ZAMBIA
DAILY MAIL
VOL 26 NO. 002
22,000 want divorce
Distressed men, women flood local courts to end marriages
HH, SDA mourn Lake
Kariba victims
CATHERINE BWALYA,
CHOMBA MUSIKA
Choma, Lusaka
THE six Seventh-day Adventist
(SDA) youth campers who
drowned in Lake Kariba on New
Year’s Day allegedly sneaked
out of Sabbath worship service
and went to the water body
where they met their fate.
And President Hakainde
Hichilema, who is saddened
by the death of the six young
people, has sent a message of
condolences to the bereaved
families.
The victims, who are said
to have sneaked out of camp
around 14:30 hours, died around
18:00 hours near a guest house.
The youth’s ill-fated
adventure to Lake Kariba was
not part of a one week Youth
Alive camp meeting programme
they were attending at Siavonga
Secondary School.
SDA Lusaka Conference
youth director Billy Mukombo,
who described the deaths of the
young people aged between 18
and 26 as unfortunate, regrets
that they died after prematurely
leaving the worship site.
“We had put rules and
regulations for this camp and
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they were never [supposed] to
go to the water without the camp
programming.
“But, of course, we know
the devil is alive and his job
is to ensure that he disturbs
the believers because when
such a thing happens, others
would even be discouraged
and question how people who
went for a church programme
ended up drowning,” Pastor
Mukombo said in an interview
yesterday.
He is saddened that the
incident happened during a
programme meant to edify
youths spiritually and on matters
like health and entrepreneurship.
Police identified the victims
as Niza Muchiliba and Allan
Mwaanga of SDA’s Kanyama
Mission District and the other
four as Zebron Shikambo,
Ronald Libuku, Goodson
Himaila and Rodwell Chileshe
of SDA’s John Laing Mission
District.
Mwaanga’s body was only
retrieved yesterday after a
rigorous search by members of
the community and government
departments.
Two other youths were
resuscitated.
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Auditors question K21m youth loans
PRISCILLA MWILA
Lusaka
DESPITE previously failing to
recover huge sums of money
through disbursed loans, then
Ministry of Youth, Sport and
Child Development gave out
Mobile money trader robbed
A MOBILE money agent in
Nakonde has been robbed of
about K11,000 cash after some
thieves sprayed an unknown
substance in his eyes.
Muchinga Province deputy
commanding officer Buumba
Munkondya said this happened
around 06:00 hours on New
Year’s Day at Black market in
Chieftainess Nawaitwika’s area.
Justin Sichivula, 29, was
robbed of K10,900 and a phone
by about 10 people.
Ms Munkondya said Mr
Sichivula was approached by
his assailants, who claimed they
wanted to withdraw K1,000
each.
As Mr Sichivula began the
transaction, one of the robbers
pushed the door to the booth
while others sprayed an
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K21 million to 44 cooperatives
without clear payment plans.
The ministry failed to provide
loan agreements to auditors for
K21,632,250 it disbursed to
youth groups.
The latest Auditor General’s
report on use of COVID-19 funds
unknown substance into his eyes.
Ms Munkondya said the thieves
tied Mr Sichivula’s hands and
legs, placed a cloth in his mouth
and fled.
In another matter, a police
officer in Mafinga district has
allegedly been wounded by
a teacher whom he tried to
apprehend for idling.
Ms Munkondya said Clement
Sinang’ombe was arrested for
allegedly wounding a police
officer.
He said the suspect used an
unknown sharp object to would
the police officer who attempted
to arrest him for idle and
disorderly conduct in the early
hours of New Year’s Day.
MWILA NTAMBI
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has shown that the ministry gave the information had not been
out the money but failed to give availed.
auditors loan agreement forms In addition, five youth Janza hopes
and payment details. cooperatives received
On October 22 this year, K20,550,000 between May 7 and for honours at
auditors issued a query to May 11, 2021 as part of the youth
the ministry on this matter, marketeers’ empowerment funds. Namungo
but as of October 31, 2021, Continues on page 3
Consider chiefs in CDF INSPIRATIONAL
NOTE
COUNCILLORS should to support their endeavours.
prioritise the welfare of chiefs Meanwhile, Chipata City
when allocating projects under
the Constituency Development
Council has started clearing
the eight months’ salary
“MAKE
Fund (CDF).
Monze Council chairperson
arrears owed to workers.
Mayor George Mwanza says
your life a
Powell Mutenguna says only
chiefs Choongo and Choona
the local authority owed over
K17 million in salaries while masterpiece,
have official palaces, while four terminal benefits stood at K4
others in the district are using million. imagine no
their personal properties. Mr Mwanza said the council
Mr Mutenguna said in an
interview that most of the
has so far settled about five
months of the salary arrears.
limitations
traditional leaders also lack
court buildings, leaving them
He told journalists that the
local authority has significantly
on what you
with no choice but to host
trials in their living rooms.
improved the welfare of
workers since he was elected
can be, have,
He said providing as the city father in the August
infrastructure for chiefs will 12 general election. or do.”
legitimise their work.
Mr Mutenguna said chiefs CATHERINE BWALYA, – BRIAN
play a huge role in national MAYENGO NYIRENDA
development, hence the need Choma, Chipata TRACY
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Policeman takes own life
Film producer among 10 New Year accident victims
COMMENT CHRISTINE CHIHAME,
CHOMBA MUSIKA
Lusaka
around 06:45 hours.
Mr Hamoonga said the reasons why
the officer killed himself are yet to be
Year accidents, Mr Hamoonga said
in a statement yesterday that Lusaka
Province recorded 45 accidents, the
K288,945 reduction in the collection of
guilt fines from motorists this year.
Police collected K256,125 in guilt
established. highest, followed by Copperbelt with 23. fines this year compared to K545,070
Divorce harmful to family bonds “Police visited the scene and found Southern Province noted nine last year during the same holiday.

A
27-YEAR-OLD police
officer has allegedly Chabu lying on a wooden bench in a accidents, Eastern and Luapula eight Mr Hamoonga attributed the reduction
committed suicide by grass-thatched shelter at his house,” Mr each, Central and Muchinga six each, in road accidents to traffic patrols by

W
HAT is happening
in the institution of
marriage nowadays?
Have couples lost the
respect for principles of matrimony
to the point where divorce is now the
only solution to marital disputes?
A report that Zambia recorded
22,543 divorce cases last year due
to lack of conjugal rights, adultery,
gender-based violence, insults and
cruelty makes sad reading.
This translates to an average of 60
divorces every day.
According to statistics from the
local courts in the country, the
shortest marriage to seek divorce
lasted 30 days while the longest was
65 years.
In 2020, the shortest marriage
lasted 17 days while the longest was
67 years.
The huge number of marriages
ended last year shows that the solemn
promise of “till death do us part” has
changed to “till divorce do us part”.
In a Christian nation like ours,
marriage is supposed to be a covenant
as designed by God.
This is why we are guided in the
Bible in Genesis 2:24 that: “Therefore
a man shall leave his father and
mother and be joined to his wife, and
they shall become one flesh.” – (New
King James Version)
While it may be argued in other
schools of thought that marriage is
between two people and that it is only
the couple that understands their
problems, there is need for individuals
not to take it lightly.
It must be understood that
marriage is the basis for family bonds
upon which communities and nations
at large are firmly anchored.
Therefore, the statistics of failed
marriages mentioned above negate
the idea of unity in the nation.
Some of the reasons advanced
by couples for their break-up, like
adultery, border on lack of respect
for the virtues of marriage. To some
extent certain cultural beliefs promote
a man’s infidelity.
We have heard such sayings as
“ubuchende bwamwaume tautoba
ing’anda (a man’s infidelity does not
break a matrimonial home)”.
Conversely, some women nowadays
must try by all means to avoid falling
into this trap in the first place.
We also understand that there is
stigma attached to married people
being denied their conjugal rights, but
many are times that couples overlook
the real issues that drive one from the
other.
Gender-based violence, insults and
cruelty on a spouse are the common
issues that bring about resentment
in the area of conjugal rights, which
we believe couples need to work on
through communication.
It is an open secret that divorce
leads to broken families and
multiplies the number of vulnerable
children, a situation which parents
should avoid.
Most of the testimonies from street
kids point to divorce between their
parents as the cause for their fate.
While we recognise the fact that
sometimes divorce is inevitable
given the degree of the problem in
marriage, we urge parents to consider
the feelings of their children before
they go separate ways.
Break-up of marriages has a
psychological effect on the children,
who end up having a negative
perception of marriage when they
grow up.
We ask the Church to strengthen
their counselling programmes so that
couples can maintain their marriages
with the full knowledge that the union
of man and woman comes from God.
Parents also have a big role to play
in the union of their children so that
they can understand that marriage
is not “shipikisha club (place of
endurance)” as some people say,
but that it calls for understanding
between mates.
From the figure above, it is safe to
conclude that 2021 was not a happy
one for most families, especially in
Eastern Province where the highest
number of those seeking divorce was
recorded at 4,441 while Lusaka is
second with 3,819.
Marriage counsellors and the
Church at large should also reflect on
the age at which some children are
taken into marriage.
Forced marriages clearly start on a
weak foundation and could so easily
end in divorce among couples because
shooting himself in
Nchelenge.
And 10 people,
including film producer Frank Kasonde,
died in over 100 road traffic accidents
noted countrywide during the New
Year holiday, with most of the mishaps
happening in the capital city, Lusaka.
Detective constable Raban Chabu
reportedly killed himself using his
firearm.
Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga
said in an interview yesterday that the
incident happened on Thursday last week
Councillor sends SOS to Masebo
for bedridden boy
CHOMBA MUSIKA,
JUSTINAH KAPAMBWE
Lusaka
KAMWALA ward councillor Mainda
Simataa has written to Minister of
Health Sylvia Masebo to come to the aid
of an 18-year-old bedridden boy with
neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder of the
nervous system.
Mr Simataa said in a letter
addressed to Ms Masebo
that Chrispin Busaka,
whose right leg has
overgrown his body,
urgently needs
to undergo an
operation with
Government’s
help.
“Chrispin
was previously
brought to
Lusaka for
medical attention
at UTH (University
Teaching Hospitals)
in 2017. During that
time, he resided in my ward,
Kamwala.
“However, the medical trip proved
unsuccessful as UTH reportedly failed
to operate on him. Chrispin is now under
the care of his vulnerable mother in rural
Lupososhi district,” the letter reads in part.
Mr Simataa said considering the urgency,
magnitude and complexity of the operation
that the boy requires, Government should
consider coming to his rescue by facilitating
necessary processes.
Meanwhile, a 13-year-old special needs
boy of Kasisi-Ng’ombe was left with severe
Hamoonga said. Western five, Northern four, while
He said officers also found the gun North-Western recorded the least at
allegedly used in the suicide. three.
Meanwhile, Zambia recorded 117 Mr Hamoonga said there were 27
accidents in which 10 people died and 32 serious road traffic accidents in which 31
were seriously injured. people were injured last year, compared
During the same period last year, to 21 which left 32 victims seriously
225 road traffic accidents were noted, injured this year.
reflecting a reduction of 108 mishaps He said 122 were highlighted as
this year. damage only road traffic accidents last
New Year’s Day road carnage deaths year, compared to 63 recorded during the
have also reduced by 18, from 28 last same holiday this year, representing a
year to 10 this year. reduction of 59.
Giving an update on the New And Mr Hamoonga said there is a
Police ponder rising crime
in Kitwe
burns on his face, chest, legs and arms after
MWILA NTAMBI
the house he was locked in by his older sister Kitwe
caught fire on Thursday last week.
At the time of the tragedy, the victim’s AN APPARENTLY rising rate
mother, Justina Bwalya, 37, who works as a of crime in Kitwe has unsettled
maid, was house-keeping in Meanwood at the police command, who want
the residence of her employer, who travelled the public to join hands with law
out on vacation. enforcers in arresting the situation.
The boy, who died yesterday, was rushed Copperbelt Province
to Ng’ombe clinic and later referred to Levy division acting commanding
Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital.
officer Tresphord Kasale says
An eyewitness, Isaac Sakala, said more collaboration between
the ordeal left him emotionally communities and the police is
moved after hearing people needed to curb robberies.
wailing and shouting for “This is because criminals live
help. in communities, and so we are
“I don’t know what appealing to the public to be on
really caused the fire, high alert and always tip police
but we managed to whenever they see anything
break the door and suspicious,” Mr Kasale said.
pulled the child, who Kitwe district has recorded
was terribly burnt,” three traumatic armed robberies in
Mr Sakala said. the last two weeks.
He said in the A fortnight ago, a lone masked
process of rescuing the robber armed with two pistols
child, a woman who broke attacked a family of four in
the sitting room window and Parklands, shooting them and
tried to pull the victim had part killing one instantly.
of her hands gravely cut. The criminal demanded for
Another witness identified as Banakulu money from his victims and got
Junior, a tomato trader, said while conducting away with over K8,000 cash.
her business by the roadside, she saw a huge Seven days after the incident,
flame on the roof of the house. two armed robbers attacked a
Ms Bwalya explained her whereabouts Chinese woman at her restaurant
during the fateful day. in Parklands and bolted with over
“My boss asked me to camp at her house K105,000 and US$100 cash.
for two nights and I was supposed to return In the early hours of New Year’s
home on Thursday, but they told me their Day, criminals armed with guns
vehicle had broken down and I needed to and machetes attacked Copperfield
spend another night there,” she said. Mining Services proprietor Irvin
Police and the fire brigade are yet to issue Chilufya and his daughters at his
a report on this matter. farm in Kamfinsa.
Zambia Police Service traffic section and
Road Transport and Safety Agency.
Speed trap management teams have
been deployed in strategic and accidents-
prone areas to reduce road traffic
offences and accidents during festivities.
And Mr Kasonde, producer of The
Struggle, a yet-to-be-shot movie about
the founding President, Kenneth Kaunda,
was among those who died during New
Year’s Day.
Frank Global Movies co-founder
Treasure Kafwimba announced Mr
Kasonde’s death in a notice yesterday.
The criminals stole laptops,
phones and an automated teller
machine (ATM) card after
demanding for its pin number.
The thieves also got away with
Mr Chilufya’s Nissan Navara but
later abandoned the vehicle in
Ndola’s Mushili.
Mr Chilufya, who was roughed
up and beaten, had to seek medical
attention at Kitwe Teaching
Hospital.
In an interview yesterday, Mr
Kasale said law enforcers are not
sitting idly by over these crimes.
He said officers will intensify
motorised and foot patrols to
clamp down on the vice.
He, however, said citizens
should play their part by not only
being security-conscious but also
informing the police whenever
they spot unusual activities.
Mr Kasale said the public
should be on guard and avoid
being too predictable with their
daily routines.
He said instead of moving alone
as they knock off from work, for
example, people should consider
moving in groups, as this enhances
their security and minimises the
risk of being attacked.
Mr Kasale also cautioned
business people to be discreet about
their money transactions.
“Most of these attacks seem
to emanate from inside jobs. So,
people should be very cautious
not to talk about their money
transactions with anyone,” Mr
Kasale said.

COVID wave keeps rising

ride on the ‘equal rights’ idea which
has seen some wives compete with
their husbands in terms of extra-
marital affairs.
This is why society is now
simplifying the term adultery to the
word ‘cheating’, which makes the
whole problem appear not serious.
We call upon marriage counsellors
to get serious and remind couples
and those intending to get married
that adultery is a serious offence as
stipulated in the Bible and should not
be reduced to the term cheating.
Spouses have every reason to seek
recourse on this offence but couples
along the way girls and boys alike
discover that they can make their own
decisions after all to pursue what they
may have missed like school.
Young people intending to marry
must search their hearts and enter
marriage with conviction that they
will stick to their partners no matter
what.
The local courts also have the
responsibility to counsel couples
rather than rushing to granting
divorce. Of course, we commend
them for the job well done to shine a
light on problems in marriages in the
country.
PRISCILLA MWILA
Lusaka
WITH the COVID-19 fourth wave not
showing any signs of relenting, 41 people
have succumbed to coronavirus while
26,557 others have tested positive for the
novel virus in the last seven days.
Zambia has recorded 259,677 cases
since the disease spread to the country
last year.
The country has noted 9,945 more
cases compared to the previous week’s
16,612 and 23 deaths.
According to the Ministry of Health
daily updates, from the 26,557 cases,
1,729 are the latest picked from 5,826
tests, representing a 30 percent positivity
rate.
Lusaka recorded the highest cases
at 335, followed by Copperbelt 268,
Southern was third with 267, while
North-Western and Central noted 154 and
131 respectively.
Others are Eastern Province with
130, Luapula picked 121, Western 120,
Northern 112 and Muchinga 91.
Three people have died in the
day preceding yesterday, raising the
cumulative number to 3,743.
The country has 29,653 active cases,
of which 325 are admitted to isolation
facilities while the rest are under home
management.
Coronavirus patients on oxygen are
111 and 27 are in a critical condition.
About 1.7 million people have been
vaccinated against the global pandemic
from a target of 8.4 million.
Of the 1.7 million people immunised,
1.2 million have been fully inoculated.
There are 1,649 people who have
received their COVID-19 booster
vaccine.
The Ministry of Health recently
advised members of the public to
get booster vaccines to increase their
protection against the disease, which has
killed over five million people globally.
Children 12 years and above are also
encouraged to be vaccinated against the
novel virus.
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Auditors question K21
million youth loans
From page 1
Eastern Marketeers Multi-
Purpose Cooperative Society
Limited received K3 million,
Copperbelt Youth Marketeers
Cooperative K8.5 million,
while Lusaka Youth Marketeers
Cooperative got K8.5 million.
Others are HEP Initiative
Marketeers Cooperative with
K300,000 and Nalikwanda
Marketeers Cooperative received
K250,000.
But the ministry could not
provide the list of beneficiaries in
the respective cooperatives and
amounts paid.
Meanwhile, National Housing
Authority (NHA) failed to effect
deductions from government
officials who were offered houses
for sale at Northgate Gardens and
Kafue.
Government officials were
offered 50 houses at Northgate
Gardens and 10 in Kafue, of
AG weighs in on ZIALE
Calls for scrutiny of students entering law schools
PRISCILLA MWILA
R
Lusaka
EQUIREMENTS
to study law in
some universities
are compromised,
hence the poor
performance of some students
at the Zambia Institute of
Advanced Legal Education
(ZIALE).
Attorney General Mulilo
Kabesha says some students
are unable to effectively read
HH, SDA mourn Lake
Kariba victims
From page 1
According to
eyewitnesses, the eight
youths found a fishing rig
parked by the lake shore and
they jumped on it.
But as the rig operator
started off into the lake, the
youths jumped off for safety
but ended up drowning.
One of the campers,
Eugine Simbayi, said his
colleagues delayed to jump
off the rig, which was
initially on the lake banks
for refuelling.
“When the refuelling
was done, its (rig’s)
operator started moving
and the victims only started
jumping off when it (rig)
had reached about 50
metres away from the banks
of the lake,” Mr Simbayi
said.
He said all the victims
jumped at the same time,
hence the possibility that
22,000 want divorce
CHOMBA MUSIKA
Lusaka
ZAMBIA recorded over 22,000
divorce cases in 2021, with lack
of conjugal rights, adultery,
gender-based violence (GBV),
insults and cruelty being among
major reasons couples asked the
courts to end their unions.
According to the local
court office data availed
to the Daily Mail, 22,543
divorce cases were noted in
the last 12 months compared
to 25,851 entered in registries
countrywide in 2020.
The shortest marriage that
ended in divorce lasted 30 days,
while the longest was 65 years,
compared to 17 days and 67
years respectively in 2020.
Like in 2020, Eastern
Province has yet again topped
the list at 4,441, while Lusaka
is second with 3,819 divorce
petitions.
Women who sought for
disbandment of their marriages
in the Eastern region were
2,952, while men represented
1,489.
In Lusaka, 2,482 men applied
to have their unions dissolved,
while wives who were fed up
with their husbands were 1,337.
which NHA was expected to
raise over K33,200,500.
The offers were issued on
condition that the Ministry
of Finance would facilitate
direct payroll deductions from
beneficiaries.
By January 31 last year, all the
houses were handed over to the
beneficiaries.
However, the direct deductions
had not been effected, and
beneficiaries had been making
cash payments, which resulted
in 25 of the 60 officers failing to
meet their obligations.
And Zambia Airports
Corporation Limited (ZACL)
questionably paid over K1.4
million salary advances to two
former directors, with one getting
the money after termination of
the contract.
On June 30, 2019, ZACL
terminated contracts for the
director of finance and his air
navigation services counterpart.
or write, yet they are accepted
at some higher learning
institutions to study law.
To enhance performance
at ZIALE, Mr Kabesha has
implored the institution to
consider introducing enrolment
tests.
Only one out of 394 students
who sat the most recent final
ZIALE examination passed,
with some stakeholders
accusing the institution of
‘stealing’ tuition fees from
students.
they stepped on each other
and struggled to swim.
Siavonga District
Commissioner Geoffrey
Jakopo is devastated by the
loss of the energetic lives
and has sent condolences to
the bereaved families.
“I addressed these
children on the first day
they came here. I went to
the school and I told them
to avoid swimming in the
lake and that they should
be nowhere near the lake
because it is infested with
crocodiles,” Mr Jakopo said.
Police spokesperson
Rae Hamoonga said in a
statement that the victims
drowned around 18:00 hours
and police have summoned
the coxswain who was on
the ill-fated rig.
And the head of State
said in a statement on his
Facebook page yesterday
that the nation mourns with
the families of the victims.
The total divorce petitions
filed in Western Province were
3,191, out of which 2,613 were
applied by men and 578 by
women.
On the Copperbelt, Kitwe
district highlighted 1,722
divorce petitions, with 1,205
filed by husbands and 517 by
wives.
Ndola had 1,271 cases, of
which 786 were filed by women
and 488 by men.
Northern Province noted
1,730 applications, of which
1,006 were filed by women and
724 by men.
North-Western and Central
provinces each highlighted
1,250 divorce petitions.
A total of 800 women filed
for divorce in North-Western,
while 450 men asked for their
unions to be disbanded.
In Central Province, 450 men
filed for divorce while wives
represented 800.
Luapula Province noted 996
divorce cases, out of which 705
were filed by women and 291
by men.
The least divorce petitions
were recorded in Muchinga
Province at 524, of which 303
were filed by women and 221
by men.
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But on July 19, 2019, ZACL
paid the former director of
finance K584,884, while the
director of navigation services
was paid K557,518 on June 30,
2019,
The contracts for the two were
terminated prematurely.
Further, K32,134 was paid to
the director – finance after he
claimed an underpayment of the
salary advance following the
upward adjustment in his salary.
“The payment, which was
for January 2020, was made six
months after his contract had
ended.
“A review of ZACL’s terms
and conditions of service and
contracts for former directors
revealed that there was no
provision for payments of
salary advance on cessation of MINISTER of Infrastructure and Urban Development Charles Milupi (front) with officials from Road
employment before expiry of Development Agency and his ministry inspecting the Kafue Hook Bridge in Kafue National Park on Mongu-
the contract. The payment was
irregular,” the report reads in Lusaka road yesterday. The travelling public to and from western Zambia have been using a temporary
part. bridge since April 2017 when the hook bridge was shut due to wear and tear.
PICTURE: MACKSON WASAMUNU
Law Association of Zambia that initially, ZIALE used wondered. Kanyakula said ZIALE Kanyakula said.
(LAZ) president Abyudi Shonga to only admit students from He, however, said having one students’ performance will only He said higher learning
said the high failure rate at one institution for fear of person pass the first attempt at improve when accreditation of institutions should have high
ZIALE is due to the institution’s compromising its standards. ZIALE does not mean everyone institutions to offer law lessons standards to enable them to
desire to have qualified and “We are coming from a else has completely failed the is thoroughly scrutinised. fully bake students.
well-trained lawyers. background where ZIALE was exam. Mr Kanyakula said while Mr Kanyakula said higher
University of Zambia taken to court because it was Mr Kabesha said most some institutions may qualify learning institutions also need
(UNZA) vice-chancellor only admitting UNZA students. students passed in eight or six to offer other courses, they may to ensure that lecturers engaged
Luke Mumba said the results If you investigate, you may find subjects out of 11. not have what it takes to teach are of good quality.
raise a lot of questions on the that some students could have He said the ZIALE repeaters law. “This problem is the reason
credibility of the examiner, even failed English at Grade examinations are still a good “I think the problem starts we have lawyers interpreting
adding that it has nothing to do 12 but are at the university. opportunity for students to from enrolment. Institutions the Constitution differently and
with half-baked students. So how do you expect them qualify. of higher learning need to thereby confusing people. This
But Mr Kabesha said in to understand teaching But Zambia Union of thoroughly scrutinise students has to stop,” Mr Kanyakula
an interview with journalists at ZIALE?” Mr Kabesha Students president Stephen they enrol to study law,” Mr said.
The President is also
saddened by the death
of 31-year-old budding
international film producer
Frank Kasonde, who died
in a road traffic accident on
New Year’s Day.
Mr Kasonde was in the
process of producing a
movie on the late founding
President Kenneth David
Kaunda.
“The nation expresses its
heartfelt condolences to the
families of the deceased of
both accidents, and mourns
and stands with them during
this very sad period. May
the souls of the departed
rest in peace,” President
Hichilema said.
Meanwhile, Disaster
Management and Mitigation
Unit national coordinator
Gabriel Pollen says
Government will take up
funeral expenses which
include coffins, transport
and food.
The actual number of divorce
petitions granted from the
22,543 entered in the local
courts last year is yet to be
tabulated.
The local court office
indicates that the major reasons
couples wanted to have their
marriages dissolved include
adultery, lack of conjugal
rights, desertion and cruelty.
Other reasons include
GBV, insults, alcohol abuse,
impotence and barrenness.
The data also shows that
coronavirus had an effect on the
divorce rate.
Because of restricted
movements, some couples
spent more time together and
encountered conflicts, while
closure of businesses like bars
and restaurants resulted in loss
of income for some households,
resulting in divorce.
According to research,
divorced adults are more likely
to become impoverished,
while their children experience
psychological and economic
stress, which delays their social
development.
Research also shows that
divorce, which is hated by God,
according to Malachi 2:16,
slows economic growth.

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Solwezi families face eviction Tayali positive
on Ndola-
Court ordered move, says houses were built illegally on private land Mufulira road
BUTTYSON KANDIMBA
Solwezi
O
VER 30 families
around Solwezi
School of Nursing
have been evicted
from their homes
following a court
order that their houses were built
illegally on private land.
Police and court bailiffs swung
into action on Thursday and evicted
several families from their homes,
leaving them stranded.
A check by the Daily Mail found
the affected families with their
household goods outside.
One of the landlords, Ronald
CHIMWEMWE MWALE
Ndola
ZAF to take over Kalulushi airport
ZAMBIA Air Force (ZAF)
wants to take over management of
South Downs Airport in Kalulushi
and transform it into a base for its
operations.
Management of the airport is under
Zambia Airports Corporation Limited
and the facility is in a deplorable
state.
The request by ZAF is in tandem
with its expansion drive as it will
soon establish a hybrid air defence
unit in Kalulushi.
This came to light on Thursday
during the opening of Zuze Air Force
Base, formerly Ndola International
Airport, whose operations have been
relocated to new Simon Mwansa
Kapwepwe International Airport.
The base has been named after the
Adults, children in drug abuse rise - Great North Road
CHOMBA MUSIKA
Lusaka
ALCOHOL and marijuana were the
most abused drugs last year, with
those addicted to the substances
aged between 14 and 50.
Great North Road Academy
rehabilitation centre, which
offers drug and alcohol addiction
treatment and support, among
others, witnessed a high number
of people abusing alcohol and
marijuana.
Ching’embu, who is a former senior
lecturer at Solwezi Teachers Training
College, is disturbed about the turn of
events.
According to Mr Ching’embu, he
bought land from Solwezi Municipal
Council in 1998 and followed all
procedures.
“In 1998, there was an
advertisement for plots in the area by
the council, and that is how I applied
and I was offered a plot here.
“From 1998, I have been struggling
until 2010 when I got my title deed.
Then in 2011 I retired honourably,
and with the package I was given, I
decided to construct these flats, but
I am surprised because I have my
papers intact,” he said.
first indigenous ZAF Commander
Lieutenant General Peter Zuze, who
witnessed the opening of the base in
the company of his wife and their two
grandchildren.
In response to ZAF command’s
request, Minister of Defence
Ambrose Lufuma said Government
is ready to partner with the military
wing in infrastructure development
which enhances national security.
Mr Lufuma said Government has
taken note of the request for line
ministries to upgrade runways and
airfields in remote areas.
He said this is important
in ensuring inclusiveness in
development of rural areas.
“I commend you, ZAF commander
and your men and women, for
Centre manager Precious
Chimbelu said in response to a
press query by the Daily Mail that
opioids were also among the most
abused drugs.
Opioids are a class of drugs that
include the illegal heroin, synthetic-
like fentanyl and pain relievers
available by prescription.
“Most abused substance
is alcohol, followed by THC
[tetrahydrocannabinol or cannabis]
and opioids,” Ms Chimbelu said.
She said the centre, which also
Mr Ching’embu depends on
rentals from the houses he built for
survival and wonders how he will
look after his family following the
inconvenience.
He said the family claiming to be
the owners of the land are demanding
K65,000 from him to buy the plot
again.
“The title deed I have is for 99
years, but now I don’t know what I
should do. I’m disturbed because I’m
a retiree and I keep a lot of children,
grandchildren and orphans and I earn
a living just from the little rentals
people are paying,” Mr Ching’embu
said.
Another landlord, Fredson Chipato,
a former teacher at Solwezi Technical
your continued efforts to safeguard
Zambia’s airspace and rendering
support to ground troops in
protecting the territorial integrity and
sovereignty of Zambia,” the minister
said.
Mr Lufuma said the facility is a
good launch pad for Zuze Air Force
Base and it is gratifying that there are
plans to deploy air assets.
He said the base will enhance
ZAF’s role of providing air
mobility to Government and other
stakeholders and create connections
to numerous remote areas.
ZAF Commander Colin Barry
appealed to the minister to engage
responsible line ministries to build
additional air force bases in Mansa,
Mfuwe and Mongu.
offers psychosocial support to
adolescents and adults, recorded
an over 70 percent increase in the
number of clients it attended to.
“The centre handled 561 clients
this year, which is a 70 percent
increase. The age range for the
people we attended to is between 14
and 50. The oldest person was in his
early 60s. The youngest was nine.
The child was sexually abused,” Ms
Chimbelu said.
In a New Year message, Ms
Chimbelu implored parents and
School, said he bought the plot in
2001 from the council and obtained
all necessary documentation.
Mr Chipato is being asked to
pay K150,000 for him to continue
occupying the land.
One of the tenants, Leonard
Chibesa, described the experience as
disturbing and inconveniencing.
“My family is travelling back
from Lusaka and I don’t know where
they are going to stay when they
reach this place. This is rainy season
and imagine if it had rained at night,
everything could have gotten soaked,”
he said.
Mr Chibesa complained that a lot of
household goods were destroyed while
some items are missing.
Lieutenant General Barry said
ZAF wants to embark on a deliberate
programme to restore airstrips in
remote areas to a usable state.
“Alongside these plans, we
also emphasise the importance
of regular recruitment to increase
manpower levels in the air force.
“Current manpower levels are
way below the approved air
force establishment and are
inadequate to populate our
units and bases,” he said.
Lt Gen Barry commended
Lt Gen Zuze, who became
ZAF commander in1972, for
his commitment to duty and
vigilance in preservation of the
country’s freedom.
And Lt Gen Zuze said
guardians to have interest in
knowing their children’s mental
well-being and ensure they do not
seek solace in abusing drugs.
“As we enter the new year, let us
remember to take care of our mental
health and that of our children,” she
said.
Ms Chimbelu said physical health
is as important as mental health,
hence it should be taken seriously
even in workplaces.
“To all employers, there’s a
huge need to cater for the mental
ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL, Monday, January 3, 2022
He appealed to the two parties to
find an amicable way of resolving the
land dispute rather than evicting people
during the rainy season.
“I only pray that my family lives
long enough to bear witness to all the
tenants that have been affected,” Mr
Chibesa said.
Solwezi town clerk Bornwell Luanga
could not be reached for comment as he
was reported to be out of town and his
mobile phones went unanswered.
According to sources, the land
dispute was between late Ben
Tetamashimba and Humphrey
Mulemba families who took the
matter to court over ownership of
the land and the High Court ruled in
favour of the Mulemba family.
security forces should be ready
whenever need arises, hence the
need for key infrastructure like air
bases and supporting equipment.
He said Zambia’s skies should be
kept secure at all times to preserve
the country’s peace and security.
health of their staff to ensure that
they have higher staff retention
and also maintain a conducive
work environment which will in
turn improve productivity in the
workplace,” Ms Chimbelu said.
She also said the rehabilitation
centre will embark on a mental
health sensitisation exercise this
year.
“We are looking forward
to a great year as we embark
on a massive mental health
sensitisation,” Ms Chimbelu said.
rehab
CHIMWEMWE MWALE
Ndola
NDOLA-MUFULIRA road is one of the main
routes the new dawn administration wants to
urgently overhaul because it is of immense
economic benefits to the country.
Minister of Transport and Logistics Frank
Tayali said in an interview that this is despite the
country “grappling with diminished resources”.
He said this is also in view of the country
having other priority areas such as education
and health which the new government has
prioritised.
The minister said investments in the education
and health sectors are crucial in growing the
economy.
“But what we have also said is that we cannot
wait until the economy has improved for us
to start taking care of some of these run-down
infrastructure in the road sub-sector.
“The President [Hakainde Hichilema] recently
constituted a council for the public-private
partnership to which I am one of the Cabinet
ministers who are members.
“This committee will be sitting and
identifying certain areas where we can bring in
investors on a public-private partnership basis,”
Mr Tayali said.
He said part of the criteria Government will
use is to identify economic roads which can
“literally pay for themselves over a period of
time”, such as those with toll plazas.
Government also plans to work out modalities
on how users of particular infrastructure can
contribute to the cost of constructing and
maintaining such infrastructure.
“I will not pre-empt but I just want to assure
you that it is definitely on top of the agenda to
identify critical roads to economic activity.
“We know that Sakania is being upgraded into
a one-stop border post. So we envisage that there
is going to be high economic activity on that
stretch between Ndola and Mufulira.
“It’s the same road that is a shortcut into
Luapula Province through Pedicle Road. It is an
important road that has not been worked on for
many years. So it’s definitely long overdue for
repair and overhaul,” Mr Tayali said.
On transporters who use the Ndola-Mufulira
road to evade tolls, Mr Tayali said Government
will not tolerate such people once the road is
fixed.
He said Government will mount toll plazas on
Ndola-Mufulira road so that motorists contribute
to maintenance of road infrastructure in the
country.
“This is to avoid a situation where roads
become completely destroyed. At the moment,
there is no road on the so-called Ndola-Mufulira
road,” Mr Tayali said.
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Boy-child not insusceptible

to child marriage
Some parents push sons to make girls pregnant to prove their fertility
Province, I asked young people married. married at a tender age are
KAKUNGU to explain what prompted Child marriage is a solution to
meet daily needs and to reduce
condemned to a life cycle of
poverty as their prospects of

Civil servants need

them to get married at a tender
SIMPUNGWE age. They responded that girls on the number of dependants getting a high-paying job are

C
who drop out of school get in child-headed homes and close to impossible. Moreover,
married because they have no impoverished families. HIV infection is common
The boy-child is not among girls married to older

relief from banks

HILD marriage, other aspirations to pursue.
which is defined Their parents expect them to invulnerable to child marriage and more sexually experienced
as marriage get married and have children, in Northern Province. Some men and negotiating safer sex
before the age which for some is a sign of parents pressure their sons who is not a topic for discussion in
of 18 years, is prestige and seniority both have dropped out of school to such relationships. Owing to
Dear editor, a practice and among young people and their become financially independent immaturity of the birth canal,
I JUST want to express my concern on the new salaries for civil a problem that is a widely and parents. and get married so that they can adolescents are more likely to
servants in 2022. There is no limit on what lending institutions can culturally accepted in Zambia. experience difficulties during
deduct per month.
In the end the banks will still get everything from them through
According to the 2018 Zambia
Demographic and Health Girls and boys who get childbirth, which can also lead
to death or a very serious and
DDACC, meaning it is like no increment was given. The public and civil
servants need some relief from banks this year.
Survey, 15 percent of girls
and one percent of boys aged
married at a tender age are embarrassing health condition
called fistula.
I would also advise civil servants to shift to banks that have human
faces once they finish paying their loans.
between 15 and 19 years were
married.
condemned to a life cycle of The scourge of child
marriage and its devasting
FK
Marriage is the goal for most poverty as their prospects of effects can be curtailed
girls in rural areas and from
childhood they are socialised to getting a high-paying job are through a multi-stakeholder
and multi-intervention
confine themselves to domestic
work in preparation for their close to impossible. approach. Parents, however,
play a pivotal role in

My top three 2021

future roles as wives. In some supporting both boys and
communities, when these Preserving the family name provide material and financial girls to delay marriage and
young girls or boys come of and avoiding suffering public support to their parents. childbearing so that they
age, they undergo initiation shame arising from teenage Adolescent boys I talked to complete school to attain

moments ceremonies during which they

are taught not only how to take
care of themselves but also how
to satisfy a man or woman.
pregnancy is another reason
why some parents marry off
their daughters. Such marriages
are arranged quickly before
lamented about the fact that
some parents push their sons
to make girls pregnant to prove
their fertility and to satisfy
their full academic potential
to contribute to national
development.

Dear editor, During one of my the pregnancy starts showing their parents’ desire to have The author is director
SO I am just thinking: apart from the year 2021 being what I love to interactions with young people regardless of whether the girl grandchildren. adolescent health in the
call “The universal year of the mask”, I think the three things I will in one rural district of Northern or boy is ready or willing to get Girls and boys who get Ministry of Health.

Link between human, animal health

remember the year 2021 for are:
1. How we lost Super Ken this year. We knew that one day we
would have to deal with losing our founding father and President,
but how it still hit hard when it came.
2. It is the year my brother and friend, the self-styled kachema,
Hakainde Hichilema, ascended to the highest office of the land and
became Zambia’s seventh President via a landslide victory in the diseases shared between
August 12 elections. humans and animals) with
3. It is the year our party, the MMD, returned to the ballot, having larval and adult tapeworms
spent the last 10 years bridled in in-fighting and protracted court respectively. The important
battles. We knew we were in no shape to win an election, but features of these zoonoses
someone had to take up the challenge and bear the shame to trying are that the larvae are meat-
to rebuild a broken political party. We know that one day, the MMD borne (pork) and the adult
will rise again. stage develops only in the
intestine of the human host
CONCERNED CITIZEN (obligate). Taenia solium
(‘pork tapeworm’) is the most
important cause of taeniosis
in humans. Cysticercosis is
a tissue infection with the
larval stage and occurs most
commonly in pigs. Humans
acquire the adult stage through
KENNETH eating improperly cooked
CHAWINGA infected meat.
Infection with the larval
weeks after infection.
If a woman is newly
infected with toxoplasma
while pregnant, or just before
pregnancy, then she can
pass the infection on to her
baby. She may not have any
symptoms from the infection.
Most infected infants do not
have symptoms at birth but can
develop serious symptoms later
in life, such as blindness or
mental disability.
Occasionally, infected
newborns have serious eye or
brain damage at birth. The good
news is that by child-bearing
stage, most women would have
been exposed to the parasite and
developed
history or one with an expired
vaccination status, please wash
the bite site with clean water
and soap (where available).
Report the case to police and
nearest veterinarian, who will
refer the victim to the nearest
health facility for medical
attention. Rabies kills. Once
clinical signs set in, death
always follows.
Vaccination
The world has seen
unprecedented levels of myths
and beliefs since the rolling
out of vaccinations against
COVID-19 to an extent and
scale never experienced under
the sun. This has largely
been driven by lack of facts

A
S WE start the year,
I would like us to
recap on what I
shared throughout
last year courtesy of Zambia
Daily Mail. By now it should
be appreciated that livestock
KAUNDA
or generally animal diseases
are not stand-alone diseases.
The health of people, animals
and their shared environment
are firmly interlinked. This is
why the one health concept (a
one-stop shop way of dealing
with human and animal and
plant health) has gained ground
lately.
The greatest war on the
doorstep of humankind is
not that of guns, bullets and
missiles, but it is against
microscopic ‘beings’, the
disease causing pathogens. As
the human population balloons,
so are natural barriers being
breached.
One such barrier is the
human-wild animals interface.
This has serious ramifications
regarding emergence of
emerging and re-emerging
infectious zoonotic diseases.
Let us go through a few of
the following; cysticercosis,
taeniosis, neurocysticercosis
(epilepsy) and the pork
tapeworm.
The terms cysticercosis and
taeniosis refer to foodborne
zoonotic infections (infections/
stage arising from ingestion and infodemic (too much
of water, vegetables information including false
contaminated with eggs in Vaccination or misleading information
faecal matter of infected in digital and physical
humans is responsible is one of the age- environments during
for almost all serious a disease outbreak).
human disease caused old and very reliable Vaccination is one of the
by these worms. age-old and very reliable
If the larvae ways of preventing ways of preventing mainly
lodge in the brain infectious diseases. This is
tissue, it gives rise to mainly infectious particularly important when
neurocysticercosis, which the problem of antimicrobial
may lead to epilepsy. In diseases. resistance is looming large.
fact, this is a leading cause of Effective use and adoption
parasitic epilepsy in humans, of vaccination reserves the
especially in areas with poor immunity. Also, mature cats are use of antimicrobial agents
sanitation such as Asia and less likely to shed the parasite in disease treatment, thereby
Africa. In these regions, if they have been previously slowing down antimicrobial
intimate contact between infected. Added to this, with resistance. What vaccination
humans and their pigs is use of hand gloves, coupled does is basically prepare our
commonplace. Prevention of with basic hygiene standards bodies’ defensive mechanisms
this neglected tropical disease such as washing hands after to be ready to encounter and
lies in housing pigs, avoiding handling your lovely cat and its defeat pathogens of infectious
open defecation and improved litter box, there is not much to and in some cases deadly
sanitation. worry about. diseases. Vaccines are made of
Toxoplasmosis Rabies is yet another harmless forms of pathogens
There is an old wives’ tale neglected disease, mostly or parts of the pathogens that
to the effect that pregnant prevalent in Asia and Africa. cause disease. The greater the
women should not handle cats Domesticated dogs are proportion of a population
or risk passing on a parasitic responsible for 99 percent of that is vaccinated, the more
disease called toxoplasmosis, human rabies cases. Globally, the entire population is
which the pets harbour. Cats the disease claims 59,000 protected (this proven concept
play an important role in the human lives per year. Zambia is technically called herd
spread of toxoplasmosis. They currently records 15,000 dog immunity). Better protection
become infected by eating bite cases and 50 human deaths. lies in numbers! It is either
infected rodents, birds or other Responsible dog ownership is vax or vexing health; over
small animals. The parasite the simple, cost-effective and and above that, it is either one
is then passed in the cat’s sustainable way of ending this health or no health.
faeces. Kittens and cats can 100 percent preventable disease.
shed millions of parasites in Once bitten by a stray dog or a The author is district
their faeces for as long as three dog without rabies vaccination veterinary officer – Kabwe.

DESPITE being From our page

advised to buy
only 30 immune
system analysers Reactions to: MoH altered K35m
at over K35
million, the
contract to K120m
Ministry of Health EXTENDING the goods to be supplied is not a problem. Buying COVID-19 test kits is not a problem. The questions should be: did the ministry buy
those items? At what price? Was there any foul play? That’s the report people may want to know. But only reporting about the increasing of items to be
supplied is not necessarily an issue as long as Zambians used those materials and the materials were bought at a right price.
signed a contract PETER CHANDA KAPASA

of over K120 THEY have said no already to fraud, WHEN you say WHO did this? Where are
million for the to misuse of government resources.
Transparency and zero tolerance to
COVID testing
kits, we receive signed, it means there
is a name, so why
the law enforcement officers?
TIMOTHY CHIBUTA
same equipment corruption is always their language. Let’s
love one another beyond everything else.
them as donations.
Government doesn’t
buy them. We know
are you not giving
us names of those
and added more May God bless Zambia.
MORRIS MUYOYETA
this.
MUMBA RM
people? It is becoming
boring now.
SAD that these things are
happening in a Christian nation.
items. MUKUZA BRIAN SICHULA JAMES KANGWA
ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL, Monday, January 3, 2022 FOREIGN • Page 7

THE smoke from the blaze could be seen from several miles away.

Fire sweeps through South

Africa parliament building
Building’s sprinkler system had not functioned properly

C
APE TOWN
- A large fire
has severely
damaged the
Houses of
Parliament in
the South African city of Cape
Town.
Video footage showed a
plume of black smoke filling
the sky, with huge flames
coming out from the roof of
the building.
President Cyril Ramaphosa
visited the scene and called
it a “terrible and devastating
event”.
A man was being held and
questioned by the authorities,
he said.
The building’s sprinkler
system had not functioned
properly, he added.
The blaze came hours after
Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s
state funeral at St George’s
Cathedral, near parliament.
Mr Ramaphosa said news of
the fire was a “terrible setback
to what we were basking in
yesterday” and added that
Archbishop Tutu would also
have been devastated.
He praised firefighters, who
he said had responded to the
fire in six minutes. Without
their intervention the National
Assembly would have been
reduced to “ashes”, he said.
Dozens of firefighters
battled the flames. Officials
later said that the entire
parliamentary complex was
severely damaged.
J P Smith, a member of
the Cape Town mayoral
committee for safety and
security, told reporters that the
roof above the old assembly
hall was “completely gone”
and further damage inside the
old chamber had not yet been
evaluated.
“It is not possible to see
whether it’s damaged. We
hope it is not because it has
so many historical artefacts,
but you can’t gain access to
it without breaking the doors
down and we don’t want to do
that,” he said.
Officials said the fire started
on the third floor offices and
quickly spread to the National
Assembly (the parliament’s
lower house) chamber, reports
the BBC’s Nomsa Maseko in
Cape Town.
No injuries have been
reported and there’s no
indication of what may have
started it, our correspondent
adds.
Fire and rescue service
officials said it could take
another four hours to put the
fire out completely because of
the carpets and wooden floors
in the building.
The damage from the fire
can be seen in these images
made available by the city of
Cape Town:
The parliament is not
currently in session because of
the holidays.
The Houses of Parliament
in Cape Town are made up
of three sections, with the
oldest dating back to 1884.
The newer sections built in
the 1920s and 1980s house
the National Assembly.
Meanwhile, the government is
based in Pretoria.
Last year, a fire ravaged
part of the University of Cape
Town’s library, which was
home to a unique collection of
African archives. BBC

Antarctic outpost hit

by COVID outbreak
BRUSSELS - A Belgian
scientific research station in
Antarctica is dealing with an
outbreak of COVID-19, despite
workers being fully vaccinated
and based in one of the world’s
remotest regions.
Since December 14, at least
16 of the 25 workers at the
Princess Elisabeth Polar Station
have caught the virus.
Officials say cases remain
mild so far.
“The situation isn’t dramatic,”
Joseph Cheek, a project
manager for the International
Polar Foundation, told the BBC.
“While it has been an
inconvenience to have to
quarantine certain members of
the staff who caught the virus, it
hasn’t significantly affected our
work at the station overall,” Mr
Cheek said.
“All residents of the station
were offered the opportunity to
leave on a scheduled flight on
January 12. However, they all
expressed their wish to stay and
continue their work,” he added.
The first positive test was
recorded on December 14,
among a team who had arrived
seven days earlier.
They and others who
tested positive were placed
in quarantine but the virus
continued to circulate.
Staff arriving at the station
must be vaccinated and tested
for the virus.
There are two emergency
doctors at the station and new
arrivals to the outpost have
been suspended until the virus
dissipates.
Princess Elisabeth station is
operated by the International
Polar Foundation and went into
service in 2009.
It isn’t the first time research
stations in Antarctica have
been affected by a coronavirus
outbreak.
Last year, a number of
Chilean military personnel
based at Bernardo O’Higgins
research station were infected
after sailors on a supply ship
tested positive for the virus. BBC

South Korean crosses

DMZ in rare defection
to North Korea
SEOUL - A South Korean
citizen has crossed the heavily
fortified border into North
Korea in an apparent defection,
South Korea’s military says.
The person was able to evade
detection for several hours
despite a search operation by
South Korean troops.
Military chiefs in Seoul said
they did not know if the person
was still alive, but had sent a
message to the North asking for
them to be protected.
North Korea has implemented
a shoot-on-sight policy during
the pandemic.
The person was detected in
the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ),
which separates the two Koreas,
at a point on the east coast at
about 21:20 local time (12:20
GMT) on Saturday, South
Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff
(JCS) said.
Defence officials in Seoul had
pledged to overhaul the border
defence system after similar
breaches in the past.
In September 2020 North
Korean troops shot and burned
a South Korean fisheries official
who went missing at sea.
The incident sparked uproar.
Pyongyang blamed the anti-
virus rule and apologised.
North Korea’s leader Kim
Jong-un had earlier declared a
national emergency and sealed
off a town after a North Korean
defector who Mr Kim said had
COVID symptoms crossed into
the North from the South.
North Korea’s pandemic-
related lockdowns and
restrictions on movement within
the country have also reduced
the number of defections from
the North to the South.
The border between North
and South Korea is one of the
most heavily fortified areas
in the world. It is filled with
landmines, surrounded by
electric and barbed wire fencing
and surveillance cameras and
armed guards are supposed to be
on alert 24 hours a day. BBC
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7 in race for Kabwata seat
Who will scoop the seat on January 20?
LUCY LUMBE
I
Lusaka
T IS finally set! The
race for the Kabwata
constituency seat is on
with seven candidates
contesting the
parliamentary seat with
hope of being ushered into the
position of Member of Parliament
(MP).
The seat fell vacant on
November 18 last year following
the death of United Party
for National Development
(UPND) parliamentarian Levy
Mkandawire.
But who among the seven will
scoop the seat on January 20?
Candidates vying for the seat
are Andrew Tayengwa of the
ruling UPND, Patriotic Front (PF)
candidate Clement Tembo and
Sydney Zyambo of the People’s
Alliance for Change.
Other candidates are Chilufya
Tayali under Economic
Progressive Party (EPP), Socialist
Party candidate Tripher Ng’andu,
popularly known as Uncle
T, United Progressive Party
candidate Francis Libanda and
Patriots for Economic Progress
candidate Henry Muleya.
The electorate want a candidate
who will keep their word and fulfil
their campaign promises.
Forty-eight-year-old Francis
Lengwe says the constituency
needs a leader who is dedicated to
creating employment opportunities
for the youths and ensure that
eligible residents have access to
empowerment programmes.
Mr Lengwe, who runs a
small business and operates as a
cobbler, says many youths in the
constituency patronise drinking
places that are dotted around
the constituency because they
lack employment and necessary
resources to engage in productive
activities.
“If we can have a leader
who will create employment
opportunities for the youths,
this will help improve their
livelihoods. It is unfortunate that
we have a number of
school-leavers
and youths
who have
completed
school
but they
have no
jobs. As
a result,
they resort
to drinking
and
engaging in
other vices,”
he said.
Mr
Lengwe
said there
is need to roll out empowerment
programmes to enhance
productivity among the youthful
population in the constituency.
He said there is need for the
legislator who will be elected
into office to ensure that they
adequately address the erratic
water shortages in some parts of
the constituency.
Andy Bwalya says the
constituency needs a leader who
has the interests of the people at
heart and not be carried away by
their own selfish interests.
The 24-year-old says the people
of Kabwata constituency need a
leader who is ready to work with
the people and desires to address
the needs of the residents.
“As youths we want someone
who has the interests of the people
at heart and not someone who is
going to deceive people through
their campaigns and then vanish
once they are voted into office.
“We need an MP who stands
ready to listen to the cries of his
people and endeavours to address
their challenges. We have some
leaders who are only present when
they want votes and never truly
there to perform their duties as
leaders,” he says.
Andy says the next MP should
be action-oriented and work with
an open-door policy.
For 62-year-old Euphrasia
Kunda, her plea is for the
candidate who will emerge
victorious on January 20 to drill
a borehole and improve the
drainage at Libala Stage Two
main market.
Ms Kunda, who has been
trading at the market since
1973, says the market usually
experiences water shortages.
She says at times the market
operates without water, which is
hazardous to health.
Ms Kunda’s other plea is for the
next MP to improve the drainage
at the market, which at times gets
clogged, resulting in flooding.
“The market toilets also need
to be rehabilitated. At least they
should change the toilet cisterns
because all the toilets do not
flush,” she says.
Ms Kunda says the candidate
who will take up office after the
by-election must ensure that some
of the areas where some roads
were not rehabilitated undergo
rehabilitation.
ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL, Monday, January 3, 2022
The seven candidates have each
assured the electorate of notable
development once given the
opportunity to serve them.
PF candidate Mr Tembo is
hopeful and believes that he has
what it takes to fulfil his dream to
make the constituency, where he
has lived most of his life, a better
place for everyone to live.
Mr Tembo, whose mother
traded at Kabwata market when
he was a little boy, says he
understands the importance of
market trading.
“I was raised by a [market
trader] who dedicated her entire
life to making my life a success
through her support from simply
selling vegetables and other small
TUTU
Africa plays on in 2022
without its great referee
L
ONDON - In our series
of letters from African
journalists, media and
communication trainer
Joseph Warungu looks at what’s
in store for Africa in 2022.
The year started on a sombre
mood as the veteran referee in the
field of justice, racial equality and
political liberation, Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, was laid to rest in
South Africa.
The man who never hesitated to
blow his whistle on unfair tackles
on the oppressed by the powerful,
or offside goals by those who felt
they had a privileged skin colour,
has left the pitch for good just
seven days before the governing
African National Congress (ANC)
celebrates its 110th birthday in
Polokwane.
South African President Cyril
Ramaphosa must be hoping that
leftovers from the ANC birthday
cake will stay fresh long enough
to lift the party’s voter support
that has dropped to its lowest in
28 years and give him a chance
to secure re-election as ANC
president.
That decision will be made
at the party’s national elective
conference in December.
A day after the ANC birthday
bash, all eyes will shift to
Cameroon, which is hosting the
33rd edition of the Africa Cup of
Nations. A total of 24 teams will
compete in the tournament, which
has been postponed twice.
Sudan, Guinea, Mali and
Ethiopia have big reasons to fight
hard on the pitch and try to lift the
winners’ trophy.
They are countries that have
experienced military coups,
attempted coups or, in the case
of Ethiopia, a year-long civil
war that has killed thousands
and forced millions to flee their
homes.
Taking the Africa Cup of
Nations back home would help
lift the spirits of countries that
enter 2022 still reeling from the
effects of conflict and uncertainty.
Guinea will be playing under
fear. The new military leader has
warned the team to either win
the trophy or refund the money
invested in them.
Tunisia is usually a strong
contender on the pitch but back
home, the political game is on
shaky footing. President Kais
Saied hopes that a referendum in
July followed by parliamentary
market merchandise,” Mr Tembo
says.
He is passionate about
empowering those in informal
employment, such as market
traders.
And as a pioneer of the “Keep
Kabwata clean campaign”, Mr
Tembo believes he already has
three quarters of the solutions to
transform the constituency.
As for Mr Tayali, he says he
wants to help the children and
young people in the constituency
to go to school through the
policies formulated by the new
dawn government, such the
provision of free education.
Mr Tayali has assured residents
of the constituency that they will
witness the creation of social
centres for the youths as an
avenue to interact and keep them
away from illicit activities once he
is voted into office.
The UPND candidate, Mr
Tayengwa, says he is passionate
about bringing development to the
constituency and he is conversant
with the challenges that need to
be addressed in Kabwata, having
grown up in the constituency.
“I am a resident of Kabwata and
people know me. We are asking
the people of Kabwata to vote
for UPND so that policies can be
implemented effectively,” he says.
Mr Tayengwa says in the past,
he has done a number of notable
charity gestures which include
drilling of a borehole at one of the
churches in the constituency, a
donation of 23,000 exercise books
to selected schools and other
notable donations in community
schools.
PeP’s Mr Muleya says he will
ensure that empowerment is a
priority for the people of Kabwata.
He promises to prioritise
investments in human capital
development through equal
elections at the end of the year
will calm the waters.
Many Tunisians supported his
move to grab executive power last
July, hoping it would improve the
tough economic times. Now many
see him as the problem and have
taken their protests to the streets.
Match for the presidency
Unlike the other North African
football giants – Morocco, Egypt
and Tunisia – Libya will be
missing from the Cup of Nations.
The country has a bigger
problem organising the
presidential elections, which
should have been held on
December 24 but which have
been postponed. The polls are
seen as key to pulling Libya out
of a decade of mayhem that has
followed the removal and killing
of veteran leader Muammar
Gaddafi in 2011.
Kenya’s former Prime Minister
Raila Odinga is a big football fan.
He sometimes even makes up
his own football commentary at
public rallies to explain how he
would deal with political rivals.
In the August general election,
the 76-year-old politician will
face his fifth and perhaps biggest
match yet to try and win the
presidency.
His biggest opponent in the
fight to take over from President
Uhuru Kenyatta, whose second
and final term is coming to an
end, is Deputy President William
Ruto. Both men are currently
criss-crossing the country in big
rallies to find enough numbers to
see them through to State House.
In Nigeria President
Muhammadu Buhari is focusing
on numbers of a different kind
as he wants to know how many
Nigerians there are.
His government is planning to
conduct a national population and
housing census in 2022. The last
census was carried out in 2006
and put the country’s population
at 140 million. The National
Population Commission estimates
the population has now grown to
around 206 million but officials
want to be sure.
While we wait for Nigeria to
count Nigerians, the world will
convene in Egypt in November
to focus on a simple but elusive
number: 1.5.
The UN COP27 climate
conference in Sharm el-Sheikh
will be hoping that after the
Glasgow meeting, nations will
distribution of Constituency
Development Fund (CDF).
People’s Alliance for Change
candidate Sydney Zyambo says if
elected, he will enhance socio-
economic empowerment for the
residents.
Mr Zyambo says women and
youths in the constituency will
be fully empowered as he will
work to ensure that he meets
the aspirations of women and
youth through the rolling out of
socio-economic empowerment
programmes.
UPP’s Mr Libanda says he will
work on improving the already
existing development in the area
in order to improve the living
standards of residents in the
constituency.
As for the Socialist Party
candidate, Mr Ng’andu, he says if
given a chance by the electorate,
his focus will be to serve the
people wholeheartedly.
He states that he is better placed
to solve challenges faced by
Kabwata residents, stressing that
his focus will be on improving the
livelihoods of the orphans and the
underprivileged.
With campaigns for the
Kabwata parliamentary seat in full
swing, the power lies in the hands
of the eligible voters, who will
decide who takes up the legislative
position.
Kabwata constituency is one
of the most influential areas in
Lusaka Province. Some key
neighbourhoods falling in this
constituency are Kabwata, Libala
and Chilenje.
According to the 2010
population survey, the cumulative
population from the five wards in
the constituency stands at 174,338
people.
The wards are Kabwata,
Libala, Chilenje, Kamwala and
Kamulanga.
have reviewed their greenhouse
gas emission targets significantly
to help the world limit global
warming to below 2C, preferably
to 1.5C, compared to pre-
industrial temperatures.
Eyeing DRC’s riches
The sound of African music
has hit a new level at the Grammy
Awards. Africa will have nine
nominees when music’s biggest
night opens in Los Angeles on
January 31.
The nominees include Ghana’s
Afro-roots wizard Rocky
Dawuni, South African electronic
music group Black Coffee,
veteran Benin singer/songwriter
Angelique Kidjo and Nigerian
father and son team – Femi and
Made Kuti.
The Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) has been a big
exporter of music to the rest of the
continent and the world. And now
East Africans are eyeing DRC for
other things beyond rumba and
soukous.
The vast nation applied to join
the East African Community
(EAC), which includes Kenya,
Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and
South Sudan.
A study by the East African
Business Council shows that
China is the leading exporter of
goods to DRC, accounting for
31.2 percent, followed by South
Africa at 15.8 percent and then
Zambia at 13 percent.
The EAC wants a share of this
lucrative market, including access
to the 81 million consumers in
DR Congo.
In exchange, the EAC
will offer DRC access to the
larger EAC Common Market
and Common External Tariff
framework. It will also have
access to the sea ports of
Mombasa and Dar es Salaam at
competitive rates.
The decision on the admission
of DRC will be made at the EAC
Heads of State Summit in this
month or in February.
Africa’s overall economic
performance will largely depend
on how the COVID-19 pandemic
will progress.
For now – as football fans in
Cameroon will be told – “mask
up, wash your hands and keep
your distance” remains the slogan
for 2022 and the message that
many African countries hope puts
them on a winning streak. Happy
new year! BBC
ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL, Monday, January 3, 2022 FEATURES • Page 9

Mpoha looks to continue

innovating, diversifying
Sees AfCFTA, others as positive indications for the coming decade

L
ONDON - The
18 million
people of
Zambia enjoy
a constitutional
democracy
established in 1991.
Like many Western nations,
the Zambian governmental
system is headed by a president
elected by the popular will of
the people.
The president leads a
government consisting of three
branches, the executive, a multi-
party legislature and judiciary.
vehicles.
Other geopolitical entities,
such as the European Union
(EU), also provide a variety of
aid packages to Zambia.
One example is €2 million
allocated to UNICEF to
address the effects of droughts
on Zambian children and for
COVID-19 response.
However, there is a consensus
among the private business
sector within Zambia that aid
What is key is the ability
What is key is the ability of
Zambians to lift themselves to
a position of economic vitality
and to build a modern nation
that competes on a global scale.
A Zambian business leader
who personifies a self-
deterministic philosophy for
his country is Clever Mpoha,
the founder and chief executive
officer of Savenda Group.
Mpoha, born to humble
circumstances in a remote
pan-African enterprises on the
continent.
He started with just
US$1,000.
But Mpoha said if he can
build an international enterprise
from scratch, so can a lot of
other Zambians.
He added that, right now,
there are uncounted numbers
of boys and girls living in rural
areas without modern facilities
who will rise up to be the future
architects of a great African
nation.
In his recent book, Mpoha

Like the United States
and other free nations, the
Zambian form of governance is
underpinned by a separation of
powers.
As an emerging democracy
and developing nation, Zambia
of Zambians to lift
writes: “I would like to see
Africans taking charge of their
own problems. We will not
themselves to a position develop if we have to wait for
people outside Africa to bring
of economic vitality and solutions to our continent. We
are the people who understand

to build a modern nation

has received support from other
developed and wealthy nations.
For example, the United
States recently announced
a US$1.9 billion five-year
development strategy for
Zambia.
The US considers Zambia
an important ally and trading
partner.
It imported US$66.1 million
in copper, cobalt, precious
stones and cotton from
Zambia in 2019 while Zambia
purchased US$83.9 million in
products from the US in the
form of machinery, rubber and
that competes on a
global scale.
from foreign nations will never
be an ultimate solution for
making this land-locked African
nation a long-term economic
success.
Rather, the destiny of the next
generation of Zambians will be
decided by the entrepreneurial
spirit of the people themselves.
Zambian village, emerged from
his rural beginnings of herding
farm animals as a youth to
obtaining a university-level
education.
After garnering experience on
several jobs, he moved forward
with the launch of what is today
one of the most successful
the kinds of challenges we face
and the best way we can solve
them. I know that will never be
an easy task, but we can do it.”
As for aid from other nations,
Mpoha noted: “Charity will
never solve our problems. There
is no country that has developed
due to aid… we must embrace
entrepreneurship in Africa
because it has proved to help
many other nations to develop.”
Mpoha sees recent action
as positive indications for the
coming decade.
One is the recent signing
of the landmark African
Continental Free Trade Area
(AfCFTA) Agreement.
This measure eliminated
97 percent of tariffs on the
importation of goods.
It also weeded out an array of
other sticky trade barriers.
Since the day he launched
Savenda Group in 1997,
Mpoha’s perspective has been
determinately pan-African.
Zambia may spot a
population of 18 million, but the
African continent commands
1.3 billion people.
That represents a formidable
trading block if all African MPOHA
nations can increase
cooperation and act as a more
time, Mpoha said. LED lightbulbs – products with printing, including
cohesive economic unit.
His personal focus is on produced locally, creating jobs retail stationery and office
“If all African countries can
the continued expansion and for Zambians and creating supplies, film development and
begin to produce products and
diversification of Savenda sustainable energy alternatives. specialised design services.
sell them within Africa, it will
Group. Savenda is also increasingly Savenda Printing generates
reduce the outflow of dollars to
What started as a small involved in the food sector. US$1.66 million in sales
Europe, America, the Middle
business selling a single product The firm’s recent annually and employs 15
East and Asia,” he said.
and staffed only by Mpoha and establishment of an innovative people.
Mpoha also cites the efforts
his wife, Esther, Savenda Group food market concept called Certainly, these operations
of the African Union (AU),
today is a US$300 million- FRESHMarket has drawn are small when compared to the
the Common Market for
a-year operation that creates international attention for major operations of Savenda,
Eastern and Southern Africa
more than 1,000 jobs directly or the way it leverages digital such as its contract with
(COMESA), Southern African
indirectly. platforms to bolster local Chinese telecom giant Huawei
Development Community
While best known for its farmers. as its primary distributor in
(SADC) and key member
expertise in working with They enjoy increased incomes Zambia or its power generator
nations for their increased
huge mining operations to for producing fresh farm-to- contracts with Airtel and MTN.
efforts in recent years to build
handle supply management and table food for the residents of However, the larger goal
a strong African economic
logistics, Mpoha has eagerly Lusaka. for Mpoha is to continue
ecosystem.
plunged into other sectors. Savenda Printing is part to innovate, diversify and
Even so, a pan-African vision
To name just a few examples, of the company’s personal provide good-paying jobs and
starts at home and is built by
Savenda is among Zambia’s services industry and offers opportunities for the people of
one person, one business at a
leading makers of low-energy an array of services associated Zambia. NEWS TONIGHT

Youth empowerment programme to enhance job, wealth creation

CLIVE SIACHIYAKO Programme in Chongwe with a and Medium Enterprises national development in the mines sector cannot be achieved youths should ensure their work of projects here in Chongwe

S
KILLS are the new
global currency accepted
everywhere. Skilled
persons are drivers of
productivity, efficiency and
competitiveness.
Equipping the youth with
hands-on and entrepreneurial
skills harnesses their
employability in the world of
work as employees or business
world as entrepreneurs.
The appropriate skills are a
golden key in job and wealth
creation.
However, many youths are
unskilled and unemployable in
Zambia. The 2020 Labour Force
Survey estimates that about
1.4 million of the youth were
unemployed and lacked skills
for self-employment.
The increasing number of
unemployable youth population
is creating a frustrated
generation.
Government is addressing
these challenges using skills
training. The programme has
an exit strategy, which includes
financing, acquisition of tools
for the skilled youths and
business linkages.
Minister of Technology
and Science Felix Mutati
recently launched the National
Youth Skills Empowerment
message to the youths to utilise
the opportunity to acquire
hands-on and entrepreneurial
skills to effectively participate
in the economy.
Mr Mutati said the best
formula to solve youth
employment crisis is skills
acquisition.
“The hands-on and
entrepreneurship skills launched
today prepare youths to get
involved in the economy.
The programme will go to
all provinces to ensure its
multiplier effect results into
more opportunities for other
youths who will be employed
within youth-run enterprises.
A cadre of skilled youths can
build schools, bridges and
other works so that money
circulates within constituencies
and empowers others through
stimulated economic activities
by skilled youths.”
From the perspective of the
Minister of Youth, Sport and
Arts, Elvis Nkandu, the skills
youth empowerment programme
is a strategic intervention to
youth unemployment and
equipping them with practical
skills to generate income and
create wealth. It harnesses
the potential of the youths in
national development.”
To the Minister of Small
Development, Elias Mubanga,
the programme is a great
milestone in incubating skilled
youths to run enterprises.
“The programme is a push in
the right direction. For a number
of years, Zambia lacked an
appropriate youth empowerment
strategy that imparted hands-
on and entrepreneurship
skills for sustained enterprise
development. Financial support
to the skilled youths will make
them effectively participate in
their constituencies.”
Minister of Agriculture
Reuben Mutolo embraced
the programme to empower
youths with skills that broaden
their abilities to take a lead in
sector.
He said necessary skills and
tools are cardinal in sustained
youth empowerment. “The
youths with agricultural skills
can apply for financial support
to take up agriculture as a
business.”
Minister of Mines Paul
Kabuswe saw the programme
is an important pillar to the
formation of cooperatives
by skilled youths who
can undertake small-scale
mining. “No economy can
thrive without artisan skills.
Each constituency needs
appropriate skills for its youths
to benefit from empowerment
programmes. Production in the
without small miners acquiring
relevant skills to fully diversify
the mining sector. Mining
companies require artisans who
can augment the sector.”
Chongwe Member of
Parliament Sylvia Masebo
said the skills empowerment
programme is a practical step
in actualising decentralisation
goals and youth empowerment
agenda.
She said the
grassroots should be
reached with relevant
skills for them to fully
run enterprises in
constituencies.
“Part of the
Constituency
Development Fund
(CDF) will be
allocated to equipment
and tools acquisition
for the cooperatives
to run effectively.
Part of the CDF will
be allocated towards
skills training for the
wards in the constituencies to
ensure more youths benefit
and generate income for the
betterment of their lives.
“The first cohort of the
youths skilled is models to
others in terms of the quality of
their work. In TEVET, quality
is premium, thus all skilled
meets the desired quality in the
construction sector.”
In his speech during the
launch of the programme,
TEVETA director general
Cleophas Takaiza said the
orientation of technical and
vocational education and
training will be towards the
acquisition of employability
skills, which makes it well
placed to address issues such as
skills mismatches that usually
impede smooth school-to-work
transitions for many young
people.
“To support the actualisation
of the 2022 budget and beyond,
TEVETA is presenting to you a
‘skills for youth employability
and entrepreneurship
programme’ whose objective
is to empower motivated
youths with hands-on and
entrepreneurial skills for
productivity, wealth creation
and competitiveness.”
Mr Takaiza added that the
skills are a very important
tool for empowering youths
for employability as well as
entrepreneurship. “The youth
you see today were identified by
the local leadership in Chongwe
constituency and are undergoing
training in skills that not only
make them employable, but
will support implementation
constituency and beyond.”
He guided that in
constituencies where trades
institutes are non-existent,
mobile training is a mechanism
to be used to take skills to the
grassroots. The programme
will be rolled out in all
constituencies either through
CDF allocation towards skills
training or financing from the
TEVET Fund.
The rolled-out programme
creates healthy synergies
among different players in
the development of skills
for employability and
entrepreneurship in the country.
The programme promotes
broad-based up-skilling, re-
skilling, and skills development
for the MSME, informal sector
and youths in constituencies.
Skilled youths are encouraged
to form cooperatives so that
they can easily access support
such as financial, business
development services, capacity
building and technical
assistance. The support is
important for sustained wealth
creation.
For comments or
clarifications, email
csiachiyako@teveta.
org.zm or WhatsApp
+260954590783
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Zambia in safe hands

Putting country on IMF programme inevitable - Kabeta
KABANDA CHULU percent and the positive gross domestic overborrowing and misapplication of has taken these steps, it is something to
Lusaka product (GDP) growth rate of 3.5 the funds into ventures that were not celebrate about.
percent and the relative stability in the able to generate incomes to pay back,” “Countries whose economies are
doing fine such as South Africa, Kenya,

Z
AMBIA’S future is exchange rate,” he said. he said.
bright if Government “The President [Hakainde Hichilema] “Putting the country on the Nigeria and Egypt have all decentralised
fully implements the and his Minister of Finance [Situmbeko International Monetary Fund (IMF) by taking resources closer to local
Musokotwane] have clearly given a communities to enable them [to] make

Happy new year economic recovery plan

it has outlined, Strategic
Visions Limited chief
executive officer Hapenga Kabeta has
direction which the country has to take
and we are looking forward towards
implementation of economic recovery
programme is inevitable because it will
assist the country navigate from the
current economic malaise.”
Dr Kabeta said the most effective
decisions based on their needs and
identified priorities because we cannot
continue running the country from

Zambians
said.
In an interview on Friday, Dr Kabeta
said challenges will be experienced in
the short to medium term due to the
N THURSDAY tough decisions that must be made to
plans.”
Dr Kabeta said the removal of energy
subsidies has to be done to channel
funds to other areas that benefit a
broader section of society.
way to eradicate poverty is through
fiscal decentralisation that enables
people at community level to make
decisions based on their needs.
“I feel glad to see that economic
Lusaka without understanding what
people want at local level,” he said.
Dr Kabeta, who is a business
consultant, has previously lectured
in the School of Business at the

O
December 30, 2021, the
country recorded 5,555
new cases of coronavirus
out of 16,629 tests conducted,
resulting in a 33 percent positivity
rate.
Government has called on
Zambians to join the fight by not
only following all the Ministry of
Health prescribed guidelines, but
also by making the decision to get
vaccinated to curb the further spread
of the virus.
Zesco Limited has joined
the multi-sectoral approach by
enhancing interventions at all its
offices and focusing on harnessing
digital platforms to enhance
customer experience and keep
customers away from human
contact.
At individual level, let us
consistently observe preventive
measures such as regular washing of
hands with soap and water, avoiding
handshakes and hugs, keeping
distances of at least one metre from
each other, drinking a lot of fluids
and keeping healthy, and frequent
rubbing of hands with alcohol-based
hand sanitisers, to mention but a
few.
Zesco has developed several
online solutions to help mitigate the
restart their phones.
Customers can also download
the Zesco mobile application from
Google Play or Apple Store to
report a fault, track a fault, and
view prepaid tokens and access
information on requirements for new
connections.
The app also provides alternative
Zesco contact numbers that all
customers can use to get in touch
with our call centre, integrity
committee and to report theft or
vandalism cases via different service
providers such as MTN 322 (toll-
free line), Airtel 322, land line 0211-
363636 and mobile 0978783000
for vandalised property. This is also
to enable our customers to have a
wider array of options to use based
on availability at a given time.
Our MTN line, 322, is a toll-free
one which allows customers to get
in touch with us anytime and from
anywhere without having to incur
any charges on customer queries.
Customers can also report a
fault, send a message, or get a daily
current affairs update on Zesco
by joining our Zesco WhatsApp
business platform on 0762626977.
Once customers have joined our
WhatsApp business platform by
adding the number 0762626977
to their contact list, they can send
revamp the economy.
“There will be dark clouds but soon
it will get cleared as evidenced by the
decline in the rate of inflation to 16.4
ZAMBIA Statistics Agency statistician general Mulenga Musepa during a
media briefing in Lusaka on Thursday.
“The US$67 million per month on
fuel subsidies was unrealistic and was
applied for political appeasement, yet
the economy was on its knees due to
PICTURE: TRYNESS TEMBO
recovery plans have also focused Copperbelt University and worked at
on addressing the social sectors of the then Zambia Consumer Competition
education, health and payment of Commission (now Competition and
retirees. The fact that this Government Consumer Protection Commission).
Treasury bills auction
registers oversubscription
KABANDA CHULU
Lusaka
INVESTOR appetite for government securities has continued to
rise with the K2 billion oversubscription of treasury bills but only
K1.4 billion was borrowed.
And the Kwacha has continued to depreciate and sliding
towards the 17th mark level due to inconsistent supply of United
States (US) dollars.
According to auction results of treasury bills tender number
26 of 2021 held on Thursday, total bids received amounted to
K1.992.61 billion at face value and the allocation was K1.4
billion at cost.
In the 364 days tenor, local and foreign investors offered
K1.276.83 billion but only K918.99 million was borrowed, while
a bid of K196.93 million was offered in the 273 days tenor but
Government only got K159.29 million.
In the 182 days tenor, K141.01 million was borrowed from a
bid of K147.79 million, with K184.99 million being offered in the
91 days tenor but only K180.71 million was gotten.
And Zanaco Plc states that the Kwacha stayed completely
unchanged despite an uptick in activity from corporates winding
up their accounting books for the year 2021.
“The local currency opened trading at K16.62 and K16.67 per
dollar and stayed motionless for the entire session.

Refined copper earnings hit K14bn

spread of COVID-19.
Among these solutions is the text-
based Unstructured Supplementary
Service Data (USSD) code, the
Zesco mobile application and the
Zesco WhatsApp business platform
that can be used to access any of our
services without physical contact.
The Zesco USSD code is
text-driven and can be used by
customers with either ordinary
cell phones that only offer texting
and calling functionality or
smartphones.
This code is secure, easy to use
and provides a lot of convenience to
all our customers.
Customers simply must dial
*3600# and a list of options will
appear that include reporting a
fault, tracking a fault, tracking new
installation/connection applications
and checking prepaid units or
tokens in an event that a customer
misplaces their recharge slip.
In an instance that the code
indicates ‘invalid MMI code’ or
the code which was entered did not
match with the Zesco system code
(*3600#), customers can simply
queries by either clicking on the
message or navigating our website
to complete a complaint register
form. Customers can also maximise
the use of Zesco24 by sending SMSs
on the Airtel Network on short code
3600, which is chargeable on airtime
and not converted bundles.
In essence, we would like our
customers to take advantage of all
these platforms to get in touch with
Zesco.
You would use the Zesco USSD
code, Zesco mobile app, Zesco
website, Zesco WhatsApp business
platform and all the others outlined
above or call our customer centres.
The platforms are simple to use,
convenient and allow you to connect
with Zesco in real time irrespective
of location.
Even staying at home and
practising social distancing does
not seem like a difficult thing to do
after all.
Hazel Mafwenko Zulu (Mrs)
Public relations manager
Zesco Limited
hmzulu@zesco.co.zm
TRYNESS TEMBO
Lusaka
ZAMBIA’S export earnings
from refined copper in
November 2021 increased by
24.9 percent to about K14.7
billion from K11.8 billion in
October.
This follows the increase in
volumes of copper exported
during the period under review
by 19.1 percent to 86,800 metric
tonnes from 72,900 metric
tonnes.
Zambia Statistics Agency
statistician general Mulenga
Musepa said despite the price
of copper on the London
Metal Exchange (LME)
decreasing by 0.1 percentage
point to US$9,765.5 a tonne in
November from US$9,778.5 a
tonne in October, the country
recorded an increase in
earnings.
“However, the volume of
refined copper exported for the
period January to November
2021 was 822,000 metric
tonnes compared to 854,000
metric tonnes the same period
last year, representing a 3.7
percent decrease,” Mr Musepa
said during a press briefing on
Thursday.
Similarly, non-traditional
exports (NTEs) earnings
increased by one percent to
K4.23 billion in November from
K4.19 billion in October.
Mr Musepa attributed the
rise to increased agricultural
products exported which
accounted for a share of 31.7
percent of NTEs in November
from 27.9 percent in October.
Mr Musepa said export
earnings from agricultural
products increased by 15 percent
to K1.3 billion in November
from K1.2 billion in October.
“The major export
commodities were tobacco,
accounting for 13.9 percent,
maize seed at nine percent and
oil cake of soya bean at 8.6
percent,” he said.
Mr Musepa said non-
agricultural products’
contribution to NTEs, however,
declined to 68.3 percent during
the period under review from
72.1 percent.
He said export earnings
from non-agricultural products
recorded a decrease of 4.5
percent to K2.9 billion in
November from K3 billion in
October.
The major export
commodities were ferro-silico-
manganese, accounting for 10.8
percent, sulphur at 7.4 percent
and non-alcoholic beverages at
7.3 percent.
Mr Musepa said the main
NTEs destinations in November
were Democratic Republic of
Congo, accounting for a bulk
of 40.1 percent, followed by
South Africa at 9.5 percent and
Zimbabwe was third with 9.1
percent.
“A similar trend is likely with pockets of demand and supply
that will come through ultimately adjudicating the year’s closing
levels,” Zanaco stated.
In its daily treasury newsletter, Absa Bank Zambia Plc states
that the Kwacha continued to post losses against the greenback
due to inconsistent dollar supply, coupled with high liquidity in
the local money market.
“At 08:00 hours, commercial banks in Lusaka quoted the
Kwacha at K16.62 and K16.67 per dollar compared to its previous
day’s close of K16.61 and K16.66, thereby losing K1.50 on a
close-to-close basis.
“In the near term, the local currency is anticipated to trade
range-bound as corporates conclude their month-end and year-end
conversions,” stated the bulletin.
On prices of international commodities, copper on the London
Metal Exchange declined by 0.6 percentage point to trade at
US$9,630 a metric tonne while gold rose by 0.2 percentage
point to sell at US$1,817.78 per ounce, with crude oil trading at
US$79.22 a barrel.
BRIEFS
Litter recycling plant on cards
LUSAKA - Waste the industry in terms of
Management Association financial support,” he said.
of Zambia (WMAZ) is Mr Witi urged
considering establishing a Government to consider
plant to recycle litter into zero-rating duty on waste
renewable energy and management equipment
other finished products. and trucks used in
WMAZ president Haroon collecting garbage in
Witi said in an interview communities.
recently that establishing The association is also
a plant is key to job engaging the Ministry of
creation and eliminating Local Government and
indiscriminate disposal of Rural Development to
waste. ensure every constituency
Mr Witi urged well- has waste management
wishers to finance the service providers to
project, which will cost accelerate the collection
over K5 million. of garbage across the
“We will also engage country.
the Ministry of Small Mr Witi also said
and Medium Enterprises Government should
Development on how consider reducing dumping
they can commercialise waste levies to K25 from
the waste management the current K50 per tonne.
industry by prioritising DARLINGTON MWENDABAI

£130m Christmas blunder

LONDON - Tens of
thousands of people awoke
on Christmas morning to a
surprise from an unexpected
benefactor – Santander.
The bank mistakenly
deposited £130 million
into 75,000 accounts on
December 25.
Santander’s staff are now
rushing to claw back the
money, although the job is
being made more difficult
because much of it was
deposited in accounts at
rival banks, according to
The Times.
The error occurred when
payments from 2,000
business accounts were
made twice.
“We’re sorry that due
to a technical issue,
some payments from our
corporate clients were
incorrectly duplicated on
the recipients’ accounts,” the
bank said in a statement.
“None of our clients were
at any point left out of
pocket as a result and we
will be working hard with
many banks across the UK
to recover the duplicated
transactions over the
coming days.”
It said the mistake may
have meant that some
people were, in effect, paid
twice from their employer’s
account, although the
second payment was
funded by Santander.
BBC
ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL, Monday, January 3, 2022 FINANCE AND AGRIBUSINESS•Page 11

Plant trees alongside food crops

Farmers urged to build green economy through reduction of carbon dioxide emissions
KABANDA CHULU Community Markets for carbon into the soil and keep emissions of carbon dioxide payments in excess of US$2 and scale this level of impact creation of the Ministry of Green
Lusaka Conservation (COMACO) chief carbon in trees by not clearing relative to emissions that would million annually,” Dr Lewis is made possible because it Economy and Environment to
executive officer Dale Lewis and burning them. have occurred without these said. operates in Zambia as a non- help bring a green economy to
said the relationship between profit social enterprise,” Dr

S
MALLHOLDER
farmers have been
urged to plant trees
alongside food
crops to contribute
to reduction of
carbon dioxide emissions and
earn income from the sale of
carbon credits that are projected
to generate millions of United
States (US) dollars annually.
farmers and forests is a critical
one because it underpins another
major market opportunity for
building a green economy
through selling of carbon credits.
“For the past seven years,
COMACO has helped
communities realise these
market returns as farmers use
their new farming skills to put
“Even consumption of
firewood from local forests
for cooking is eliminated by
using fuel-efficient stoves that
COMACO distributes that use
off-cuts from the trees that
farmers use to fertilise their
soils,” Dr Lewis said in an
interview recently.
He said COMACO calculates
the tonnage of reduced
interventions.
“To date, we have achieved
over four million tonnes
of reduced carbon dioxide
emissions. The amount will
likely double over the next
three years as more chiefdoms
demonstrate their carbon
dioxide emission reductions to
help fight global warming and
be compensated with carbon
He said the interventions have
made positive impact on farmer
incomes, increased community
earnings from carbon and
market growth from the sale of
It’s Wild! products.
“COMACO contributes
to a net income flow into the
Zambian economy of over
US$10 million annually.
COMACO’s ability to sustain
Lewis said.
“COMACO’s goal is to
make conservation profitable
for small-scale farmers and
not make profits for itself
since the bottom-line target is
sustainability.”
He said COMACO is ready
to join President Hakainde
Hichilema’s desire through
the Zambian people to a national
scale.
“For 19 years, COMACO has
waited for this opportunity. It is
a fortunate time for conservation
where we can all unite by
bringing together traditional
leaders, farmers, private sector
and consumers to help our
President on this important
journey,” Dr Lewis said.

Minister probes JICA takes rice

$29m aquaculture
seed fund
NKOLE MULAMBIA
Sinazongwe
MINISTER of Fisheries and Livestock
Makozo Chikote has instituted investigations
into the US$29 million aquaculture seed fund
under the Zambia Aquaculture Enterprise
Development Project (ZAEDEP).
The aquaculture seed fund is administered
by the Citizens Economic Empowerment
Commission (CEEC) and is intended to
benefit over 3,000 entrepreneurs along the
fish value chain in all the 10 provinces.
Mr Chikote said in an interview in
Sinazongwe recently that he has directed
CEEC to access operations of the aquaculture
seed fund and submit a report to him.
“Yes, there have been some challenges
faced by certain groups that were given loans
under CEEC; challenges of fingerlings, stock
feed and also the way monies were released,”
he said.
Mr Chikote said the new dawn
administration found the programme running
but needs assessment.
He also said some fish farmers have
defaulted on paying back loans.
A YOUNG boy looking after goats in Pamodzi Township in Ndola recently.
Mr Chikote, however, could not give
details on the number of farmers who have
defaulted.
“So we are yet to collect the data analysis
and be able to have the exact number of
farmers who have been affected across the
country,” he said.
The latest Auditor General’s report has
shown that 11 cooperatives that were given
loans amounting to K1.7 million from
CEEC to set up aquaculture projects have
abandoned projects and will have their
contracts terminated for abrogating terms and
conditions.
Government received financing from
the African Development Bank for
implementation of ZAEDEP, which is
running from 2017 to 2022.
The fund aims at stimulating a viable
aquaculture sub-sector to promote economic
diversification, food security and job
creation.
The project has three components, namely
support to aquaculture entrepreneurs, support
to infrastructure and project management,
and institutional capacity building.
Nyamula Logistics thinks of small-scale transporters growth
KABANDA CHULU
Lusaka
NYAMULA Logistics Solutions has started
live testing of an electronic application
aimed at bringing together the fleet of
Zambian-owned small-scale transporters
to enable them to participate in handling
large volumes of cargo associated with big
trucking companies.
The electronic application will enable
clients and other cargo movers to find
transporters and engage them online, and
transactions will also be done through the
electronic systems.
In an interview on Wednesday, Nyamula
Logistics Solutions managing director
Stephen Muraga said it has been difficult for
clients to track transporters through manual
systems.
Mr Muraga said many clients prefer
to engage trucking companies having a
huge fleet because it is easier to track the
movement of cargo.
“There is strong appetite from investors
focusing on technology to support small
businesses. We have started live testing of
the application to get feedback and address
challenges that may arise before official
launch next month (this month),” he said.
“Previously, we had faced challenges
of tracking transporters whenever they are
out in the field, but with this electronic
application, we are creating a platform where
truck owners and cargo movers will meet
and transact in a transparent manner.”
Mr Muraga said small-scale transporters
with one or two trucks have been facing
various challenges that hinder them from
making realistic turnovers.
PICTURE: STAFRANCE ZULU
“The challenges they face are similar
to [those] of other small and medium
enterprises (SMEs), such as access to
affordable finance and inconsistency in
operations to ferry cargo.
“This system we are live-testing operates
on the model such as the Uber or Ulendo
taxis whereby small truckers with one or two
trucks are brought together to make a huge
fleet that can handle large volumes of cargo,”
Mr Muraga said.
He said bringing small truckers together
will enable them to be involved in
transportation of big volumes since the fleet
will become larger to compete effectively
against established firms.
Nyamula was established in 2018 and,
working with other truck owners, has
transported over 30,000 tonnes of various
cargoes in Zambia and the region.
project to 3
regions
DARLINGTON MWENDABAI
Lusaka
JAPAN International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Zambia is implementing a US$6 million Market
Oriented Rice Development Project (MOReDeP) to
empower 6,000 rice growers in Western, Luapula
and Lusaka provinces.
JICA is working with Zambia Agriculture
Research Institute (ZARI) and Namushekende
Farmers Institute in Mongu to produce 30 tonnes of
rice seeds in the three provinces.
JICA Zambia chief representative Kazuhiko
Tokuhashi said the project got underway in 2019
and will run up to 2025.
Mr Tokuhashi said in an interview recently that
rice growing has potential to enhance household
food security as well as boost the economic status
of small-scale farmers.
“Once we harvest this 30 tonnes of pure seed, we
shall be able to distribute both the basic and pre-
basic seed to around 5,000 to 6,000 rice growers in
Western, Luapula and Lusaka provinces,” he said.
Mr Tokuhashi said access to quality and pure
rice seeds is one of the biggest challenges rice
farmers in Zambia face, and this has negatively
affected the growth of the rice sub-sector.
He is hopeful that through various interventions,
farmers will have access to quality rice seed which
will improve yields.
The purpose of MOReDeP will be achieved
by three outputs under research, extension and
agribusiness.
Under research, the project is focusing on
developing rice cultivation techniques flexible and
favourable to various ecologies.
The extension output is focusing on formulating
rice clusters where suitable environments and
technologies, skilled rice farmers and marketeers
are linked to form large rice businesses under the
supervision of extension officers.
The agribusiness output has a slogan “take rice
production as a business”, which aims at enhancing
farmers’ business skills by accessing market
information and developing own business plans so
as to improve farmers’ income.
Mr Tokuhashi said a rice research irrigation field
at ZARI in Mount Makulu in Chilanga has been set
up while rice seedlings from the nursery have been
transplanted in Western Province.
He said rice is a viable cash crop that has
potential to contribute to the crop diversification
agenda which Government has implemented.
MOReDeP is being implemented in line with
the Ministry of Agriculture’s second National Rice
Development Strategy 2016-2020.

MTN targets 6m mobile money customers

TRYNESS TEMBO
Lusaka
OVER K40 million will be invested in the
MTN Zambia Mobile Money platform in
a bid to improve service delivery and lure
six million customers.
Currently, the organisation has about
eight million subscribers, with almost 5.5
million customers actively participating
on the mobile money platform.
MTN Mobile Money managing director
Komba Malukutila said the company is
eager to attract 6.5 million customers this
year to the mobile money platform.
“The investment will focus on
increasing penetration especially in rural
areas. We will ensure they are connected
as we are trying to improve customer
experience and contributing to the
promotion of financial inclusion,” Mr
Malukutila said in an interview on Friday.
MALUKUTILA
“We want over 80 percent of the
population to be financially included
because this is vital for more people to
contribute to economic growth. Zambia is
not poor but financially excluded.”
He also said the firm intends to ensure
that shop owners offer mobile money
services because MTN wants Lusaka to
become a MoMo payment hub.
Mr Malukutila said the gesture will be
expanded to all the 10 provinces as a way
of driving financial inclusion.
Currently there are about 40,000
merchants that accept MTN mobile
money as a payment option and it intends
to scale it up to 100,000 this year.
Mr Malukutila said the firm is also
providing employment to about 65,000
agents.
He, however, said the mobile money
platform has faced a challenge of
fraudsters swindling some customers
using different methods.
“As we enter the new year, we will
work with various industry partners to
increase sensitisation among the public
on the need not to share their personal
details and how to avoid being swindled,”
Mr Malukutila said.
He said the company will work with
the Bank of Zambia, Zambia Information
and Communications Technology
Authority and Payment Association
of Zambia, among others, to ensure
customers using mobile money are
secure.
Mr Malukutila said under the
partnership, the players will come up with
a ‘know your customer database’, which
will be a game changer.
He is optimistic that 2022 will be
positive for the organisation because of
the support it is receiving from the new
dawn government.
Mr Malukutila also said the creation
of the Ministry of Technology and
Science will help in providing solutions
to some of the challenges faced in the
telecommunication sector.

Dairy farmers get bicycle boost

TRYNESS TEMBO
Lusaka
ONYX Connect Zambia Limited
will this year distribute 2,500
bicycles to dairy farmers in four
provinces to help reduce milk
wastage.
The firm has outlets in
Southern, Central, Eastern and
Western provinces where women
dairy farmers and low-income
earners can access bicycles and
e-bikes.
Chief executive officer Wyson
Lungu said in an interview
recently that the company will
offer the bicycles on rental
business model basis at K50
with a chiller and K25 a regular
bicycle per day.
Currently, Zambia produces
253 million litres of milk
annually, with only 27 percent
passing through formal markets
and year-on-year 11.9 million
litres go to waste, translating into
lost revenue of US$5.7 million,
resulting in 2,400 job losses.
“In 2022, we intend to provide
over 1,200 jobs out of the 2,400
jobs lost due to milk wastage
through mobility by providing
the first-ever electric bike for
rural women dairy farmers to
provide market linkages and
access, and reduce journey time
to milk collection centres.
“This will also stop leakages
and spoilage of milk and other
perishables, and increase earning
and income potential,” Mr
Lungu said.
The bicycles also have
insurance against theft and
accidents and free repair
services.
Mr Lungu said as the
programme progresses, the firm
will work on a price so that those
who want to buy the bicycles on
pay-as-you-go terms can do so.
He said the firm has already
secured 230 bicycles which
will be distributed this month
to Choma, Kalomo and Zimba
to address the challenge of
mobility.
The bicycles, valued at
over K400,000, are courtesy
of Foreign, Commonwealth
& Development Office and
Prospero.
Mr Lungu said for dairy
farmers, long distances and lack
of mobility options and cold
room limit access to cooling
centres, increase spoilage rates,
constrain market access and
decrease income.
Meanwhile, following delayed
rains in the 2021/2022 farming
season, Afriseed has advised
farmers to consider planting
legumes whose planting window
is in January.
The country has experienced
late rains.
Afriseed sales and marketing
manager Kennedy Kauwo said
legumes such as cowpeas are
more profitable than maize.
“With the late start of the
rains , farmers need to embrace
crop diversification through the
production of legumes in rotation
with maize. Farmers should
move away from maize mono-
cropping.
“They should start planting
legumes such as cowpeas, which
are early-maturing, while their
planting window is January, or
one can even plant in the first
week of February and still get
good yields and remain food-
secure,” Mr Kauwo said in an
interview on Monday last week.
He said the firm is committed
to supporting agriculture
development by producing
various legume seeds with
potential to contribute to food
security and to ensure farmers
achieve higher yields.
Mr Kauwo said there is need
to increase legume production
in the country as the crops are
highly nutritious with good
market opportunities for farmers.
He, however, said delayed
rains have negatively affected the
performance of the business on
the open market.
Mr Kauwo said despite the
low sales, the company will be
able to meet its targets for this
year.
“We will continue engaging
more farmers to grow more
legumes and promote crop
diversification and support
Government’s efforts of ensuring
and promoting food security,”
he said.
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BUKAYO Saka is lost among the supporters after firing Arsenal into the lead
during the first half at the Emirates Stadium. PICTURE: AP
Arsenal floored
But Saka and co left wearing little
halo of hope
L
ONDON – A
strange and
unfamiliar noise
swirled around the
Emirates Stadium
at full-time. Strewn
across the turf in red and white
was the human rubble of a
crushing injury-time defeat.
Takehiro Tomiyasu and Ben
White were out cold. Thomas
Partey, hand outstretched, helped
them up. And as Arsenal’s
exhausted players slowly winched
themselves to their feet, the
four sides of the ground rose
to applaud them: a gesture of
approval, pride, perhaps even
defiance.
Yes, Arsenal had lost to
Manchester City again. Yes, it had
been largely self-inflicted again.
But somehow this did not feel like
the other times.
To anyone who lived through
the really bad years, who has
seen this stadium at its most toxic
and disenchanted, who has seen
successive generations blanched
and brutalised, this in itself was
bracingly new. We can argue
about how good this Arsenal side
actually are, about whether their
recent boost in form is any more
sustainable than the ones that
preceded it. But right now there
is a little halo of hope around this
club, and it feels like the most
fragile and the most important
thing at once.
Let’s deal with the game first:
Arsenal were brilliant for 45
minutes at the start and resolute
Man Utd to remain in limbo
LONDON – A scruffy draw at
Newcastle was not the beginning
of the end of the Ralf Rangnick
era and neither was a disjointed
win over Burnley its glorious
rebirth.
Games against sides in the
bottom quarter of the Premier
League are not really how
Manchester United should be
judging themselves – not unless
they are losing them 4-1, in
which case it really probably is
time for a change.
Optimists, though, perhaps
could see signs of progress last
Thursday: in Scott McTominay’s
energy and drive, in Edinson
Cavani’s continued sharpness, in
the way Jadon Sancho swooped
in from the flank for the second
goal and the way Cristiano
Ronaldo did not wave his arms
about quite so frustratingly.
Body language, slightly
oddly, dominated the post-match
discussions. There is evidence
from sports psychologists that
it does make a difference – but
then, it is a lot easier to look
happy and motivated when
you are winning; the real test
will come next time United are
being outplayed by Newcastle
or struggling to break down
Norwich.
Tonight’s game against
Wolves, whose last seven games
Why rising star Vlahovic is being sought
FLORENCE - Dusan Vlahovic
will attract interest from across
Europe in the January transfer
window after an incredible 2021
for the Serbia striker in which he
has netted 33 times in Serie A.
He currently leads the league’s
‘Capocannoniere’ charts with
16 goals after scoring 21 times
last season and has thrived under
Vincenzo Italiano’s new attack-
minded regime in Florence,
which has brought enthusiasm
back to the Stadio Artemio
Franchi after years of sub-par
football.
Vlahovic’s powerful physique
and deft touch resemble that
of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who
the 21-year-old admitted in an
interview with DAZN earlier this
year was the player he admired
most because “everything he’s
done, he did on his own”.
He does not even balk at
comparisons with superstar-in-
the-making Erling Haaland.
“He’s definitely faster than me,
for 30 minutes at the end with 10
men. Even so, we cannot ignore
the fact that, at the pivotal points
of the game, City held their
nerve and Arsenal lost theirs.
This, as much as anything they
do tactically or technically, is
the true mark of City’s current
dominance over English football:
no team since Alex Ferguson’s
Manchester United has been as
adept at leveraging their aura and
reputation.
Referees get flustered.
Opponents do stupid things.
The margins for error are so fine
that every moment becomes a
pressure-point, a high-stress
situation, a potential disaster
in the making. Does Gabriel
clean out Gabriel Jesus and earn
a second yellow if he is not
painfully aware of City’s speed on
the counter? Does Granit Xhaka
tug desperately at Bernardo
Silva’s shirt if he is not wary of
Silva’s ability to squirm through
the tiniest gap at light speed? This
is the privilege of champions:
even when you are not at your
best, oppositions still have to
pretend you are.
And yet, for a decent chunk of
the game, Arsenal offered the rest
of the league a blueprint. They
put on a show. The full-backs
camped out in the City half.
Partey and Martin Ødegaard had
the keys to the midfield. Most
importantly, they had a goal to
show for their efforts and it came
from the player who more than
anyone seems to embody the
have featured just four goals
at either end, may offer a more
significant insight.
Under Rangnick, United
have taken 13 points from five
Premier League games and lie
sixth, five points off fourth with
a game in hand. To that extent
their season has been rekindled.
But, other than Arsenal, whose
away form against top sides is
atrocious, they have not played
a top-four challenger and, apart
from a faltering West Ham, will
not do so until the beginning of
March. At the moment, it feels
as though United are in limbo,
waiting for the real challenges
ahead.
But then limbo does seem to
be club policy at the moment.
It felt telling that the Newcastle
performance prompted such
discontent – both from that body
language and in subsequent
grumbling; much of it must stem
from the sense of uncertainty.
Not for the first time, the United
board has come up with a
solution that leaves nobody clear
what the plan is – and these
are directors, we know, with
a tendency to react to events.
Lacking football expertise of
their own, they drift where
public opinion takes them; Rio
Ferdinand banging his hand on
a desk in the BT Sport studio
but for everything else we’re on a
similar level,” said the confident
forward.
In the summer Fiorentina held
off interest from the likes of
Tottenham Hotspur and Atletico
Madrid while trying and failing to
extend Vlahovic’s contract, which
expires in the summer of 2023.
Vlahovic said that it was his
decision to remain in his “second
home” of Florence this season.
“Those of us from Balkans tend
to do things more from the heart
than with our heads. I wanted to
stay here, it was my choice,” he
told DAZN.
“I think I can grow here, that
I can take another step forward,
score plenty of goals and win lots
of matches.”
In October, Fiorentina owner
Rocco Commisso told fans in
an open letter that Vlahovic had
flat-out refused a renewal which
would have made him the highest-
paid player in the club’s history,
meaning Fiorentina have to sell
spirit and basic tactile pleasure of
this Arsenal side. There is perhaps
no better noise in English football
right now than the sound a crowd
makes when Bukayo Saka gets
the ball in space.
Something strange is happening
with Saka at the moment. It is not
simply that he is a brilliant player
in a rich vein of form, although
he is and he is. It is more the way
people respond to him: Arsenal
fans, England fans, rival fans,
children, grandparents. People
love this guy.
People who do not even like
football like Saka. Hard-bitten
fans in the Clock End who
have spent decades screaming
abuse at anyone bold enough
to step within earshot melt like
marshmallows in his presence.
Consider: this is a guy who
misses the crucial penalty in a
European Championship final,
England’s first major men’s final
for 55 years, and somehow he
does not get turned into a pizza
advert or a punchline or a meme.
Instead, people love him more.
People clutch him to their hearts
a little tighter. People feel for
him.
One could see it in the way
he disappeared into the crowd
after scoring his goal: a sea of
bobbing heads and screaming
faces and phone screens. Grown
men and women ruffled his hair
and shouted things into his ear
and threw their arms towards him,
hoping to touch the hem of his
garment. THE GUARDIAN
can change the entire history of
Manchester United.
Appointing Ole Gunnar
Solskjær as an interim manager
to detoxify the club after the
dismissal of José Mourinho
made sense. Giving him the
job on a permanent basis three
months later did not, however
good initial results had been.
Waiting till the end of the season
would have given the club two
months more evidence on which
to base a decision and would
have cost nothing; it is not as
though Solskjær was going to
dash off and accept an offer from
somebody else.
United ended up winning
only two of the 10 games that
remained that season, a run
that probably would have led
to a different appointment and
perhaps spared United the two
wasted years that followed.
Solskjær as temporary
manager made sense; he was a
popular club legend and it gave
the board time to come up with
a strategy. Rangnick as interim
may make sense, but only if he
is allowed to use this second half
of the season to get a feel for the
club, to assess the squad and to
work out how he can shape it.
But is that what his
consultancy role means? Nobody
seems to know. THE OBSERVER
either now or in the summer, or
risk losing one of Europe’s most
sought-after young players for
free in 18 months’ time.
In December, Italian-American
businessman Commisso then
said that he “would not be held
to ransom” over Vlahovic, with
Italian media reporting that
Fiorentina want US$90.6 million
to give up their biggest asset
midway through the current
campaign.
It has been a rapid rise to
stardom for the 21-year-old, who
went from cheering on Partizan
Belgrade in the stands to making
his club debut less than a month
after his 16th birthday in early
2016, before moving to Italy two
years later.
Described by his former
Partizan under-21 coach Milan
Ristic as the biggest talent he
has seen come out of the former
Yugoslavia, Vlahovic has also
become a fixture in the Serbian
national team. AFP
ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL, Monday, January 3, 2022
FOLLOWING Chipolopolo’s failures on the pitch, there were calls for FAZ president Andrew
Kamanga to step down.
Lest you forget
Delayed AGM, resignations calls, RB’s voice
MATHEWS KABAMBA
Kitwe
R
E-ELECTED at the
start of the year after
beating lone contender
Emmanuel Munaile,
Football Association
of Zambia (FAZ)
president Andrew Kamanga had an
eventful first year of his second term.
Chipolopolo’s failures continued
to weigh down heavily on his
administration. But what else happened
last year?
Delayed elective agm takes off
After much delay owing to issues
that had engulfed FAZ, the elective
annual general meeting was held in
Livingstone, with Kamanga squaring
it off against former national team
vice-captain and FAZ vice-president
Munaile.
The incumbent managed to poll 57
votes, 28 better than Munaile.
This was the first election being held
under the revised FAZ constitution
which also saw the executive have
13 members, the president, his vice,
the women’s representative and 10
committee members.
Resignation calls
Just eight months into his four-year
term, Kamanga had to contend with
calls from former executive committee
member Mwansa Mbulakulima to
resign from his post.
Failing to come to terms with
Chipolopolo’s dismal showing that saw
them make missing major tournaments
a norm, Mbulakulima wrote to
Kamanga asking him to vacate Football
House.
The former Milenge Member of
Parliament also accused Kamanga of
dividing the Zambian football family.
“From the day you were elected as
FAZ president, on March 20, 2016,
Zambians have waited with high
expectations of your ability to deliver
positive results by a well-sold campaign
you fronted,” Mbulakulima’s letter read
in part. “Mr Kamanga, please accept my
request for you to resign forthwith in
the interest of Zambian football.”
Mbulakulima’s call was echoed
by another former FAZ executive
committee member, Henschel
Ghana look to end AfCON hoodoo
LONDON - To be a supporter of the
Ghanaian football team over the last
four decades is to be familiar with
sorrow and acquainted with grief.
Four-time Africa Cup of Nations
(AfCON) winners Ghana have endured
a barren period of 40 years since
their last tournament victory in 1982,
agonisingly falling short at the final
hurdle on three occasions – twice on
penalties – during that time.
But this year could be different. The
Black Stars have Milovan Rajevac –
the coach who led them to the World
Cup quarter-finals in 2010 – in charge,
Premier League stars like Thomas
Partey and Jordan Ayew in their side,
and fans hope once again.
So Sportsmail’s Max Mathews
previews the coastal West African
country’s chances at the upcoming
tournament, and considers whether
their finals demons might be behind
them at last...
Ghana have a proud history at
AfCON, winning the first two they
entered in 1963 and 1965, with
striker Edward Acquah, defender Ben
Acheampong, ‘wizard dribbler’ Osei
Kofi, 5 ft 3in attacking midfielder
Frank Odoi and forward Willie Mfum
prominent.
After two narrow 1-0 defeats
in successive finals in 1968 and
1970, they did not qualify for three
tournaments on the spin before winning
two more competitions in 1978 (on
home soil) and 1982 with a golden
generation of Ghanaian footballers.
‘Golden Boy’ Karim Abdul Razak,
‘Dribbling Magician’ Mohammed
Polo, skilful forward George Alhassan
– nicknamed ‘Jair’ after Brazil legend
Jairzinho - Opoku ‘Bayie’ Afriyie,
whose nickname means ‘wizardry’
in the Twi language – and captain
Emmanuel Quarshie wrote their names
Chitembeya.
However, Kamanga did not respond
to the calls directly, leaving it to FAZ
vice–president Justin Mumba to deal
with the matter.
“The FAZ executive committee
finds it strange that Mr Mbulakulima
singled out Mr Kamanga in a
13-member executive committee on
the performance of the Chipolopolo
when the problems are multi-faceted,”
Mumba said.
“FAZ manages five men’s national
teams – U15, U17, U20, U23 and
Chipolopolo – while they additionally
manage three women’s national teams
– U17, U20 and Copper Queens.
The normal scorecard of judging the
executive should be on the performance
of all the national teams.
“The FAZ executive committee that
was elected in February 2021 comprises
13 elected officials that manage the
game collectively. The executive is only
in its eighth month of their four-year
mandate and would be happy to be
judged after that period.”
RB’s calls for indaba
An ardent follower of Zambian
football, former President Rupiah
Banda made a call to FAZ to hold
an indaba aimed at discussing issues
affecting the game.
“If it is money for this conference,
I am sure the Zambian leadership, the
business people, people like myself
will go out of our way to meet the
desire but not for acrimony but for
unity, otherwise we can forget about
football, we will be a banana republic of
football,” the former FAZ vice-president
said.
FAZ took note of the many concerns
raised by Banda and promised to get in
touch with the former head of State. It is
unlikely that they have done so.
National teams
There was a mixed bag of results
produced by various national teams run
by FAZ.
The senior teams failed on all fronts
as they were eliminated from the
CHAN at the quarter-final stage and
could not defend the COSAFA while
they staggered through the World Cup
qualifiers.
By their humble standard, the
women’s national team had a fair
in the country’s folklore.
The 1982 final also marked the
emergence of Abedi Pele, who came
on as a sub in that game and began a
remarkable international career which
marked him as a generational talent
and one of the best African players in
history.
Abedi’s inspirational performances
at the 1992 tournament, leading
the Black Stars to the final, with a
particularly memorable mazy dribble
and finish to beat Congo in the quarters,
would have been the crowning glory of
his career.
However, a yellow card in the semi-
final against Nigeria meant he was
suspended for the showpiece. Deprived
of their star player, Ghana lost in
the harshest way, 11-10 on penalties
against Ivory Coast.
A lack of success followed in the
1990s despite the presence of players
like Leeds icon and wonder-goal
merchant Tony Yeboah and Bayern
Munich defender Samuel Kuffour.
Then, just over a decade ago,
the 2010 side of Richard Kingston,
Kwadwo Asamoah and Asamoah Gyan
conceded to Gedo with just five minutes
left in the final as Egypt snatched a 1-0
victory.
In 2015, an XI boasting full-back
Harrison Afful, midfielder Afriyie
Acquah, Christian Atsu and Andre Ayew
again reached the final, but in a cruel
throwback to 1992 lost 9-8 on penalties
against Ivory Coast, despite going 2-0
up after two penalties each.
Coming so close on so many
occasions is likely to weigh heavily on
the minds of the current Ghana side, a
decent number of whom experienced the
heartbreak of 2010 and 2015 first-hand.
The 2019 disappointment – exiting
at the round-of-16 stage, again on
penalties, against Tunisia – was
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debut at the Olympics showing some
improvement in the last two group
games after starting off badly against the
Netherlands.
The under–17 junior teams reached
the final of the COSAFA with the
women winning it while the men lost in
the final.
Referees cry for dues
The year 2021 will go down as
another year when FAZ failed to
pay referees in the lower ranks their
officiating fees from the previous season.
While clubs are responsible for paying
match officials in the Super League
and National Division One, FAZ is
responsible for paying officiating fees for
referees in the provincial leagues.
Both FAZ and affected referees
confirmed that the match officials in the
lower ranks of Zambian football have not
yet been paid.
While the figure is undisclosed, it
is estimated that FAZ is owing about
K300,000 to K500,000 in officiating fees
from last season per province.
Any other business
Since taking over the reins of
leading Zambian football, Kamanga
has continued to build is CV in football
administration and 2021 was no different.
The FAZ president was re-elected as
a FIFA audit and compliance committee
member while being appointed as CAF
finance committee vice-president.
The latter accolade afforded him the
opportunity to present the budget at the
13th CAF extraordinary congress in
Cairo.
The administration also ran several
high-level administrative, coaching and
refereeing programmes with the aid
of FIFA and UEFA. The most notable
was the administrative programme for
all provincial administrators under
long-time FIFA instructor Ashford
Mamelodi.
There was also a programme for
junior referees and women officials that
was conducted by FIFA.
UEFA also weighed in with
building capacity of the FAZ executive
committee and management at the
secretariat. UEFA capped that support
with a Toyota Quantum bus given
to FAZ. The discourse between FAZ
and UEFA dug deep into the strategic
objectives for the association in 2021.
their most recent appearance in the
competition.
Ghana do enjoy a legacy of success
at AfCON, but may also be haunted by
the phantoms of their recent failures and
near misses. The current squad will aim
to make fond new memories with an
AfCON crown in Cameroon in January.
Partey is the biggest star. The
influential Arsenal midfielder, signed
from Atletico Madrid for £45 million in
October 2020, has an international goals
record better than one in three and will
provide real all-around quality in the
engine room.
Swindon’s Joe Wollacott, formerly
of Bristol City, will challenge for the
goalkeeping shirt, Leicester’s Daniel
Amartey and the experienced Jonathan
Mensah are likely to link up in defence,
along with Reading full-backs Andy
Yiadom and Baba Rahman.
The Black Stars also have plenty
of options going forward, with Ayew
brothers Jordan and Andre (the captain)
– sons of Abedi Pele – boasting plenty
of experience, and Richmond Boakye
and Benjamin Tetteh possessing decent
goals records.
Exciting young talents Kamaldeen
Sulemana, of Rennes, and Ajax star
Mohammed Kudus will provide real
pace, trickery, cut and thrust to the
Ghana attack.
However, Kudus is at risk of missing
out due to injury, and wonderkid Felix
Afena-Gyan has reportedly declined a
call-up to focus on his progress at club
level. Those could be the two players
cut from the provisional 30-man squad
to the final 28, who will face Gabon,
Morocco and Comoros in Group C.
Possible starting line-up (4-2-3-1):
Wollacott; Yiadom, Mensah, Amartey,
Rahman; Partey, Baba; A. Ayew,
Kudus, Sulemana; J. Ayew.
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Bakala on edge
MATHEWS KABAMBA will appear to be harsh on his

K
Kitwe part.
Last season, he helped the
ABWE team to continental football
Warriors’ after they finished fourth
plunge in on the log before he was
form and relegated to assistant when
failure to the club appointed Manfred
Chabinga.

Coach’s position at Warriors under scrutiny

qualify for
the ABSA Cup may just have
cost Ian Bakala his job, with
the Super League club now
considering cutting ties with
their former midfielder.
The former Chipolopolo
player has had two spells as
Warriors coach in the last one
and half seasons, with his
first stint being last season
when he guided them to a
continental spot.
A club source told Sports
Mail yesterday that the six-
time league champions are
contemplating parting ways
with Bakala owing to the
current form.
“The coach’s job is on the
line, the executive should be
meeting to discuss his position
any day this week,” the source
said. “Most people are not
pleased on how we missed out
on the ABSA Cup.”
Warriors needed to beat
Zanaco in their last match to
make it to the ABSA Cup,
but they ended up losing 2–1
to the Bankers at Railways
Ground in Kabwe in what was a
rescheduled match.
Moses Phiri and Roderick
Kabwe scored a goal apiece
for Zanaco while Warriors got
their consolation from a Jimmy
Ndhlovu first-half header.
At full-time, Bakala attributed
the loss to his players’ failure
to hold their nerves having had
a chance to win the game but
were wasteful on goal.
“I think my players were
under pressure from the need
to play the ABSA Cup and that
has cost us,” he said. “They lost
concentration, we wanted to
score early but they (Zanaco)
scored [against] us early and
everything went wrong.
“We are having a lot of
problems when it comes to
scoring. You see, when you miss
a lot of chances, you will have
to pay the price.”
Overall, though, Warriors
have not been bad under Bakala
and the decision, if it is passed,
After their preliminary
round elimination in the
Confederation Cup, Chabinga
left his post, with Bakala
elevated back to head coach of
the team.
Despite the team sitting 10th
on the log, Warriors have won
seven matches, one game less
than leaders Green Buffaloes,
and sit seven points behind the
top. They have managed to
draw two while losing eight.

Blame failures on admins

– Mwenya
ROBINSON KUNDA
Lusaka
WITH the Zambia national
soccer team again experiencing
nightmare performances in
the just ended year, football
administrator Gideon Mwenya
has pointed the blame squarely
on the administrators.
Mwenya, who stood for the
FAZ vice-presidency but lost
to Justin Mumba in the last
elections held in Livingstone
last year, said Zambian
football is in disarray because
administrators have become
intolerant of each other.
“We have reached the apex of
2021 to which we had not been
the best year when it comes to
the fortunes of our football,” he
said. “Admittedly, our football
has been in disarray and it
has no one to blame but we
administrators because we have
A SHIRTLESS Rodri celebrates after scoring Manchester City’s winning goal in the third minute of been intolerant of each other the
stoppage time to hand 10-man Arsenal a 2-1 defeat at The Emirates on Saturday. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGES last few years.”
The Copperbelt Provincial
side Mine Police president said
there is need for administrators
to work together in the new year
and help bring back Zambian
football to life.
Mwenya said he has always
been ready to contribute to the
growth of the game despite
losing an election.
“We lost the vice-presidential
election to our brother Justin
Mumba, but that has not
discouraged our drive to
serve our football,” he said.
“We remain in constant touch
with our competitor and
brother Justin Mumba for the
betterment of our football
and we believe that it’s only
engagements such as this that
our football will develop.”
Mwenya said an all-
inclusive approach in football
administration is needed if
football is to rise again.
“We need to embrace an
all-inclusive approach in 2022
by bringing everyone on board,
including those whose ego
may have clashed with ours
because Zambian football can
only develop if we continue to
embrace each other,” he said.
“In the coming year (2022),
let us all embrace each other.
We [should] put aside our egos
and bring our ideas on the
table.”
Mwenya said it is
disheartening to see Zambia
missing at the Africa Cup of
Nations despite having talented
players.
He said administrators should
put the interest of the players
first and come together for the
good of the game.
Mwenya pledged to continue
contributing to the development
of Zambian football despite
losing elections.
Mwenya said only Zambians
can find a solution to the
problems that have engulfed
football in recent years.

Muzaza looks back at his Forest stay
MULWANDA LUPIYA
Ndola
MOZAMBIQUE-BOUND midfielder
Webster Muzaza says he will forever
cherish the time he spent at Forest
Rangers and insists missing out on
the Super League title by a whisker is
among his biggest regrets.
The creative midfielder’s four-year
stint at Forest ended on Friday after his
contract expired.
Muzaza confirmed in an interview
yesterday that he has left the Zambia
Forestry and Forest Industries
Corporation (ZAFFICO)-sponsored
side following the expiry of his
contract and will be heading to
Mozambique.
“I had a wonderful and successful
stay at Forest, but I think we should
have won the league title which was
cut short due to coronavirus in 2020,”
he said. “That is the only regret I have
and maybe we should have also gone
at least beyond preliminary round of
the CAF Champions League.”
Forest missed out on winning their
maiden Super League title on goal
difference to Nkana in 2020 after
the Football Association of Zambia
(FAZ) decided to end the league at
Week 27 following escalating cases of
coronavirus.
Muzaza was also part of the
Forest side that was eliminated in
the preliminary round of the CAF
Champions League by Gabonese side
AS Bouenguidi after losing 2-0 in
Libreville following a goalless draw
in Ndola.
Mozambican giants UD Songo, who
are drilled by Serbian Srdjan Zivojnov,
a former Buildcon coach, are the ones
that have lured Muzaza from Forest.
Muzaza joined Forest in 2017 from
Lusaka Dynamos and since then he
has established himself as an integral
member of the Ndola side.
Former Forest coach Perry Mutapa
lured Muzaza to Dola Hill Ground
after he was given the mantle
following the departure of veteran
Patrick Phiri to Nakambala Leopards
in 2017.
Mutapa coached Muzaza at
Dynamos before he trekked to Forest
Briefs
Curry breaks own record
as assistant to Phiri in 2016. LONDON - Stephen Curry
Muzaza cemented his place in broke his own NBA record
the team under Mutapa’s successors for consecutive three-
Tenant Chilumba and incumbent pointers as he led the
Tenant Chembo. Golden State Warriors to a
The Mazabuka native was a regular 123-116 win over the Utah
feature in the middle of the park for Jazz.
Forest alongside skipper Laurent Curry scored a three-
Muma and Shadreck Malambo. pointer for the 158th
successive game, breaking
His performances in recent years
his previous record of 157
have seen him earn a call-up to the which had stood since
national team and was part of the November 2016.
Aggrey Chiyangi-drilled Chipolopolo He made 28 points as his
that won the regional Council of side overcame an eight-
Southern Africa Football Associations point deficit to win, having
(COSAFA) Senior Championship in earlier thrown away a
2019. 16-point lead.
Zambia beat Botswana 1-0 courtesy Rudy Gobert top-scored
of a Tapson Kaseba strike. for the Jazz with 20 points
and 19 rebounds.
Elsewhere, DeMar
for the second successive
night – making him the
first player in NBA history
to do so – as his Chicago
Bulls edged out the
Washington Wizards 120-
119.
After receiving the ball
with 3.3 seconds left on
the clock, DeRozan landed
his three-point effort to cap
his 28 points – one of four
Bulls to reach 20 points
with Zach LaVine leading
on 35.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
made his second triple-
double of the season as
the Milwaukee Bucks
extended their winning
streak to six games with
a 136-113 win over the

Janza hopes for honours at Namungo

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Raducanu out of tourney

MATHEWS KABAMBA
Kitwe
FORMER Chipolopolo coach Honour
Janza has said he is ready for the
challenge that comes with being coach in
the Tanzanian league, which is dominated
by Simba SC and Young Africans.
Janza was last Friday appointed as
coach for Tanzanian top-flight side
Namungo FC, having spent some time on
the sidelines following his departure from
now National Division One side NAPSA
Stars.
The Tanzanian club announced on their
Twitter handle that Janza is their new
trainer, and the coach confirmed in an
interview that he is once again back in the
business.
“It is a delight for me. Football is my
life and wherever there is an opportunity
to express my skill and talent, I grab it,”
he said.
Janza takes over Namungo, who are
eighth on the log with 13 points having
won three matches, lost four and drawn
four this season. The team is 16 points off
leaders Young Africans.
The Tanzanian league is dominated by
Simba and their rivals Young Africans,
with the two clubs having won the title 19
times between them in the last 20 years.
Janza is not bothered by the huge task
he is likely to face in trying to displace
the two teams.
“Football is about competition, there
is no easy league,” he told Sports Mail.
“Whatever environment you go in, you
should be willing to compete.”
This will be Janza’s second spell
outside the country, having previously
managed Mbabane Swallows of eSwatini.
After leaving Swallows, Janza joined
NAPSA as technical director but only
served a year of his two-year contract at
the National Pension Scheme Authority-
sponsored side before leaving.
A holder of a UEFA B coaching badge,
Janza has also previously served as FAZ MELBOURNE - US “The timing to compete
technical director, Chipolopolo assistant Open champion Emma in the first Melbourne
coach and later head coach. Raducanu on Saturday event is too soon for me,
He is the last coach to have guided pulled out of an having just returned from
Zambia to the Africa Cup of Nations Australian Open warm-up isolation,” she said in a brief
when the Chipolopolo qualified for the tournament this week as statement. “Look forward
2015 edition in Equatorial Guinea, where she continues to recover to seeing you to compete
they suffered a first-round elimination, from coronavirus. later this month.”
The 19-year-old Briton Raducanu became the
three years after being crowned
was due to line up first British woman to
continental kings. alongside defending win a Grand Slam since
His is more acclaimed for his works Australian Open champion Virginia Wade in 1977
off the pitch as an elite coach instructor Naomi Osaka and former when she triumphed at
under the Confederation of African world No 1 Simona Halep Flushing Meadows, but has
Football (CAF) where several coaches, at the Melbourne Summer struggled to find the same
among them Pitso Mosimane of South Set WTA event from form since then.
Africa, have benefited from his expertise. tomorrow. French Open finalist
Despite being among the most qualified But after practising Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
coaches on the continent as a UEFA B at Melbourne Park on will also miss the
and CAF elite instructor licence holder, Saturday, she opted out, Melbourne event after
Janza, who has also coached Super having tested positive testing positive for
League side Red Arrows, has generally for COVID-19 before an COVID-19, casting doubt
struggled to win trophies at club level and Abu Dhabi exhibition last on whether she will be fit
his switch to Namungo provides another month and then spent time for the Australian Open.
test. JANZA in isolation. AFP

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