Zambia Weekly - Week 37, Volume 1, 17 September 2010

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24 out o 48 countries in sub-Saharan A ricahave experienced at least one period o civil war over the past 50 years. Yet, the other hal including Zambia has avoided civil war. Why is that?

A research study (Inclusive Elite Bargainsand Civil War Avoidance: Te Case o Zambia) by Ste an Lindemann at the CrisisStates Research Centre o the LondonSchool o Economics has taken a closerlook at Zambias unique peace in a region o con ict.

Lindemann argues that Zambias enduring peace and stability goes back to the persistenceo inclusive elite bargains, which have mani ested themselves in high degrees o political,economic and military power sharing between competing linguistic and tribal groups. Hede nes elites as holders o strategic positions in power ul organisations and movements,including dissident ones, who are able to a ect national political outcomes.

Te inclusive elite bargains have helped to address the colonial legacy o high social ragmen-tation, prevented the emergence o cohesive group grievances and thereby laid the ounda-tions or Zambias lasting peace.

Te closest Zambia has come to civil war was when Adamson Mushala and his ollowerstried in vain to launch an armed rebellion in North-Western Province between the mid-1970sand the early 1980s. Tis is the only attempted insurgency in the history o post-colonialZambia. Four coup attempts in 1980, 1988, 1990 and 1997 were either uncovered in the plan-ning phase or put down within a matter o a ew hours.

Te avoidance o civil war has also been helped by the presence o credible political leaders as

mediators above tribe, the existence o an external threat in orm o regional instability andhigh levels o urbanisation, which have blurred linguistic and tribal cleavages.

Lindemann points out that the governing Movement or Multiparty Democracy (MMD)initially was dominated by Bemba speakers, yet, over time, the MMD party leadership hascome to re ect a broadly national outlook. He warns, however, that Zambias stability should not be taken or granted. He re ers to the re-tribalisation o political competition,evident in the strength o the Patriotic Front (PF) in the Bemba-speaking North and theUnited Party or National Development (UPND) in the onga-speaking South.

Te MMD has also lost ground to the PF in the urban centres, and most o the peopleinterviewed by Lindemann in Zambia and the list is very long agreed that a PF victory inthe 2011 elections may polarise Zambia urther (Sunday imes).

W k 37, Vol m 1, I 23, 17 s p mb r 2010Zambia W klyWhy is Zambia peaceful?

Why is Zambia peace ul?

5 out o 9 new judges are women

Can mayoral elections be ree and air?

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2011 budget is out

One presidential trip costs K 5 billion?

No more patients in corridors at U H

wo women sue rst lady

How to survive a political suicide?

Advert: Colour your Li e

Now you can uel in Zambezi District

Mabengas daughter buried - at last

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Te government is busy building hospitalsle t, right and centre in Zambia (see page4). No doubt a hospital in each o Zambias72 districts will improve access to healthcare but how about the access toquality health care? A ter all, our current hospitals

are chronically understa ed. Zambia hasor a long time been struggling with braindrain in the health sector, and the prospecto working in a araway district albeit in anew hospital is not going to entice many brains to return. Zambian salaries are stilluncompetitive compared to abroad. Te gov-ernment is putting a lot o money into edu-cation and training o new health personnel,but is it sufcient? Tis week, president Ban-da commissioned new diagnostic equipmentat the Cancer Diseases Hospital in Lusaka,but this state-o -the-art technology is only as good as the people operating the machin-ery along with the ones interpreting theresults. Hope ully, the government will dobetter than some o the private hospitals thatbrag o the newest medical equipment butcant use it properly. One could argue that it would make more sense to gather Zambiasmedical expertise in a smaller number o central hospitals rather than spreading itthin on 72 district hospitals? According toBanda it is now a thing o the past to y people to South A rica or cancer diagnosticservices. Maybe the government could con-sider shelving all ights or all people or all

medical problems. Now, that would improvethe access to quality health care!

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Nine new judges have been appointed to the benches o the High and Supreme Courtsin Zambia. Five o them are women, which is no coincidence, according to presidentRupiah Banda: Tis is a deliberate move both by the judiciary and government toensure that participation o quali ed ladies is taking place in our country continu-ously, he said. Banda swore in seven new High Court Judges, including Mrs AnessieBobo, Mr Justine Chashi, Mrs Flavia Chishimba, Mr Isaac Kamwendo, Mrs MugeniMulenga, Mrs Petronella Ngulube and Mrs Gaudentia Salasini. Te two new SupremeCourt judges are Mr Muyinda Wankie and Mr Gregory Phiri. Te SADC Protocolon Gender and Development commits countries to work towards having 50 percent women in political and decision-making positions by 2015 (Post/ imes/Daily Mail11). Te government is also in the process o increasing the number o high court andsupreme court establishments rom 30 to 50 and rom 9 to 11, respectively (Post 10).

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Id ally a a mayor, yo av b com rst ci zen of the city, conno ng that

yo c a o liv a lif of yo r ow .

Minister o local government, EustackioKazonga, to new Kitwe mayor EliasKamanga (Post 15).

Can mayoral elec ons be free and fair?

Government says there is neither brutality nor torture in the Zambian prisons. [S]ome o thethings that have been reported are not true because government has already addressed someo the challenges prisoners were acing in our prisons, explained Minister o Home A airs,Mkhondo Lungu. Last week, Human Rights Watch released a report that stated inmates were routinely tortured and subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment at thehands o police. ogether with two local civil society organisations, Human Rights Watch hadinterviewed prisoners at six prisons in Zambia between September 2009 and February 2010.But Lungu said the government has dedicated its e orts and resources towards improving the wel are and conditions o prisoners in line with the international Convention against ortureto which Zambia is a signatory. Improvements include the construction o a second maximumsecurity prison at Mwembeshi, new prisons in Kalabo and Luwingu districts and 36 open-airprisons throughout the country. Te government has also amended the Prisons Act to allow

or the establishment o parole and a medical directorate (Daily Mail 11). But these improve-ments hardly change the behaviour o prison sta . Hope ully the 11.4 million US dollarsrecently pledged by donors to the Access to Justice programme will help.

No torture in Zambian prisons?

Yo r mo appy c om r ar yo rgreatest sources of learning.

Bill Gates (Daily Mail 10).

Mayoral elections across the country have beenmarked by con usion.

In Chililabombwe, ve Patriotic Front (PF)councillors were expelled or allegedly voting orthe governing MMD partys candidate rudy Ngandu. Ngandu was elected new Chililabom-bwe mayor with 12 votes even though her party has 8 seats in the council.

In Kalalushi, the MMD suspended newly electedmayor, Emmanuel Mazokela, or alleged grossindiscipline. Te MMD had chosen Mazokelaspredecessor, Evaristo Mwalilino, as their candi-date, but Mazokela decided to contest the elec-tion as well and won, according to the MMD

because Mazokela had aligned himsel with the PF. In act, the election was characterisedby exchange o gi ts and money, said MMD provincial chairperson Joseph Chilambwe.

In Luanshya, police arrested and detained Adam Zulu (PF), who was aspiring or the positiono mayor and allegedly had o ered 2 million kwacha cash as inducement to another councillor who he wanted to vote or him. Te arrest prompted the PF councillors to boycott the elec-tions, which was won by MMDs Peter Phiri.

In Solwezi, Jameson Kapumba (MMD) was elected mayor some 24 hours a ter mayoral elec-tions were de erred a ter results were nulli ed. Kapumpa, who be ore the postponement o the

rst polls had his nomination rejected, beat two others.

In Kitwe, the MMD suspended three councillors and reprimanded our other a ter they al-legedly went against the partys directives to contest the position o mayor (Daily Mail 10 and imes 11).

Arc i c o ld fr ly xpr m-lv a d com p wi world cla

buildings that will improve the facesof our ci es. At the moment, manybuildings are lacking. We need to upstandards in our ci es and towns.

Deputy minister o works and supply,Christopher Malila, on building new rather than renovating old (Post 15).

I do not believe as a health ins tu onwe have anything to hide. If there issomething that is wrong, we are ready

o ay, y , r i i w ic d obe done and thank you for le ng usknow and we are going to x it.

Acting minister o health, Brian Chi-tuwo, on picture in the Post showingpatients sleeping on the oor in thecorridors at U Hs lter clinic(see page 4) Daily Mail 10.

To make change, we must empower

wom , o ly ca w claim r alprogress.

UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon -see page 5 (Post 13).

Te International Press Institute (IPI) has commemorated its 60th anniversary by presentingtheir 60 World Press Freedom Heroes rom around the world. One o them is Zambian. Posteditor Fred Mmembe was mentioned when IPI interim director Bethel McKenzie gave nar-ratives o each journalists achievements and challenges in their urtherance o press reedom.She mentioned Mmembes recent our months prison sentence or contempt o court. Inaddition the authorities continued to use criminal de amation and other laws to sti e inde-pendent reporting, she said. Te IPI is a leading press reedom organisation consisting o aglobal network o editors, media executives and leading journalists (Post 14/15).

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t probl m w av a a c rc ithat we always talk about things otherp opl fail o alk abo .

Zambia Episcopal Con erence presidentbishop George Lungu on the CatholicChurchs involvement in development(Daily Mail 14).


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Mining in brief

One presiden al trip costs K 5 billion?President Rupiah Bandas oreign trips have generated investment worth more than 400 million US dollars (about 2 trillion kwacha),according to chie government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha.He dismissed assertions by United Party or National Development(UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema that the trips had been costly to the country at a cost o about 5 billion kwacha per trip. Shikap- washa said the cost o each trip was by ar lower than the value o theinvestment even i the gure was true ( imes 16).

2011 budget of 17.9 trillion kwacha Te government has proposed a 17.9 trillion kwacha budget or2011, equivalent to 20.4 percent o Gross Domestic Product (GDP).Secretary to the reasury, Likolo Ndalamei, said prudent scalpolicy would remain critical during the 2011-2013 Medium ermExpenditure Framework (M EF). Te ocus is to create scal spacethrough the expansion o domestic revenues, the reduction o lowerpriority expenditures and the allocation o more resources to in ra-structure and human development. In act, the government projectsto incur a de cit o 3.5 percent o GDP between 2011 and 2013 to

nance ambitious in rastructure expansion programmes in roadsand the energy sector. In the medium term orecast, total domesticrevenues and grants are projected to marginally increase rom 19.6percent o GDP in 2010 to 20.7 percent by 2013, while total expen-ditures are expected to increase rom 22.1 percent in 2010 to 23.7percent in 2013 (Post/ imes 16).

It costs about K 3 billion to hold a single by-election ac-cording to the Electoral Commission o Zambia (Monitorand Digest 14-20 September).

This weeks gure

Mine Workers Union o Zambia (MUZ) and the NationalUnion o Miners and Allied Workers (NUMAW) claim asplinter union has been ormed in North Western Province with government backing. In a con dential budget proposalo 26 April 2010, the new union named Consolidated Minersand Allied Workers Union o Zambia (CMAWUZ) expresseddelight at being accorded an opportunity to meet with PresidentRupiah Banda: Sir, we are a new union to be registered in themining and allied industries. Our objective, among others, is to work with your government in ostering national developmentunlike other unions who ail to address issues and only condemnthe government o the day, the letter read in part. According toMUZ president Ray ord Mbulu, CMAWUZ has assured Bandao its support during the 2011 elections in exchange or 2.9 bil-

lion kwacha or operational purposes (Sunday Post).

Another mining union

Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has obtained a stay o execu-tion by the Supreme Court a ter baili s seized a number o its vehicles. On 9 September 2010, the Lusaka High Court madean arbitral award in avour o Copper eld Mining Services o Kitwe, but KCM was not served with a notice o the award, which rendered the seizure illegal. According to sources withinKCM, the mining rm owes Copper eld about 2.5 million USdollars (12 billion kwacha). According to KCM corporate a airsmanager Jacqueline Kabeta, Copper eld was claiming 2 millionUS dollars rom KCM but the mining rm was contesting thaton procedural grounds. She stated the dispute had been goingon or two years. KCM plans to contest the seizure and appealto the Supreme Court (Post 16). Recently, KCM agreed to sus-pend its outsourcing o various units although it had arguedthat the outsourcing was a survival measure.

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Public pay reform on its way Te government will in the Medium erm Expenditure Framework (M EF) 2011-2013 embark on pay re orms to ensure a productivecivil service. Secretary to the reasury, Likolo Ndalamei, said the wage bill or the civil servants had been growing rapidly in the last

ve years, thereby causing a risk to the ght against poverty. Wagesare expected to consume an average o 44.5 percent o domestic rev-enue during this M EF period compared with 48.3 percent in the2008-2010 M EF period. Despite this downward trend, the wagebill still consumes an excessively high share o domestic revenue,Ndalamei said. He stated that the challenge would be to containannual wage awards within in ationary levels. Wage awards havebeen consistently above in ation or the last ve years and havebeen the single largest contributor to the exponential growth o the

wage bill, he said ( imes 13).

Road funds to resumeDonors have agreed to resume its unding o the road sector inOctober as long as the government resolves the problems cited in theAuditor Generals report on the Road Development Agency (RDA).Ministry o Works and Supply permanent secretary Watson Ngambisaid government and donors have put in place corrective measures toaddress the nancial and administrative irregularities identi ed by theAuditor General. Measures include disciplinary actions and investi-gations o ofcers cited in the report, addressing the poor relationsbetween the RDA and the National Road und Agency by secondingsta rom one agency to the other, recruitment o senior managementadvisors in procurement, nancial management and engineering with

support o cooperating partners and management o resources and an-nual work plans to avoid over-commitment o unds (Daily Mail 15).

Te revenue rom mining taxes in the rst hal o 2010 is abovetarget by 265.3 billion kwacha. Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) commissioner general Chriticles Mwansa said the ZRAhad recorded an outturn o 503.4 billion kwacha against the tar-get o 238.1 billion kwacha. However mineral royalty collections

were below target by 8.3 billion kwacha based on an outturn o 249.4 billion kwacha against the target o 257.7 billion kwacha.In gross taxes the ZRA collected 10.2 trillion kwacha during thesame period. A ter re unds, net taxes stood at 8.0 trillion kwachaagainst a target o 7.5 trillion kwacha ( imes/Post 16).

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First lady Tandiwe has been sued by

two women in the Northern Province who want to know the nancial sourceo her personal trips and donations to various womens clubs and other groups.Evelyn Kangwa o Kalalantekwe Vil-lage in Chinsali District and MarjorieNakaponda o Chiwanda Village inIsoka District had also applied or aninjuction to restrain Tandiwe romusing alleged government resources. Te duo also jointly sued the Attorney general as the second de endant. Lu-saka High Court judge Philip Musondarejected the application or an ex-parteinjunction and ruled that the matterbe heard inter parte on 24 September2010. Te plainti s said that as spouseo the president Tandiwe had no o -

cial status in the government. Te useo government acilities such as vehiclesand helicopters through unauthorisedexpenditure was there ore tantamountto abuse o government resources.Vice-president George Kundas wi eIreen has been appointed to represent Tandiwe, while the two women arerepresented by Patriotic Front (PF)

secretary general Wynter Kabimbas law rm (Daily Mail/Post 10 and imes11).

Two women sue rst lady

Soon the corridors at the University eaching Hospital (U H) will be ree o patients atleast according to the government which is in the process o building 26 hospitals acrossthe country. Te aim is that every district will have a hospital by 2012.

Tis will alleviate the pressure on U H, said president Rupiah Banda, when he this week commissioned the newly upgraded Chawama Hospital: [ ]he U H is a re erral hospital

or the whole country that is why it is critical to decongest it, he told Chawama residents.

[A]part rom alleviating the work load at U H, you will be able to care or your lovedones closer to your homes, he said.

A total o ve clinics in Lusaka are being converted into hospitals in Chawama, Chilenje,Chipata, Kanyama and Matero ownships. So ar the government has spent about 65 bil-lion kwacha on building theatre blocks at the clinics, and the Japanese Government hasadopted the modernisation o Chilenje and Matero clinics at a cost o 20 million US dol-lars (about 98 billion kwacha).

Te government expects eight o the new hospitals to be complete this year, including theLusaka General Hospital, which is over 70 percent complete. Te 40 billion kwacha hos-pital is being built by China Jiangsu next to Chainama Hospital. Te re erral centre at thehospital will cater or 139 in-patients and 477 out-patients.According to Banda, U H specialists will be going to Chawama and other hospitals toprovide the required services (Daily Mail 11/15 and Post/ imes 16).

Recently, the Post published photos o patients lying in the corridors o U Hs lter clinic.

No more pa ents lying in corridors at UTH

Tis week president Rupiah Banda com-missioned new diagnostic equipment atthe Cancer Diseases Hospital in Lusaka. Te MRI and C scanners have already signi cantly reduced the cost o sendingpatients abroad or specialist services.

Tis is a historic event because wehave achieved a major milestone in theimprovement o diagnostic services in thecountry, Banda said.

Te MRI scanner the rst o its kind inZambia was installed in July, a ew months a ter the C scanner. Since then, 157 patientshave had a MRI scan and 596 patients have had a C scan saving Zambia a lot o money.In South A rica, an MRI scan costs 3,500 US dollars (about 17 million kwacha), whereas inZambia the cost is about 2.4 million kwacha.

Te government said it would pay or patients than cannot a ord the costs: Nobody will beturned away or not being able to pay or the scanning services at the cancer diseases hospital.Ours is a caring government and our people should not be denied health care. For those whocannot a ord to pay, government will pay or them, Banda said.

Out o the 596 patients that have received a C scan, the government subsidised or 452 atull cost, whereas 127 out o the 157 patients were ully exempted or MRI.

For many years patients have been sent to other countries such as South A rica or the diag-nostic services at great cost. I am pleased to in orm the nation that this will now be a thing o the past, Banda added.

A 6 million US dollar loan rom the OPEC Fund or International Development signed last year will be used or the construction o wards or cancer patients and a training centre totrain Zambians in the eld o cancer ( imes/Daily Mail 14 and Post/ imes/Daily Mail 15).

Te C (computed tomography) scanner uses x-rays to make detailed pictures o structuresinside the body, while the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner uses a power ul mag-netic eld, making it particularly use ul or scanning o so t tissue.

No more cancer diagnos cs in South Africa

One minority shareholder in ZainZambia Plc has threatened to sueBharti Airtel and the governmentshould the 22 percent listed shares bedevalued. Tis ollows allegations thatBharti Airtel has been trying to in u-ence a downward revision o the priceo 1,126 kwacha per share as proposed

by the Securities and Exchange Com-mission. But shareholder and ormerKasenengwa MP, imothy Nyirenda,said that be ore the sale, the business was valued, and Bharti Airtel prom-ised they would pay minority share-holders around 1,200 kwacha per share.Zain made more pro ts in Zambiathan any other country in Southern A -rica. So, there is no way they should pay minority shareholders less than whatthe company was worth at the time it was being sold, plus premium to enticeus, he said (Post 16).

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First he resigned rom parliament. Ten, barely one day later, he with-drew his resignation. Patriotic Front (PF) MP Geo rey Mwamba,known as GBM, played the main role in this weeks controversy.

Last week, GBM beat up his wi e not or the rst time but onthis occasion the amily decided to report GBM to the police, as they had recently lost another sister to a wi e beater. Te ensuing publichullabaloo orced PF president Michael Sata to temporarily relieveGBM o his duties as party chairman or elections (Post 10).

But GBM heard about his suspension through the media and decidedhe wasnt needed in the party when other PF MPs remained in theirpositions despite being in court. He there ore announced that he would resign to concentrate on his business. He did regret, however,not having had the opportunity to consult his electorate in KasamaCentral Constituency but said he was sure they would understand hissituation ( imes/Daily Mail 10). He was wrong.

Northern Province PF chairman Frederick Chisanga said Kasama

residents had re used to accept GBMs resignation: [I]n Kasama, we are shocked. It has come as a surprise, he said (Post 11). Many o them pointed out that GBMs resignation would result in anothercostly by-election in the northern province ollowing the death o Mpulungu MP Lameck Chibombamilimo (PF).

Okay, declared GBM: I they insist, (...) then I wont resign because Iowe it to them and they do not owe it to me, he said (Daily Mail 11).

Maybe, said ormer PF secretary-general Edward Mumbi, GBMchanged his mind because he is the strongest nancier o the PF (Daily Mail 13)? Or maybe, speculated President Rupiah Banda,GBM had realised that i he resigned the PF would lose the NorthernProvince all together (Sunday Post).

GBM himsel decided to really dig himsel a very deep hole when he

on Kasamas Radio Mano explained why he had beaten his wi e (Post13).

I beat my wi e because I love her. (...) Am I the rst man to beat uphis wi e? I have stayed with my wi e or 32 years. So they think wecan stay this long just without us ghting? (...) And you should know,even i I am an MP, so doesnt an MP ght with a wi e? he asked.

GBM, who apologised or what had happened, explained that his wi e would also beat him up. But he said a political party was notsupposed to poke its nose into issues o wi e battering because theissue was domestic. He also said the media jumped on the bandwagonbecause he was in the opposition.

Nonsense, said several women, who booed GBM in Kasama (Daily Mail 13), and secretary general o the Council o Churches in Zam-bia, reverend Susanne Matale, said GBM was trivialising gender-based violence: Te moral equation ar outweighs the cost o aby-election in my view, she observed (Post 13).

On 13 September, the police charged GBM with assault occasioningactual bodily harm but he was released on police bond ( imes 14).He appeared in court together with his wi e on 16 September where he pleaded not guilty (Post 17).

A ter plea, Mwambas lawyer Mumba Kapumpa applied that the mat-ter be withdrawn because the couple had reconciled. o this e ect,the complainant has given a statement o reconciliation to the policeto withdraw the matter, he said. But magistrate Ka unda re erred theapplication to later and adjourned the matter to 21 October 2010.

PF appointed Ngosa Simbyakula as acting chairman or elections.Simbyakula, an advocate o the High and Supreme Courts o Zambia,has served as permanent secretary in various ministries (Post 14).

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GBM the wife-beater: How to survive a poli cal suicide?

Sunday Post 12 September:

Te violence that GBM meted againsthis wi e has given an appropriate, i notun ortunate, opportunity to condemnthis shame ul practice. It is good that hisparty decided to suspend him. It is notalways that political parties move against

their senior members when they conductthemselves in shame ul ways. In act,more o ten than not, politicians tend toprotect each other and hide behind thenotion that whatever those problems are,they are private. Tere is nothing privateabout wi e battering. Tere is a tendency in our society to believe that peoples an-ti-social behaviour can be separated romtheir per ormance as leaders. In other words, we seem to believe that somebody can be scandalous and despicable in theirprivate lives and yet be able to per ormin a leadership position.

Wife bea ng - according to the editorials:

imes 13 September:

Women have or years su ered in silenceat the hands o their partners becausetradition socialised them to believe thatcrying wol was an act o betrayal to thehusband. Tis silence un ortunately hasresulted in countless numbers o women

being killed or permanently maimedby the very people who are supposed toshow them love. No matter the circum-stances, violence against women mustbe condemned in the strongest termsbecause it is a violation o ones basichuman rights. It is particularly disturb-ing when gender violence is perpetratedby leaders who are supposed to be rolemodels. Such leaders do not deserve tolead the country because i they ail torun a small constituency the home how will they manage the bigger a airso the country.

Daily Mail 14 September:

It is good that the police have arrestedKasama MP Geo rey Mwamba, aliasGBM, or allegedly battering his wi e,Chama, but he should also be expelled

rom the House and does not deservethe title honourable at all. Te assault on

his wi e last week was bad enough orhimsel and his immediately amily, butto come out in public to justi y assaultinghis wi e as an act o love de es all modeo reasoning. What is also concerningis that all those honourable MPs in theHouse are strangely quiet and have notuttered a single word o condemnation.And just in case the honourable MP

or Kasama did not know, even the UNSecretary General Ban ki-Moon (...) worries that the international communi-ty, Zambia inclusive, has ailed to protect women and girls.


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Te spears used by serial killers in the Luano Valley have beenrecovered by a special paramilitary police task orce althoughthe killers managed to escape. Inspector General o Police

Francis Kabonde said the three suspects would be capturedvery soon. Te suspects escaped an ambush leaving behind twospears suspected to have been used to kill the chie pilot o theZambia Flying Doctor Services, Moses Masumba, and severalothers. Te police have been hunting three Mailoni brotherssince May, when Masumba was murdered. Te Mailoni broth-ers have been at large within the vast Luano Valley since 2007, when they killed another person. Meanwhile, 100 more specialparamilitary task orce ofcers were deployed to bee up the unitdispatched earlier to Luano Valley ( imes 13).

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MMD national chairman Michael Mabenga nally agreed tobury his 35-year-old daughter, Maketo. Her burial was postponedat the last minute on 14 September a ter the amily disputedthe results o the post-mortem, which indicated that she hadcommitted suicide. Te Mabenga amily believed her husband,Chansa Chitika, was linked to the death. Maketo was ound deadin bizarre circumstances at her matrimonial home in LusakasChilenje South area on 11 September and police picked up Chi-tika to help with investigations in the matter as they suspected oul play, said Lusaka Police Division commanding ofcerGreenwell Nguni. Present at the post-mortem was a relative o Chitika, a trainee doctor, whereas the Mabenga amily was notallowed to attend. We are not satis ed with what has happened,said Mabenga and duly postponed the burial. Vice presidentGeorge Kundas wi e and several others were among many mourners who were kept waiting at the Cathedral o the Child Jesus. Eventually, a ter a second post-mortem o which theresult is still to be released Maketo was buried. Maketo was anexecutive ofcer at the Ministry o In ormation and BroadcastingServices (Post/ imes 13, Post/ imes/Daily Mail 15/16).

Mabengas daughter buried - at last

New voters: s ll a long way to goAs at 28 August 2010, the Electoral Commission o Zambia (ECZ)has registered 606,576 new voters in its continuous voter registra-tion exercise which commenced on 21 June 2010. Te mobile votersregistration exercise will end on 18 September but voter registration will continue in all 72 districts at council ofces until December 2010(Daily Mail 10). Te ECZ is targeting to register 2.5 million new vot-ers be ore the 2011 elections.

Ready for the next farming season Te government has distributed arming inputs in readiness or the2010/11 arming season. According to minister o agriculture andcooperatives Peter Daka ertiliser and 8,000 tonnes o seed are already in depots awaiting distribution to small-scale armers. Te governmentis still struggling to deal with the surplus o this years alleged bumperharvest o 2.8 million tonnes o maize. Daka appealed to the privatesector to complement the e orts o the Food Reserve Agency (FRA)in purchasing maize now that government has liberalised the exporto maize. But so ar the private sector has proven reluctant to partici-pate especially at the oor prize o 65,000 kwacha per 50 kg bag setby the FRA (Daily Mail/ imes 15).

Zimbabwe thanks Zambia Te Zimbabwean government has commended Zambia or its as-sistance during the time that the country aced sanctions imposed by western countries. We thank the Zambian government or answeringSADCs call to assist Zimbabwe during the difcult period when we

aced challenges arising rom the illegal sanctions imposed by westerncountries, Zimbabwean minister o oreign a airs, SimbarasheMumbengwegwi, said at the 15th session o the Zambia/Zimbabwe Joint Permanent Commission. He added that although the sanctionsthat had denied Zimbabwe access to credit lines, balance o paymentsand development assistance were still in orce, SADCs support hadmitigated the e ects o the sanctions ( imes 10).

Now you can fuel in Zambezi DistrictZambezi district is about to get its rst lling station. Te CheekaService Station is expected to be completed in October, according toits proprietor, Brian Mukuyu, who explained that Cheekas investment

o 1.5 billion kwacha was supplemented with 250 million kwacharom the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission. Allegedly people travel 560 kilometres to source or uel today ( imes 13).

Cultural villages across the country Te government intends to construct cultural villages throughoutZambia as a way o preserving the countrys cultural heritage andenhancing development. When ofciating at the Kuse ya Pa Ngwenaceremony o the Bemba speaking people in Mungwi District, presi-dent Rupiah Banda said the government will also continue to supporttraditional ceremonies because o their role in cultural heritage and

tourism. 300 million kwacha has been earmarked or the Mwela Cul-tural Village in Mungwi District (Sunday imes).

Zambia Weekly - Week 37, Volume 1, 17 September 2010

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