Category: Zambezi News

By Risco Lumamezi A FEMINIST organisation under the umbrella of Women Leadership Centre in Namibia, (WLC) has broken silence on Namibian government’s denial to UN Convention on Civil and Political Rights to the existence of harmful cultural practices among girls and women to exposure of HIV and AIDS. This was exposed by WLC during the…

By Simon Liseli HUNDREDS of angry demolished Katima Residents held a peaceful demonstration in Katima Mulilo on Friday against a mass demolition of their houses and properties, at locations of Cowboy, Dairy, and Lwanyanda by Katima Mulilo Town Council. Homeless residents staged a peaceful demonstration on streets of Katima Mulilo town to the Zambezi Governor’s…

By Simon Liseli THE Katima Mulilo Town Council (KMTC) has kicked off its week-long strategic plan and engagement workshop to design its strategic direction for the next five year period, 2018 – 2022 on Monday in Katima Mulilo. Delivering her keynote address speech during the opening of the workshop , Katima Mulilo Mayor Georgina Mwiya-Simataa…

By Risco Lumamezi SPOKESPERSON of Zambezi Business People’s Forum (ZBPF), Mr. George Simataa has called on government to intervene on the Katima Mulilo Town Council’s demolishing saga of illegal settlers of the urban land in Kaima Mulilo as a matter of urgency. He told reporters at a press conference on Monday that most of the…

By Simon Liseli NAMIBIA’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah addressed hundreds of the Mafwe subjects during the annual gathering of the Lusata cultural festival on Sunday and urged them to follow suit and use culture and tradition for unity. Hon. Nandi-Ndaitwah told Chief George Simasiku Mamili and his…

By Simon Liseli at Chinchimane IN the wake of annual Lusata cultural festival of 2017 , Prince Dr.Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika of Barotseland of the Western Zambia made a clarion call on Sunday how the Mafwe people came to be who they are today and their chieftainship from Barotseland Royal house. Dr. Akashambatwa confessed that he spend…

By Simon Liseli ABOUT 18 ‘ghost’ teachers and two former senior accountants of the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture who were nabbed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in the Zambezi Region on Monday and Tuesday, made their first brief appearance before the Katima Mulilo District Court Magistrate Ms. Nomusa Sibanda on Wednesday. Eighteen (18)…