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In thIs Issue

President Rupiah Banda has reshuedthe political leadership or the th

time this year and or the second timewithin this month.

Minister o agriculture and coopera-tives, Peter Daka, has been moved to theministry o science, technology and voca-tional training to replace Brian Chituwo,who has been moved to the ministry olocal government and housing to replaceEustarckio Kazonga, who replaces Daka(Post/imes 29 September).

Banda said he simply wanted to realignthe ministers to give them more appropriate positions. Te aim is to make the issues omaize payments and movements more ecient, he added (Post 30 September).

Furthermore Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) commissioner general Chriticles Mwansahas been appointed new permanent secretary in the ministry o science, technology and voca-tional training. He replaces Sherry Tole, who has been transerred in the same capacity tothe ministry o community development and social services, where she replaces ens Kapoma,who will be redeployed. Chriticles has been replaced by Wisdom Nhekairo, commissioner ordomestic taxes (Daily Mail 30 September).

Some o the players have been reshued beore. In January, Chituwo was transerred romthe ministry o agriculture and cooperatives to the ministry o science, technology and vo-cational training, and Daka was transerred rom ministry o lands to ministry o agricultureand cooperatives (imes 5 January).

In February, ens Kapoma was transerred as permanent secretary rom ministry o oreign

aairs to ministry o community development and social services. At the same time Bandamade other changes at permanent secretary level (lusakatimes.com 22 February).

In May, Mukondo Lungu (UNIP) was appointed minister o home aairs at the same time asa reshue o several deputy ministers (Daily Mail 20 May), and, nally, in the beginning othis month, minister o southern province, Daniel Munkombwe, was appointed deputy min-ister in the oce o the vice-president concurrently with a reshue o other deputy ministersand permanent secretaries (imes 3 September).

Wk 39, Volm 1, I 25, 1 Ocobr 2010Zambia WklyAre they playing musical chairs in cabinet?

Musical chairs in cabinet?

Unruly behaviour leads to promotion

Doctors on strike

Cracked houses caused by mining?

Quotes

Church torches villages

2nd Zain share oer rejected

Te beginning o the end or the pact?

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Another prominent wie beater

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When I went to school we had a historyteacher who was proudly let-wing. When itwas time to study the endless list o kings inDenmark, we ocused on Christian IV, who isattributed with building many o the spectacu-lar buildings and churches in Copenhagen.On a eld trip to the old city, while enjoyingthe view rom the top o a tower, our teacher

went to great length to point out that it wasrather misleading to say Christian IV hadbuilt these buildings when in act they hadbeen constructed by hundreds o unmentionedworkers. O course she was right. But culturalconventions tend to attribute such develop-ments to the leaders rather than their subjects.My memory was provoked by listening tothis weeks continued debate about whetherpresident Banda can take the credit or variousdevelopments in Zambia. Te more assertiveelements o the opposition claim that manyprojects, which are being completed now,were initiated under late president Mwana-

wasa. Tereore Banda should not take thecredit. Examples include the MRI scanner atthe Cancer Diseases Hospital, the Chipata-Mchinji Railway and the Choma-NamwalaRoad. In act, said the opposition, in case othe latter there is absolutely nothing to takecredit or considering that the road was in themaking or the duration o MMDs almost20 years in power. It actually goes right backto independence! Does that mean we shouldattribute the Choma-Namwala Road to rstpresident Kaunda? Or maybe, in the spirit omy ormer history teacher, we should raise a

plaque to the many ordinary Zambians ortheir patience in waiting or the road.

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Lusaka Division Prosecution Ocer (DPO) Frank Mumbuna has been trans-erred to Mansa as Luapula Divisional Criminal Investigations Ocer (DCIO).Te promotion ollows his dismissal rom magistrate Charles Kaundas court orunruly conduct in a case against two emale PF members charged with honkingagainst ormer president Chilubas acquittal or corruption. Kaunda told Mum-buna to do something about the noise within the court premises, but Mumbunasaid it was not his responsibility to stop people rom making noise. Kaundathen reminded Mumbuna that it was his duty as the DPO to ensure that courtproceedings were not disturbed, but Mumbuna claimed the magistrate should nothave told him to do so when he was cross-examining a witness. Ater Kaundadismissed him, Mumbuna packed his bags, thanked the magistrate and walkedout o court saying: I cant allow anybody to humiliate me. Dennis Manda hasreplaced Mumbuna as prosecutor in the honking case (Post 29).

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President Banda on his departure orNigerias 50th anniversary o indepen-dence (Post 30).

Doctors on strike

Geo-tech experts are going to analyse vibrations that are cracking houses in Kankoyo Specialownship in Muulira. Residents have blamed the vibrations on mining activities at Mopani

Copper Mines which has dismissed the claims.One resident, Lawrence Muwindwa, explained that the vibrations are elt especially during thenight. My colleagues home was badly aected because o the vibrations. Tere was a big bangand a big opening just outside his house and the water pipe even burst, he said.

Te Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) together with the council have inspected the damagedhouses, but MCM denied being responsible or the cracks, claiming they were old.

Muulira town clerk Charles Mwandila explained that the local authority now will bring inexperts to ascertain whether the cracks are due to vibrations rom the mine or just naturalmovements. He said MCM told him that there was need to get a second opinion on the mat-ter because as ar as they were concerned there was no primary blasting around that area.

I have been on site and I have seen the cracks but it is so dicult to determine whether theyare as a result o mining or not. A ew houses in that area are badly cracked, said Mwandila(Post 28).

Cracked houses caused by mining or tremors?

State doctors have gone on strike countrywide. Te doc-tors union, the Resident Doctors Association o Zambia(RDAZ), called the strike on Monday 27 September,saying attempts to solve their grievances through dialogue

with the Ministry o Health had ailed.While we recognise the tremendous eorts made by theministry to try to resolve these problems, it became clearthat the ministry had limitations, RDAZ acting president,Amon Ngongola, said.

Ngongola apologised to president Banda and the publicor the strike, but he said his association believe only thelistening ear o the president could solve the stand-o withthe Ministry o Health. He explained that the decision tostrike had been dicult as we recognise that the with-drawal o labour as health workers results in loss o lie.

Te doctors are asking or an improvement o salaries and other conditions o service.

Minister o health, Kapembwa Simbao, said a way to resolve the issue will be ound. He wasbacked by president Banda who explained that resident doctors have been meeting with boththe minister o health and the secretary to the cabinet (Post 28, Daily Mail 29/30 and imes30).

Last year, during a nurses strike, a woman lost her baby ater giving breech birth in thegrounds o the University eaching Hospital in Lusaka.

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PF rebel MP Michael Nyirenda on giv-ing president Banda credit where creditis due (Daily Mail 25).

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cure it of its addicon to power.

Elias Chipimo, president o newNational Restoration Party, when an-nouncing that NAREP will contest theChilanga and Mpulungu by-elections(Sunday Mail).

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Copperbelt MMD youth chairmanEvans Chibanda on the crack squad hehas threatened will sort out Bishop PaulDuy or saying the Western Provincewant change in 2011 (Sunday Post).

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Peter, who runs a small business in Lu-sakas Chibolya Compound, where noteven the police dare to go in uniorm(Sunday Post).


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Abuse of oce removed from ACC Act

Te government has removed the abuse o oce oence rom the

revised Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Act. According to theNational Assembly bill number 41 o 2010 presented to parliamenton 24 September or rst reading, Section 37 which catered or theoence has now been replaced by concealment o oence. Te billstates that a person commits an oence i they intend to deraud orto conceal the commission o an oence or i they obstruct an ocerin the investigation o any oence. However, the bill makes mentiono corrupt use o ocial power in Section 21 (Post 25). Te govern-ment has previously deended its intention to remove the abuse ooce oence rom the ACC Act saying the same oence exists inthe Penal Code. By removing it, public ocers will be allowed tohave extra sources o income. But the opposition has pointed outthat the abuse o oce oence was included in the ACC Act be-cause it had no teeth in the Penal Code which is administered by

the police which are the main customers o the Anti-CorruptionCommission.

62.7% o adults do not use any nancial products ormal orinormal to manage their nancial lives. Only 13.9% have abank account. FinScope Zambia 2009 (Daily Mail 24).

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Bharti Airtels second bid or Zain Zambias publicly listed

shares o 710 kwacha per share has been rejected by the Securi-ties and Exchange Commission (SEC) as being below marketestimation. Tis is the second time the SEC has thrown outBhartis bid. Last month the new owner o Zain oered 675kwacha per share. Zain suspended trading on Lusaka StockExchange (LuSE) on 18 August awaiting the nalisation o themandatory oer to the Zains 21.1 percent minority sharehold-ers. One shareholder, Humphrey Gathungu, who is an invest-ment analyst at South Aricas top investment managers, Stanlib,said there was need to update the market on the current state othe transaction: SEC needs to come clean and show that thereare no underhand deals going on here, he said. Te SEC previ-ously recommended a mandatory oer price o 1,126 kwacha

per share, and Gathungu urged Zambian minority shareholdersto not accept any price below 1,219 kwacha per share (Post 25).

Bhar Airtels 2nd Zain share oer rejected

Te Lusaka Stock Exchange (LuSE) is the 12th best-perorm-ing stock market in terms o stock index movement out o 15Arican bourses. Te analysis was perormed by Stock BrokersZambia between 31 December 2009 and 17 September 2010.Te 15 countries analysed include Botswana, Egypt, Ghana,Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, SouthArica, anzania, unisia, Uganda and Zambia as well as theWest-Arican regional stock market (BRVM) based in IvoryCoast. LuSE posted the 12th best perormance in terms ocapital gains, with the LuSE stock index growing 6.18 percentyear-to-date as at 17 September 2010 (Post 27).

Lse: 12 o of 15 Africa bor

Tomson Reuters has begun eeds o real-time date rom theLusaka Stock Exchange (LuSE). Inormation about bid and askprice, volumes, market depth, latest trades and related inorma-tion on equities will now be available to investors worldwide inreal time as opposed to waiting or the end o the day. LuSEgeneral manager Beatrice Nkanza said the development wouldimprove LuSEs presence on the global market. LuSE becomesthe latest Arican exchange that Tomson Reuters has switched

to real-time data, ollowing Kenyas Nairobi Stock Exchange,the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the Ghana Stock Exchange.More than 20 securities are listed on the Lusaka Stock Ex-change. Until now the LuSE market data provided by TomsonReuters was updated once a day, ater market close (Post 29).

LuSE goes real-me

891,500 farmers to benet from FISP

Government expects 891,500 small-scale armers to benet rom theFarmers Input Support Programme (FISP) or the 2010/11 armingseason up rom 500,000 in 2009/10. [A]ll districts have receivedtheir seeds and all inputs needed or the arming season, deputyminister o agriculture and cooperatives, Albert Mulonga said. About8,790 tonnes o maize seed are expected to be distributed togetherwith 178,000 tonnes o ertiliser. Mulonga said government has

engaged village headmen and church elders to ensure transparency inthe distribution exercise (Daily Mail 24).

Church torches villages

3,118 people in Choma have beenlet homeless ater their houses andood barns were set ablaze to orcetheir eviction rom land owned by theBrethren in Christ Church (BICC) in

Zambia.

BICC Bishop uma Hamukangandusaid there was no other way to makethe villagers move rom the land.We have been telling these people tomove rom our land as ar back as 20years ago. Tese villagers must knowthat the law is there to be respected as

what has happened is provided or in the constitution, he said. Lastweek, the BICC obtained a court order to have the villagers evicted.

Angry villagers claimed they were not given enough time to movetheir property, some o them were now sleeping in the open and

others were going hungry as their stored ood was burnt and most otheir animals ran away during the conusion.

Government said all the 3,118 villagers who have been let homelesswill be provided with tents and ood until they are relocated to newsettlements. Southern Province permanent secretary Gladys Kristaorsaid chies Macha and Mapanza, in whose chiedoms the 12 aectedvillages are situated, have started allocating suitable land to the vic-tims (Daily Mail 28/30).


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Te PF-UPND Pact is at it again. Tiswhole week it has occupied the headlines inall the major newspapers or all the wrongreasons. Te Patriotic Front (PF) and the

United Party or National Development(UPND) apparently cannot gure out howto get along. Now they are both eldingcandidates or the orthcoming Chilangaparliamentary by-election.

It really all came down to the unresolved issue o who will providethe man or the president o the pact: PFs Michael Sata or UPNDsHakainde Hichilema?

In the process the parties squabbled about who was the strongest othe two (Daily Mail 24) and who had the most (rebel) MPs (imes24). Te youth actions o the parties exchanged insults (Post 24and Daily Mail 25), both parties accused the other o causing theconusion, and various grassroots o both parties threatened to deect

i their party leader was not chosen as pact president (Post 27 andMonitor & Digest Issue 535).

In the beginning o the week, both Sata and Hichilema played downthe squabbles and urges members o the pact to use the establishedchannels to resolve their dierences. During a Joy FM radio pro-gramme, Sata explained that the problem is that young people wantto be heard and they know very well anybody who goes to attackMichael Sata will be given prominence by the state media. He alsopointed out that most attacks come rom the lower ranks o the par-ties (Post 24).

Regardless, the two parties both decided toeld candidates or the Chilanga by-election.PF deputy secretary general EmmanuelMusonda and UPND spokesperson Charles

Kakoma announced in separate interviewsthat their respective parties would contestthe Chilanga by-election (Post 29).

Te UPND asked the PF to ollow the deci-sion o the joint working group that the PF

should contest the Mpulungu by-election while the UPND shouldcontest the one in Chilanga. Both by-elections are to be held on 28October. I appeal to the PF not to eld a candidate in Chilanga,said Kakoma. He insisted the UPND will respect the pacts Memo-randum o Understanding by not contesting the Mpulungu by-elec-tion (Daily Mail 30).

But the PF was adamant. Lusaka Provincial publicity and inorma-tion secretary Stanley Chiumya Musonda said the UPND is ree

to contest Mpulungu i they wish, Musonda said the joint workinggroup could not make decisions or the PF, and Sata dropped hisgenial approach.

A Memorandum o Understanding, as the name says, has rules.Tose rules, the members o the alliance must observe and i ourbrothers and sisters in the UPND are not very comortable theyshould say so because i they are members o the same amily whyshould they be criticising the same amily? he asked (Post 30).

It sounds like the PF also has problems with the rules.

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The PF-UPND Pact: The beginning of the end?

Expelled MMD Chilanga MP Ngandu Magande intendsto run or president in 2011 backed by a political movementcalled the National Movement or Progress (NMP). Te ormerminister o nance was immediately criticised or launching anew political party although Magande himsel denied thatthe NMP is a political party. Te movement has been estab-lished by my supporters who eel that they needed a orum tocontinue discussing. Even me I need to nd a channel throughwhich to communicate, Magande said. Magande is taking thecredit or Zambias strong economy, including reaching theHighly Indebted Poor Countries completion point and attainingsingle-digit infation or the rst time in 30 years. According toMagande the NMP started in North-Western Province and hasbecome countrywide. Te MMD vowed to deeat Magande inany election (imes 24/27 and Monitor & Digest).

Magande: Movement or party?

Death note

Daily Mail 25 September:

I the growing diatribe between the UPND and the PF is not aeloquent demonstration o how untenable the pact between thetwo parties is, we do not know what it will take leaders to cometo the realisation that their alliance is now ocially doomed asthe premonition has been right rom the start. In a see-saw ash-ion o circus proportions, leaders o the two parties appear to bending it easier to disagree than agree on straight orward issues.Both PF and UPND leaders are aspiring or national leadershipbut the way their pact is administering its aairs leaves seriousdoubts about how they would handle more serious governanceissues at national level.

Post 24 September:

I the pact cannot sit down and say who got more votes in 2006and 2008 between the two o them, which presidential candidategot a higher share o the votes, how best they can use the previ-ous advantages that they have garnered, then what issue are theygoing to discuss? We say this because this should be the leastcontentious issue. But rom what they are saying, this seems tobe the most contentious issue because now they are moving be-tween statistics and imagination or dreams o how the politicallandscape has changed or will change since the last elections. Ithey cannot work together, let them be honourable and tell thepeople that they have ailed to agree on the obvious and go their

separate ways.

The pact according to the editorials:

In the urban areas, access to water has risen rom 45% in2002 to 74% in 2010 and access to sanitation has increasedrom 28% in 2004 to 37% in 2010, according to speech byminister o energy and water development, Kenneth Konga,in connection with the 10th anniversary o the National

Water Supply and Sanitation Council (Daily Mail 28).

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An elephant has killed Martine Nyembo rom the DRC inthe Mosi-oa-unya National Park. Her three-year-old sonsurvived the attack but is admitted to Livingstone GeneralHospital. A team rom the imes newspaper ound policeand wildlie ocers picking up the pieces o the woman.Southern Province police chie Lemmy Kajoba suspectedthe woman could have been in a group o people using bushpaths when trying to avoid the authorities at a roadblock

near Sun International Hotels. On whether the elephanthad been identied, Kajoba said a lone elephant had beenseen returning to the scene. According to Kajoba elephantsusually go back to veriy whether their victim is still alive(imes 24 and Daily Mail 25).

elpa kill woma

Chimpanzees at Chimunshi Wildlie Orphanage rust inChingola have stoned a visitors bus, breaking windows andcausing some damage to the vehicle. Chimunshis gen-eral manager Innocent Mulenga described the incident asunortunate, whereas the visitors described it as exciting andadventurous. Khuluyelo Lisedi rom Zimbabwe said it washer rst time to see a live chimpanzee. Te visitors had takentime o rom an environmental conerence at the Copper-belt University (CBU). Despite being conned by an electricence, the chimpanzees managed to throw stones at the CBUbus. Te visitors had to take cover under the seats. Cop-perbelt police commanding ocer Martin Malama said thepolice will try to work together with the trust to ensure that

tourists are protected rom the stone-throwing chimpanzees(Daily Mail 24).

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Mabengas daughter murdered

Maketo, the late daughter o MMD national chairperson, MichaelMabenga, was allegedly murdered by her husband. wo weeks agoher burial was postponed at the last moment when her amily reusedto accept the suicide result o the post-mortem. Te amily believedher husband, David Chitika, was linked to the death. Police detainedChitika as they suspected oul play. Present at the controversialpost-mortem was a relative o Chitika, a trainee doctor, whereas theMabenga amily was not allowed to attend. Ater a second post-mor-tem Maketo was nally buried. Now, Chitika has been jointly chargedwith his nephew, Lawrence Kaunda, with the alleged murder o Glad-ys Maketo Mabenga Chitika. Lusaka magistrate Kelvin Soma/Soomatold the duo they would have to wait or their case to be committed tothe High Court, as murder cases are not heard in subordinate courts.Te suspects will remain in custody at Lusaka Central Prison as anoence o murder is not bailable (imes/Daily Mail/Post 24).

Private credit is borrowing more

Credit to the private sector has improved with nancial institutionsincreasing loans by over 500 billion kwacha between January and July2010 bringing total industry loans to 7.5 trillion kwacha. Te Eco-nomics Association o Zambia (EAZ), however, said conditions orthe private sector to eectively access credit are improving too slowlyto eectively contribute to economic growth. EAZ executive secretary,Alexander Chileshe, reerred to the FinScope Zambia 2009 surveywhich showed that the variety o banking services has increased but tothe same clientele. It is very clear that conditions or the private sectorto eectively access credit are still not compatible with business needs,he said (Daily Mail 24).

Another prominent wife beater

Police in Livingstone are pursuing district commissioner FrancisChika or battering his wie, Mutinta. According to a medical report,Mutinta suered a swollen nose and ecchymosis, bruises on the letcheek and general body pains ater Francis beat and stepped on her.Apparently Mutinta caught her husband with his girl riend whomhe had agreed to not see anymore. Francis denied beating his wie,

but Southern Province police commanding ocer, Lemmy Kajoba,conrmed police were investigating the matter (Post 30).

DRC border post blocked againanzanian truckers protested at Kasumbalesa border post at theDemocratic Republic o the Congo (DRC) against daylight thetsrom the no-mans area. Tieves rom the DRC had stolen severalboxes o candles rom one truck and tried to open a rerigeratedtruck without the police intervening. Te mostly anzanian truckersblocked the main road by parking their trucks across it. Te truckersstrongly elt that these thieves conspired with the police, said anemployee at the border post. Te Congolese government has oeredto move drivers without valid papers to a secure area ve kilometresaway rom the no-mans area (Sunday Post). Tis is the second timethis year anzanian truckers are protesting at Kasumbalesa. In July,

they blocked the no-mans area over alleged delays by DRC ocials toclear them. Back then, Chililabombwe district commissioner, imothyMusonda, warned the drivers that [n]ext time, we are going to arrestthem i they will protest without ollowing diplomatic channels.

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