• 31 Jan 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

If anyone looted during privatisation, it's MMD not HH - Belemu

Mbabala UPND member of parliament Ephraim Belemu says if anyone looted during the privatization process, it was those who were in the Movement for Multiparty Democracy. Recently, Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo charged that there were looters in the opposition who were waiting to get into government to steal the way they did during the...

• 31 Jan 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Court sends juvenile to rehab for stealing 65" TV

The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has ordered a 17-year-old boy of Lusaka’s Chilenje South to undergo counselling and rehabilitation for six months after stealing a 65-inch Samsung Plasma TV worth K21,000 from his neighbour's house. In this matter, the juvenile was facing one count of house-breaking and theft. It was alleged that on January 15, 2019,...

• 31 Jan 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

TI's corruption perception index will make donors re-think aiding Zambia - CK

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili says revelations by Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2018 report that Zambia’s international ranking has reduced by nine points to 105 from the 96th position in 2017, will stir skepticism in the minds of funders and investors over government’s capacity to fight corruption. And Kambwili says President Edgar Lungu cannot...

• 31 Jan 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

I stole bicycle to buy school shoes, Chawama youth tells court

A 14-year-old boy of Lusaka's Chawama Compound has admitted stealing a mountain bike worth K1,600 in the Magistrates’ Court, saying he wanted to buy school shoes for himself after passing to Grade 10. This is the matter in which the 14-year-old juvenile is facing one count of theft. Particulars of the offence allege that the...

• 31 Jan 2019
• Diggers Editor

News Diggers! ePaper Edition 333 Thursday December 20, 2018

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• 31 Jan 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

Low number of cases being reported shows loss of confidence in ACC - Kabimba

Rainbow Party general secretary Wynter Kabimba says the confession by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) that it is does not understand why Zambians have stopped reporting cases before it calls for introspection within the Commission itself. And Kabimba has challenged the ACC to come out in the open and say if the people involved in corruption...

• 31 Jan 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

Govt has only paid K23m out of K101m debt to lecturers – UNZALARU

University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (UNZALARU) secretary general Dr Kelvin Mambwe says government only paid K23 million out of the K101 million that was budgeted for in the 2018 national budget to settle pension and gratuities debt owed to lecturers and researchers at the institution. In an interview, Dr Mambwe said government was...

• 31 Jan 2019
• Stuart Lisulo

ZCCM-IH hopes 2019 fiscal regime won’t hurt profitability

ZCCM-IH says the uncertainty in the 2019 mining fiscal regime may affect its profitability and dividends payable to government. And ZCCM-IH has increased its shareholding in Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) to 24 per cent from 20 per cent. Speaking during ZCCM-IH’s annual report presentation for the year ending March 31, 2018, in Lusaka, ZCCM-IH chief...

• 31 Jan 2019
• Diggers Editor

News Diggers! ePaper Edition 332 Wednesday December 19, 2018

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• 31 Jan 2019
• Diggers Editor

News Diggers! ePaper Edition 331 Tuesday December 18, 2018

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