A 27-year-old mother of two who was on the run for almost a week after allegedly killing her two children by putting rat poison in their food handed herself over to police on Saturday, Gauteng police said. A seven-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother were found by their father in their mother’s…
Northern Province Minister BRIAN MUNDUBILE has called on Researchers at Misamfu Regional Research Station in Kasama to uphold good work ethics for efficient service delivery to the farming populace. Mr. Mundubile says only positive attitude at work will help in fulfilling the government’s vision of scaling up agricultural production and productivity…
BY SYLVESTER KAUMBA Siavonga District Commissioner Lovemore Kanyama has warned that he will not tolerate civil servants reporting for work drunk. Mr Kanyama disclosed that he has been receiving calls from members of the public that some civil servants especially those in rural areas are in the habit of working…
BY OSCAR NKHUWA Some marketeers in Lusaka have continued to question the existence of the Presidential marketeer’s empowerment funds. Ms Mercy Mwamba a trader at Kabwata market complained that they have not benefited from the much talked about marketeers empowerment funds and wondered whether these funds were just meant to…
BY RUTH MUMBA A civic leader in Matero constituency has assured residents in his ward of enhanced security and good roads. Mwembeshi ward 27 councilor Kelvin Kaunda says he is concerned about the porous security in the ward and assured residents that he is doing everything possible to change this…
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), a long-time ally of the governing African National Congress (ANC), has banned President Jacob Zuma from addressing its activities. Reading from a statement at a media briefing on Tuesday following its special executive committee meeting, Coastu secretary-general Bheki Ntshalintshali said: “Comrade Jacob…
BY NAMUKALE KAPENDE The National AIDS Council has urged the media in the country to invest more resources in information dissemination for decision making across the spectrum of the national development agenda, particularly in the realm of HIV and AIDS in which the misinformation is high. Speaking during a media…
BY KALALUKA MUSHAUKWA Kanyama ward 10 Councilor Brighton Bilumba has called upon residents in his ward who have idle land to surrender it to the authorities, so that it can be used for the construction of a Hospital and School. In an interview with Komboni radio news, Mr Bilumba disclosed…
BY RUTH MUMBA Residents of Lusaka’s Mtendere “A” compound have bemoaned the contaminated water that is being supplied to that community. The residents have lamented that the water being supplied by the Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company is not properly treated as most residents complain of diarrhea after drinking the…
BY KALALUKA MUSHAUKWA A 17 year old boy has drowned in a quarrying ditch in Kamwala south. The deceased who has been identified as Manzuzo Ngoma met his fate this morning around 10 hours as he was trying to pick empty bottles from the ditch that is also used as…