Mulongoti who is also Information Minister was speaking at a constitution seminar organised by the inter-religious federation for world peace.

He said the country might not have a new constitution by 2011 election if the constitution making process is done through the Constituent Assembly because it is a long route.

Kansanshi miners’ strike saddens Levy

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President Levy Mwanawasa has expressed sadness over the strike by unionised workers at Kansanshi mine in Solwezi in the North Western Province.

The President expressed the sadness today at Solwezi Airport on arrival from Lusaka
this morning on his way to Lumwana mine.

Mr. Mwanawasa, however noted that, for many years, Northwestern Province had been
called a Cinderella Province and the same workers on strike had no employment and
wondered what will happen to them and their families if Kansanshi mine closes down.

He said resorting to strike action would not solve anything but distortion of the
mining company.

He said he would wanted to visit Kansanshi mine but this time he could not go there
when workers have withdrawn labour.

The President said he would only visit Lumwana Mine to inspect progress there and
encourage the management to continue with their plans and work.

The strike action at Kansanshi Mine started on 11/07/2007 when workers strated
demanding to be paid their 25 percent wage increase.

Africa needs billion dollars to mitigate post conflict challenges-AU

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The Africa Union (AU) says Africa needs billions of dollars to mitigate the challenges of post conflict reconstruction and peace building on the continent.

AU Commission Post Conflict Reconstruction and Peace Building Expert, Dr. Naison
Ngoma said resources that have been provided on the continent in comparison to other
region, was insufficient to meet its needs.

He stated that although the response from the international community has been
overwhelming more needs to be done.

The AU Expert said effective strategies needs to be put in place to ensure that
countries engaging out of conflicts are assisted.

Dr. Ngoma was speaking during a press briefing ahead of the AU Post Conflict
Reconstruction and Development Policy Workshop scheduled for next week.

He noted that Commission seeks to embrace all stakeholders in implementing the AU
Post Conflict and Development Policy.

And speaking at the same function, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA) Civil Society Expert Elizabeth Mutunga said the region having countries
that have emerged from conflict was party to policy formulation.

She said COMESA has since taken up the initiative to translate the policy to
actionable programmes.

State counters Chiluba

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Zambia FlagThe state has submitted that the arguments raised by lawyers representing former President, Frederick Chiluba not to register the London High Court judgement are misconcieved and misleading.

The state submitted that all laws in Zambia which include statutory instruments are judiciary noticed and that it is not for the State to show that a statutory instrument was passed.

This was during a continued hearing of a preliminary motion raised by Dr. Chiluba’s lawyers before Lusaka High Court Judge, Japhet Banda challenging the registration of the London High Court Judgment in Zambia.

The state has since asked Judge, Banda to dismiss with costs the motion of the preliminary issue.

But Dr. Chiluba’s lawyers argued that to accept what is being proposed will open up to any commonwealth country to come and register judgements.

He has asked the court that the preliminary issue be upheld and the order of registering the May 4 judgement be set aside with costs.

Lawyer John Sangwa said the state has not complied with part two of the foreign judgment reciprocal act that requires a presidential statutory order before attempting to register a foreign judgment in Zambia.

Judge Banda has reserved ruling to August 10.

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Samfya children population for immunisation exercise underestimated

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Population estimates of children due for measles immunisation in Samfya were underestimated, resulting into some centres running out of the vaccines.

A check at Mabo-Kunda, Ninge and Katanshya Rural Health Centres yesterday revealed
that stocks of measles vaccines were allocated based on central statistics estimated
population of children under five years.

However, all the three centres showed almost a significant increase in the number of
children and had to send distress calls to the district for the provision of more
vaccines.

Both at Mabo-Kunda  and Ninge, the immunisation exercise had to temporary stop after
vaccines ran out, and health authorities had to use a ZANIS mobile unit van to rush
vaccines to the centres in the afternoon.

At Mabo-Kunda the statistics showed that the children due for measles immunization
were 819, but the actual vaccinations were by today expected to reach over 1,000.
By yesterday 886 children were vaccinated and some more were still coming.

At Ninge, the population estimates for vaccination were at 311, but by 16:00 hours
yesterday the number of children vaccinated had reached 859.

The staff at the centre said they still had one area of Kabolelo where they were yet
to move in to vaccinate children today.

With the children immunisation week still having today and tomorrow to close, the
staff said they expect the number of children immunised under Ninge Health Centre to
be well above 1,000 when statistics had put figures at 311.

At Katanshya the statistics had estimated 886 children but the head count by the
rural health centre staff has gone up to 1,596 children  to be immunised.

The nurse in-charge of immunisation, a Mrs. Makondo, said the  underestimates will
not have any adverse effect as there was foresight by the Ministry of Health to send
in buffer stocks for measles immunization to the district.

Nevertheless, this is the second time that the population estimates have come into
question in Samfya with Chief Bwalya last month complaining over a shortfall of
relief food sent to his area in the swamps because the vice president’s office based
the supplies on the CSO census estimates..

Government remains committed dialogue – Mulongoti

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Government says it  remains committed to dialogue with all stakeholders in order to enhance the prevailing peace in the country.

Chief government spokesperson Mike Mulongoti  said there is need for all stakeholders to continue dialogue with government.

He said this during a press briefing in Lusaka on the outcome of the consultative
meeting with the catholic archbishops at state house yesterday.

Mr. Mulongoti who is also information and broadcasting minister said the bishops
during the meeting that was chaired by Republican President Levy Mwanawasa
recognized the government’s leadership in the constitution making process.

Meanwhile, Mr Mulongoti has revealed that the government and the Zambia Episcopal
Conference (ZEC) have resolved to be sending 70% government grant aid directly to
catholic schools and health institutions in districts across the country.

He said this is a departure from the earlier system were such funds were disbursed
through provinces.

And Mr Mulongoti has further revealed that the ZEC has asserted its independent
operation without the influence from other NGOs.

He has since called upon other stakeholders to seek dialogue with the government to
resolve various pertinent issues affecting the nation.

AU Official backs Africa Govt

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African Union (AU) Commission Expert on Post Conflict Reconstruction and Peace Building has supported the idea for the formulation of the Africa Union government.

Dr. Naison Ngoma observed that countries on the continent if they are configured
underone Government, they would be effective in addressing, economic, political and
issues of security and defence.

The AU expert stated that countries as single states are vulnerable to various
external factors.

At the just ended AU summit in Accra, Ghana, African leaders failed to reach an
agreement on the establishment of the African government.

The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and other AU countries said the
continent has not yet attained higher levels of political and economic integration
to warrant this.

President Levy Mwanawasa who also attended the AU Summit in Ghana recently said
Zambia would consult widely before committing itself saying the proposal had serious
implications on political structures.

Levy congratulates new British Premier Brown

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President Levy Mwanawasa has sent a congratulatory message to newly appointed  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Mr Brown is also the new leader of the United Kindom Labour party.

President Mwanawasa has also sent a message to former British Premier Tony Brown. 

In his message to Mr Brown, the President said he trusted that his Government will
maintain the warm  bilateral and multilateral relations that exists between the two
countries.

This is contained in a statement issued to ZANIS in Lusaka today by Special
Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations John Musukuma.

Mr Mwanawasa assured Mr Brown of the Zambian government’s commitment to maintaining the good relations between the two countries. 

And in his message to Mr Blair, the President said on behalf of the Goverment and
people of Zambia, he appreciated the role the former UK Prime Minister played in
alleviating the challenges facing the African continent.

President Mwanawasa noted that Zambia has been a beneficiary of the causes Mr Blair
personally championed during his term of office as Prime Minister of the United
kingdom and during his presidency of the European union and G8.

Mr Mwanawasa wished Mr Blair well in his future endeavours and hoped that he would
continue to champion the cause for Africathat is our cherished vision that the people of Africa continent saying the continent envisaged that one day its peoplewill have access to basic necessities of life.

Fund sports in School, government told

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By Tovin Ngombe
Sinazongwe District Chairperson for Basic Schools Sports (BSS) has appealed to government to rescind its decision for withdrawing from funding School sports activities because it is hurting the game.

Oliver Mpile said for the past two years government has not been funding sports activities in Schools.
Mpile told ZANIS at the Sinazongwe BSS competitions at Kanchindu Basic Shool that the sports attire that pupils were using was bought at the time government was funding them.
He said Schools were not allowed to allocate grants they receive from government to any Sports activity.

Mr. Mpile said the Schools were only allowed to buy equipment for Physical Education (PE) because there was a presidential directive to do it.

“ For the past two years Schools in Sinazongwe have failed to buy sports attire because they been depending own there own fundraising ventures which was not enough to improve sports,” He said.

He said government’s withdrawal from funding was a drawback to the promotion of sports especially in rural areas where pupils had to be dragged for them to see the need of venturing into sports.

The BSS chairperson said teachers that were camping pupils to compete were doing it out of love for game because government was failing to supplement them with any subsistence allowance.
He said before teachers camped their pupils at Kanchindu Basic for five days they had again camped them for five days in their areas without any subsistence allowance.

He said the purpose for their having competitions at Kanchindu basic was to select a team that would compete at the provincial level and eventually at the national level.

Nkaddabwe Ward Councilor Partson Mangunje who was with the Schools through out the competition expressed disappointment at the parent’s failure to come to cheer their children.
Mr. Mangunje urged parents to be supporting their children to promote sports in the district.
He also made a passionate appeal to government to consider sponsoring sports in Schools if the country hopes to have future star players in all sports discipline.

ZANIS/TN/END

Maamba Hospital Confusion continues

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By Tovin Ngombe
The Provincial Health Director for Southern province has failed to contain confusions that has rocked Maamba Hospital for two months says Sinazongwe Movement for Mult-party Democracy Constituency (MMD)Chairperson.

Simon Chali said Maamba Hospital Administrator Cosmas Michelo, the alleged creator of the confusion was sent on 21 days forced leave for his frustrating health workers and threatening the life of Sinazongwe health Director, Dr Kebby Musokotwane.

Chali said Michelo who also beat up a guard on duty before he went on forced leave grabbed, Philip Botha the acting Hospital Administrator in the shirts to force him out of the office when bounced back at the hospital on Friday.

The Constituency Chairperson narrated that when Mr Michelo reported for work on Monday he has been standing outside the Maamba Hospital Administration offices for three days and yesterday he entered into his former office force Mr. Botha out of it

He said the Provincial Health Director Dr Alisheke who spent the whole day at Maamba hospital from 09:00 hours to 19:00 hours last Month failed to find a lasting solution.

“ The province should sort out this mess before the community react to it, Michelo beat the security guard, now he want to beat the Acting Hospital Administrator, we can’t have an individual brewing anarchy at the hospital ,” Chali said.

He said such conduct should not be tolerated and if the provincial health team thinks he was the best manager they should transfer him else where as community do not need his services anymore.
Chali noted that such people where undermining government efforts of improving health delivery to the people.
“We can not have one man fighting everybody at the hospital,” Chali noted.

However, at the time Dr Alisheke held a meeting with Mr. Michelo and Dr Kebby Musokotwane for the whole day he refused to talk to ZANIS about the decision he had made in the meeting and referred all queries to Ministry of health Spokesperson.

“I can not tell you the outcome of our meeting, if you want information talk to our Spokesperson, I can not disclose anything to you,” Dr Alisheke said while holding his hand in the pocket and looked irritated by the presence of the reporter.

Chali noted that after 21 days the health provincial office should have notified Dr Musokotwane on what to do when Michelo reported back but they decided to keep quiet when the issue was sensitive to many health workers.

Grandstand

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Zambia Under 20 are out, but three players for me made the mark in Canada that culminated in that 2-1 defeat against The Flying Eagles Nigeria in their last 16 match played on Thursday in Ottawa.

Nigeria played with some pragmatic passion, power and sheer technique that I yearn to see but is void in all four classes of Chipolopolo.

Against Nigeria, Zambia were out-passed, out-ball-controlled, out-possessed, out-gunned and out-run. To put it mildly, we were outclassed.

And if it wasn’t for Clifford Mulenga I swear we would have literally been run-off the park by Nigeria.

No one should kid themselves; yes we made it to the last 16 but only three Zambian players in Canada came close to making the class of 2010.

I have never been a great fan of one Clifford Mulenga and his manager would testify to that fact after “rubbing him the wrong way” on a number of occasions with some poor ratings on the youngman I’ve made in previous postings of the player over the years.

We certainly will be seeing more of the Pretoria University FC striker for the next decade and hopefully after Canada this will be Mulenga’s big break after botched deals in Sweden, Belgium and France.

Edusport and Ex-National Assembly Striker Rogers Kola too gets my nod for his great industry and his two goals at the tournament put some gloss on his CV.

I have been a great admirer of the giant striker since I first saw him in action last season for Assembly.

Kola has great potential but needs to work harder on his anticipation of the ball on the last mile and I give him a C-minus for his aerial ability.

His heading is still as awful as it was in the league last season.

Third and final on my list is the Kabwe Warriors prodigy Emmanuel Mayuka.

Mayuka was a late inclusion in the team after making an impressive league debut with the railwaymen this season with an impressive personal haul of 8 competitive goals to date this season.

Mayuka acquainted himself well in Canada after being with the team for less than four months.

He might just make the Euro-grade on the agent’s books this summer and looks like he has a great future ahead should he not follow the route of well documented fairytales-turned-into-nightmares.

Many of our players didn’t realize the significance of Thursday’s game.

Any African team playing The Flying Eagles Nigeria on a roll at this level must realize that this is a big benchmark.

Kola, Mulenga and Mayuka proved they punched above their weight against The Flying Eagles.

If you can’t rock or score against bunch of coveted talents like the 2005 Fifa Under 20 World Cup runners-up are then you have no chance.

Uruguay, Spain games do count too but the hungry vultures are always on the lookout  for the next big thing out of Africa and Nigeria are always top billing.

Meanwhile, the quality exists in Zambia but our local coaches are very prejudicial in their criteria to select players on their technical merit.

Power, speed and size laced with good ball technique are all key attributes of the modern game but our coaches prefer journeymen midgets with flair and almost aimless pace.

The team meanwhile returns home this Sunday, July 15 and land at Lusaka International Airport at 10:00 hrs local time.

Levy meets Catholic bishops

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PRESIDENT Mwanawasa was last night expected to meet Catholic bishops to discuss various issues with the controversy surrounding the Constitution-making process topping the agenda.
Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) spokesperson, Paul Samasumo, and State House special assistant for Press and public relations, John Musukuma, confirmed separately yesterday.
Father Samasumo said many issues were tabled for discussion during the meeting but the Constitution was top of the agenda.
He said there was nothing strange about them paying a courtesy call or meeting the President to discuss issues concerning the nation, especially that this was not the first time they were meeting him.
Mr Musukuma said the meeting was set for State House and was closed to the media but promised that a joint statement would be issued later.
Last month, Mr Mwanawasa appealed to Zambians to trust the proposed Constitution Conference, saying citizens should remain engaged in the Constitution-making process.
Meanwhile, Mr Mwanawasa arrives in Solwezi today for a two-day tour of the North-Western Province that will see him commission Zengamina mini hydro power station in Mwinilunga.
According to the programme released by North-Western Province Deputy Permanent Secretary, Nkolola Hazemba, the President is expected at Solwezi airport around 09:15 hours.
After briefings at the presidential guesthouse, the President will depart around 10:00 hours for Lumwana where he will meet three local chiefs before being briefed by Lumwana Mining Company management.
In the afternoon, he will tour the mine, which on completion next year would become Africa’s largest single copper mine.
After a three-hour tour, he will leave for Solwezi where he will spend a night. Tomorrow, the President will depart Solwezi for Kaleni in Mwinilunga at about 09:00 hours.

 He will commission the Zengamina mini hydro power station at around 10:30 hours and later meet local chiefs.
After lunch, the President will fly back to Solwezi before connecting to Lusaka.

Till children do us part ?

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Children are surely a blessing from God but rarely do people think about how their relationship may change after the birth of a baby.
Researchers have identified the transition to parenthood as one of the most challenging milestones in a relationship. The birth of a child can bring couples together or push them apart.
Some couples in distress believe that having a baby may bring them closer and help them resolve differences. That is a big mistake – and mainly because the relationship may not be able to withstand the stress that comes with a new baby. Although couples who start off on shaky ground are more at risk for drifting apart after the birth of a child, couples who start off in a secure relationship, may also falter under the tremendous stress of parenthood. Becoming parents as well as partners will make a difference to your relationship. Couples who adjust to parenthood find their relationship is enriched and a great source of strength and support for the demands of parenthood.

Ideally a couple should develop effective communication patterns before they decide to parent. Discuss what traditions and values are important for you and your baby. Define your roles in the house. Who is going to help the kids with homework? Is dad going to help bathe the kids or put the kids to bed for instance.

If your relationship is on the rocks try these tips:

1. Write down a list of all the reasons you chose your partner.

2. Tell your partner why you appreciate him or her.

3. Don’t watch TV on selected evenings and turn off the computer.

4. Ask your partner for help and be specific.

5. Each write down a list of little practical things that would make you feel loved.

6. Hold hands while you resolve a conflict.!

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