Opposition Patriotic Front (PF) President Micheal Sata has sued Defence Minister George Mpombo for libel in the Zambian High court.

Mr. Sata has sued Mr.Mpombo for damages contained in the Post NewsPaper dated May 18 2007 headed Zambia won’t transer Political Terrorism to Malawi on page 3 while another one headed “we wont let political misfits misbehave in Malawi” on the front of the Zambia Daily Mail.

This is contained in a writ of summons filed in the Lusaka High Court.

Mr. Mpombo is quoted as having said the government would not allow the Zambian soil
to be used by misguided politicians.

He is further quoted as having said over the past few months, there have been attempts to interfere with peace through political conduits to Malawi.

Mr. Sata claims that the ordinary and natural meaning of the words uttered by the
defendant are understood to mean that the plaintiff is a political terrorist and a bandit.

The Plaintiff also says the words means that Mr Sata had attempted to interfere with
peace in Malawi,and also involved in illicit or illegal activities in Zambia which he also attempted to extend to Malawi.

The Plaintiff also points out that the statement also attributes him as a political misfit who has no credibility to be a leader and is unpatriotic and lacks integrity by reason of his terrorist and banditry activities.

Mr. sata said these words were published to the general public who include electorates and are damaging to his character, reputation in both his private and personal capacity as well as in his political life as a president of a Patriotic party.

He claims to have suffered loss and damage because he heads a political party with a
large following in Zambia which has been brought into public scandal, odium and contempt.

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The mining sector declared a paltry K35 billion mineral royalties out of a staggering profit of about K1,589,196,180,000 it recorded in the financial year of 2005 to 2006.

Minister of Finance and National Planning, Ng’andu Magande, said in Lusaka yesterday that the mining sector had a profit of US$397,299,045 last year.
The profit is based on the mineral royalty tax of the current 0.6 percent.

However, Government has informed mining companies that would increase the mineral royalties to 3 per cent
Mr Magande said last year’s profit margin was a significant improvement on the US$242,452,534 declared in the year 2004/2005.

He said this also reflected a tremendous leap in the profits following losses of US$274,486,745 in 2002/2003 and US$43,251,785, recorded in 2003/2004.

“In 2005/2006, mineral royalty receipts improved to a level of K35,749,042,707. The contribution of the mining sector in form of mineral royalties has been positive,” Mr Magande said.

He said mining sector declared K3,633,795,469 as mineral royalty for the 2002/2003 period while in 2003/2004, the State only collected K792,168,131.

The minister attributed the paltry declaration in the 2003/2004 financial year to low copper prices on the world market and the withdrawal of Anglo-American Corporation from the mining sector in Zambia.

”A positive outcome was experienced in 2004/2005 with mining companies contributing K6,308,022,604 as mineral royalty,” Mr Magande said.

And Mr Magande said there was a process in place to ensure that tax audits were conducted to verify the profits declared by mining companies.

He said the audits covered company tax, value added tax, mineral royalty and pay-as-you-earn.

Mr Magande also explained that there were no tax-free imports in the development agreements with mining companies.

He, however, said the Mines and Minerals Act provided for companies with large-scale mining licences to submit approved programmes of mining and metallurgical processes, which were technically scrutinised within the law.

He said when the Minister of Mines and Minerals Development was satisfied and approved the programme, the importation of materials and equipment for the purpose of implementation of the programmes were then given tax concessions.

”Note that the concession in this case is for materials and equipment. The materials and the values to be considered are specified.

During execution of the implementation, the quantities and values are monitored to check compliance with the agreed and approved quantities and values,” he said.

Mr Magande said Government had made it clear that the development agreements would be renegotiated as provided by the clauses of the development agreement and that the nation would be informed as and when the process had been firmed up.

And Mr Magande said the mining sector continued to perform well in 2006.

He said real gross domestic product growth in the mining and quarrying sector increased to 19.6 per cent from 7.1 per cent in 2005.

Mr Magande attributed this to the rise in mineral production, investments in rehabilitation of infrastructure and technological innovations in existing mines, the coming on board of new mines and increase in small-scale copper mining activities.

He said copper production increased by 11.5 per cent from 461,748 tonnes in 2005 to 515,010 tonnes in 2006.

Mr Magande said cobalt production, however, dropped from about 5,537 tonnes in 2005 to 4,658 tonnes in 2006.

He said Government was happy that direct employment in the mining industry was now close to 50,000 employees.

Mr Magande said Government would continue to promote both large and small-scale mining by providing a conducive business environment, updating current legislation and providing more geological information to allow for extensive exploration work.

He said Government would provide support to the small-scale mining sector, given its potential in employment creation and poverty reduction.

Mr Magande said through the use of the mining revolving fund, small-scale miners would continue to be assisted with funds for, among other things, hire of plant and equipment.

Meanwile KALUBA BWALYA reports that the Mine Workers Union of Zambia (MUZ) has welcomed Government’s decision to temporarily suspend new applications for mining rights for six months.

MUZ president, Raymond Mbulo, said in an interview yesterday that the decision to suspend applications for mining rights was good, as it would accord Government a chance to adequately scrutinise some applications.

“MUZ will always support any Government decision that is well intended and also that addresses the plight of miners in the country,” he said.

Mr Mbulo said having a computerised system was a good development, as it would ensure that applications were processed faster and more transparently than the manual system.

Minister of Mines and Minerals Development, Dr Kalombo Mwansa, announced on Saturday the intended suspension of the issuance of mining rights.

This would be effected from July 1, to December 31,2007.

 President Mwanawasa today visited the funeral house of  the late mother of Local Government Minister Sylvia Masebo’s Ms Magaret Mwachiyeya Tembo in Lusaka’s Woodlands residential area.

Mr Mwanawasa was received at the funeral house by top government and MMD party
officials led by Home Affairs Minister Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasha.

Lusaka Province Minister Charles Shawa and MMD deputy national secretary Major
Richard Kachingwe were also at the funeral house.

The President sat at the funeral house for about an hour after he left for State House.

Mrs. Tembo died on Thursday after an  illness. She was 71.

Burial is scheduled to take place at Old Leopards Hill cemetery tomorrow after a
requiem mass at 09: 30 hours at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus in Longacres.

And consoling mourners at the funeral house,  Lt. General Shikapwasha who is a
pastor said people should look to God for peace and strength in times of sorrow.

Government has  welcomed Oasis Forum’s plans to launch the Red Ribbon campaign to ensure that a Constituent Assembly is used as a mode of adopting the republican constitution.

Speaking to journalists today , Chief Government spokesman Mike Mulongoti said
government welcomes any efforts by organisations and individuals to contribute to
the ongoing constitution making process.

Mr Mulongoti, who is also Information and Broadcasting Services Minister, said the
debate on the mode  of adopting the constitution should be non partisan but a
national issue.

“We welcome the Oasis Forum’s plans to introduce the red ribbon campaign for the
adoption of the Constitution through the Constituent Assembly, ” said the minister.

“We are for a win-win situation. As government we advise people to learn to give and
take, ” said Mr Mulongoti.

In part 1, we explained the importance of using sex energy to lift an individual’s creative ability to a higher level. The urge for sex is the most powerful of all human desires. This desire can be so great that it brings out a persons keenness of imagination, persistence, will power, and creativity in an instant. Some people are even willing to trade their life’s worth and reputation just to go for it. Sex is a motivation. And when it is used properly, it can bring you into a creative avenue you never imagined. In this final part we examine how this can be achieved.

The harnessing of sex energy calls for the exercise of a lot of will-power, to be sure, but the reward is worth the effort. The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerged or eliminated. But it should be given an outlet through forms of expression which enrich the body, mind, and spirit of man. If not given this form of outlet, it will seek outlets through worthless physical channels like sleeping around. The mere possession of this energy is not sufficient to give you great creative ability to dealing with problems. The energy must be channeled from desire for physical contact, into some other form of desire and action, before it will provide one with creative powers.

Far from becoming great, because of great sex desires, the majority of people lower themselves, through misunderstanding and misuse of this great force, to the status of the lower animals. Over indulgency in sex habits is just as detrimental as over indulgency in habits of over drinking and eating. In this age in which we live, an age in which sex sells everything, over indulgency in habits of sex is common. This orgy of indulgence may account for the great spread of sex related diseases. No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating his sexual energy. Man is the only creature on earth which violates nature’s purpose in this connection. Every other animal indulges in sex in moderation, and with purpose which harmonizes with the laws of nature. Every other animal responds to the call of sex only in “season.”

Every intelligent person knows that stimulation in excess, through alcoholic drink and drugs, is a habit which destroys the vital organs of the body, including the brain. Over indulgence in sex expression too may become a habit as destructive and as detrimental to creative effort as drugs or liquor.

A sex-obsessed individual is not essentially different than a drug addicted man! Both have lost control over their faculties of reason and will-power. Sexual over indulgence may not only destroy reason and will-power, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent insanity.
Lucky or blessed, indeed, is the person who has discovered how to give sex emotion an outlet through some form of creative effort, for he has, by that discovery, lifted himself to the status where he can access his or her creative faculty.

The creative imagination functions best when the mind is stimulated at an exceedingly high rate. When brain action has been stimulated, through mind stimulants, it has the effect of lifting the individual far above the horizon of ordinary thoughts, and permits him to envision distance, scope, and quality of thoughts not available without stimulation, such as that occupied while one is engaged in the solution of the problems of business and professional routine.

While on this exalted plane of thinking, the creative faculty of the mind is given freedom for action. The creative faculty becomes more alert and receptive to ideas, originating outside the individual’s subconscious mind, the more this faculty is used, and the more the individual relies upon it, and makes demands upon it for thought impulses. This faculty can be cultivated and developed only through use.

Research done in the 1930s in the west of over 250 000 people disclosed that rarely does an individual enter upon highly creative effort in any field of endeavor before the age of forty. The average man reaches the period of his greatest capacity to create between forty and sixty. Hence the phrase life begins at 40. The major reason why the majority of men who succeed do not begin to do so before the age of forty to fifty, is their tendency to dissipate or waste their energies through over indulgence in physical expression of the emotion of sex. The majority of men never learn that the urge of sex has other possibilities, which far transcend in importance, that of mere physical expression. The majority of those who make this discovery do so after having wasted many years at a period when the sex energy is at its height, prior to the age of forty-five to fifty.
The lives of many men up to, and sometimes well past the age of forty, reflect a continued dissipation of energies, which could have been more profitably turned into better channels. Their finer and more powerful emotions are sown wildly to useless causes.

This is why saying “NO” to sex can skyrocket your creative passion. If you get yourself into that heightened state of emotional intensity you are going to be more aware, more sensitive to stimuli, feeling more alive, exuberant and expressive, more energised and inspired. And those are all qualities you can draw on to be creative, inspirational, and exceptionally minded.

The key is to have an agenda or goal that is inspiring to you. Something that feels so incredibly appealing that you have an almost sexual attraction to it. The thought of your goal being achieved is downright arousing, and you experience a biological response to that effect.

When you’re sexually aroused, you feel a compulsion to take some kind of action. Your hormones take over, and you become incredibly focused and can’t think about anything but the object of your desire. This is what it feels like to be driven by a goal that really inspires you. It’s a magnificent obsession; even daydreaming about it is a delightful, energy-building experience. There’s a pleasant feeling of tension that drives you onward towards release.

Even though you may face some challenges and resistance along the way, they don’t demoralize you because overcoming them is a pleasurable experience when you’re aroused. Pursuing your goals is like practicing the art of seduction. You don’t whine about the problems you encounter because overcoming them only heightens your pleasure. If a problem knocks you back, you may be temporarily frustrated, but in the long run it just makes the pursuit that much more exciting and the reward that much greater.

In conclusion, lets recap. Sexual desire is the most powerful human emotion. By achieving a state of sexual desire and maintaining it, you keep the mind in a heightened state of arousal and activity. When you mix sex and love, you have the perfect mix for drawing on the creative mind… if you can turn your desire for sex into a desire for something else, such as writing a poem, working out a business problem or getting direct spiritual insights.

Over indulgence in sex and orgasm will quell the feeling of desire and the affect that it has on the mind. For example, once a man ejaculates, more often than not he rolls over and falls asleep! One moment he’s a tiger, straining with every part of his body and mind to get what he wants … the next he’s unconscious! This works the same for female as well.

Your goal is to access states of mind that great thinkers do. You require the stimulation of the most powerful human emotion: sex. This will bring your mind to a heightened state of awareness and sensitivity. In expanded states of consciousness you have access to sources of knowledge that you would not otherwise have when simply involved in everyday reality thinking (worry, obsessing, trivial pursuits etc). The goal is to conserve your sexual fluids if you want to be the greatest. All great athletes and thinkers know that wasteful ejaculation can rob you of your powers.

A sexual desire can stimulate the mind. It can bring the creativity out in a man or a woman. It can make them do plentiful things and positive things for themselves and their craft – something that could take them to the level of supreme intelligence – the kind of intelligence that brings wealth, fame, and satisfaction.

MMD vice national chairperson Kabinga Pande has called for unity in the MMD as it continues to lead the nation.

Mr Pande who is also tourism minister says disunity in the ruling party would be
disunity in the nation as a whole because the MMD is national in character and
representation.

Mr Pande wasa speaking during the MMD provincial membership card renewal at Rocky
gardens in Lusaka today.

He said the recent victory in Kapoche parliamentary by-election in Petauke is an
indication that the ruling party’s popularity in the country.

Mr Pande said the good policies of the MMD has made the party strong and popular.

He noted that the country has recorded more foreign investment during the six years
of the New Deal government.

The minister attributed the continued  increase in  foreign investment flows to the
good leadership of President Mwanawasa.

Speaking at the same function,  Finance minister who is also Chilanga member of
parliament Ng’andu Magande said there have been great developments in his
constituency.

Mr Magande said the shortage of farm land in the constituency has been resolved as
farmers with big tracts of  land have agreed to give part of it to anyone willing to
venture into farming.

Mr.Magande further said the road network in the area has improved.

He also announced that the Ministry of Health has confirmed that  money is available
for the construction of a hospital in his constituency.

Mr.Magande also disclosed that the construction of a High school in the area will
commence as soon as land is found in the constituency..

Magande who is also finance minister said the continuous appreciation of the kwacha
against the major international currencies is a good indication of economic growth.

LONDON High Court Judge, Peter Smith, has reserved a ruling on an application by the State to seize second Republican president, Frederick Chiluba’s Kabulonga house, which is alleged to have been purchased using public funds.
Judge Smith set the ruling for Monday because the Zambian Government was not ready with the evaluation of the house in question.
The house could not be seized because there was an affidavit filled in opposition. This was in the ongoing video link between Lusaka and London where Judge Smith was hearing submissions on the quantum payments for the 20 defendants found liable to have defrauded the country of public funds through the ZAMTROP account.
Judge Smith in the earlier proceedings increased Dr Chiluba’s liabilities to over US$58 million from the earlier $41 million and another $1,815,000, money owed to a boutique called Basile.
Former Zambia Security Intelligence Services (ZSIS) director general, Xavier Chungu, was liable to pay more than $58 million, former ministry of Finance permanent secretary, Stella Chibanda, also the same amount.
Access Financial Services (AFS) directors, Aaron Chungu’s liabilities were over $27 million while Faustine Kabwe owes the country more than $53 million.
Congolese, Raphael Soriano, known as ‘Katebe Katoto’s liabilities are more than $29 million from the previous $20 million.

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