Zambia Weekly - Week 36, Volume 1, 10 September 2010

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for Zambia o forgiv m for wavr

I did. I am now a Chrisan and I preach

o popl o a y ca cag irway ad r o God. I bliv a

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Serial killer Gilbert Benson Chilala whoclaims to have killed over 200 peopleusing very powerul black magic andmore conventional ways. He is serving alie-sentence in prison (Sunday Post).

All miir ar good b or ar

beer.

New deputy minister in the Oce othe Vice-President Daniel Munkombwe(see page 4) - Sunday Post.

High-ranking wife-beater caught out

Tis week the internet was awash with praise o the Zambian mining sector but it provedimpossible to nd the source o the inormation. An article written by PR Newswire with thetitle Zambias Copper Mines Receive Global Recognition was included on an impressiveamount o news sites as well as in the state-owned press in Zambia (imes 8). In the articlereleased on 8 September PR Newswire wrote that world-renowned business news serviceDow Jones has applauded Zambias copper mining successes in an article released yesterday[7 September] and went on to highlight Zambias impressive copper output but a searchon Dow Joness website revealed no such article. At the end o its much circulated article, PRNewswire had put its source as State House Lusaka, Republic o Zambia, but a search on

State Houses website revealed no Dow Jones article either.

Is Dow Jones a department of State House?

so log a ma ar i rog

and human reason weak, tradion will

be strong since it appeals to diused

feelings; and polics weak because itappal o dradig.

Senior Chie Mwamba on traditionalleadership (Sunday Post).

Police have recorded a warn and caution state-ment rom Patriotic Front (PF) MP GeoreyMwamba, popularly known as GBM, or as-saulting his wie (Daily Mail 9).

GBMs wie, Chama, sustained a deep cut onher orehead which needed to be stitched and bruises on one eye as well as on her shoul-ders, according to the medical report publishedin the Daily Mail. Fists are alleged to havebeen used in the act. Beaten and assaulted by aknown person, stated the report.

A amily member narrated that GBM andChama had been having marital problems andthe latter had asked PF president Michael Satato counsel her husband. But GBM was veryurious with his wie or embarrassing him in

the eyes o his party president (Post 7).

Te domestic row started in the couples residence in Kabulonga and spilled over to the Hill-top Hospital in Ibex Hill, where GBM again beat up his wie in the presence o his in-laws.Te incident has let Chamas amily very upset, and it has decided that GBM should acethe law (imes 7).

Te amilys spokesperson, Chamas brother, Chama Mwenso, explained the amily had lostanother sister in Kitwe last year ater she was beaten to death, which made them realise theneed to start protecting their sisters. Chama the wie was apparently beaten up by GBMtwo years ago to such an extent that she had to be treated or a ractured skull in South Arica(imes 9).

GBM regretted beating his wie but blamed her amily members or infuencing her to reportthe matter to police because he had been chasing them rom his house lately.

You know I married rom the Mwenso amily and they used to have a lot o money and theyhave now become so broke. Tis is a amily matter between the two o us. I come rom a royalamily and a rich background but we have got our own ways o solving problems, GBM said(imes 8).

Chamas amily took great oence to these allegations. It strongly denied being broke: Mysister is clearly ed up with her husbands mentality. He talks about money everywhere he goesand in my view there are more important things than money, Mwenso said (Daily Mail 9).

Te womens movement in Zambia, including the Non-Governmental Organisations Coordi-nating Council, Women and Law in Southern Arica and Zambia National Womens Lobby,as well as the Human Rights Commission have all called or the immediate arrest o GBM(Daily Mail/imes 8).

GBM and Chama have ve children together and have been married or about 30 years.

The construcon industry is at its peak

ad o brakig i ow bcomigvery lucrave for us. It is important for

popl o look o brigr id of

our story instead of reporng the nega-

ves because I believe every business

a callg.

Stone crusher Juliet Kayula (imes 8).

Cooperang partners have a great inter-

est in ensuring that administraon of

and access to jusce are improved

in Zambia. This is because a funcon-

ing, fair and accessible system of jusce

is the foundaon of every democrac

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Head o the EU delegation in Zambia,Derek Fee (see page 4) - imes 8.

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backlog of new connecons to 3,000

from 8,000 since the new taris were

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Zco will av o ar pladig for w

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Zesco MD Ernest Mupyaya on therecent electricity tari increase (Post 7).

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Cies in brief

Date set for third round of by-elecons

Te Electoral Commission o Zambia has set 28 October 2010 asthe date or the Mpulungu parliamentary by-election, which ollowslast months death o MP Lameck Chibombamilimo (MMD). Tesame day will see 4 local by-elections in Nkwazi ward in Ndola, MuvaHill in Luanshya, Lwingishi in Mansa and Chandaula in Chinsali and probably two other parliamentary by-elections in Chilanga andKaulauta (see page 5) to be announced later. Te campaign periodbegins on 7 October ater the ling o candidates. Te ward by-elec-tions ollow resignations or deaths o councillors (Daily Mail 8). In

2010, Zambia has already held two rounds o parliamentary and localgovernment by-elections in April and August respectively.

Dissent in (former) ranks of Zamtel

Rretrenched Zamtel workersin Ndola are threatening todemonstrate i they are notpaid their money.

First the workers said theywere not being paid - inull. One o the workers, MrChiyobwe, said only about 50

o 620 workers in Ndola had been paid (imes 8), while anotherworker, Mr Mwape put the gure at 20 out o 620 retrenched work-ers (Post 9).

Te allegations were reuted by the Zambia Development Agency(ZDA). About 213 billion kwacha has been paid to over 1,000ormer employees o Zamtel, said ZDA director or investment pro-motion privatisation Muhabi Lungu. According to the transactiondocuments, the process o paying o the redundancies was supposedto happen at least within 60 days upon the takeover o new manage-

ment. We are still within that 60 days, he added (Post 4).Nonsense, said the workers, who stated that according to the cir-cular that was signed and agreed upon by Zamtel management, theworkers were supposed to receive their money within 24 hours uponreceiving the letters o termination (Post 6).

Ten the workers said they werent paid enough. One employee, MsBwalya, explained that the workers had been retrenched, yet theirseparation packages were calculated as though they had opted orearly retirement (imes 8).

Furthermore, they queried why they were given one months basicsalary in lieu o notice and not 20 months as earlier agreed. Butpresident o the National Union o Communication Workers

(NUCW), Patrick Kaonga, said the union had agreed upon the onemonth with management. He said the benets and other paymentso retrenched Zamtel workers were in line with the signed collectiveagreement (Post 8).

But in a letter NUCW branch ocials in Ndola challenged Kaongato produce a copy o the actual agreement that NUCW signed onbehal o the workers (imes 9).

On several occasions we have asked you to reveal the entire docu-ment to us as branch leaders and o course to the general member-ship since this document is purported to have been signed on ourbehal, but alas you have time and again ailed to bring out theentire document except or a ew selected clauses you have revealedat your own discretion, reads part o the letter.

For the rst time in the history o Zambia, the countrysoreign reserves have hit an all-time high o around 2 billionUS dollars (imes 3).

This weeks gure

Te Ministry o Local Government and Housing is seriouslyconsidering the application by Chipata Municipal council toconer it with city status. Minister Eustarckio Kazonga thisweek commissioned the rehabilitated Kapata Bus Station, streetlighting on township roads and a statue at the civic centre. AndChipata mayor Malvern Zulu said Chipata had what it took tobecome a city: I know that people will ask me that where isthe cathedral? [but] the Pentecostal Assemblies o God rinityemple (...) are constructing a cathedral. (...) Furthermore,

the RCZ [Reormed Church in Zambia] have serious plans toconstruct a cathedral near Chipata Central Police Station, themayor said (Sunday Post).

Cipaa: From ow o ciy

Te Lusaka City Council has got a new mayor: Patriotic Front(PF) Mulungushi ward 18 councillor Daniel Chisenga. He waselected with 24 votes against a ellow party member, Chawamaward 2 councillor David Mulenga, with 17 votes. At deputymayor level the PF lost to its pact-partner, the United Party orNational Development (UPND). Kanyama ward 10 councillorHarry Hampende (UPND) was elected with 23 votes againstLilayi ward 4 councillor Lazarous Chulabantu (UPND) with 9votes and Kalingalinga ward 31 councillor Dapson Chansa (PF)with 8 votes. Te new mayor pledged to work hard and thankedhis predecessor Robert Chikwelete or having served the citycouncil well. Chisenga served as deputy mayor under Chikwe-lete (Daily Mail 7). He said reducing the devastating impact ofoods in Lusaka in the orthcoming rainy season is one o his

key priorities (Post Online 9).

Laka: nw mayor

Ndola Lime has installed an electrostatic precipitator (ESP)dust abatement system on its rotary kiln in order to control dustemissions at Zambias sole lime stone mine. Te company hadreceived numerous complaints rom nearby residents, but theEnvironmental Council o Zambia (ECZ) had given NdolaLime progressive time to reduce its emissions due to the hugecapital investment involved. Te ECZ recently bought two

dust and gas analysers at a cost o 500,000 US dollars to enablethe agency to analyse air pollution. Another company whichis working on reducing its dust emissions is Laarge Cement(imes 3).

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Tree cooperating partners have given Zambia 11.35million euro (about 71 billion kwacha) or the Accessto Justice programme to help the country improve itsjustice services. Tis comes right ater the release o a

second report about atrocious conditions in Zambianprisons (see ront page).

Te programme was set up as a pilot project in 2007with unds rom Denmark, but the Danes have nowbeen joined by the European Union and Germany orthe next three years o the programme. At the signingceremony, Vice-President George Kunda, who is alsominister o justice, said the increased unding wouldallow or a signicant scaling up o activities.

Te programme supports our government institutions, including theZambia Police, Prisons Service, Director o Public Prosecution andLegal Aid Board. It is supposed to improve coordination betweenthese institutions and the judiciary in order to provide easier and

more equitable access to justice services in Zambia.

Te tangible results will according to Kunda be a more ecient sys-tem or processing o cases, increased use o non-custodial sentences,

less over-crowding in prisons and better access tojustice by vulnerable people.

Kunda, however, said it should be recognised that ittakes time and concerted eort o all key players to

improve the quality o administration o justice.

In this respect he was supported by Danish ambas-sador Tomas Schjerbeck although Schjerbecklamented the conditions in prisons: [I] am not im-pressed with the speed o improvements, he said. Hehoped prisoners on remand would be addressed as apriority (imes/Post/Daily Mail 8). Recently, westernprovince minister Richard Mwapele stressed that theprison service needs the support o other stakehold-

ers as government alone cannot ull all the needs o inmates in theprison, he said at a handover ceremony o the newly painted MonguCentral Prison unded by the Roman Catholic Church (Post 3).

Te Access to Justice programme will receive grants o 6 million eurorom the EU, 3.85 million euro rom DANIDA (Danish Internation-al Development Agency) and 1.5 million euro rom GZ (Germanechnical Cooperation).

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The elusive access to jusce

President Rupiah Banda has made his second rocade o politi-cal players this year accompanied by a bit o barking rom theopposition.

With immediate eect, minister o southern province, Daniel

Munkombwe, has replaced deputy minister Gaston Sichilimain the Oce o the Vice-President according to Munkom-bwe himsel because he is a perormer (Sunday Post). Sichilimahas instead been transerred to the Ministry o Home Aairsas deputy minister, and Munkombwes old position has beenlled by deputy minister o Local Government and Housing,Elijah Muchima (imes 3).

Banda also appointed Samson Phiri as new PermanentSecretary in the Ministry o Inormation and BroadcastingServices as well as Anthony Undi as new Permanent Secretaryo Financial Management and Administration in the Ministryo Finance.

At the swearing in o Undi, Banda instructed that unds al-

located or development projects in this years national budgetshould be properly utilised: We are entering an election yearand we dont have enough time. So, you have to work hard toensure that the ministry is running smoothly, he said (DailyMail 4).

Te reaction rom the opposition Patriotic Front (PF) was im-mediate: I hope Zambians will see through this, said InongeWina, PF national chairperson, and that they will be able todistinguish between genuine development and some sort oinduced development (Sunday Post).

Banda also appointed Keli Walubita as new chairperson o thePolice and Prisons Service Commission and Percy Kangwa

Chato as new Commissioner o Prisons (imes 4).

Changes in the polical top

Te government plans to reduce its dependency on donors inline with Zambias vision o becoming a prosperous middle-income country by 2030.

It is expected that aid dependency should reduce over time

and this requires economic growth and diversication to beaccelerated and sustained while the revenue base is expanded.Tis is also important in light o heightened unpredictabilityo cooperating partner resources over the recent past, secre-tary to the treasury Likolo Ndalamei said at the release o the2011 budget and the Medium erm Expenditure Framework(MEF) 2011-2013 (imes 8).

Over the medium term, however, development assistance wouldplay a pivotal role in the development process o the countryconsidering the development challenges aced.

Ndalamei said government expects to contract approximately 2billion US dollars to support the nancing o various inra-structure projects over the MEF period. Tis will increase

Zambias debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio rom 9.1to 14.9 percent over the same period (Daily Mail 6).

Te MEF, which seeks to translate government policies into aspending plan, provides a platorm or concerned stakeholdersto submit comments which can be actored in the 2011 budgetand the nal drat o the Sixth National Development Plan2011-2015.

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Zambia will appoint the executive direc-tor o the Arica Group 1 (AFG1) orthe next two-year tenure o the WorldBanks board o 24 executive directors.Te 22 Arican member states o theWorld Bank are represented by a totalo three Arican executive directors owhich the position or Arica Group3 (AFG3) is completely new. RenosiMokate, previously the deputy governoro the South Arican Reserve Bank,has just been appointed the rst AFG3executive director. Te increase in the

number o Arican executive directorsis an accomplishment that the outgo-ing executive director o AFG1, ogaGayewea McIntosh o Liberia, is proudo. Executive directors oversee the day-to-day operations o the World Bank;they sit or a period o two years and areusually picked rom the countries nanceministers (Post/Daily Mail 7).

Mokowa:Goig o World Bak?

Deputy minister o gender, Lucy Chan-gwe, whom the police last week reusedto prosecute or a bounced cheque, isalready involved in one court case. On9 August 2010, Lusaka senior residentmagistrate David Simusamba orderedChangwe to pay Carnival Furnishersabout 8 million kwacha owed plus interestplus court charges. Carnival Furnishershad sued Changwe ater she ailed to paythe outstanding amount or urniture shegot on hire purchase (Post 7). Last week,the police stated it would not prosecute

Changwe, despite issuing a cheque thatlater bounced, as there had been sucientunds in her bank account at the time oissuing.

Cq-bocig Cagw:Alrady i cor!

Te governing Movement or Multiparty Democracy (MMD) has expelled its two rebelMPs, Ngandu Magande (Chilanga Constituency) and George Mpombo (Kaulauta Con-stituency).

Te two MPs have spent a great deal o time criticising the MMD in general and president

Rupiah Banda in particular, and at a meeting o the MMDs National Executive Commit-tee (NEC) called to specically deal with disciplinary cases the recommendations o theMMDs disciplinary committee were adhered to (Sunday Mail).

Te MMD wishes to inorm the nation that at the NEC meeting a decision was made towithdraw the support (...) o those members o parliament because we do not wish thesemembers to represent us, thereore expelling them too rom the party, MMD spokesper-son, Dora Siliya (Sunday Post).

She said the expulsions were not meant as a test o the partys ability to retain the two seatsin the requisite parliamentary by-elections but merely to instil discipline at all levels in theparty (Sunday imes).

Magande, who served as nance minister under late president Mwanawasa, said he wouldaccept the expulsion which didnt surprise anyone, as Magande already had declared his

intents to run or presidency in 2011 via other avenues: Tere are a lot o parties, he saidon ZNBC elevision a ew days beore the NEC meeting (Post 3), but according to theMMD, Magandes real intent is to orm a new party. His expulsion comes right ater hedeclared on ZNBC elevision that Mwanawasa handpicked him to be his successor.

Mpombo, who has served as deence minister under president Rupiah Banda, will on theother hand appeal to the MMDs party convention. In a letter addressed to the MMD,Mpombos lawyers point out that the MMD has ailed to hold a party convention ormore than ve years: As you may be aware the present NEC was elected during the partyconvention which was held between 13th July and 17th July 2005 or a term o ve yearsonly. In view o the above, your decision to notiy the Speaker o the National Assembly todeclare the Kaulauta parliamentary seat vacant seems to be misconceived under the provi-sions o your party constitution, the letter reads in part (Post 8).

But MMD deputy national secretary Chembe Nyangu said the expulsion was legal becausethe current NEC oce-bearers had the mandate to execute their duties until the next partyconvention was held (imes 9).

Magande said he would not re-contest his Chilanga seat (Daily Mail 8), whereas Mpombomost denitely will although Patrick Mwanawasa, the son o the late president, said he isinterested in contesting the Kaulauta seat as an MMD candidate (Sunday Mail).

The end of two MMD rebels

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According to a new survey, the Patriotic Front (PF) is the most tribal political party o thethree largest parties in Zambia. Te survey was undertaken by the Leadership in Develop-

ment (LID) in conjunction with the Integrated Management Consultants. LID executivedirector Moses Kalonde explained that the study evaluated the tribal backgrounds o thegeneral membership o the political parties and their leaderships along with the parties can-didates or the last two general elections. According to the survey, the PF had the highest rep-resentation o one tribe at committees at central, provincial, district and constituency levels.Over 60 percent o PF councillors in Lusaka are o Bemba-speaking origin. Te PF shadowcabinet or the 2006 general elections would also have consisted mostly o ministers rom theNorthern Province. Te PF gets most o its support rom northern, some parts o Luapula theCopperbelt and Lusaka provinces. Te United Party or National Development, which camea close second, derives most o its support rom the southern province, some parts o north-western, western and a section o central provinces. Te governing Movement or MultipartyDemocracy, on the other hand, said Kalonde, has a more national appeal and has its presenceeverywhere in the country (Daily Mail 6).

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It has been a challenging decade or the pharmaceutical in-dustry - with patents expiring in high numbers, new-productpipelines drying up and intensiying competition rom generics,

writes Sumi Dhanarajan (Post 7). At the same time, traditionalmarkets in industrialised countries are becoming saturatedas governments adopt regulatory regimes that demand moreeconomical, value-based and transparent drug pricing. Underthese circumstances, emerging markets present a new rontier.Originally attractive or oering low-cost production, develop-ing countries now present a viable market or multinationalcorporations. At the end o 2008, one company attempted tobeat a new path: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) unveiled a our-point plan that included a commitment to cap prices or pat-ented medicines in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) at 25percent o the price in the developed world. In middle-incomecountries, prices would more closely refect a countrys abilityto pay. For example, GSK cut the price o its cervical cancer

vaccine by 60 per cent in the Philippines and gained a 14-oldincrease in volume sales. Further, it proposed the establishmento a patent pool or neglected tropical diseases and donated toit 13,500 compounds or malaria vaccines. Slowly, other com-panies are ollowing suit. Sano-Aventis recently announcedthat it would halve the price o its diabetes drug and cancertreatment in Indonesia and the Philippines. Other companiesare experimenting with base-o-pyramid models that seek toboost sales. Novartiss Arogya Parivar model sells medicines insmaller, more aordable package sizes. Te jury is still out onwhether or not these new approaches deliver systemic change,but at least the issue o access to medicines is no longer beingviewed at arms length. Sumi Dhanarajan is a consultant to the

Public Roles o the Private Sector programme at the Centre onAsia and Globalisation in Singapore.

The new pharmaceucal froner

An experimental drug can clear malaria inection in mice with

a single dose and scientists say it shows promise as a possibleuture treatment or one o the worlds major killer diseases. Ina study published in the journal Science, an international teamo scientists said the drug, NID609, is eective against thetwo most common parasites responsible or malaria, Plasmo-dium alciparum and Plasmodium vivax along with a range odrug-resistant strains. Te current best treatments or malaria areartemisinin combination therapy (AC) drugs, but a series ostudies have shown that artemisinin is losing its potency in west-ern Cambodia, which is known as the breeding ground or drug-resistant malaria. Tis is also where chloroquine rst ailed beorebecoming ineective elsewhere. Te World Health Organisationis trying to coordinate eorts to prevent artemisinin-resistantmalaria rom spreading to Arica, which has 90 percent o theworlds cases o the disease. NID609 was identied by the No-vartis Institute or ropical Diseases working in an internationalcollaboration supported by the Wellcome rust, the internationalMedicines or Malaria Venture, the US National Institutes oHealth and several other bodies. More saety tests are neededbeore the drug can be given in clinical trials in humans (Reutersin Post 4).

A w malaria drg?

The murderer of Kaundas son confesses

One o the men convicted o the murder o rst president KennethKaundas son, Wezi, has conessed to having committed the crime.Moses Mulenga told the Supreme Court sitting in Ndola that herobbed and murdered Major Kaunda and that he was not hired to doso but did it out o banditry.

Tis is in a case in which Mulenga and his co-convict, Amon Banda,appeared in court or their appeal against their conviction or ag-gravated robbery and murder. But Mulenga told the court that hedeeply regretted the matter over which he was in court and to clear hisconscience, he was abandoning the appeal.

My conscience cannot allow me to go ahead with this appeal becauseeverything that the judge in the lower court ound I had done, I did,he said.

On 3 November 1999, Mulenga and Banda, armed with an AK47assault rife, robbed Major Kaunda o a oyota GX Land Cruiser, andduring the act used violence to retain the said property. Major Kaundadied on 4 November 1999.

Te duo was sentenced to death on 25 July 2003, but appealed againstboth the conviction and the sentence. When the matter came up inthe Supreme Court, senior Legal Aid counsel Kelvin Muzenga, whorepresented Banda, said the trial judge misdirected himsel when heconvicted his client based on uncorroborated evidence. He said MrsKaunda was traumatised at the time she was identiying Mulenga andBanda and thereore gave weak evidence while the other two witnesseswere accomplice witnesses who had interests to serve.

Te judgment was reserved or a later date (imes/Daily Mail 8).

Vuvuzela language

Te noisy vuvuzela horns were a big talking point o the 2010 WorldCup is South Arica. Now the European ootballs governing body,Uea, has banned the vuvuzela rom European matches as the vu-vuzelas would completely change the atmosphere although Ueaemphasised that in the specic context o South Arica, the vuvuzelaadds a touch o local favour and olklore (bbc.co.uk 1). Regardless,the vuvuzelas are here to stay in our language! Tis week, MMDspokesperson, Dora Siliya, said about the two expelled MMD rebelMPs (see page 5) that the duo are not our members and anythingthey say, we will consider it as vuvuzela (Daily Mail 7). Te Posthas called chie government spokesperson, Ronnie Shikapwasha,the vuvuzela o this corrupt government and local business-guruChibamba Kanyama, has said that true allies are the individuals who

will still blow the vuvuzela even when we are ten goals down! Evenin England, the term has been used about Margaret Tatcher and herso-called vuvuzela nationalism (telegraph.co.uk).

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