• 31 Jan 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

Zambia needs to implement waste management strategy - Sinkamba

Green Party leaders Peter Sinkamba says Zambia will not see a lot of measures being taken to completely eliminate the cholera epidemic until government implements the waste management strategy. And Sinkamba says it is regrettable that government waited until people started dying of the epidemic before moving in to implement protective measures to arrest the...

• 31 Jan 2018
• Daniel Chansa

There is food in the ruling party, PF official tells defectors

UPND Copperbelt treasurer Tom Diwali has resigned and joined the ruling Patriotic Front. And Copperbelt PF chairman Steven Kainga says there is food in the PF and has assured defectors that they will eat with him. Siwale said he did not see any reason why he would not be part of the development in ruling...

• 31 Jan 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Give UPND chance to rule - Mwashingwele

UPND Deputy Spokesperson Patricia Mwashingwele has asked Zambians to give her party an opportunity to government, and end corruption. And Mwashingwele has challenged Vice-President Inonge Wina to explain where the money which was collected for the construction of the new city market is. Speaking when she featured on Radio Christian Voice's ‘Chatback’ programme, Monday, Mwashingwele...

• 31 Jan 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

Beatrice Hangwende's transfer from Mukobeko causes public outcry

The Zambia Correctional Service says the transfer of Lusaka business woman Beatrice Hangwende from Mukobeko Maximum Prison in Kabwe to Lusaka's Chimbokaila Remand Prison is not aimed at providing her comfort. Hangwende, a famous Lusaka business woman was sentenced to death along with her elder brother John and two others for murdering her husband’s lover...

• 31 Jan 2018
• Chanda Waibela

Open letter to the President: Zambia is above the interest of any political party

To the President, His Excellency Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu. Your Excellence Sir, it is almost a reality that the cadres from the ruling Patriotic Front - PF appear to be more privileged Zambians than any native of this country. The PF cadres willingly enjoy the freedoms which other “ordinary” Zambians only dream about. The PF...

• 31 Jan 2018
• Diggers Reporter

Njoya's wife gets 5 years for assaulting niece

Lusaka magistrate Greenwell Malumani has sentenced Zambia Association of Musicians president Njoya Tembo's wife Brenda to five years simple imprisonment for assaulting her niece. In this matter, facts before the court were that Brenda beat up her niece with a cooking stick after the girl used her pressing iron which she was prohibited from using....

• 31 Jan 2018
• Mukosha Funga

IMF bailout delay won't affect budget - Govt

Government says the delay in sealing the International Monetary Fund package will not affect financing of the 2018 budget. In a statement, Tuesday, Ministry of Finance Public Relations Head Chileshe Kandeta insisted that that the IMF program was meant to support balance of payments and would therefore not have an impact on the 2018 budget....

• 31 Jan 2018
• Diggers Reporter

ConCourt adjourns Lungu's eligibility case indefinitely

The Constitutional Court has adjourned President Edgar Lungu's eligibility case indefinitely owing to the complaint filed by the petitioners against ConCourt president Hildah Chibomba. Christian Democratic Party president Dan Pule, Zambia Republican Party leader Wright Musoma, New Congress Party president Peter Chanda and Robert Mwanza of the Citizen Democratic party, Monday, asked the Judicial Complaints...

• 31 Jan 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Lungu is preoccupied with third term bid - Chifire

Youth activist Gregory Chifire has observed that President Edgar Lungu is preoccupied with his ambition to stand for the third term, instead of working to improve the lives of the poor people who voted him into office. In an interview with News Diggers! on Monday, Chifire said President Lungu was preoccupied with personal aggrandisement at...

• 31 Jan 2018
• Diggers Reporter

Lusaka man gets 6 years for robbery

The Lusaka Magistrates' Court has jailed a 24-year-old-man to six years imprisonment for robbery. Facts are that Stanely Chola of Lusaka's Kalikiliki compound on September 5, 2017 stole K1,400 from Uwingeneye Claudine. On the said date, Chola went to Claudine's Bonanza Gambling Shop in Mtendere compound around 20:00 hours played a few games and won...