Daily Archives: November 2, 2014

Politicians advised to refrain from using sensitive statements

Politicians in the country have been advised to desist from issuing out sensitive statements that may provoke people as the country continues to mourn late president michael sata. Governance activist maurice malambo has told qfm news in an interview that politicians should instead help in containing any situation that would provoke tension. Mr. Malambo has cited what happened yesterday at ...

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Zambians in South Africa celebrate Sata’s life

Zambians across South Africa on Saturday yesterday held memorial church services to celebrate the life of President Michael Sata who passed away on 28th October, 2014. In Johannesburg, several tearful congregants thronged Our Lady of the Wayside Parish Catholic Church in Maryvale to pay their respects to the departed head of state. The service was presided over by two Zambian ...

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PF counsels PF members

Suggestion on the need for the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) to remain calm and peaceful as the country mourns late President Michael Sata, have continued polling in. Opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) president Nason Msoni says the ruling party must mourn president Sata with dignity. Mr. Msoni has told qfm news in an interview that any rush to discuss who ...

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Mwenye miss-directed himself – YALI

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has observed that Attorney General Musa Mwenye allegedly miss-directed himself in his recently rendered interpretation of the law when noted that former Defense Minister George Mpombo was acting president when then President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa died 2008. In his interpretation of the law to clarify the decision by Cabinet to uphold the provisions of ...

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TPAZ says it will miss Sata for effort of harmonizing timber industry

The Timbers Producers Association of Zambia (TPAZ) says timber producers in the country will miss late Republican President Michael Sata for his efforts to harmonize the timber industry. TPAZ Vice President Charles Masange has told QFM News in an interview that it is unfortunate that the people around President Sata did very little to help him push forward his development ...

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Mukobela appeals for peaceful selection of PF Presidential by-election candidate

Chief Mukobela of the Ila speaking people in Namwala District of Southern Province has appealed to the Patriotic Front to pick their presidential candidate for the forthcoming Presidential by-election in a peaceful manner. And the Tradition Leader says late Republican President Michael Sata had a vision to end child marriages in the country. Chief Mukobela says President Sata had also ...

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PF govt will complete Sata’s vision – Mukanga

Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Minister Yamfwa Mukanga has assured the nation that all infrastructure development projects initiated during President Michael Sata‘s time will be completed to their logical conclusion. Under the three years that Mr. Sata has been President the country has seen the rolling out of the three major road projects which are the Link Zambia 8000, Pave ...

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Kabimba denies missing late Sata’s presidential guard of honor

Former Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Wynter Kabimba has dismissed assumptions that he shunned the arrival of President Michael Sata’s body from the United Kingdom on Saturday yesterday at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport where a presidential guard of honor was mounted. This follows some insinuations that he may have shunned the presidential guard of honor owing to the fact ...

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Body viewing of Sata begins

Body viewing of the late President Michael Sata has begun in Lusaka at Mulungushi Conference Center. Being the chief mourner Dr. Christine Kaseba the wife of Mr. Sata was the first to say her last respects to her late husband. Acting president Guy Scott later led Defense Service Chiefs, Cabinet Ministers, Members of the Patriotic Front (PF) Central Committee, dignitaries, ...

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BBC refuses to make Top Gear apology

The BBC has refused to apologise to Argentina over a Top Gear special filmed in the country. The show’s stars and crew had to abandon filming last month amid angry protests over a car number-plate that appeared to refer to the Falklands War. Argentine ambassador Alicia Castro met BBC Director of Television Danny Cohen this month to demand a formal ...

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