Zambia’s Trial of Journalist Tests Legal Boundaries
Lusaka Principal Resident Magistrate Obbister Musukwa is on Friday October 17, 2014 expected to deliver ruling in the continued trial of freelance journalist Chanda Chimba, III who on October 8, 2014...
View ArticleSolwezi Council Struggle With Budget Despite Hosting 3 Mines
Despite hosting three mines namely, Kansanshi, Kalumbila and Barrick, Solwezi Municipal Council has continued to face numerous challenges to raise funds to run its expenditure in 2015. Surprisingly,...
View ArticleOpposition Alliance Keep Doors Open for Rupiah
Opposition Alliance chairperson Malimba Masheke says former President Rupiah Banda is welcome to join the alliance. The Zambian Voice has recently suggested that if Banda is to make a political...
View Article14 Battle for Their Life after Kasama Bus Crush
Fourteen people are battling for their lives in Kasama after the minibus that they were travelling in was involved in an accident. The minibus, registration number ACX 5784, careered off the road when...
View ArticleScott Reveals Deep Seated Loathe for Online Media
Vice President Guy Scott was at it again during the lively Vice President Question time in parliament taking on everything thrown at him and showed no love for the growing spectre of online journalism...
View ArticleConfusion Over Allocation of Displaced Mindolo Plots in Kitwe
Some tenants who were occupying houses which the Kitwe City Council demolished in Mindolo North have not benefited from the plots the council had offered the displaced locals. One of the residents who...
View ArticleBritish Envoy Supports PF Wage Freeze
British High Commissioner to Zambia James Thornton has backed the Patriotic Front (PF) government’s decision to maintain the wage freeze on the civil service in the 2015 financial year. This is despite...
View ArticleZambia Announces 25 Locals to Face Renard’s Ivory Coast
Coach Honour Janza has named 26 local guns to face the Elephants of Ivory Coast on October, 25 in Lusaka at Heroes Stadium. Janza has handed calls ups to several junior teams although the absence of...
View ArticlePF Infighting in Full Display at Traditional Basoli Ceremony
Not even the all embracing Chakwela Makumbi Traditional ceremony of the Basoli people of Chongwe near Lusaka yesterday could camaflouge the bad blood between two warring factions in the Patriotic Front...
View ArticleNAREP Calls for Stronger ‘Social Enterprise’ in Zambia
The following press release was circulated by the National Restoration Party (NAREP): NAREP Head of International Relations Pascal Nsokolo has called upon the government to promote and provide an...
View ArticleSakwiba Exposes M’membe’s Well-Known Plagarism
The following article was researched and authored by Zambian lawyer Sakwiba Sikota, president of the United Liberal Party (ULP), and former columnist at The Post Newspaper. THE POSTHUMOUS NEWSPAPER’S...
View ArticleSimuusa Struggles to Explain High Mealie Meal Price in Wake of Bumper Harvest
Agriculture minister Wybur Simusa on Friday night laboured to explain why the bumper harvest is not translating into reduced mealie meal prices. Speaking during the Post Press Freedom Committe...
View ArticleKitwe DC Told Off by Private Firm Over Independence Deco
There was drama at Kitwe Town Centre yesterday when a business owner told off Kitwe District Commissioner Elias Kamanga that his native – United Kingdom – didn’t celebrate independence as the case was...
View ArticleRupiah Talks Zambia’s Jubilee on Top South Africa TV Channel
Zambia’s fourth Republican president Rupiah Banda is featuring on the internationally respected e-tv’s Africa 360 programme tailored for the continental channel. The programme is anchored by Kwangu...
View ArticleGuy Scott’s Analogy at Jubilee Prayers
Vice-President Guy Scott says he has learnt from a book he has been reading recently that people make music to avoid going mad. Dr. Scott says thesis of the book, whose title and author he has not...
View ArticleIt’ll Be Mockery to Give PF Another 10 Yrs, says Dr Banda
Opposition United Party National Development (UPND) vice president for politics Dr Canisius Banda says it is a mockery to the Zambian people for Republican Vice president Guy Scott to ask that the PF...
View ArticleUTH Service Fees Up by 200%
THE University Teaching Hospital (UTH) has hiked user fees by up to 200 percent for services under the premium and standard patients’ schemes owing to the high cost of goods and services. And doctors...
View ArticleUS Designates Human Rights Man as New Ambassador to Zambia
In the wake of declining human rights record in Zambia, the United States of America has designated a human rights inclined specialists who served in dictatorial countries like Russia, Harare, Ukraine...
View ArticleAs President Travels for Treatment, State House Tries New PR Strategy
Earlier today a brief media statement was circulated to media house by the Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations George Chellah announcing that President Michael Sata had last night traveled...
View ArticleKitwe Residents Run Amok as Police Fire Teargas at a School
For the second time in under two weeks, police in Kitwe this morning returned to the street to disperse residents who are frustrated with the ruling Patriotic Front government’s service delivery firing...
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