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January 31, 2014 - 0 Comments

By MAYA NTANDA – THREE illegal miners commonly known as ‘Jerabo’s yesterday walked to freedom after they were acquitted by the Kitwe High Court for beating another jerabo to death. High Court Judge-in- charge Catherine...

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January 31, 2014 - 0 Comments

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – FORMER Local Government and Housing deputy minister, Moses Muteteka will spend the weekend in prison pending the hearing of his bail application on Monday. Lusaka principal magistrate Aridah Chuulu on Thursday...

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January 21, 2014 - 0 Comments

By KASONDE KASONDE and MAYA NTANDA – A MORTUARY attendant and a nurse at Liteta Hospital accused of looting from the Chibombo accident involving a Zampost bus and a truck in which more than 50...

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January 21, 2014 - 0 Comments

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – A PANEL of three Supreme Court judges has refused to stay a decision of a single judge who ordered for the repossession of Metro Investment Limited and King Quality Meat Products...

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January 21, 2014 - 0 Comments

By CHATULA KAMPO – THE Ndola Magistrates Court has ordered a 19-year-old boy of Lubuto Township in Ndola to undergo probation and counseling for trafficking in 7.5 grammes of marijuana. Magistrate Chitundu Chongo ordered the...

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January 14, 2014 - 0 Comments

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – FORMER Zambia Air Force (ZAF) commander Andrew Sakala yesterday told the Lusaka magistrate’s court that he distributed the K500,000 that he is alleged to have stolen to various people, including his...

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January 13, 2014 - 0 Comments

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THE State has urged the Supreme Court to uphold the death sentence slapped on a Kasempa man by the Solwezi High Court for killing his two children. Donald Fumbelo has, however,...

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January 11, 2014 - 0 Comments

By SARAH TEMBO – A THIRTY-SEVEN-year-old man of Lusaka’s Kalingalinga Township wants to divorce his wife because she cooked Nshima with kapenta for his mother. The man told the court that it was not in...

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January 10, 2014 - 0 Comments

By ETAMBUYU SANG’ANDU – THE Kitwe High Court yesterday heard how a Kasama man died after suspected poisoning at Sweet Corner guest house in Buchi Township. Denis Daka, a cleaner at Sweet Corner guest house...

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January 7, 2014 - 0 Comments

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE, KASONDE KASONDE and BRIAN HATYOKA – A LUSAKA High Court judge has called for national dialogue to tackle the increasing cases of sexual offences. Mr Justice Chalwe Mchenga said the 15-year maximum...

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