No 30 www.diggers.news Monday September 4, 2017 Govt explains deregistration of 498 unqualified teachers By Sipilisiwe Ncube says the 498 teachers proper qualificationsPF WILL NOT Teaching Council of Zambia who have been exposed will be deregistered from Registrar Dr Abby Mubanga for teaching without the system because the damage they have caused is irreparable. The world is now for And Dr Mubanga said the Teaching Council has also the young generation, informed the employers of the affected teachers as REACH 2021 us old leaders must well other law enforcement agencies so that disciplinary DPP enters pave way, says Ukwa action can be taken. Story on page 2 Continues on page 5 ...it’s too divided another nolle in UPND case to stand pressure By Diggers Reporter The Director of Public Prosecutions has entered a nolle prosequi in a matter in which Hakainde from Kambwili’s Hichilema’s aides were facing a charge of obstructing police officers in the course of their duty. group - Mwaliteta Continues on page 6 By Mirriam Chabala to stand the pressure from Roan member of Former Lusaka Province Minister Obvious parliament Chishimba Kambwili and other PF Mwaliteta says the ruling party may fail to finish founders who have been sidelined. another five-year term because it is too divided Continues on page 3 Lungu’s delegation in Swazi bikinis Story on page 7 Continues on P2 2. Local News Monday September 4, 2017 This world is now for the younger generation, us the old must pave way for them – Ukwa By Joseph Mwenda you do not leave something Nigerian Actor Ukwa says that people will remember the world is now for the you with, I doubt if you will younger generation and be free. So I want to leave a that older leaders must pave footprint, a legacy,” Ukwa way for them. said. And Ukwa, whose real He told programme host names are Nkem Owoh, Grevazio Zulu that even says the bad impression in governance, the older that the West has about generation needed to pave African culture will only way for the youth. be corrected if African “I don’t intend to go back to actors use art to portray politics, what am I going to the positive side of the do there? If I have to go back continent’s traditions. in politics and be a governor, Featuring on the Sunday it means I am so greedy. Interview this evening, This world as it is now is Ukwa who was recently for the younger generation. awarded a lifetime Even in my industry, I want achievement award at to move away now. That is the 2017 African Movie why I am establishing one Academy Awards, said even or two things on the front if people chose not to retire so that the young ones can from their calling, they have the opportunity. If I would still die eventually. plant myself there, it does “Getting that award made not make sense. If you want me feel very good, I wish I development, the youths was much much younger. will have to come up, even I was going to put my two in governance,” Ukwa said. legs into it and get a degree. He warned artistes against Nigerian actor Nkem Owoh (Ukwa) But if I don’t do it, I will getting too involved with the film industry. But I was like popular people, we Presidents, I don’t think own name’. So when we impart it in the younger politics and losing focus of playing a minor role there. do campaign for them there is a President, apart tell it now, we are trying people, that is why I have their career. I found out that God had and in the end we lose from the current one whom to portray it and let people a school that teaches art “At one point I declared given me my own political concentration. I decided I haven’t really associate know that not all things where I am trying to impart that I was not going to party, so why must I go not to do it and concentrate with, that I am not close to. about our culture is all the knowledge into younger feature at a government and do this. I decided that I [on the acting career],” he When they have their social that bad. But if you are an ones. Yes, I am planning to function because I was was not going to feature in said. functions I will go, but once Europeanised African, you retire, sometimes you have trying to avoid politics. I any political thing because “I am very close to most you make it political, no will see it from that view to retire or you die. So if was in politics before even the politicians, generally of the politicians and even matter how much you pay point that we were trying me, I will not attend, it’s just to demean African culture my personal conviction that in the movie ‘Osuofia in I will not get involved.” London’,” Ukwa said. Kambwili will cry like a baby with And the actor expressed “If you analyse our own difficulties to pick his culture in comparison favourite movie between with the European culture, “Ukwa” and “Osuofia in you will find that ours his punch for punch strategy – PF London” saying the two has got a meaning too, a films had their own positive great meaning. So I don’t By Mukosha Funga tiger). Elo ndemyeba ba President tulinenu tight, wait for stories. find anything demeaning Patriotic Front Media Director Sunday Chanda has Parliament to open because some of the things I can not “The difference between in portraying my culture, warned that Chishimba Kambwili will become a political say them here I have no immunity.” Osuofia and Ukwa is that provided I am not doing casualty with his strategy of taking on President Edgar But in a statement yesterday, Chanda warned Kambwili the other one is cross it in a negative sense. Lungu punch for punch. against such an approach saying he would end up crying culture, not between My message was that we Yesterday, the expelled Roan PF member of parliament like a baby. two African countries have a culture that is plus held a press briefing at which he declared that he would “Expelled PF Member Chishimba Kambwili’s challenge but between Africa and not minus. I remember exert pressure on President Lungu so that he could “pull to take on Republican President Edgar Lungu ‘punch the West. There were in ‘Osuofia in London’, up his socks”. for punch’ will make him regret. His ‘punch-for-punch’ other characters between somebody met me and He also said he would take on the Head of State punch for strategy will leave him as the major political casualty. Ukwa and Osuofia, but said ‘why did you go and punch as he was not intimidated by his threatening and Like him take this as a kind reminder before he can between the two of them… disgrace us by talking about Nigerian Naira in London demeaning statements against him. cry like a baby. Like in boxing, my brother Kambwili (hesitates) they have their pluses. But I think in Africa, and you were telling them “For those who know Chishimba Kambwili, I can exert will get a good whipping for his big mouth. He may Ukwa reigned more; it is you need Agege bread and pressure and I have started exerting pressure on President have the loudest and biggest mouth, but his statements still reigning more than all that?’ I said ‘look, the Edgar Lungu so that he gets up, pulls up his socks and start are incoherent. Kambwili cannot sustain an argument Osuofia. But I think outside Europeans brought cake working for the people of Zambia other than traveling for four weeks because he’s politically athletic. He lacks Africa, Osuofia takesand biscuit and we eat it, every time. Yes we know traveling is part of your job but it’s originality, Kambwili still wants to be an imitation of the preference,” he said. so when we talk about our not mandatory. I was Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Sata late patriarch of the Patriotic Front Michael Chilufya He went on to explain that own food, people must in the first one year of office traveled less than five times, Sata. He is not original. There was one Sata and there will it was not his intention to appreciate it’. I was proud of the first one year in office he was sending Dr Guy Scott never be another. Zambians loved him for his originality demean the African culture Africa, its not the other way and myself to go and represent him. It is not mandatory and Kambwili’s imitation does not strike the Sata cord. in the movie which he went round. I was telling them that if there is an inauguration ceremony in Rwanda , it Zambians have listened to the original and they have no to shoot in Britain. that we also have something has to be the President to travel,” said Kambwili. appetite for an imitation,” Chanda stated. “It is the impression people that we appreciate.” “I know that pressure makes people do things that they “He’s far from being original and we know too well how have about African culture. Meanwhile, Ukwa also do not want to do. And for you Mr President, be prepared to put ‘fake products’ to quality tastes. May he be ready You see, we were colonised talked about why he for more pressure, it is punch for punch until the living to taste his own medicine after we respond to him.