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February 21, 2014 - 0 Comments

Three colleagues went in search of company business out in the woods of remote Kawambwa, but there, they came away with stories of snakes and a ghost, reminiscent of the horror movie “Dracula has risen...

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February 20, 2014 - 0 Comments

By MARTIN NYIRENDA – THE youth play a vanguard role in any society as they have a history of serving as socio-economic change agents. Out of this, Zambia needs enthusiastic and active youth to transform...

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February 20, 2014 - 0 Comments

By DALIYA MANDA – NOTHING will ever put a smile on the face of Isaac Mtonga, a carpenter at Chipata’s Kapata Market, than having shelter of his own. Having been in the carpentry trade for...

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February 20, 2014 - 0 Comments

By Dixon Bwalya- WALKING around streets with a spirit level does not constitute a prima facie case of competence in the construction industry and yet this is all a number of developers look for when...

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February 19, 2014 - 0 Comments

By NANCY HANDABILE – ANIMALS are getting too close; three human deaths in two weeks have once more brought the human-animal conflict into public focus. A nine-year-old boy of Simoonga village in Livingstone was recently...

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February 19, 2014 - 0 Comments

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – GONE to the land of his ancestors in the year he could have been commemorating his diamond jubilee-75 years in October this year. Wila Mung’omba, born in Mbala on October 18,...

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February 17, 2014 - 0 Comments

By SAM PHIRI – SEVENTY-four-year-old Fostina Bwalya sits weary in the early hours of a Wednesday morning outside her slapdash house in the busy and highly populated Misisi Township of Lusaka. Less than five metres...

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February 17, 2014 - 0 Comments

By MICHELO HIMAAMBO – FROM a mere glance, one would not see the agonising pain this woman has lived with for the past seven years as her tummy swelled making her look like she is...

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February 17, 2014 - 0 Comments

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – LUSAKA-BASED obstetrics and gynecology consultant Gertrude Tshuma has said the need to reduce maternal deaths through safe abortions, should not in the long-term lead to an increase in HIV infections. In...

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February 17, 2014 - 0 Comments

BY CHARLES KACHIKOTI – SPEAKING of sex-change surgical operations that people undergo to improve their appearance, Dr Breiner has written: “At this point in the process, I, along with other psychoanalyst colleagues, must tell the...

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