Pande Cries for North Western Province after Sata Speech
Movement for Multi Party Democracy mational chairperson Kabinga Pande says the President’s address to parliament neglected any pronouncements on development for North Western Province. Pande said while...
View ArticleEmmanuel Mwamba, Kapeya Take over Airwaves for Propaganda
Newly appointed Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Mwansa Kapeya and his Permanent Secretary Emmanuel Mwamba have taken over the airwaves on the public media spreading their comments across...
View ArticlePF Want to Assassinate Me, says Nevers Mumba
Opposition Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) leader Nevers Mumba has told told journalists there were maneuvers by the Patriotic Front regime to assassinate him. This was after he appeared for...
View ArticleOpinion: PF’s Self-destructive Traits
If there is one trait the Patriotic Front government holds in abundance it is their ability to self destruct. Barely a few days before the British Broadcasting Corporation holds their Africa Debate in...
View ArticleFinal Draft Constitution Becomes ‘Secret’ Document
The Technical Committee on the constitution says it will not avail the public an opportunity to critique the final draft constitution as earlier planned. Technical committee spokesperson Ernest Mwansa...
View ArticleHamasaka Pleads Not Guilty to ‘Porn’ Charge
Former Evelyn Hone College lecturer Clayson Hamasaka has pleaded not guilty to a charge of being in possession of obscene material. Hamasaka, 43, appeared before Magistrate Obster Musukwa and pleaded...
View ArticleOpinion: Nkandu Luo and Chitimukulu
PF Ministers are strange ones. One day Kansembe says he shouldn’t have visited the Chitimukulu. The next GBM is saying he is free to see the Chitimukulu so he should not have been stopped. Now Nkandu...
View ArticlePF Has Lost 2 Years – Fr Bwalya
Alliance for a Better Zambia president Father Frank Bwalya says the Patriotic Front has lost two years trying to politically entrench themselves rather than focus on development. Father Bwalya said he...
View ArticleDwindling Exports Worry JCTR
The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection says the dwindling exports by Zambia should worry the country. Programmes Manager Brian Banda said the reported reduction on exports in the case of Egypt...
View Article‘Secret’ Constitution Drafts Faces Stern Criticism
Government’s decision not to release the final draft constitution has been roundly condemned by the various sectors of society. The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) has urged the technical...
View ArticleSata Won’t Deliver People Driven Constitution – Mucheleka
Lubansenshi Constituency Independent Member of Parliament Patrick Mucheleka says he does not expect President Michael Sata to deliver a people driven constitution as he is comfortable with the...
View ArticleMweetwa Shocked After Mwamba’s FOI Remarks
Choma Central Member of Parliament Cornelius Mweetwa says it is shocking that newly appointed Information Permanent Secretary Emmanuel Mwamba is saying the Freedom of Information Bill will not be...
View ArticleTwo Die in Mansa Road Accident
Two people have died in a road traffic accident along the Mansa/Mwense Road when the car they were travelling overturned after a tyre burst. The duo, Ephraim Hamatende and John Mulenga, was aboard a...
View ArticleEx-Barotse Premier Arrested
Police in Western Province have arrested the former Ngambela Clement Sinyinda for allegedly being the driver of the Barotseland session move. Sinyinda was picked with the police alleging that he sent...
View ArticleMatibini Orders Ministerial Statement on PF Demos
Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini was forced to order Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu to isssue a Ministerial Statement following the Zambia Police Force’s consistently allowing...
View ArticleOpinion: The Legacy of King Cobra
It was the cool of the evening in Mfuwe, and all the animals were gathered around the watering hole for their usual discussion of the affairs of state. ‘I wonder,’ said the Wise Elephant, ‘why we have...
View ArticleZambia Will Have PF Constitution – Civil Society
The Civil Society Coalition on the Constitution says Zambia looks set to have a Patriotic Front Constitution after the announcement that the public will not have the opportunity to scrutinize the final...
View ArticlePF Government Stuck with Maamba Mine
Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma says government is stuck with Maamba’s Colum Coal Mine seven months after revoking the licence of the Chinese firm that ran it. Yaluma said the government was failing...
View ArticleZNFU Raise Flag on Delayed Payments
The Zambia National Farmers Union has raised the flag on government’s delay to pay farmers after their supply of maize to the Food Reserve Agency. ZNFU president Jervis Zimba said the delay was causing...
View ArticleKabimba Dividing PF – Chikwelete
Patriotic Front Lusaka District chairperson Robert Chikwelete says Wynter Kabimba’s 2016 clandestine presidential bid is the source of the party’s disintegration. Featuring on the UK-based online radio...
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