There are many people to thank, More especially many thanks to brainsplus who like many, spoted the potential in me.Thanks to my wonderful husband who is very supportive ,thanks to my childhood friend June Musonko Ngambi (now runs her own Chemist in Kitwe with her husband ) who showed me the importance of education, especially for a girl like me who was born in Kafwata Village,in shibuchinga rural, went to school barefooted on an empty stomach and walked miles to school, lost half members of the family with the deadly desease AIDS, with all the obstacles I faced in life, I have grown to be a professional strong woman with confidence to face the world.
Along the way, I have been driven, inspired, and supported by all the people who placed their confidence in me, and that is why I feel it is time for me to return a favor to those who need inspiration, and those who want to make a change , with a positve outlook on life. My Advice is…” when things get tough get tougher”, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
Trillion Thanks goes to Brainsplus, who not only is my inspiration,but just like many of us has excelled in his profession. He is now a member of Certified Public Accountant(CPA). So you are dealing with real brains. Zambia has good produce. “Smart people with big brains”. If only we had better education system, the sky would be a limit.
I am here to share every knowledge that I have gained with my fellow Zambians.
On my page, I will share? Technology, Financial advice,World Economy, Health, Sport and lifestyle, gardening, Interior decos, and my creative cooking recipes(one of my many passions).
For running advice, you can check me out at www.belliah.com, right now under construction.PS…many of you are saying, she is still young that is why she runs. Well I am 45, and I feel fabulous. It all starts with what you put in your mouth. Eat right. Follow your blood type.You will add more years to your life.
I am pleased to welcome Mrs. Belliah Katonga Theise as a member of our team at the Zambian Chronicle.
Belliah brings a wealth of professional experience to our board ranging from running very strategic positions in various corporations and institutions around the world.
At Mopani Copper Mines PLC Zambia she worked as a Metal Export and Sales Analyst where she monitored copper exports to different ports of entry and coal dispatches from Maamba Collieries to various ZCCM divisions.
She was later promoted to Capital Accountant in charge of analyzing and reconciling statements for consolidation, maintained their general ledger, trial balance and balance sheet. She also directed budgeting, worked on strategic planning and forecast involving all capital expenditures, including monitoring all costs and commitment records.
At Strategro International LLC, New Jersey – USA, she worked as a consultant/accountant performing comprehensive audits of corporate financials and overhauling accounting system for firms at inception of employment.
She maintained and reviewed cash flow statements, conducted research into potential new product lines and market feasibility of new projects and interfaced with international clients and business partners on operational and logistical matters.
She also worked as an Independent Tax and Bookkeeping Consultant in the Greater Montclair area performing general accounting, tax and bookkeeping work for small businesses while pursuing an MBA at Montclair State University in Accounting and Finance.
Currently she works at Seton Hall University as an Information Technology Budget Manager, monitoring and reconciling assigned accounts, reviews Yearly Budgets and forecasts of expenses for each assigned accounts and holds quarterly meetings with managers on assigned accounts.
Belliah also holds a certificate in Board leadership for non- Profit organisations.program hosted by Board leadership Institute at Seton Hall University.
Belliah is a Chartered Accountant and holds her charter hood with the Chartered Association Institute of Certified Accountants (ACCA – UK), she also holds a Bachelors degree in Accounting and pursued her MBA at Montclair State University in Accounting and Finance.
Her professional affiliations include Rotary International, Kitwe, Zambia Chapter and she was the first woman to hold major office in Rotary International in Zambia. Currently she sits on the Executive Board of Directors for Career Vision Ambassadors (CVA) Board of trustees where she is serving as treasurer.
She is working on having Zambia be part of their projects that might include providing distance learning programs to countries that have limited educational systems. They also have a student exchange programs.
Her main goal is to open a career and talent center in Zambia, and Career Vision Ambassador Inc. has shown interest. She is happily married and blessed with four children, She is a twin mother.Two beautiful girls and two handsome boys.
Belliah loves sports and has participated in the New York City, Philadelphia, Virginia beach, Long Island marathons and many more as a runner. She has run 15 marathons and 7 ultra marathons of which she was one of the top three in three ultra marathons.
She is also an active member of her local congregation. Going by the above, it is no doubt that we are the Zambian Chronicle are elated to have her as part of our team. We have had five candidates in the running so far the past seven months and she has meritoriously outshined all others as our Chief Operations Officer – Managing Editor effective immediately. Belliah will be reporting directly to me …
The woman is “Solid Gold”; please join me in congratulating Belliah and welcoming her aboard. We are honored she has decided to join our team and wish her all the best at the Zambian Chronicle, Because Zambia Is Greater Than Any Single One Of Us … thanks a trillion.
KUMASI, Ghana (AFP) — Zambia scored a comfortable 3-0 win over a spirited Sudan in a Group C battle of the outsiders in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations here at the Baba Yara Stadium on Tuesday.
The Chipolopolo, as the Zambian team are known, took an early lead through a James Chamanga lob after just two minutes and added a second five minutes after the interval through the outstanding Jacob Mulenga.
Felix Katongo further punished poor defending by Sudan when he tapped home the third goal in the 59th minute after goalkeeper Abdalla Elmuez failed to hold on to a shot by Rainford Kalaba.
Zambia coach Patrick Phiri said: “It was important that we won this match but I noticed some few lapses in our defence and this we must work on before our next game against Cameroon.”
“Zambia had a good game today,” admitted Sudan coach Mohamed Abdallah. “They took their chances well. Probably if we had done same earlier in the game, we would be talking a different thing now.”
“We like to play under pressure and so expect us to play a lot better in our next game.”
A downcast Sudan striker Faisat Agab added: “We lost this game but must now look forward to our next two games and see what we can make of them.”
Zambia sit atop Group C after the 4-2 win posted by Egypt over four-time champions Cameroon earlier in the day.
After going in front, the south Africans, who were without their leading scorer Christopher Katongo through suspension, pressed on as in-form Chamanga combined well with Felix Katongo in the ninth minute only for Katongo’s shot from on top of the box to scream across the face of goal.
Badr Eldin’s scorching effort from 30 yards nearly got Sudan an equaliser after 12 minutes but it came off the woodwork with goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene well beaten.
The quick inter-change of passes and movement by the fleet-footed Zambian forwards spearheaded by the exciting Mulenga often got the Sudan back four into trouble but big defender Ritshard Jastein proved a steadying influence for this team back in the Nations Cup after a 32-year absence.
As time wore on Sudan found their bearing and began to take control of the midfield as they strung passes among themselves with great understanding. They would even have drawn level on 29 minutes but Gibril Alaedin ballooned his shot into the stands when it would have been much easier to score.
Zambia looked dangerous when they counter-attacked while the Nile Crocodiles enjoyed more of the ball but this was mostly in their own half of the pitch and so did not really trouble their opponents.
Sudanese target man Faisat Agab’s bouncing header on 48 minutes produced a finger-tip save from Mweene but Katongo responded for Zambia almost immediately as Elmuez was forced to stretch his giant frame before he could scramble the ball for a corner.
Mulenga headed home from the resultant corner for Zambia’s second goal of the night before Katongo added a third with a cool tap-in.
Mweene was forced to produce an unusual punch-out of Jasteine’s 66th minute powerful freekick as Sudan continued to mount pressure for a consolation goal but again and again they did not have the ammunition to get on the score board.
Mulenga was denied a second goal by Elmuez who dived full length to parry for a corner the lively Zambian striker’s goal-bound header in the 84th minute.
LUSAKA, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Zambia’s copper producers trimmed daily output following a second nationwide power failure within 48-hours and they planned to import 210 megawatts of power from the Democratic Republic Congo (DRC), officials said on Tuesday.
Neighbouring Zimbabwe also saw its second nationwide power blackout in two days, paralysing industry and dealing a further blow to its ailing economy.
A senior industry official said Zambia’s state power utility Zesco was rationing electricity supplies to mines due to a “systems failure.”
The power disruptions plunged the whole of Zambia into darkness for the second time on Monday night, forcing the vast copper and cobalt mines to suspend production.
“The mines are not producing normally because we are only able to supply them with power to keep emergency operations as Zesco has limited power supply,” said Hanson Sindowe, the chairman of power distributor, Copperbelt Energy Company (CEC).
CEC purchases power from Zesco for distribution to all the mines in Zambia.
“Zesco can only give us up to 400 megawatts, while total demand for power at current production levels is 530 megawatts. We are now in the process of arranging imports from the Congo, which will be between 200 megawatts and 210 megawatts,” Sindowe told Reuters.
There was uncertainty as to when normal power supplies would resume because Zesco had not identified the cause of the blackouts, which started on Saturday night. Sindowe said mining operations had not yet returned to normal.
OPERATIONS STOPPED
Industry officials said they had stopped operations at some mines in the mineral-rich southern Africa country to avoid endangering lives of miners and damaging equipment.
“We could not send the night shift underground because there is no point endangering the lives of people. The biggest danger is the frequency of the power failures and we are not sure when this will be resolved,” said Passmore Hamukoma at Zambia’s second largest mining unit, Mopani Copper Mines (MCM).
A nation-wide power blackout over the weekend hit copper and cobalt output in Zambia and briefly trapped workers underground.
Mines in Zimbabwe also continued to suffer huge losses due to stalled production on Tuesday and the electricity outtage there forced factories to a halt, while there was no trade on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.
The power cuts worsened already erratic water supplies that have assailed the country for months, with large parts of the main cities of Harare and Bulawayo as well as other urban centres going without water on Tuesday.
Officials at state power utility ZESA were not immediately available for comment, but state media quoted a company executive as saying the blackout resulted from a recurring systems failure at its Kariba hydro electrical plant on the border with Zambia.
Power outages have also caused partial flooding at mines in the two countries as water could not be pumped out.
Derek Webbstock, the chief executive of Luanshya Copper Mines, which operates Baluba copper mine and Chambishi Metals Plc, Zambia’s leading cobalt producer, said it had suffered losses totalling $5 million after the two power failures.
He said hoisting of copper from underground and the transportation of ores had been disrupted.
Webbstock said operations at LCM had not returned to full capacity on Tuesday because of damage to equipment despite power being restored and the firm was realigning its operations.
“This is very serious because we are losing income and this will affect economic growth. It will also impact on the workers and the community too and currently there is no proper information how long this might continue,” Webbstock added. (Additional reporting by Nelson Banya in Harare; Editing by Veronica Brown)
LUSAKA, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Zambian authorities said on Tuesday they had lifted a ban on a new project to construct a key leach plant for copper processing which was suspended a fortnight ago after it failed to meet environmental standards.
The Environmental Council of Zambia (ECZ) blocked a leach plant project at Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) a fortnight ago, after a spillage of pregnant liquor solution (PLS), which officials say contaminated drinking water pumped to residents.
The ECZ said in a statement that Mopani had elevated underground walls in the settler tanks and had also taken several other measures to avoid spillage.
The spillage contaminated drinking water and caused diarrhoea and dizziness among some residents of Mufulira town, 450 km (281 miles) north of Lusaka.
“The ECZ is now satisfied that the measures that have been put in place are adequate to prevent the recurrence of the events that led to the suspension of the Stage II Insitu Leach Operations,” the statement said.
Mopani chief services officer Passmore Hamukoma told Reuters that the project was near completion.
“The ECZ has therefore lifted the suspension on the operations of Stage II Insitu Leach with immediate effect,” the statement added.
Government officials in the mineral-rich Copper Belt province said Mopani had been negligent and had caused the water contamination.
Mopani, a joint venture of Swiss firm Glencore International AG [GLEN.UL] and Canada’s First Quantum Minerals (FM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research), is one of several copper and cobalt mines carrying out infrastructure expansions and upgrades to boost copper production, which is Zambia’s economic lifeblood.
Copper mining is Zambia’s economic mainstay and the vast copper mines are a major employer in this southern African country of 12 million people. (Reporting by Shapi Shacinda, Editing by Peter Blackburn)
Going by our track record, every level-headed Zambian knows that we at the Zambian Chronicle don’t support any kind of nonsense, corrupt and otherwise that is a direct derivative of the former president’s behavior.
Having said the above, we believe that every sane one of us will use intellectual honesty as a guiding principle as we deliberate on the following important matter.
We also understand that the matter is currently in the courts of law, therefore our deductive and inductive analyses will be limited to matters that may not be prejudicial in nature.
Well, if those FTJ shoes are really expensive in the eyes of the prosecutor, then he has not seen anything really expensive yet. Our estimates are that those shoes probably cost close to $200.00 each and what is that for head of state.
We would like to believe that the Pope wears bullet-proof shoes paid for by the Vatican … image the cost!!
We are made to believe that government coffers were used to purchase small boat(s), if those boats on the video are auctioned at eBay, I guarantee you they wouldn’t even fetch a couple of thousand dollars … try it if you want!
Tom Perkins’s yacht for example is estimated at $150,000,000 … and yes the zeroes are right; millions of dollars and you bring a simple boat that is worth nothing as an exhibit for a former head of state.
Watch Real Yachts In Action Above Not Simple Boats As Exhibits
Even the Mercedes Benz ML 350 shown does not cost over $50,000.00 brand new while the other vehicles in the clip can be imported from Dubai with a couple of thousands of dollars each.
Give us a break, why is it that all the real estate in Europe since been recovered does not appear in the exhibits? Is it because those where in the Como part of the villas as opposed to the Colleyville side of human excellence and style?
What we see in this is nothing but the lowest level of witch hunting and an explicit desire to exaggerate matters based on a high level of poverty. Poverty that has no understanding of real wealth and tritely no essence of comparison on a global scale.
We have become a laughing stock of others who understand true wealth, the world shakes its head when it sees those small boats as exhibits and all perpetrators of this trial are seen as individuals that are self-interested in the crux of the matter.
As long as the trial continues, the perpetrators will continue to draw a salary plundering the merger resources the Zambian Enterprise has. A question then arises as to who the true plunderers are and or might become.
We would like to believe that there are several avenues of entertainment value available to the general populace and this soap opera that has lasted over seven years now is certainly not one of them.
Those who would like to continue this saga so they can keeping feeding on it or those who actually are purported to have been stolen from the enterprise to purchase thousand dollars boats, custom make shoes and import used cars …
We have said it before and we will say it again. If the man is guilty, please do us all a favor and lock him up as of yesterday. And if the man is not, end this nonsense … it certainly does not take seven years to figure that out unless of course somebody has nothing else to do should this be brought to an end.
We appeal to all the powers that be to close this chapter for the Zambian Enterprise once and for all and don’t any body tell us it can’t be done in the first half of this year because it can. All it requires is a phone call from somebody and or pressure from within, let alone without …
It is costing us more perpetrating this trial not only in treasure and dignity but also in terms of the opportunity cost; and that’s this week’s memo from us at the Zambian Chronicle … thanks a trillion.
The trial of former president Frederick T J Chiluba has being going on for almost seven years now and most people (including us at the Zambian Chronicle) are beginning to wonder the seriousness of the prosecutors in bringing the matter to a close.
With the turn of events being what they have been for so long, a second look at the Chiluba fiasco brings into question whether what we have here is a systematic exposition of an abstract political theory aimed at the vilification of the accused. At this point, we are not looking at whether Chiluba really stole or he did not, we merely want to be dialectic by looking at the position taken so far by the prosecuting authorities.
A young Greek Sophist Thrasymachus once defined justice as whatever the strongest decided it was and that the strong decided that whatever was in their best interest was just.
Over the years, we have seen this kind of jurisprudence used; in fact, Chiluba himself used it at several turns in his presidency to his peril.
Nevertheless, just because he too used it does not make it right for if it was wrong then, it is plausible that it could be wrong today. No one wants justice done than any of us the Zambian Chronicle but we also are tired of the circus the fiasco has brought about.
It is time to execute and execute properly. Tones of taxpayer’s money are being used and the end of the day one needs to look at the cost-benefit analysis of the whole enterprise.
If we need to hurl Chiluba in prison then by all means, let us do that now and stop all the pussy pudding we have seeing. If we cannot make the case, let us shut the enterprise (the task force) down and move on to important issues affecting the nation.
One wonders what the powers that be are trying to prove by delaying this fiasco. Is it that there aren’t enough soap operas on Zambian Television and this seems to provide a holier than thou scenario for some? This certainly may seem to have entertainment value to some.
We say it is time to close shop on this and move on to other things, we do not want Chiluba to be Zambia’s main pre-occupation when in fact he isn’t. Once Chiluba is not within public eyes if convicted or exonerated if not, let his name be purged from all Zambian lips as we look forward to things that make Zambia proud.
Many powerful people he associated with around the world do not even want to hear his name mentioned and we are sure the Zambian populace is Chiluba weary either; that’s this weeks memo from us at the Zambian Chronicle … thanks a trillion
LUSAKA (AFP) — Zambia’s Supreme Court will next week decide whether a British writer who described President Levy Mwanawasa as a fool should be deported, a court clerk said Thursday.“Judgement is set for January 24” in the case against Roy Clarke, a court clerk told AFP.
Clarke was issued with a deportation order in 2004 after he wrote a satirical article in the privately owned daily The Post in which he referred to Mwanawasa as “Mawelewele”, a word for a fool in local dialect.
However, the Lusaka high court blocked his deportation on the grounds that it was against freedom of expression as enshrined in the Zambian constitution.
The Zambian government appealed against the decision to the Supreme Court, asking to be allowed to deport Clarke because he was a danger to society.
Clarke is married to a Zambian women’s rights activist and has lived in the southern African country for more than three decades.
Heavy rains in the Zambezi valley have flooded four countries
Zambia has declared the floods sweeping through the country “a national disaster”.
The authorities have closed schools, converting them into shelters for thousands of displaced people.
President Levy Mwanawasa, in a television address, said a concerted effort was needed by the whole country to deal with the crisis.
More than 40 people have been killed in the region, and roads, crops and livestock destroyed.
Neighbouring Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi have also been affected by heavy rains for several weeks, causing swollen rivers to burst their banks.
On Thursday, President Mwanawasa visited some of the worst affected areas.
“This is a national disaster and it requires concerted efforts of all of us to solve,” Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa said on state television.
The government’s Disaster Management Unit and the Red Cross have set up a $250m contingency fund to be used to acquire emergency shelters, such as tents, and food kits.
PATRIOTIC Front (PF) leader Michael Sata has said he is ready to hand over the party presidency should anyone decide to challenge him and win the election as the party is not short of leaders.
And Mr Sata has said the 26 PF Members of Parliament (MPs) participating in the NCC, are running an organ parallel to the party establishment.
Mr Sata said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that the party was planning ahead as it had information that some delegates to the NCC would champion an age-limit clause to bar him from standing for republican presidency.
The opposition leader also said the MPs led by Peter Machungwa would soon be resigning from the party.
He said he had a limit as to how far he could go as a mortal man and, therefore, any one from within the party could take over from him, as he did not have the leadership monopoly.
Mr Sata said while he was confident the party would produce a vibrant younger leader, he hoped that such a “Young Turk” would, however, not be more radical than him.
Defending PF spokesperson Given Lubinda’s purported presidential ambitions, Mr Sata said he foresaw what was happening in the party a long time ago and guided the leadership.
He said as early as June last year, he had proposed to the party central committee that the leadership should invite applications for all positions including the presidency.
To confirm that, Mr Sata produced the minutes of the central committee meeting held on June 30, 2007.
Flanked by his vice-president, Guy Scott and national secretary, Edward Mumbi, Mr Sata said it was therefore, not in order for anyone to accuse another person of campaigning or harbouring presidential ambitions because anyone was free to stand for any position.
When asked when the party general conference would be held, Mr Sata said the decision for that would only be made after the other organs had the elections.
He said last week’s Press briefing by Mr Lubinda, had the blessings of the party and whatever he said, reflected the party position on various matters.
He said, unlike Mr Lubinda, the MPs participating in the NCC were running a parallel organ and wondered who authorised the meetings they had been holding since the party’s parliamentary whip, Dr Scott, was not aware of them.
Mr Sata said Mr Lubinda was free to challenge him because the PF was a democratic party and other members should not be apprehensive about that.
He said the party had information that the 26 MPs and some other disgruntled members would soon announce their resignation from the party to form a new one.
He said the PF was on the ground, ready for them and in anticipation, some members had started applying for the imminent vacant positions adding that the number of applicants had overwhelmed the party.
Mr Sata said that for Matero Constituency alone, the party has received 31 applications while there were 25 for Chawama.
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