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TEACHING COUNCIL OF ZAMBIA TO BLOCK SALARIES FOR TEACHERS WHO WILL NOT PAY BY 31ST MAY, 2018.

The Teaching Council of Zambia have rejected calls by teachers to have the deadline for applying for licences extended. Speaking after a forum with the Zimbabwean counterparts yesterday, Teaching Council of Zambia registrar Ebby Mubanga advised teachers to ensure that they pay for licences before the deadline which is 31st May, 2018. The Chief Registrar said the council will not extend the deadline and was quick to sympathize with teachers on the challenges they are facing countrywide. He said the council understands the suffering of teachers and advised them to pay because it is law.

Asked what will happen to the teachers who won't apply by the set date, Dr Mubanga said the council will submit the names to the Teaching Service Commission for blacklisting because they will not be considered registered teachers. He said this will affect their June salaries. He said if those teachers wishes to apply after the deadline, they will be fined and sent on forced leave for six months to deter the would be offenders.

Mr Mubanga thanked all the teachers for supporting the Teaching Council.

Fees which teachers must pay without fail

Early Childhood K600.00
Primary Teachers K750.00
Secondary Teachers K900.00
Lecturers K1,050.00
Administrators K1,200.00
Others K301.20

Source: www.facebook.com/zambianteachersnews

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APPLICANTS TO PAY K300 FOR APTITUDE TESTS FOR 2018 TEACHER RECRUITMENT - MHANGO.

Teaching Service Commission Chairperson Stanley Mhango has said that applicants for the 2018 teacher recruitment will be required to pay K300 in order to sit for aptitude tests.

Speaking in Lusaka today, Mr Mhango said the commission will collaborate with the Teaching Council of Zambia to ensure that only competent teachers are employed.

"Aptitude tests will be conducted in various districts and those who will sit for those tests will be required to affiliate K300 to the commission." Mr Mhango said.

"This year our aim is to employ competent teachers, that's all. To achieve this we shall collaborate with the Teaching Council of Zambia." Speech reads in parts.

Source: Tumfweko

POLICE STOP KITWE WHITE FARMER ON PROTEST TO STATE HOUSE OVER A LAND DISPUTE

POLICE on the Copperbelt have stopped a 62 year old white farmer and businessman of Kitwe from attempting a lone walk from Kitwe to State House.

He wanted to protest against Northern Province Permanent Secretary Elias Kamanga who he accuses of grabbing part of his farmland.

Kevin Soper wanted to walk 360 kilometers journey to reach State House in Lusaka at the end of next month.

He wanted to go and plead with President Edgar Lungu to intervene in the matter.

Mr Soper claims that Mr Kamanga got 600 hectares of his land and obtained title without his consent.

"Am married to a wonderful Namwanga wife, we have 13 children and nine grandchildren at the farm," he said.

Mr Soper's wife was a councillor for Limaposa ward in the MMD era and she served at the same time when Mr Kamanga was also a councillor in Kitwe.

He has complained that his efforts to have the matter resolved at the Kitwe City Council and the former Copperbelt Minister Bowman Lusambo did not yield results.

Asked whether he was fit enough to manage the over 300 kilometres walk at his age, Mr Soper said God will help him.

"I hope to be walking 25 kilometres a day and making one day offs and i reckon reaching Lusaka at the end of April. I ask Zambians to pray for me on this journey. This is not about me, its about equity and justice for my beloved country that's why am wearing this Zambian scarf"

Mr Soper lives in Kitwe south where he says his family settled in the 1950s but the ownership of his farm has become a controversy.

He is a holder of title deed number L10166 issued on 20th April 2000 but this document was cancelled when the Supreme Court ruled against him and former Wusakile Member of Parliament Barnabas Chella who claimed a huge piece of land in the area.

Later, the Kitwe City Council offered Mr Soper and Mr Chella part of the land and the rest was advertised to the public.

Though the late lawmaker accepted the offer and legalised his land, Mr Soper rejected the offer, insisting the whole land which has been subdivided by the Kitwe City Council belongs to him.

Sadly, Mr Chella was hacked to death in 2013 by squatters who encroached on this same land.

This subdivision of the land has seen about 20 people buy and set up farms in the area.

And Mr Kamanga happens to be among the people who bought land there and this is what has prompted Mr Soper to go on a lone protest to Lusaka.

In the early stages of this walk, Mr Soper was escorted by Pastor Kaputa Mufunga of Amazing Grace Ministries who kept preaching to him as they walked.

"I have been praying for him for a long time so that he can live in peace with his family. Even on this journey, i will keep praying for him," said Pastor Mufunga as they walked side by side.

But when reached for a comment over the phone, Mr Kamanga cleared himself from the allegations saying he genuinely acquired the land.

"That gentleman has been maligning me for a long time. I have not grabbed any land from him. I genuinely got my land from the Council, paid all service charges and got a title deed from Ministry of Lands. The council advertised that land after a Supreme Court judgement and i happened to be among the many who applied and were allocated the land," said Mr Kamanga.

Meanwhile, the Kitwe City Council says Mr Soper's allegations are not genuine because he does not hold title to the land where he claims people have encroached.

Mr Soper walking towards Kamfinsa

"It is not true that Mr Kamanga grabbed land. He applied for that land from the Council and if my memory serves me right, there were 20 applicants who benefited. And this happened way before the current government. It was the Council term 2006 to 2011," said Kitwe Town Clerk Bornwell Luanga in an interview.

Its been a long way for the 2015 intake:......hence lets only mantain the same spirit even this time for group discussions so we can all achieve our goal. There are goup discussions going around in different places and it is requiring only you to lift your feets up to that place near to you and prepare for tomorrow,its never too late remember together we'll do it because we've been doing it all along. Miss you all

Its been a great experience that I believe we have all gained,not to forget the struggle we have endured to reach this far, let's push up until we reach the sky...hope we are all ok

In the third year of our studies,,like a joke, really "Bit by Bit a Bird makes a Nest" big ups colleagues and everyone taking part in making tomorrow a better day

It takes only you to make dark days bright. But also the passed is what you can't change because you can't turn time back or make it go ant-clockwise. The only thing we should all do is doing one or two things everyday,hour,minute or second which we are able to remember when that day goes. Remember its our duty to motivate our selves thus,keep the ball rolling for better days ahead. Morning...

how is it going coligues...