A suspected prostitute was on Monday killed by unknown people in Mufulira after servicing her clients.
Mufulira District Commissioner Beatrice Miti has confirmed the death of Charity Kadaka whose cause of death is not yet known.
Miti said Kadaka’s body was discovered by friends in the morning.
Miti said it is suspected Kadaka was strangled and that the assailants also tampered with her private parts that indicated signs of bruises.
She said when they took the body to hospital, they met the deceased’s mother, who identified her saying she stayed in Ndola and not Mufulira.
The former ZCAS student Iris Kaingu, who was on Tuesday found guilty of producing pornographic materials by Lusaka magistrate Prince Mwinga has been fined K10.8 million cash.
The MMD vice-president Michael Kaingu's daughter had been detained at Lusaka central prison until until this morning when she was sentenced.
Meanwhile, Iris who has over 1,000 friends on social network facebook has attracted sympathy from 3,500 'fans'.
A facebook group calling itself "Free Iris community" has 3,690 member-and counting, asking President Sata to pardon Kaingu.
However, two other groups have been formed on Facebook arguing that freeing Iris would be unfair to other prisoners who have been punished for similar offenses
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Former ZICAS student Iris Kaingu has been found guilty of producing pornographic materials by Lusaka magistrate Prince Mwinga.
Sentencing has been reserved for Thursday.
During mitigation her lawyers stated that Iris lost her career, suffered public ridicule,and her case has been widely publicised.
The MMD vice-president Michael Kaingu's daughter will remain detained at Lusaka central prison until Thursday when she will be sentenced.
Magistrate Mwiinga denied Iris bail saying there were no special circumstances for which she could be granted bail.
Two of Iris' sisters along with other relatives were present when magistrate Mwinga convicted her
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THE Lusaka Magistrate Court has deferred to next week judgement in a matter in which a Zambia Centre for Accountancy Studies student, Iris Kaingu, has been charged with production of obscene materials likely to corrupt people’s morals.
Magistrate Prince Mwiinga said he could not deliver judgement yesterday because he had received submissions late.
He said he would make his judgement next week when he will have completed studying the submissions taken to him by both the defence and prosecution.
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Members of Parliament’s social development portfolio committee are so impressed with a sex workers’ support programme in Durban that they want it replicated in other provinces.
The MPs visited a Morningside organisation, NGO Lifeline, to learn about its Thubalethu Sex Workers Programme, which offers emotional wellness support and encourages sex workers to get tested for HIV and Aids.
The committee’s chairwoman, Yolanda Botha, said once a report had been compiled about their visit to KwaZulu-Natal, she would recommend that the national Department of Social Development assist other provinces to establish an organisation that would have similar operations to Lifeline’s.
“Sex workers are a national problem, but I have noticed that other provinces don’t even have programmes like these,” she said. “This is a challenge everywhere and as a committee we would like the programme to be expanded.”
The organisation’s director, Pravisha Dhanapalan, said the programme used “peer educators” – most of them former sex workers – to help identify places where sex workers operated.