Rescuers intensified a search for bodies on Thursday, a day after a blast at a Chinese-owned factory in a Zambian copper mine killed more than 50 people, fuelling charges that the owners had flouted basic safety norms and treated employees like ”pigs”.
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/ 18 November 2004
Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba was back in the dock on Thursday as a new corruption trial began on charges of stealing 000 (about R2,9-million) in state funds. A nattily-turned-out Chiluba sat for more than four hours, hearing testimony from the first three witnesses called in the trial.
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/ 18 November 2004
Zambia is preparing to mark the 150th anniversary of the discovery of Victoria Falls by Scottish missionary David Livingstone with a big splash that it hopes will draw a record number of tourists. One of the leading natural wonders of the world, Victoria Falls is 1 708m wide, drops 108m and spills 550 000 cubic litres of water per minute.
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/ 21 October 2004
Forty years after independence, Zambians are poorer, their country having missed an opportunity to boost its economy with its rich copper reserves. When the southern African country broke free from British colonial rule in 1964, its economy was on par with that of South Korea and ranked second to South Africa in the region.
Zambia’s government is to present a tough Bill on cyber crime to Parliament on Friday that will see convicted hackers and other offenders face harsh sentences ranging from 15 to 25 years in jail. The Computer Misuse and Crimes Bill enjoys strong backing from bankers and the Computer Society of Zambia.
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/ 29 September 2003
Growing numbers of girls in poverty-stricken Zambia are being raped by men who believe that having sex with minors can cure HIV/Aids. Just about every day police in this southern African country record one incident of child rape. An estimated one in five people here test positive for HIV, the virus which causes Aids.
”These children are not sick – all of them are here because of hunger,” says a nurse staffing a hospital ward in Monze, one small Zambian farming town among the many hit by famine.