Newly-elected Copperbelt PF Provincial Chairperson Nathan Chanda says he has no time to respond to attacks on his provincial leadership from National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Chishimba Kambwili as he usually goes back to his own vomit. In an interview, Chanda, who is also Luanshya Mayor, said only a PF ward chairman was fit to...

Lusaka residents residing in the National Housing Authority (NHA) Complex in Nyumba Yanga area have threatened to sue Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC) for supplying them with contaminated water. In an interview, on behalf of other affected residents, secretary for the NHA Nyumba Yanga complex Ivy Brown said from the data collected so far...

Lusaka Dynamos coach Danny Kabwe has explained that former national team striker Emmanuel Mayuka has stopped training with his club, but says the player was not obliged to continue because he had not officially joined the outfit. The former English Premier league club Southampton player is currently without a club and struggling to maintain his...

Across 2018, Zambia experienced no shortage of disappointments and setbacks. Yet there are some individuals whose courage and principles made them inspiring figures in the political landscape. In this and the next article, I list two sets of citizens of 2018: those who through their actions offered hope to Zambians and those who were huge...

PF national youth chairperson Stephen Kampyongo says the Sesheke by-election is an opportunity to test the alliance of “little parties”. And PF Secretary General Davies Mwila has announced that the party has adopted Dean Masule as its candidate in the Sesheke by-election. “This is the time we are going to test the so called coalition...

Accountant General Dr Dick Sichembe has warned that he will not hesitate to ensure that any accountant across the public service found abusing tax payers’ money are prosecuted. In his New Year message to accountants in the public sector, Dr Sichembe stated that his office would not hesitate to push for full enforcement of the...

Government must immediately release the Social Cash Transfer abuse report because it has been over three months since the scandal first surfaced, says governance activist McDonald Chipenzi. In a statement, Chipenzi, the Governance, Elections, Advocacy, Research Services (GEARS) executive director, wondered why government had not yet released the Social Cash Transfer abuse report had still...

Police in Lusaka have nabbed a fellow officer, two members of a neighborhood watch group and a reservist in connection with the death of a suspect who was beaten to death at George Police on Saturday. In a statement, Sunday, Police Spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo revealed that a suspect in a burglary case, Jimmy Sampa,...

Constable Edwin Kabasiya shot Constable Lennox Kapila because the latter refused to arrest a man with whom he was in a TV dispute with, Police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo has revealed. Katongo was updating journalists on why Kabasiya, who is still on the run, shot Kapila in a statement, Monday. Kapila succumbed to the gunshot...

Part 6 Introduction In the previous article where we discussed the growth of tourism under the Patriotic Front (PF), I made a side comment about how intra-party democracy goes with over-all development as well as how PF is a bastion and model of intra-party democracy; while other parties with Life Presidents are mere “Tourists, sight-seers...