Sylvester Mwale

A SA businessperson has been deported from Zambia, the latest in a string of deportations seen as instigated by politically connected competitors.

The Lusaka Magistrate’s Court has heard that, Henry Banda received US$550 000 from an oil deal, facilitated by his father, with a Nigerian company.

Former Zambian president Rupiah Banda’s South Africa-based son, Henry, has been embroiled in yet another scandal.

In one remote Zambian town bicycles could soon outnumber people. Sylvester Mwale explains why.

<b>Shaun de Waal</b> examines the three new South African poetry collections.