Chali Mulenga

  CHALI MULENGA Livingstone   “Having a vision when undertaking a business is paramount in the growth of any business interest,” attests a determined 47-year-old Clement Banda, a Kupempha Mwanzeru General Dealers proprietor.   In a spirit of Zambia being a land of possibility beyond ones geographical heritage, Banda born and bred in Katete District of the Eastern Province is now a household entrepreneur in the Southern Province. Married since 1999 and graciously blessed with five children, Mr. Banda’s Kupempha Mwanzeru General Dealers specializes in manufacturing peanut butter and milling maize into Zambia’s staple food-mealie meal.   “Though, I produce quality peanut, I am still waiting for Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, through the Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) to help me break through into international market. I had made the initial linkages but the ZDA has not been very helpful in ensuring that I get my produce outside the country,” an imp...

 CHALI MULENGA  Livingstone Till death do us apart; this partnership will not die, is a matrimonial cliche that has been publicly proclaimed by couples. Though a monotonous proclamation, 70-year-old Morden Silunyange and 68-year-old Priscilla Tamara Mhango - Silunyange soldier till the inevitable; if not likely finish line defined by death of a spouse.   Mr. Silunyange a septuagenarian born in 1950, and sexagenarian Mhango-Silunyange at 68 was born in 1952, more than a decade before Zambia attained independence from British colonial rule on Saturday 24th October 1964. Like the proverbial keeping together, as a couple,  is cemented through  praying together and ensuring that unity of purpose is kept alive through being in emotionally and physically touch at all times. The Silunyange's attest to prayer being a corner stone of their enviable 46 year marriage. Morden Silunyange and Priscilla Tamara Mhango-Silunyange  have been graciously blessed by eight childr...

THE Professional Teachers Union of Zambia (PROTUZ) has called on the schools to use their industrial and home economic departments is making personal protective equipment for the themselves and the community at a fee in wake of COVID 19. PROTUZ, Director Public Relations and International Affairs Brian Mwila said this will reduce the economic shocks on the schools in post COVID 19 period. Mr Mwila said this in a statement issued that there is need to not only look at COVID 19 in a negative lens but also see it as an opportunity (s) for economic diversification.  “We encourage our teacher members especially those from the departments of Industrial Arts and Home Economics to venture into the manufacturing of Personal Protective Equipment and supply to various institutions and individuals of course at a fee. This will ultimately help reduce the anticipated economic shocks in the post COVID 19 period,” he said. Mr Mwila said teachers should take a leading role in developing en...

NDANGWA MWITTAH and CHALI MULENGA , Livingstone WHAT started as a village tour of Simoonga in the tourist capital, Livingstone, was later to bring benevolent tourists that would give a ray of hope to underprivileged children. Hundreds of underprivileged children are now attending school at no fee, thanks to the Livingstone culture of getting tourists to visit villages to acquaint themselves with the way of life of poor rural communities. It just took two generous tourists to give a major facelift and financial boost to a once-upon-a-time small school in the village that now has 400 pupils and 19 members of staff. The school has continued to touch the hearts of foreign tourists, some of whom return to volunteer as teachers in a village located about 17 kilometres from Livingstone, along the Livingstone-Sesheke road. In a nutshell, that is the story of Simoonga Thandizani Trust School, located on the Livingstone-Sesheke road. http://epaper.daily-mail.co.zm/

THE magistrate's court has committed a 22 year old woman to the High Court after finding her guilty of stealing two children from a market in Harare, Zimbabwe thereafter trafficked them across the border to Livingstone. This is in a case Yvonne Nyirongo is charged with two counts of human trafficking. In the first count he trafficked a six year old child and in the second count, he trafficked 10 year old child. Evidence before chief resident magistrate Willie Sinyangwe said is that on the material period, Nyirongo travelled to Harare, Zimbabwe. Whilst in Harare, she travelled to Matipisa market, where she was staying, she saw two girls, whom she enticed with jiggies. She then went with the children to the bus station where she boarded a bus to Bulawayo then connected to Livingstone. The mother of the children discovered they were missing and they reported the matter to Matipisa police station, Zimbabwe. Where it was explained that the ten year old was carryin...

THE High Court has fined a-34-year-old driver K3, 000 for causing the death of a person who was lying on the road.       This is in a case, Innocent Mubita is charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Evidence before High Court Judge Kenneth Mulife is that on August, 5, this year, in Livingstone, around 00:00 hours. Mubita was driving a Toyota corolla bearing registration number AJB 776 on Nakatindi road. Mubita was driving from eastern direction to the western direction whilst Sidney Kazembe lying on the road struggling to stand up and walk. On the fateful day, Herbert Mulamfu found Kazembe lying on the road on the other lane. Kazembe was struggling to stand up and move away from the road. Mulamfu decided to stop and help Kazembe and whilst doing that Mubita appeared driving at high speed heading in the western direction.  Mulamfu then signalled to Mubita by flashing his lights towards him so as to alert Mubita of what wa...

THE High Court has sentenced a-65-year-old farmer to eight years imprisonment with hard labour for killing his wife, whom he had lived with for 20 years, after a domestic dispute This is in case Charles Hampekema, who is also a builder, of Chisekesi, Chabota section, Monze, is charged with manslaughter. On April, 22, this year in Monze, he unlawfully caused the death of Prisca Mwiinga, when the matter came for plea, Hampekema told the court that he had understood the charge and admitted it. Evidence before high Court judge Kenneth Mulife is that on April, 16 this year, Hampekema came back from his usual drinking spree where he had gone. He found the wife whom they had been married since 2002, and they used to have often arguments after Hampekema comes back from a drinking spree. On the material day, the wife was selling her merchandise at the road side near home whilst her husband sat next fixing his axe with a hammer. It was during this time that an argument broke out and...