• 27 Jul 2018
• Abraham Kalito

Crop marketing has totally failed in Zambia - CSPR

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) has observed that crop marketing, specifically maize marketing, has completely failed in Zambia. And CSPR says the policy reversal on the maize purchasing price reinforces the fact that maize remains a political crop in the country. President Edgar Lungu recently directed the FRA to review and adjust upwards...

• 27 Jul 2018
• Stuart Lisulo

Zambia's economic outlook negative - Fitch

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Zambia’s credit rating at ‘B’, but with a negative economic outlook, mainly triggered by continued uncertainty about the government’s commitment to consolidate public finances and a high public debt burden. In a press release issued via Fitch’s Hong Kong bureau, Thursday, Fitch Ratings has affirmed Zambia's long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating...

• 27 Jul 2018
• Mukubesa Mundia

Petersen delivers touching vote of thanks

Fellow Lusaka Residents, Countrymen and Women.... First and foremost, great thanks to everyone who decided to vote for me and my PAC team. I'm less than 32 days in this arena today, the political party l stand on is less than 2 and half years in existence, your decision to vote for us is very...

• 27 Jul 2018
• Mukosha Funga

Voter apathy indictment on ECZ - HH

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says the voter apathy which characterised the Lusaka Mayoral polls is an indictment on the Electoral Commission of Zambia. And Hichilema says President Edgar Lungu is a joker who cannot be trusted to uphold any resolutions that could come out of dialogue. Speaking to journalists after casting his vote at Kabulonga...

• 27 Jul 2018
• Stuart Lisulo

Inflation shoots back to 7.8%

The annual rate of inflation has again shot up to 7.8 per cent, from 7.4 per cent recorded in June, according to Central Statistical Office data. Announcing Zambia’s annual rate of inflation for the month of July, CSO acting director of census and statistics Goodson Sinyenga said the rise in inflation this month was largely...

• 27 Jul 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Shepande sues State, Copper Harvest Foods over K23.1m debt

Shepande and Company has dragged Copper Harvest Foods Limited, Sabrina’s Farmers Harvest Limited and the State to court claiming damages for breach of agreement and an order directing the defendants to pay K23,110,203 plus interest, as fees for pursuing and collecting a debt. The law firm laments that they have suffered loss and damage as...

• 27 Jul 2018
• Stuart Lisulo

Mine accident kills KCM employee

An accident at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in Chingola has claimed the life of a KCM business partner employee, according to Vedanta Africa Base Metals. According to a statement, the accident occurred at Konkola Mine, Shaft 4 in Chililabombwe, Wednesday. “It is with great sadness that Vedanta Africa Base Metals confirms that an accident at...

• 27 Jul 2018
• Mukosha Funga

57,601 apply for 1,000 police jobs countrywide

Police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo has revealed that the Zambia Police Service received 57,061 applications for 1,000 jobs countrywide. In a statement today, Katongo stated that Lusaka received the highest number of applications. "The Zambia Police Service received 57, 601 applications across the country in the recruitment exercise which was recently advertised for 1,000 Police...

• 27 Jul 2018
• Alex Chilumbwe

Soccer fans protest Ng’onga inclusion to provisional squad

An outcry from soccer fans condemning the inclusion of Alex Ng’onga to the 23-member squad that Chipolopolo coach Sven Vandenbroeck unveiled on Monday is making rounds on social media. The fans accuse Ng’onga of having broken their hearts during the World Cup qualifier games and argued that he should not be given another chance yet....

• 27 Jul 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Police officers pushed ZAF Sgt as he fell on his head, witness tells court

A witness has told the Lusaka High Court that a female police officer ordered other officers at Woodlands Police station to push ZAF flight sergeant Mark Choongwa into a cell where he landed on the floor, hitting the back of his head. In this matter, Veronica Shawa, 44, a police officer of SOS Humanitarian area,...