HOME NEWS: FEATURE: ENTERTAINMENT: SPORT: KK in high Rising suicide RS\ FAZ withdraws spirits, says cases source of industry has from hosting Chilufya– p3 concern- p17 potential to U-23 AfCON grow’ – p12 tourney – p24 No. 17,823 timesofzambianewspaper @timesofzambia www.times.co.zm TIMES SATURDAY, JULY 22, 2017 OF ZAMBIA K10 ...Three infants among dead after overloaded 11 killed as truck tips into drainage in Munali hills truck keels over #'%$#+,$ drainage on the Kafue- goods –including a hammer-mill. has died on the spot while four Mission Hospital,” Ms Katongo a speeding truck as the driver “RTSA is saddened by the other people sustained injuries in said. attempted to avoid a pothole. #'-$%+Q++% Mazabuka road on death of 11 people in the Munali an accident which happened on She said the names of the The incident happened around +#"/0$ &301"7,'%&2T &'**1 20$L'! !!'"#,2 -, 2&# $3# Thursday. victims were withheld until the 09:40 hours in the Mitec area on #-++-$ Police said the 40 passengers -Mazabuka road. The crash The accident happened on the next of keen were informed. the Solwezi-Chingola road. ++0+% .#-.*#Q +-,% travelling in the back of a Hino could have been avoided had the Zimba-Kalomo Road at Mayombo Ms Katongo said in a similar North Western province police truck loaded with an assortment passengers used appropriate area. ',!'"#,2Q L'4#V7#0V-*" -7 -$ !&'#$36#,1'-)'"#,2'L'#"2&# 2&#+ 2&0## $Q &4# of goods - including a hammer means of transport,” he said. Police spokesperson Esther Hospital township in Chama deceased as Philip Samona, saying died on the spot while mill - were heading to various Southern Province Minister Katongo said in a statement it district, died after he was hit by he died on the spot. 29 others are nursing destinations in Namwala, Choma Edify Hamukale described the seemed the driver of the motor a motor vehicle (registration He named the driver as James and Kalomo districts of South accident as saddening and called vehicle, aged 22 and driving a number ABG 733) which was Katai, aged 37, of Mufulira who injuries after a light province from Lusaka. on transporters to desist from Toyota Hilux towing a trailer, lost being driven by Layson Banda, was driving a Freightliner truck truck plunged into the A female passenger said to be carrying passengers in vehicles control of the vehicle due to speed. aged 34. (registration number BAB 7321). in a particularly critical condition with merchandise and also with “The driver of the motor In Solwezi, irate residents Angry members of the public was rushed to University animals as that was endangering vehicle escaped unhurt while the yesterday vented their anger on started stoning vehicles passing Teaching Hospital in Lusaka for the lives of the people. four injured who are also South passing motorists after a 17-year- and a few were damaged in the treatment. Meanwhile, a South African man Africans are admitted to Zimba old boy was crushed to death by process. Southern Province Police Commissioner Bonny Kapeso named the driver of the truck (registration AKB 2872) as Constantino Sibusenga of Namwala. “Eleven people died on the spot while 29 others sustained injuries and are admitted to Kafue district hospital and one female was rushed to UTH after the vehicle they were travelling in rolled into the drainage in the Munali hills on Thursday night,” Mr Kapeso said. # 1'" 2&# "#!#1#" L'4# -$ them adult females), had not 7#2 ##, '"#,2'L'#" ," ',4'2#" '%*$ members of the public in the three districts that might know of relatives who had travelled Lubinda to Lusaka for business but had not been heard from to visit spells out Mazabuka and Kafue district hospitals where the bodies were being kept. police extra Explaining what might have caused the accident, Mr Kapeso said inexperience on the part powers of the driver might have played a part in the tragedy which By CHILA NAMAIKO happened just after the Kafue and KASONDE KASONDE bridge police check-point. People who break the law Road Transport and Safety under the state of threatened Agency (RTSA) head of public emergency (Article 31 of the relations Frederick Mubanga Constitution) could lose their appealed to members of the passports and may be held up to public to use appropriate mode Lady Esther Lungu listens to Better Immunisation Data (BID) Zambia representative Mandy Dube as seven days in police custody. of transport. Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya looks on during an exhibition at the Ministry of Health BID Initiative Showcase Mr Mubanga said the truck was To page 2 also loaded with an assortment of .0-%0++#2&#"'11-,*3-2#*',31)7#12#0"7T'!230 "#$%$#$ee story on page 3) 2 NEWS SATURDAY TIMES OF ZAMBIA JULY 22, 2017 FRA eyes $13m from maize exports By HOPE BWALYA their harvest,” he said. THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) expects to Of the 29 companies permitted to export the maize, 26 were Zambian companies while three are foreign ‘Work n talk’, striking earn at least $13million from exports of some companies. 100,000 tonnes of maize to East Africa and the Mr Kafwabulula said the institution would by early next week announce its maize buying price in preparations to Great Lakes region from the surplus of the 2016 start buying in the first week of August. ‘Pick n Pay’ staff told farming season. Finance Minister Felix Mutati said Government was FRA executive director Chola Kafwabulula said the agency committed to exporting to the Great Lakes region, East was playing the role of facilitator in the transaction that Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Kenya. By HELLEN TEMBO, did not make sense when it would involve 29 companies of the 42 that had applied for Mr Mutati said his ministry would facilitate for STEPHANIE KUNDA and had opened 17 stores in seven permits to carry out the business. transportation in which it would make the border RABECCA CHIPANTA years. Mr Kafwabulula said this at a joint media briefing held authorities flexible in transporting the maize. LABOUR Minister Joyce The workers said their in Lusaka yesterday with the ministries of Agriculture He said the border posts being targeted where Nakonde Simukoko has called on striking demands K500 increment and Finance to give the nation an update on the amount (for the Great Lakes and East African market) and ‘Pick n Pay’ staff to return to work was met with a counteroffer of maize it had been authorised to sale. Kasumbalesa (for the DRC market). while negotiations to resolve of K150. their complaints progressed In Ndola a check by the He said for the long term, what was important was to Mr Mutati also said the Kenyan government had agreed between their representatives Times found Jacaranda, cultivate a market outside Zambia for farmers to be able to remove the import duty on Zambian maize which was and management of the chain- Z-Mart and Kansenshi outlets to profit from bumper harvests such as the nation had expected to roll into that country for the next 12 months. store. closed with workers gathered experienced in recent seasons. Meanwhile, Agriculture Minister Dora Siliya said the Workers at all ‘Pick n Pay’ outside demanding for K1, “We want to have clients in East Africa and the Great participation of Zambian companies in the export of the outlets countrywide withdrew 000 salary increment that was Lakes region, so that when we have a bumper harvest the maize was an encouraging development as it would bring their labour yesterday morning agreed upon in the collective farmers are not stranded in terms of where they will take money in the country instead of it going to other countries. demanding salary increments agreement. and an end to what they said Some workers talked to said was rampant casualisation. management had backed out on Ms Simukoko who visited the collective agreement saying Man (63) bolts after impregnating grand-daughter (13) Woodlands Pick n Pay in the it would only effect a K200 morning pleaded with the increment next year. By FRANCINA PHIRI -*" 5 -$ 3,% /1'"2"#!#1#"5 2 "#!#1#" 2',#" workers to go back to work Z-Mart deputy workers union W man advising them that their action leader Moses Mwansa said the 22 ', 3.3* +30"#0#" 7&'1 1-,2,)Q2 was premature and a breach of workers were among other of Chikoya village of .0-4',!# &1 ##, ,270QYXQ2#0 Q -, 2 !&', ," labour laws. things demanding the issue of 3.3* .0-4',!# &1 +30"#0#" 7&#0& 22T &" .0-$31#7$0-+ Ms Simukoko said later in casual workers to be addressed "#$'*#","'+.02#" 222T b "#!#1#" 5 2T an interview that the National and better conditions of service &'1 WYV7V %0V - 2 1#4#0#7 2#, 7 &'1 &#*-++'11'-,#01'" Union of Commercial and and salaries. Industrial Workers (NUCIW) Mr Mwansa said it was their 2#0 52 &'1 5 2 2 "#!#1#" 2#02* !1#1 -$ 1.-31* which represented workers was right as workers to have better &'"',% 2 2 1-51&'6-2--$*7 2Qc - 2 5# 2 negotiating with management. treatment and conditions $-0 $#0 -$ *-1',% &#0 4'**%#',3,%T Q #6 22 2-T “I intend to see both of services which they had T management and the union to requested management to see how far they have gone with look into. &# +, 2 1 their negotiations,” she said. He said that some part- )*Q2-$ Cops nab man for attempting ‘Pick n Pay’ country manager timers had worked for four 65"'1!-4#0#"2-&4# Mark Vicery’s phone went years and deserved to be '+.02#"&'1WYV7V unanswered.