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PF Approves Sata’s Proposed Retirement Age
Government has approved the raise of the retirement age from 55 to 65 years old. Secretary to the Cabinet Rowland Msiska said government will proceed to effect the changes. Msiska said the change had...
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Local Side Defeat Chipolopolo in Practice Match
FAZ Super Division leaders Nkana have defeated Chipolopolo 2-1 during a training match at Wusakile Stadium to dim Herve Renard’s spirits as the team prepares for next month’s twin 2014 World Cup...
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Two of Sata’s Pardoned Criminals Gunned Down
Two of the five bandits police gunned down in Chisamba yesterday were among hundreds of criminals President Michael Sata pardoned during Independence Day celebrations last year. President Sata has gone...
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Mwamba Pursues Mongu Trades School over Funds
Wester Province Permanent Secretary Emmanuel Mwamba has given Mongu Trades Training Institute management a seven-day ultimatum to account for more than K1.2 billion (KR1.2m) that has allegedly been...
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Mutembo Nchito Confirms Holding on to Rupiah’s Trips
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mutembo Nchito will study the merits and demerits of a request by former President Rupiah Banda to travel for a meeting in Johannesburg before making a decision to...
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Nawakwi Calls Defecting MPs “Monkeys”
Opposition Forum for Democracy and Development President Edith Nawakwi has likened Members of Parliament who are defecting to the ruling party to monkeys. And Nawakwi said the PF had lied to the...
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Edgar Lungu Defends Wasteful By-Elections
Acting President Edgar Lungu has continued to assert his authority by moving to justify the widely condemned Patriotic Front induced and costly by-election that country is holding nearly every two...
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Shakafuswa Warns of Budget Deficit
Former finance deputy minister Jonas Shakafuswa has warned against a huge budget deficit as it will distort the economy. Shakafuswa said the rush to scrap off funds through subsidies may have been as a...
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Adjustment of Retirement Age from 55 to 65 Stirs Ire
Operation Young Vote has condemned the increase of the retirement from 55 to 65 years by the Patriotic Front government as proposed by its leader President Michael Sata. Organization chairperson Guess...
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Greyford Moonde Hanging on to UPND Through Supreme Court
A panicky Greyford Moonde has rushed to the Supreme Court to challenge the the High Court’s decision to throw out his application for the injunction to challenge his expulsion from the opposition UPND....
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Fuel Protests Erupt in Mpulungu
Motorists in Mpulungu district of Northern Province this morning protested against the confiscation of drums of fuel by Zambia Police. The irate motorists have further blocked Mbala-Mpulungu road with...
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Oasis Forum Seek Law to Protect Constitution Drafting
The Oasis Forum has announced plans to come up with a private members bill to present to Parliament with the intention of protecting the current constitution making process and the contents of the new...
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Crop Forecast Drops by 11 Percent
The Central Statistical Office (CSO) has projected that the crop forecast for the year 2012/13 season will reduce by 11 percent. Central Statistical Office acting director Goodson Sinyenga said the...
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Govt Deducts Meal Allowances of UNZA Students
The government has begun deducting meal allowances from students at the University of Zambia Great East Road campus by Kr 700 in order to recover funds for damaged infrastructure during recent protests...
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PF Militiamen Assault Black Friday Protesters
Patriotic Front cadres armed with sticks and sjamboks this morning unleashed their brutality on Civil Society Organizations members that had gathered at Matero’s Bible Gospel Outreach Centre by beating...
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UPND Demands Mine Audit to Secure Jobs
The United Party for National Development (UPND) has called on the Patriotic Front government to immediately institute an audit in the mines to ascertain the levels of security of tenure of jobs. This...
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Militia Attack on Church Grounds for Impeachment – CDDR
According to a press release circulated by the Coalition for the Defence of Democratic Rights (CDDR), today’s attack on a group of protesters holding a meeting in a church by a government-sponsored...
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Bishop Mambo Shocked by Church Attack
Bishop John Mambo says the PF cadres’ attack on members of the civil society organisations (CSOs) during a prayer meeting at Bible Gospel Outreach Centre had set the tone for the direction the Michael...
View ArticleInterest Rates Raised to 9.5%
Zambia’s central bank increased its benchmark interest rate for the first time in seven months to curb accelerating inflation. The policy rate was raised by 25 basis points to 9.5 percent, the...
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Opinion: Is a Bloodbath Imminent in Zambia?
When that American human rights luminary Malcom X said sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down, he was wary of the fact that violence begets violence, a timely warning to the...
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