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LABOUR and Social Security Minister Brenda Tambatamba says NAPSA members will only be allowed to partially access their pension benefits once before retirement, and this is 20 percent of the contributions. In an interview, Tambatamba explained that members would only be eligible to access 20 percent of their benefits after …

*13 ABDUCTION SURVIVORS REINTEGRATED INTO THEIR FAMILIES* The Ministry of Community Development and Social Services has reintegrated the 13 young women who were rescued from the abductors, back into their families. The young women underwent psychosocial and mental therapy under the auspices of Social Welfare Officers and Mental health Practitioners …

Police in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, have arrested one of the suspects in the gruesome murder of a Zambian national three weeks ago who was allegedly stabbed to death by unknown people. Goodson Chomba 34, was a businessman who owned, among other businesses, a driving school in South Africa. He …

Zimbabwe has become the first county in Africa to approve a long-acting injectable drug that prevents HIV transmission. The first two injections of Cabotegraviror CAB-LA are administered four weeks apart, followed by an injection every eight weeks. The drug has received regulatory approval in two other countries, the US and …

POLICE say they will give an update on the fate of the five people arrested in connection with the abducti0n of 13 young women. A fortnight ago, Police rescued four mobile money agents and nine nursing students who had been held for weeks in a house in Lusaka’s Chalala area. …

AN UNIDENTIFIED man of Kafue has died after being run over by a truck near Chita Lodge. A Kafue Times News Crew that rushed to the scene of accident found traffic police removing the body of the dead man who has been cut into two pieces. Eye witnesses told KT …

NOT for the first or second time, former national boxing heavyweight champion Joseph ‘No Pressure’ Chingangu has been arrested, this time for allegedly attempting to steal side mirrors from a car in Libala Township in Lusaka. Zambia Police Service spokesperson Rae Hamoonga confirmed the arrest of Chingangu in Lusaka yesterday. …

PRESIDENT WILLIAM RUTO- GOVERNMENT TO CONSTRUCT 200,000 HOUSES EVERY YEAR. More than 200,000 houses earmarked for low-income earners will be built every year. President William Samoei Ruto said the project will create at least two million jobs. This, he explained, will help address the unemployment crisis facing the youth, in …

COPPERBELT UNIVERSITY STUDENTS HOLD SOLIDARITY MARCH TO APPRECIATE HH FOR RESTORING MEAL ALLOWANCES University Students from the Copperbelt and Mukuba Universties, have successfully held a solidarity match in appreciation of President Hakainde Hichilema’s policy direction to restore meal allowances. The students were lead by CBU President Matakala Matakala and his …

Nkandu knocks out opponent It was a jam-packed weekend as boxers and spectators thronged the OYDC Zambia to witness the Teulings Youth Sports Challenge. Zambian boxer Felistus Nkandu who recently participated at the AFBC African Boxing Championship in Mozambique and came back home with gold knocked out her opponent Maureen …