PF Struggle to Compensate Collum Coal Mine Owners
The Patriotic Front government is still delaying to compensate owners of Chinese Collumn Coal Mine that they have repossessed after alleged poor management. Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma has...
View ArticleConstitution Committee in Final Stages – Mwansa
The technical committee drafting the constitution has started finalizing the report on the final constitution. Spokesperson Ernest Mwansa has said after finalizing the report, it will go for proof...
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Kaunda Earn Statue at Lusaka Airport
First president Kenneth Kaunda has earned himself a statue at the KK International Airport from his sympathetic Patriotic Front government. Transport minister Yamfwa Mukanga has said the KK statute is...
View ArticlePolice Arrest Woman for Chaining Nephew
Police in Mazabuka has arrested a 32 year old woman for tying her nephew to a door frame of her house as punishment for misusing money. The woman identified as Annie Ngoma is alleged to have tied her...
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Will PF Block Dora Siliya Today?
After days of playing hide and seek political parties in the forthcoming parliamentary by-elections in Mkaika in Katete District, Malambo in Mambwe District and Petauke Central in Petauke District in...
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HIV Drug Shortage Worsens in Zambia
Following the shortage of HIV Aids drugs Neverapin and Truvada government has not opted to load patients with a lesser potent drug Tripula, a move opposed by the Treatment Literacy Advocate Centre....
View ArticleKambwili Takes Sports University to Luanshya
Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili has opted to take the proposed new Sports University to his him town Luanshya. Kambwili announced that the proposed multi sports discipline would be built in Luanshya...
View ArticleDispute Brews in Chief Chisele Area over FQM Dam
A dispute is brewing in Chief Chisele’s area in North Western Province where residents have opposed government’s decision to allow First Quantum Mines to build the Chisola Dam that will lead to the...
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LAZ Disputes Judiciary Statement on Dora, Others
The Law Association of Zambia says the statement by the judiciary that candidates whose election has been nullified by the courts of law are ineligible stand is a nullity as it lacks the force of the...
View ArticleEight Prisoners Escape in Isoka
Eight detainess have escaped from the Isoka remadee prison after breaking the bars to the entrance. Out of the eight, three have been recaptured with one found dead in unxplained circumstances although...
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CSOs Condemn Judiciary on By-Elections
The Consortium of Civil Society Organizations has commended the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) for suspending the filing of nominations in three parliamentary by-elections. The suspensions in...
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Gen Miyanda Goes for Supreme Court
Opposition Heritage Party president Brigadier General Godfrey Miyanda has issued a statement condemning the Lombe Chibesakunda led Supreme Court on the postponement of three by-elections. Below is a...
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Opinion: The Fantasies of a Newspaper Man
So what if Fred M’membe had God on remote control joyfully pulling the strings as he watches his enemies fall and his chosen ones rise. He could by the drop of a hat banish former Republican President...
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Chipimo Comes to the Defence of Electoral Body
Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu’s call for the disbanding of the Electoral Commission of Zambia has received widespread condemnation. National Restoration Party President Elias Chipimo says the...
View ArticleLusaka Lawyer Leaving in Fear after Office Break In
The offices of a Lusaka based lawyer Martha Mushipe were on Monday night broken into and raided by suspected thieves who got away with a computer in which most of her sensitive and political cases were...
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Economic Independence Eludes Zambia’s Disabled
It’s been a year since the government of Zambia passed the Persons with Disabilities Act 2012 (PDB), and advocates for the severely disabled say the key issue of economic independence remains...
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Civil Society Questions Supreme Court
Civil society organisations in Zambia are raising alarm over the recent disqualification of candidates for parliamentary by-elections by the Supreme Court, prompting concerns over executive pressure on...
View ArticleNevers Warns PF over ECZ
The opposition Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) has cautioned that the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) will be initiating its exist from government if it dares to temper with the work of the...
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Opinion: Who is Running the Judiciary?
We are on a slippery slope and unless the Judiciary in particular, and the legal fraternity in general, arrest the drift, our judicial system will disintegrate beyond repair with the attendant threat...
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PF Undermining ECZ – Changala
There is a deliberate campaign to discredit the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) in an effort to hound out its leadership by the Patriotic Front (PF) government, Civil Rights Activist Brebner...
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