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    Sipilisiwe Ncube
    Sipilisiwe Ncube
    Sipilisiwe Ncube has a background in radio news.Email: sipilisiwe [at] diggers [dot] news
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    • 7 Jan 2021
    • Sipilisiwe Ncube

    MPs grill Honeybee, MoH PS, ZAMRA over $17m drug scandal

    THERE was panic and finger pointing during a Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing of the Ministry of Health drug supply scandal yesterday as government officials and directors of Honeybee Pharmacy sweated to explain how a US$17 million contract was awarded to an unregistered company which delivered toxic drugs and substandard condoms. And Ministry of...
    • 28 Dec 2020
    • Sipilisiwe Ncube

    Blackfire Mining reports SC Silwamba to LAZ over professional misconduct

    BLACKFIRE Mining Limited has written to the office of the Inspector General of Police, the National Prosecution Authority (NPA), and the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ), complaining about State Council Eric Silwamba’s alleged interference in the prosecution of some Stanbic Bank officers accused of theft of money amounting to US $125, 000. And the copied...
    • 28 Dec 2020
    • Sipilisiwe Ncube

    Zambia will soon remain a pseudo democracy – Lifuka

    GOVERNANCE Activist Rueben Lifuka says Zambia will soon remain nothing but a pseudo democracy, with the only permanent feature being the holding of frequent and contentious elections. And Lifuka says it is annoying to read statements of PF cadres justifying police’s continued use of live ammunition on unarmed citizens. In a statement, Lifuka lamented that...
    • 28 Dec 2020
    • Sipilisiwe Ncube

    Politicians using ill-gotten wealth to mock the poor – VJ

    VETERAN politician Vernon Mwaanga says it is sad that a number of privileged politicians are using their ill-gotten wealth to mock citizens by giving them cash handouts and food. And Mwaanga says people have dropped their guard against COVID-19 at a critical time when the pandemic fatigue sets in everywhere. In a statement, Sunday, Mwaanga...
    • 22 Dec 2020
    • Sipilisiwe Ncube

    PAC hears how 539 Ministry officers remained on C/Province admin payroll

    THE Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday heard how 539 officers from the Ministries of Home Affairs and Livestock and Fisheries were sitting on the Central Province payroll rather than their respective Ministries. Meanwhile, there was a heated confrontation between Central Province Finance Director Mordsen Chibuye and an officer from the Accountant General’s Office...
    • 16 Dec 2020
    • Sipilisiwe Ncube

    Brace for second wave of Covid-19, don’t drop guard – Lungu

    PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has warned that is citizens stop adhering to the Covid-19 public health guidelines, the predicted second wave of the pandemic will be devastating. Quoting President Lungu in a statement, Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Isaac Chipampe said the Head of State was concerned that while the second...
    • 21 Nov 2020
    • Sipilisiwe Ncube

    UNZA’s Sishuwa wins top international research prize

    UNIVERSITY of Zambia (UNZA) lecturer Sishuwa Sishuwa has been named the winner of the 2020 Terence Ranger Prize, awarded annually by the UK-based top ranked Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS) for the best article by a first-time author in the journal during the previous year. Dr Sishuwa becomes the first Zambian to win the...
    • 16 Nov 2020
    • Sipilisiwe Ncube

    RTSA donates medical equipment to Ndola Hospital

    THE Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has donated assorted medical equipment to Ndola Teaching Hospital as part of commemorating the 2020 World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims. And the agency says it is projecting a reduction in the number of road traffic accidents by end of 2020 due to the countrywide law...
    • 16 Nov 2020
    • Sipilisiwe Ncube

    The Covid Supply Scandal at MoH: How cadres, friends and relatives ‘competed’, won contract

    A NEWS Diggers Investigation has revealed that the Ministry of Health paid a Chinese company called Ganzhou Etone amounts exceeding US$1.5 million (approximately K31.3 million) for supply of Coronavirus test kits under a tender that was awarded to a different firm called Kingphar Company Ltd. The investigation has also revealed that companies that ‘competed’ and...
    • 12 Nov 2020
    • Sipilisiwe Ncube

    PF directs officials to collect voter registration data and submit to secretariat weekly

    LUSAKA Province PF secretary Kennedy Kamba has directed all party district chairmen to be submitting weekly reports of all the party officials that have been captured in the ongoing voter registration exercise. In his letter dated November 11, 2020, Kamba stated that he wanted the full names, voter's number, NRC number, phone number, and district...
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