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House Maids – A Dying Breed

Dust pan and Broom

Now with the lockdown, we can no longer enjoy the services of our maid because, apart from confining my family to our home, the lockdown has also confined our maid to her home. So for the first time in our life, we have to do our own house cleaning.

The Black Dollar Fortune

Fred Chirwa (not his real name) had just retired from a full time job as a locomotive driver at Zambia railways in Kitwe. He got his retirement package of Fifty five million Zambian kwacha (K55, 000,000).   The separation package that he was paid was a net balance after the company deducted the amount for…