• 7 Nov 2017
• Linda Jere

Poor land administration will cost Zambia space for development - Auditor General

The Auditor General says if the Ministry of Lands does not sufficiently regulate the system of land alienation, Zambia will have a shortage of land for future development. In the Report of the Auditor General on Government’s Efforts to Ensure Access to Land in an Effective Manner, the Auditor General noted that the system of...

• 7 Nov 2017
• Diggers Reporter

Fire Tender Protesters' case fails to take off again

The case in which musician Chama Fumba aka Pilato and five others are facing a charge of failure to comply with lawful orders by protesting against the purchase of 42 fire enginees and $42 million has failed to take off in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court for the second time. According to the state, the docket...

• 7 Nov 2017
• Linda Jere

Zambia Union of Govt and Allied Workers defends Lungu's remarks on judges

The Zambia Union of Government and Allied Workers has risen to defend President Edgar Lungu’s remarks on the Judiciary saying that yielding to outside influence is sacrificing judicial independence. At the media briefing today, UG president Muyaywa Kabisa said trivializing President Lungu’s ‘advice’ to judges was paying a blind eye to issues of state capture....

• 7 Nov 2017
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Police pick up headless body in Chibolya

Police this morning picked up a decomposed headless body of a man believed to be in his early twenties which packed in a 50kg bag in Lusaka’s Chibolya compound. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo confirmed this in a statement saying the body also had both legs and arms amputated. Katongo revealed that the body was discovered...

• 7 Nov 2017
• Mirriam Chabala

HH explains Paradise Papers: There's nothing illegal

In this audio, UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says he is happy with the Paradise Papers because they show that Zambians can be entrepreneurial by investing abroad and bringing the money back home. And HH says he has only contested two proper elections since he took over the UPND. HH has been named in the latest...

• 7 Nov 2017
• Mirriam Chabala

Rampant theft of public funds will lead to national bankruptcy - CSPR

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction says the rate at which public resources are being misappropriated by those in authority has potential to leave the national treasury bankrupt. CSPR Eastern Province Coordinator Maxson Nkhoma said in a statement today that it was disheartening to see how public officials had continued mismanaging public funds as revealed...

• 7 Nov 2017
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

One dies, 3 injured in accident involving Mambilima's convoy

One person has died while three others have sustained minor injuries in a road traffic accident which involved Chief Justice Ireen Mambilima's convoy. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo confirmed this in a statement today but clarified that Chief Justice Mambilima was not affected as the vehicle she was in was not involved in the accident which...

• 7 Nov 2017
• Diggers Editor

Lungu vomiting what he ate in the night

President Edgar Lungu is right that if the Constitutional Court declares him ineligible to stand in 2021, there will be chaos. We totally agree with the Head of State, and in fact this is what we warned about in our editorial opinion titled “Let’s discuss Lungu’s successor now”. In our opinion, we said “those in...

• 7 Nov 2017
• Mukosha Funga

Auditor General singles out civil servant who stole K2.5m

The Auditor General’s report has revealed that a Ministry of General Education employee paid himself a total of K2,577,055 in the year ended 2016, for unexplained purposes. According to the Auditor General, a Bwalya L Phiri used different initials on nine occasions to draw money from a Ministry of General Eduction account, in an attempt...