Monday, November 20, 2006

Even The Zambians Are Deporting Zimbabweans!!!
Report by Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation
(Lusaka)
Over six hundred Zimbabweans have been repatriated for illegally staying in Zambia.
The Zimbabweans, mostly women, were rounded up in Lusaka Saturday and loaded onto buses which will leave them at Siavonga on the border between the two countries.

The arrests and deportation of the Zimbabweans who have in the recent past flooded the streets of Lusaka selling sweets, chocolates, peanut butter, biscuits, chillies, Mazoe drinks and duvets comes after a night operation.

Immigration department spokesperson, Mulako Mbangweta says some of the deportees engage themselves in illegal business deals.
Ms. Mbangweta said 15 Zimbabwean women were arrested at a named motel were they engaged in prostitution.
She said Zambia is a Christian nation and would not condone such acts.

But one of the Zimbabweans, Priscilla Mabasa said they were in Zambia to conduct business because their country is going through economic hardships.
Ms. Mabasa said the Zimbabweans need to make money to earn a living.
She however condemned her fellow women who engage in sex for cash.
Meanwhile China has cancelled Zambian debts to Beijing.
According to the ZNBC, China has offered to cancel all debts to Zambia on interest free loans that where due in 2005.
The 211 million US dollar loan to TAZARA railway has been written off and China will also set up a trade economic zone in Chambeshi on the copperbelt.
China will increase imports from Africa by zero rating tariffs on 450 items assist Zambia construct an ultra modern football stadium.

Does anyone know anything that Zimbabwe got from the recently ended China Africa Summit

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