Daily Archives: August 21, 2017

GOtv decorder price slashed

  MultiChoice Zambia has reduced the price of GOtv Decoders from K360 to K199. Announcing the development in Lusaka this morning, Acting MultiChoice Zambia Managing Director, Recha Kabwe says this is in an effort to help government with digital migration. Ms Kabwe says this is taking into account the government deadline of October 1st for switching off analogue signal, stating ...

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YALI calls for law reforms

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has called for law reforms in the country to make non-bailable offences bailable, so that innocent people do not remain incarcerated longer than necessary as it is an infringement of human rights. YALI governance advisor Isaac Mwanza Tells QTV news that it is unfair that suspects are remanded in correctional facilities only to be ...

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PRISCCA hails landmark judgement on prisoners’ right to vote

Prisons Care and Counseling Association (PRISCCA) is happy with the Constitutional Court’s ruling allowing remandees and convicted prisoners who have appealed their convictions to vote in elections. PRISCCA Executive Director Godfrey Malembeka whose organisation had petitioned the Electoral Commission of Zambia and Attorney General in the Constitutional court asking the court to declare that all remandees and pre-trial remandees and ...

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ZABS publishes 170 standards between January & August

The Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) says it has published 170 standards between January and August 2017 to support industry in terms of value addition, growth and sustainability. ZABS Head marketing and public relations Hazel Zulu says most of the additional standards that have been published are focused on providing guidelines, requirements and specifications for various products and processes in ...

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Zambia,China relations result in creation of 4,000 jobs

  Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Vincent Mwale says bilateral relations between Zambia and China have resulted in the creation over of four thousand jobs in the country. Speaking when the visiting Vice president of the Development Research Center of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Dr. Long Gouqiang paid a courtesy call on, Mr.  Mwale says China ...

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DMX Gets A Break In House Arrest Under This Crazy Condition

(AllHipHop News) The judge is giving DMX a break in his house arrest, so the rapper can perform at a highly anticipated show. DMX was sentenced to full house arrest, after violating the terms of his bail conditions relating to 14 charges that he deliberately evaded millions of dollars worth of income tax. DMX suffered a temporary setback last week, ...

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Paris Hilton says she could’ve been like Princess Diana if sex tape wasn’t released

Paris Hilton revealed in an interview that the tape of her and her ex-boyfriend having sex ruined her chances of being like her idol Princess Diana. The reality star and socialite said in an interview with Marie Claire earlier this week that she was humiliated after her ex-boyfriend, Rick Salomon, released a tape of the two of them having sex in 2003.”It’s ...

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Blues win derby, Huddersfield win again

Premier League champions Chelsea got the boost they badly needed on Sunday as a double from Marcos Alonso gave them a 2-1 victory over last season’s runners-up Tottenham Hotspur in Antonio Conte’s 50th game in charge. The 26-year-old Spaniard struck the winner with less than three minutes remaining in an impressive show of character by Chelsea, after they had been ...

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Barca, Madrid off to winning starts

Barcelona got off to a winning start in La Liga on Sunday, beating Real Betis 2-0 in a subdued atmosphere at the Nou Camp in the first game since the deadly attacks in the Catalan capital and the town of Cambrils. Rivals Real Madrid began their pursuit of winning back-to-back league titles for the first time since 2008 with a ...

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US Navy ship and oil tanker collide off Singapore

Ten sailors are missing and five have been injured after a US destroyer and an oil tanker collided off the coast of Singapore, the US Navy says. The guided missile destroyer USS John S McCain was sailing east of Singapore and preparing to stop in the port when the collision with the Liberian-flagged vessel occurred. A wide-ranging search and rescue ...

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