A 33 year old Zambian national has been convicted and sentenced to four (4) years imprisonment by a South African court after being found guilty of being in possession of a hi-jacked vehicle. Musa sunny, holder of passport number ZN 447752 was sentenced by a Johannesburg court after convicting him of being in possession of a stolen vehicle. Musa, who ...
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Wenger ready to ‘fight’ to end Arsenal crisis
Arsene Wenger has grown used to defending himself in recent years but the Arsenal manager’s grip on his position has never seemed less secure ahead of Sunday’s clash with Brighton. A crushing 3-0 loss against Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium on Thursday intensified the criticism directed at Wenger and his players following their limp defeat in the League Cup ...
Read More »Oscars 2018: Star Wars’ Mark Hamill on why he’d rather watch from home
He’s going to the Oscars for the first time in four decades – but Star Wars’ Mark Hamill says he’d rather be watching the ceremony in his pyjamas. Hamill – Luke Skywalker in the films – last attended in 1978 when Star Wars: A New Hope was up for best picture. Speaking at the Oscar Wilde Awards, where he was ...
Read More »Berta Caceres: Executive held over dam activist’s murder in Honduras
Police in Honduras have arrested an energy company executive on suspicion of masterminding the murder of a renowned environmental activist. Berta Caceres was shot dead inside her home exactly two years ago, on the night of 2 March 2016. She had led protests against a dam project. The arrested man, Roberto David Castillo, is executive president of Desa, the firm ...
Read More »Saudi king replaces military chiefs in shake-up
Saudi Arabia has sacked its top military commanders, including the chief of staff, in a series of late-night royal decrees. Saudi King Salman also replaced the heads of the ground forces and air defences. The news was published by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), but no reason for the sackings was given. They come as the war in Yemen, ...
Read More »2017-2018 Farming season a disaster- Sialubalo
United Party for National Development (UPND) Sinazongwe Member of Parliament Gift Sialubalo has described the 2017/2018 farmer input distribution exercise through the e-voucher system as a national disaster. And Mr. Sialubalo says the convention method of distributing farming inputs to farmers was more ideal for farmers in his constituency which is rural compared to the electronic voucher system. Mr. Sialubalo ...
Read More »FFTUZ calls on investigative wings to investigate computing system at the ministry of finance
The Federation of Free Trade Unions of Zambia (FFTUZ) has called on investigative wings to take keen interest in the issue of the collapse of the central computing system at the ministry of finance. Union President Chingati Msiska says there is need to investigate the matter as this could be the work of saboteurs. He tells Q-News that matter must ...
Read More »GAWUZ wants govt to reintroduce windfall tax
Gemstones and Allied Workers Union of Zambia President Sifuniso Nyumbu has noted the need for te government to reintroduce windfall tax as a way of ensuring the money investors make especially in the mining sector stays in the country. Windfall taxes are primarily levied on the companies in the targeted industry that have benefited the most from the economic windfall, ...
Read More »Govt urged to revise all tax treaties
The Zambia Tax Platform, a consortium of organizations working to promote tax justice has called on government to start revising all tax treaties in order to collect more tax revenue from investments in the country. ZTP Chairperson Lewis Mwape says with the recent revelations by Action Aid that under one treaty alone US$7.4 million was not collected by government through ...
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