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 Keeping Us Ultra Refreshed – Zambia’s most loved beer, Mosi Premium Lager, introduces a brand-new innovation – Mosi Light – to keep the vibes going even longer. This new, easy drinking and ultra-refreshing beer is brewed with the finest quality ingredients, no added sugar and is less bitter. A “feel good” beer that quenches but […]

 PATRIOTIC Front (PF) vice president Given Lubinda says Edgar Lungu is still party president until another person is elected at the convention. And Mr Lubinda said PF will not be threatened by attacks from the ruling United Party for National Development (UPND). Speaking when he featured on Lusaka Music Radio program today, Mr Lubinda said […]

 THE National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) has advised members of the public not to panic, assuring all those eligible for a partial withdraw that money will be paid. The Authority has also disclosed that as of yesterday, April 25th, a total of K253.7 million had been disbursed to those that were eligible to access the […]

Scientists are unraveling the complex mystery underlying how the immune system mounts a potent defense against one of the world’s most relentless killers—the deadly parasites that cause the worst form of malaria.

By NATION REPORTER

IT is a shame that UPND is so obsessed with the Patriotic Front (PF) that it is determined to deregister the former ruling party by exerting pressure on the registrar of societies to succumb to their apolitical demands.

Mr Nakacinda said to deregister the biggest opposition party by the government was the biggest assault ever against democracy.

“Such attempts have been made in the past and have just gone to embarrass the government of the day,”Mr Nakacinda said.

He said the issue of office bearers was just an administrative issue that they need to just write a letter to make sure that those things were fulfilled.

Mr Nakacinda said going to the extent of threatening to deregister PF shows that UPND was so scared of the party.

He said he has appealed to the permanent Secretary, Mr Josephs Akafumba to be professional in that office even though everybody knows that he was a politician, he should stick to principle because he was a civil servant.

The registrar of societies has threatened to deregister the Patriotic Front for alleged failure to comply with the order to avail a full and complete list of office bearers of the party.

According to the letter from the office of the registrar under the ministry of home affairs and internal security that went viral on social media, the registrar of society said it was a requirement under section 2 of the societies Act cap 199 of the laws of Zambia for every society to have a minimum of 10 office  bears but the PF has only provide three since 2021.

 SOME members of the public have described as frustrating the process to access their National Pensions Scheme Authority (NAPSA)  20 percent partial withdrawal owing to the malfunctioning e-NAPSA platform. Since the passing of a law that allows contributors to claim a 20 percent of their pensions, members of the public have besieged NAPSA offices and […]

 THE Lusaka City Council (LCC) and Zambia police have demolished illegal structures at Mandevu Junction lay-by in an operation last night. In a statement released by LCC Acting Public Relations Manager Mastone Moonze,four youths were nabbed during the operation for unruly behavior. “A combined team of LCC, State Police and city planning department last night […]

By NATION REPORTER

HE perception of tribal appointments and dismissals in the public service are a source of deep concern to two senior and influential Catholic Clerics, Archbishops Dr Alick Banda and Emeritus Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu, Brebner Changala has said.

Mr Changala says Lusaka Diocese Archbishop, Dr Banda and Emeritus Archbishop Mpundu are deeply concerned about the reverse tribalism taking place in the civil service that has seen more than 400 civil servants offloaded to Cabinet Office in holding positions.

And Mr Changala has said Zambia is being methodically divided on ethnic basis and that harmony, peace and unity have come under attack because of the regionalism that is being promoted by a selected ruling class.

On Monday, Archbishop Dr Banda and Emeritus Archbishop Mpundu met for the first time after a long time, reconciled and reunited for a common cause…the good of the Church and the country.

Mr Changala, once an ardent supporter of President Hakainde Hichilema in opposition disclosed that former President Edgar Lungu played a part in bringing Archbishop Dr Banda and Archbishop Mpundu together to reconcile for the good of the Catholic Church and the country as a whole.

Mr Changala, who prior to the August 12, 2021 general elections was a fierce critic of former President Lungu worked together with the former head of State to bring the two senior Catholic Church clerics on the same table.

“What is happening in the civil service where civil servants are being purged on the basis of their ethnicity has been a driving force for Archbishop Dr Banda and Archbishop Mpundu to come together. They (Archbishop Banda and Archbishop Mpundu) are deeply concerned about the reverse tribalism going on.”

“There is an attack on civil servants on the basis of ethnicity and too many have been shunted at Cabinet Office while another ethnicity is taking over their positions. The peace, harmony and unity Zambia has enjoyed since 1964 is under attack. Zambia is methodically being divided on ethnicity basis,” Mr Changala said.

Mr Changala said there had been a scheme to accuse civil servants from selected regions of being corrupt who had been obtaining allowances illegally so that they could be fired from the civil service and replaced with those from the correct regions.

He said an agenda had been generated in which citizens from a certain region were being characterised as corrupt and they should never come near the governance of the country ever again.

“From 1964, the people who had maintained the peace, unity and tranquility of the country are being branded thieves and criminals who should never run Zambia ever again,” Mr Changala said.

Mr Changala said Archbishop Mpundu as a retired Catholic cleric needed to reconcile with his successor, Archbishop Dr Banda and that the two had become a symbol of unity in the Catholic Church.

He said Archbishop Mpundu had broken ranks with the UPND, the party whose beliefs he championed because he wanted to serve humanity, especially the poorest of the poor in society.

“Archbishop Mpundu was a strong supporter of the UPND who propagated and championed the agenda of the ruling party. But Bishop Mpundu’s agenda on earth is to carry the voice of the voiceless.

He is for peace, harmony, unity and justice. He has broken ranks with mortal men and women. Many a time, he has challenged the Church to speak for the poor.

I congratulate former President Lungu for the initiative of bringing the two Bishops together. They are now one and not two. In this country, we are totally divided,” Mr Changala said.

UC Davis Health endocrinology researchers are investigating the role of two newly identified molecules that control heat production from fat tissues. Their hope is to discover a better way to combat obesity complications.

Dungeness crab fishermen are at high risk for on-the-job injury, but having a metal bar to bang crab pots against as they harvest can help them prevent injury, an Oregon State University study found.