Weekly Week 38, Volume 2, Issue 37, 23 September 2011 In this issue We want change! We want change! 1 Dementia: When politics take hostages 2 Quotes 2 2011 elections report: 3 tense days 3 Who is your new MP? 3 Elections - according to the world 7 Mahtani mourns sale of “his” bank 8 Albidon: We don’t trust you 8 LuSE week-on-week 8 Zambia commemorates Hammerskjold 9 The EU responds to editorial 9 Zambia plunged into darkness 9

Editor’s note

Zambia has just completed its fifth Image by Agence France-Presse/Getty Images general elections since multi-party democracy was re-introduced in 1991 – and demonstrated how to hand And their cries were finally answered! Zambia is about to undergo regime change. The PF over the political mantle in a rela- boat has docked. The opposition PF party’s has won the 2011 presidential elec- tively peaceful manner (see page 3-7), tion, putting a stop to MMD’s 20 years in power. which is worth applauding! Now that In the early hours of Friday 23 September, when reporting results for 143 of Zambia’s 150 we know the results of the presiden- constituencies, the Electoral Commission of Zambia announced that Sata had taken 43 per- tial election, remember that we won’t cent of the votes against President Banda’s 36 percent. The number of voters in the remaining know the full results of neither the 7 constituencies was smaller than the more than 188,000 votes separating the two rivals. parliamentary nor the local govern- ment elections any time soon, as several “I therefore declare Michael Chilufya Sata to be duly elected as President of the Republic of of these have been postponed. Two Zambia,” said Chief Justice Ernest Sakala to jubilation from Sata’s supporters at the results parliamentary elections, in centre at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka – and from the rest of Constituency in Northern Province the country. and Magoye Constituency in Southern By then, most of the opposition had closed ranks around the PF. After the earlier announce- Province, have been deferred because a ment of results for 116 constituencies, five presidential candidates, Elias Chipimo Jr of parliamentary candidate died in each NAREP, Magande Ng’andu of NMP, Charles Milupi of ADD, Edith Nawakwi of FDD of them. In addition, 16 local govern- and Frederick Mutesa of ZED, had stormed the results centre to warn against manipulation ment elections, evenly spread through- of results. The five stated that the Zambian people had chosen their new leader - and it was out the country, have been postponed, obviously not President Banda. either because there were errors in a candidate’s details (what use was all the This is Sata’s fourth attempt at dislodging the MMD. In each successive election, he has proof-reading by political parties and closed the gap between the two parties – and lost the 2008 presidential by-election by only civil society in Durban?) or, in the case 35,000 votes. Now, he has won – convincingly. Welcome to a new Zambia! of two wards, because a candidate had died. Now, all these candidates were saving our planet • saving you money • saving your garden only announced less than six weeks ago. In the meantime four of them have died. It either says something about the high death rate in Zambia, which we all know is – high, or maybe it says something about the general age of the candidates? Are they too old to repre- sent a population of youngsters? After all, almost 7 million of Zambia’s total population of just above 13 million are younger than 18 years. [email protected] • 097 404 4850 • www.greengenie.co.za

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DEMENTIA: When politics take hostages Quotes

First President Kenneth Kaunda has become an undeserved victim of the mudslinging in the run-up to this week’s elections. Sata: From the time you resigned you have Last week, the Post publicised a statement, been using former PF secretary-general, allegedly written by Kaunda, in which he you can’t find something else? stated that “the revelation that the printing “ company selected to print ballot papers for Mumbi: But even you refer to yourself as next week’s elections has been involved in former minister. acts of corruption with Electoral Commis- Sata: You are an idiot, you are an idiot. sion of Zambia officers is a grave indictment on the election process.” He further encour- Mumbi: What kind of leader are you? aged the ECZ to deal with the problem. That’s not leadership.

Later, however, Kaunda’s Chief of Staff An exchange recorded at Lusaka Girls Ba- Godwin Mfula said the statement was a forgery: “It is not our statement. I am not aware of sic School. Since leaving the PF, Edward that statement. I am the one as Chief of Staff who prepares statements for Dr Kaunda and I Mumbi has been a faifthful critic of PF don’t know the motives of the people circulating that statement”. President Michael Sata (Daily Mail 21). According to the government media, Fred M’membe, Post Editor-in-Chief, and Mark Chona, Kaunda’s former political advisor, had gotten Kaunda to sign the statement when he I am just trying to be on the safe side, was sedated with medication and not fully in charge of his faculties. In August, Kaunda was people are circulating all sorts of rumours discharged after one week in a Namibian hospital, where he was admitted for undisclosed about what may happen after the election. reasons. Back then, his son Panji Kaunda stated he had “fully recovered”. I have bought enough food for my family The usual government supporters condemned the move: “How can two educated people try to for the next few weeks, just in case we abuse a decent old man by attributing an inflammatory statement to him?” asked Forum for experience what happened in Zimbabwe, Leadership Search Executive Director Edwin Lifwekelo. where they stayed for more than a month waiting for results, and during that time The Daily Mail explained that a “source” had spotted , PF MP and Chairman there was a lot of violence of African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption, together with PF cadre Joseph Chisenge and an alleged Post employee at Arcades Shopping Mall in Lusaka, where they Kaywala Chibwe, a nervous shopper at a were discussing the distribution of the statement. Given Lubinda pulled the lid off the revela- supermarket in Lusaka, before the elec- tions that Universal Print Group in South Africa, the printer of this year’s ballot papers, in tions (ipsnews.net 20). 2006, bribed Mpundu Mfula, then ECZ’s Deputy Director of Information Technology, with 90,000 US dollars for facilitating a contract for disposable polling booths, tables and chairs It is sad for me because the last time I valued at 728,496 US dollars – supplied to ECZ. was here, I was with Dr Chiluba. But I am Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health Peter Mwaba appealed to let Kaunda “rest as equally happy because I have done what he recovers from a medical condition”: “The bottom line is that Dr Kaunda is unwell and all he would have wanted me to do, that is of us who treasure him should allow him to recuperate because everybody including his fam- voting. ily knows that he is not well,” he said. Late President ’s wife He hadn’t counted on all of Kaunda’s family, however, as Kaunda’s son Flight Captain Kam- Regina after voting in Lusaka parage Kaunda backed his brother Panji and said KK was “back in office and meeting various (Daily Mail 21). delegations”. Then, the Post publicised another statement from Kaunda, in which he countered his chief of I feel very good and I am particularly staff ’s denial: “I am profoundly saddened that my office chose to deny in the media a state- happy that I have voted here where I used ment that I issued in good faith and with the best of intentions. (...) I wish to confirm that to live with all the people that I used to this is my statement,” the second statement read. live with and thus a wonderful experience.

But the government media claimed Kaunda’s second statement had been forced out of him by President after voting in Mark Chona and his son Panji, who has been an outspoken critic of the MMD government. Chipata (Daily Nation 20). Lifwekelo apparently knew that the duo had spent hours at Kaunda’s residence, persuading him to authenticate his earlier statement, taking advantage of Kaunda’s illness. Lifwekelo also seemed to know that KK is under sedation and has been diagnosed with dementia, a We are in charge of the situation, we have condition of old age, which is causing him to lose him memory. According to the Daily Mail, enough personnel in all townships, streets Kaunda is in fact bed-ridden. and villages. Kaunda, however, denied being bed-ridden. In an interview with the Post at his office he said: “Tell them that I am very well, very well indeed. I am ready for work”. He also received a Police Inspector-General Francis before delegation from former Nigerian President General Yakubu Gowon, the leader of the Com- riots broke out on the Copperbelt - see monwealth election monitors. page 7 (Daily Mail 21). On election-day, KK cast his vote at Woodlands A Basic School in Lusaka at 10:48 hours (Daily Mail 16/17/21, Times 17/21 and Post 17/20/21).

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2011 ELECTIONS REPORT: 3 tense days – with a happy ending

The long awaited elections kicked off at 2:00 hours on 20 Meet your new MP September – yes, that would be 2 o’clock in the morning! Please note that not all of these new members of parlia- This is when the first eager ment have been officially confirmed. Some names have voters started to line up in been reported by individuals from individual polling sta- Mansa, and at 4:00 hours there tions – and some constituencies had not yet been men- were activity in the queues tioned in the media as of Friday morning. at many polling stations throughout the country – with Image by Lwanga Mwilu/IPS some queues extending more than two kilometres. Central Province

Many of the eager voters were young – mainly unemployed – people, Constituency Name Party who were voting for the first time – and many of them were support- Sydney Mushanga PF ing the main opposition PF party and its agenda for change. Needless Moses Muteteka MMD to say, it therefore led to a lot of grumbling and in some incidents to Muchima Malama MMD regular unrest, when some polling stations did not open at 6:00 hours James Kapyanga PF as scheduled – apparently due to late delivery of election materials. Kapiri Mposhi Lawrence Zimba MMD First round of unrest - in Lusaka Patrick Chikusu MMD In in Lusaka, the frustration boiled over when it was Ronnie Shikapwasha MMD rumoured that ballot papers pre-marked in favour of the MMD had Mkushi North Mutale Musonda MMD arrived. The unfortunate carrier of the ballot papers, Abel Muwowo, Mkushi South Sydney Chisanga MMD alternatively reported to be an ICT specialist or driver at the Elec- George Kunda MMD toral Commission of Zambia (ECZ), got beaten up, the truck set ablaze (picture), and the crowd went on the rampage, throwing stones, Mwembezhi ripping down billboards of President Rupiah Banda, smashing cars, setting a polling tent and ballot papers ablaze – and attacking MMD Philip Kosamu PF Lusaka Province chairman William Banda, while shouting “We want change!” “Those papers were marked. I saw it myself,” said 21-year-old Innocent. However, both the police Copperbelt Province and the ECZ denied the allegation - and the latter Constituency Name Party announced that the elec- Bwana Mkubwa Emmanuel Chenda PF torate at Nakatindi polling Susan Kawandami PF station in Kanyama would Chililabombwe Esther Banda PF not be given another Mwenya Musenge PF chance to vote - now that Joseph Katema PF they had burned their Kabushi Dorothy Kazunga PF elections materials. Image by Agence France-Presse Kafulafuta James Chishiba MMD Raymond Mbulu PF In Lilanda, also in Lusaka, police had to use teargas to dispel voters Kamfinsa Moses Chishimba PF dissatisfied with the late opening of polling stations. Rumours had Kankoyo Levy Chabala PF it that some ballot boxes had been stolen overnight. Several vehicles, Kantanshi Yamfwa Mukanga PF including a police car – and Sata’s car were smashed in the racket. Boniface Mutale PF About 20 people were arrested – and order was only restored by mid- Stephen Chungu PF afternoon. Voting was extended beyond 18:00 hours at the affected Lufwanyama polling stations. Michael Katambo MMD Gabriel Namulambe MMD ECZ officials cringe at spending night at polling stations John Kufuna PF Sata, whose claims of vote rigging sparked riots after the last election, Wylbur Simuusa PF suggested this poll would be no different. “It’s becoming very difficult. Fackson Shamenda PF Boxes without covers, papers without serial numbers, those are all the Luxon Kazabu PF difficulties we have,” he said. His vice-president, Guy Scott, wondered PF “whether this is a deliberate attempt to bring down the PF vote in Wusakile Richard Musukwa PF Lusaka because it’s the major contributor to the national score or whether it’s just incompetence”. The ECZ, however, scoffed at the suggestions – and blamed its of- ficials: ““Contrary to our instructions (...) that all polling staff around the country should spend the night at their respective polling stations to ensure timely opening (...); the polling staff in some of those poll- continued Next page ►

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ELECTION REPORT continued... Meet your new MP

ing stations, for reasons best known to themselves Eastern Province only, reported on duty in Constituency Name Party the morning on the day Allan Mbewe MMD of the election,” said ECZ Chama Director Priscilla Isaac – and assured the ECZ, Chipangali Vincent Mwale MMD on its part, had ensured Mtolo Phiri MMD that all the materials Patrick Ngoma MMD were timely delivered in all districts. She called Image by Agence France-Presse/Getty Images MMD it “inexcusable” that the Luangeni officers had shown “such lack of seriousness and irresponsibility to an important national event of this kind”. Mukhondo Lungu MMD One of them, Feggie Lilefwe, presiding officer for Chilemba Market Maxwell Mwale MMD Polling Station in Chingola, had her appointment revoked after she Milanzi on Monday had taken the elections materials to her house instead of Mkaika spending the night at the polling station. Two other polling assistants Colonel Joseph Lungu Independent in Katete were dropped for being “partial”. Folly Tembo MMD Petauke Dora Siliya MMD Other hitches were recorded as well. A box with three disposable Levy Ngoma MMD polling booths was found on Los Angeles Drive in Lusaka on Mon- day. The ECZ claimed it had fallen off a delivery truck. The PF said it demonstrated “election materials are not being handled with the due diligence required”. Fake compilation sheets were found in – and some people were still being issued with NRCs on 20 continued Next page ►

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September – suspicious said some, consider- Province ing that it was a public holiday. Several Zimba- Constituency Name Party bweans – in possession of PF valid voters cards – were Chifita Matafwali PF turned away from voting Mwansa Mbulakulima MMD in Livingstone, while Mathias Kapaya PF some Malawians report- Chifunabuli edly were arrested with Davies Mwila PF fake NRCs in Nakonde Image by Euronews Nickson Chilangwa PF District. Luapula Emerine Kabanshi PF Magic pens and false nails Mighty Mumba PF PF cadres delayed voting at Gondar when they stormed the polling Kennedy Sakeni PF station and demanded that voters should not use the pens provided by Mwansabombwe Rodgers Mwewa PF the ECZ – although the ECZ did it uttermost “to dismiss the myth David Mabumba PF of the so called magic pen (...) whose ink purportedly fades after Raymond Mpundu PF a voter has marked the ballot paper or the mark shifting from one candidate’s slot to another”. Other “overzealous” cadres forced voting in Lukulu West Constitu- Lusaka Province ency in Western Province to be postponed till Wednesday, as they had prevented a helicopter from airlifting election materials to the area, Constituency Name Party according to some reports, while others said a vehicle delivering ballot PF papers had been involved in a traffic accident. Chilanga Keith Mukata MMD japhen Mwanakalombe MMD A debate arose about whether or not false nails should be allowed, Given Lubinda PF after one woman told the BBC that she had been ordered to remove Obvious Mwaliteta PF her false nails – as the electoral officials had pointed out that she Kanyama Gerry Chanda PF could remove her thumb nail marked to indicate she had voted. Luangwa On Wednesday, 42 PF cadres were arrested in Solwezi after they hi- Lusaka Central Guy Scott PF jacked ballot boxes from Tumvwanganai polling station at the tallying Jean Kapata PF centre, claiming they were unsealed. The cadres refused to hand over Miles Sampa PF the ballot boxes, threatening to burn both them and a police vehicle, PF until the police dispersed the group with teargas. Kenneth Chipungu MMD Nervous citizens but satisfied observers Before the elections, many Zambians, especially in the PF’s strong- Northern Province holds in Lusaka and on the Copperbelt, had stocked up on basic commodities – in case of widespread violence erupting. All sorts of Constituency Name Party rumours were circulat- Obius Chisala PF ing about more than Chimbamilonga 1,000 prisoners having Christopher Mulenga PF escaped in the DR East Congo, about high Isoka West Malozo Sichone PF numbers of AK47 rifles Davies Mwango PF and truckloads of pan- Maxas Ngonga PF gas in circulation – and Kasama Geoffrey Mwamba PF about renowned Nige- Lubansenshi Patrick Mucheleka Independent rian pastor T.B. Joshua Alfredah Mwamba PF prophesising bloodshed Image by newsdzezimbabwe MMD in after the elections. Chungu Bwalya PF Malole Christopher Yaluma PF The police ordered extra patrols in volatile areas, and banned street Mwalimu Simfukwe MMD vendors from selling tujilijili liquor and tools-cum-weapons such as Henry Malama PF shovels and axes. Mpika Central Mwansa Kapeya PF Nevertheless, Maria Muñiz De Urquiza, European Union Chief Nevelyn Wilombe PF Observer in Zambia, on Wednesday declared that “the general im- Freedom Sikazwe PF pression is that the elections have been held in a correct and peaceful Nakonde Postponed manner despite a few incidents of violence in Lusaka”. Senga Hill Kapembwa Simbao MMD Shiwa Ng’andu Initially it was expected that the first votes from urban areas would arrive by Tuesday evening, but they only started being released mid- continued Next page ►

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morning the following day. Yet, the ECZ remained optimistic Northwestern Province it would reach its target of Constituency Name Party releasing the final result within Kenneth Konga MMD 48 hours of closing the polls. East With 15 out of 150 constitu- Kabompo West Ambros Lufuma UPND encies tallied by mid-Wednes- Kabinga Pande MMD day, Sata was in the lead with 134,635 votes against Banda’s Mwinilunga East Stephen Katuka UPND Image by Lwanga Mwilu/IPS 70,335. By Thursday morning, Mwinilunga West at 33 constituencies, Sata was Solwezi Central leading with 265,843 votes (46.5 percent) against RB with 192,966 Solwezi East votes (33.82 percent). Solwezi West Private media muzzled Zambezi East Sara Saifwanda MMD Zambezi West Charles Kakoma UPND On Wednesday afternoon, however, the PF announced that its preliminary results gave Sata 59 percent of the votes against Banda’s 32 percent. The results were reported in the Post – whereupon the Attorney General Abyudi Shonga was granted an ex-parte injunction by the High Court to restrain the Post Newspapers, Muvi Television and Mobi International Limited from publishing “speculative stories” on the results of the elections. On Wednesday evening, the ECZ closed down its webpage of elec- tion result. After having uploaded the first batch of results in the afternoon, it turned out that a programming fault – not PF hackers, as reported – gave the impression that Sata was in the lead based on the results from 133 constituencies.

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ELECTION REPORT continued... Meet your new MP 2 killed in second round of riots - on Copperbelt By Thursday, however, many Zambians had run out of patience. New Southern Province unrest erupted in Ndola and Kitwe on the Copperbelt, with people Constituency Name Party throwing stones, burning tyres, looting businesses and damaging ve- Bweengwa Highvie Hamududu UPND hicles. A mosque was set ablaze and a fire destroyed Nakadoli Market. Chikankata Munji Habeenzu UPND As the news of the riots reached Lusaka, the capital city closed down. Choma Conelius Mweetwa UPND Meanwhile, ECZ Director Priscilla Isaac at noon on Thursday ap- Dundumwenzi Edgar Sing’ombe UPND pealed to voters to wait for the results, arguing that the 48 hours, Gwembe Brian Ntundu UPND which she now called 48 working hours, had not elapsed. Itezhi-Tezhi Greyford Monde UPND Kalomo Central Request Muntanga UPND But the riots on the Copperbelt escalated in the afternoon, resulting Katombora Derrick Livune UPND in the death of two people. One person was hit by a mini-bus and Livingstone Josephs Akafumba PF another was apparently shot dead. Magoye Postponed By noon Thursday, at 85 Mapatizya Clive Miyanda UPND constituencies, Sata was still Mazabuka Central Garry Nkombo UPND leading with 639,787 votes (43 Mbabala Ephraim Belemu UPND percent), followed by Banda’ Monze Jack Mwiimbu UPND with 542,362 votes (36 per- Moomba Vitalis Mooya UPND cent). By early evening Thurs- Namwala Moono Lubezhi UPND day, at 116 constituencies, Sata Pemba Christine Mazoka UPND had gathered 994,090 votes Siavonga Kennedy Hamududu UPND (44.4 percent) against Banda’s Sinazongwe Richwell Siamunene UPND Image by Radio Netherlands Worldwide 808,596 votes (36.11 percent). And - finally - just after midnight on Friday, Sata was announced the winner of the 2011 presidential elections with 1,150,045 votes (43 Western Province percent) in 143 constituencies counted, against Banda’s 961,796 votes Constituency Name Party (36 percent). UPND’s came third. Kalabo Central Chinga Miyutu UPND (Times 19/20/21/22, Post 17/19/21/22, Daily Mail 21/22, Associ- Kaoma Central Carlos Antonio UPND ated Press 20, Agence France-Presse 21/22/23, Reuters 20/21/22/23, Liuwa QFM Radio 21/22, ZNBC 21/22, BBC 20/22/23, telegraph.co.uk Luampa 20, IPSnews.net 20, timeslive.co.za 20, news24.com 20, voanews.com Luena Mulumemui Imenda ADD 20, nyasatimes.com 20, dailytimes.com.pk 21, sabc.co.za 20, theglobe- Lukulu East andmail.com 20, Lusakatimes.com 20/21/22) Lukulu West Delayed Mangango Elections – according to the world Mongu Central Nathaniel Mubukwanu PF Mulobezi Hastings Sililo UPND Michael Kaingu MMD Outsiders had the clear idea that China was the main issue of this Nalikwanda year’s elections – with President Banda (MMD) campaigning on a Nalolo platform of growth and development driven by (Chinese) investments Senanga Likando Mufalali UPND and Michael Sata (PF) arguing Banda had become too cosy with Sesheke Siyaukwa Sianga UPND corruption and (Chinese) investors alike. TIME Magazine suggested Sikongo that the elections would show “if Zambians have begun to realise that Sinjembela Mutomena Mubiana PF ‘economic growth has not translated into significant poverty reduc- tion’, as the latest World Bank country assessment stated”. Chinese firms have invested more than 2 billion US dollars in Zambia by the end of 2010 – but they have also attracted criticism for poor labour conditions and low salaries – and for fostering official corruption: “Chinese investment in Zambia is not for ordinary people,” said Clement Mukosha, a retired miner, to the Wall Street Journal. “It’s Party-hoppers punished the senior government officials who benefit”. Sata said he would bring back the controversial windfall tax on mining firms - and he threat- Many of the recent party-hoppers failed to get into parlia- ened to impose controls on foreign capital (Zambia recently became ment, including Jonas Shakafuswa in Katuba Constitunecy the first African country to offer Chinese currency banking services). (left MMD for UPND), Patrick Mwanawasa in Kafula- Despite Sata’s fiery rhetoric, reported Radio Netherlands Worldwide, futa (left MMD for PF), Sylvia Masebo in Chongwe (left analysts expected few major policy shifts from Sata. Indeed, Sata told MMD for PF), Lameck Mangani in Chipata Central (left Reuters that he would maintain Zambia’s strong diplomatic and com- MMD for PF), Benjamin Mwila in Nchelenge (left National mercial ties with Beijing if he won. The BBC pointed out that China Democratic Focus for MMD), Elizabeth Chitika (left PF for was “less of an issue” during these elections than previous ones (after MMD), peter Machungwa in Kabwata (left PF for MMD) all Sata has toned down his rhetoric since he threatened to throw out and Kaweche Kaunda (left UNIP for PF). Chinese investors in 2006). Nevertheless, it reported, Chinese inves- tors were likely “to watch the results of the elections very closely”.

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Mahtani mourns sale of “his” bank Lusaka Stock Exchange

The founder and former chairman of Finance Bank, Rajan Mahtani, has expressed sadness at the sale of Finance Bank. Last week, the Bank week-on-week of Zambia (BoZ) announced the sale of Finance Bank to First National Company Symbol Closing price Change Bank (FNB) Zambia. However, the name of the buyer was leaked (22/9/11) % before BoZ took possession of Finance Bank in December 2010. FNB African Explosives Zambia Plc AELZ 3,950 - - has also managed Finance Bank on behalf of BoZ in the interim period. British American Tobacco Zambia Plc BATZ 1,506 0.40 ↑ Mahtani said he was saddened by the sale of Finance Bank “which took Cavmont Capital Holdings Zambia Plc CCHZ 4.5 - - twenty three years to establish through the hard work and dedication Zain CELTEL 710 - - of all stakeholders and the employees who built a Zambian institution Copperbelt Energy Corporation Plc CEC 700 - - of pride and to whom I salute with gratitude. These matters are in court Farmers House Plc FARM 2,504 - - and since that makes it subjudice, I will refrain from expressing my sen- Farmers House Preference Shares FARMPREF 4,700 - - timents except to assure my colleagues that ‘truth and justice will finally First Quantum Minerals FQMZ 6,200 1.59 ↓ Investrust Bank Trust Plc INVESTRUST 16 - - prevail’ and that is a Biblical principle.” Lafarge Cement Zambia Plc LAFARGE 7,500 - - Mahtani, who has been stripped of his shareholding in Finance Bank, is Metal Fabricators of Zambia Plc ZAMEFA 800 - - embroiled in four court cases for money laundering, fraud and forg- National Breweries Plc NATBREW 7,350 0.68 ↑ ery and for obtaining credit facilities under false pretences. On of the Pamodzi Hotel Plc PAMODZI 849 - - cases, in which he is facing two counts of acquiring special interest and Puma PUMA 930 2.12 ↓ money laundering failed to take off on 15 September – as he is recu- Shoprite Holdings Ltd SHOPRITE 54,000 10 ↓ perating in South Africa after undergoing a quintuple coronary artery Standard Chartered Bank Plc SCZ 69.5 0.57 ↓ bypass grafting surgery carried out the beginning of August. Back then Zambeef Products Plc ZAMBEEF 3,100 3.33 ↑ the bypass was reported as sextuple (Post 16 and Times 17). Zambia Bata Shoe Company Plc BATA 239 3.02 ↑ Zambia National Commercial Bank ZANACO 1,210 0.83 ↑ Zambia Sugar Plc ZSUG 275 8.70 ↑ Zambia Sugar Rights Issue LASI 3,833.11 0.94 ↑ Albidon: We don’t trust you! Zambian Breweries Plc ZAMBREW 2,600 2.40 ↓ ZCCM Investments Holdings Plc ZCCM-IH 10,000 - - Minority shareholders of Albidon Limited, the Australian operator of Munali Nickel Mine in Mazabuka, have demanded another audit The LuSE All Share Index closed at 3,833.00 on Thursday 22 Septem- of the mine’s output after management lowered its nickel production ber, down by 0.93% from last Thursday’s close of 3,797.51. figures for the past year. On 1 September, Albidon suspended trading Winner: Zambia Sugar (+ 8.7%) on the Australian Stock Exchange, upon lowering Munali’s produc- Loser: Shoprite (- 10.0%) tion forecast for 2011 by 21 percent due to constant operation hitches caused by a sinkhole. In the end of July, Albidon’s minority shareholders formed a pressure group to win back the control of Munali from Albi- month-on-month don’s majority shareholder, Chinese Jinchuan Group. Jinchuan acquired LuSE trading activity has continued to drop from a turnover of 460.5 a 51 percent stake in Albidon in 2008 and has since injected at least 37 billion Kwacha in June to 39.9 billion Kwacha in July to 25.3 billion million US dollars into Munali, helping the mine to restart production, in August. The index has declined from 4,044.39 points in July to which was mothballed when world nickel prices dived in 2008. The mi- 3,766.40 points in August, while market capitalisation reduced from nority shareholders, however, claim there are no independent controls 48.5 billion Kwacha in July to 47.5 billion Kwacha in August. LuSE at- of production of ore, inventories and sales to Jinchuan. Albidon accord- tributed the decrease to foreign investors’ wariness around election ingly appointed Riverstone Advisory to review its operations – and has time (Daily mail 20). now lowered its production figures according to its report. The minority shareholders, however, called the review a “total sham” and said it had invited Ernst & Young to carry out a fresh audit (Times 19).

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Zambia commemorates Hammarskjöld VIEWS: Zambia Prison Service Dear Editor, The death of the second United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, was this week commemorated around the world In your Editor’s note 1 (Zambia Weekly, Week 37), you comment – including in Zambia, where he died. A ceremony was held at his on the recent ceremony at which the European Union handed memorial site outside Ndola led by Swedish Foreign Minister Carl over 12 vehicles to the Zambia Prisons Service. You argue that Bildt and attended by Vice-President George Kunda, UN Resident this support is hardly going to improve prisons service. Representative Kanni Wignaraja and other dignitaries. We appreciate that it is difficult to completely grasp the focus and Fifty years ago, Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash close to Ndola impact of a programme from media snippets of a brief ceremony. just after midnight on 18 September 1961. The official explanation In fact, the handover of the vehicles was just a small aspect of was pilot error. Newly gathered and recently publicised accounts from a very comprehensive Access to Justice Programme supported local eyewitnesses have however suggested that the plane was shot jointly by the European Union, Danida and GIZ. down – and the murder covered up by the colonial authorities. This Access to Justice programme targets five key criminal justice Hammarskjöld was on his way to Ndola for peace talks with the institutions with the priority objective of improving access to Katanga rebel leader Moise Tshombe. After its independence in 1960, justice, especially by women and children. Transport is one of the the Katanga Province – supported by Belgian and other western key problems affecting the criminal justice system, resulting in mining interests – rebelled against the rule of the Soviet-backed delays in taking remandees to court, among other consequences. Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. After Lumumba was ousted by The programme is also designed to establish a more efficient the US-backed Joseph Kasavubu and his military commander Joseph system of processing court cases, encouraging the use of non- Mobutu – and later executed in Katanga – the UN Security Council custodial sentences and reducing congestion in prisons. authorised UN forces in the country to use “all appropriate measures” We agree with your call for donors to do more to assist the to prevent civil war. Eventually, Hammarskjöld decided to launch Op- needy. In this regard, one of the projects the EU is supporting is eration Morthor against the rebels in Katanga. managed by the Prisons Care and Counselling Association. This By then, however, Hammarskjöld had enraged most of the major project aims to assist prisoners (especially women, children and powers on the security council with his support for decolonisation, sick inmates) directly by providing free legal and counselling ser- but support from third world states meant he almost certainly would vices. This assistance should significantly improve prisons’ service, have been re-elected at the general assembly a few weeks later – if he including a reduction in cases such as that of Mr Kapotwe cited had lived that long. in your editorial. Hammarskjöld developed the role of the Secretary-General at a EU Delegation particularly dangerous point in history to such a degree that “Leave Lusaka it to Dag” became a slogan, even as he ran the risk of arousing the ever-vigilant defenders of unlimited national sovereignty. He arrived at the United Nations in April 1953, when the cold war had virtually paralysed the Security Council – but he soon gained a reputation for a hands-on approach. His first success was to personally negotiate the i release of 15 American airmen who had been imprisoned for espio- Zamb a Weekly nage in China during the Korean War at a time when the People’s Zambia Weekly is a free e-zine that extracts the news you Republic was not represented at the UN. really need to know about. It provides an effortless way of He is the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthu- keeping up-to-date with current affairs in Zambia. If you wish to advertise in Zambia Weekly please contact the editor. Feel mously (nytimes.com/bbc.co.uk 17 and Daily Mail 19). free to share Zambia Weekly with colleagues and friends. Comments, criticisms or suggestions are always welcome! 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