The World Bank says Zambia’s real GDP growth projection for 2019 is likely to be at 3.3 per cent, down from 3.5 per cent last year, triggered by the country’s mounting debt. And the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected Zambia’s GDP growth to slump to 2.9 per cent next year, triggered by the Zambian...

Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) coordinator in Sinda David Pontino Phiri has advised the PF leadership to address the same problems they once faced before ascending to power. In an interview, Monday, Phiri recalled that before PF formed government, every citizen had the right to express themselves on matters that affected them. He...

A 32-year-old man of Lusaka’s Kanyama Compound has been sentenced to one year six months’ imprisonment with hard labour for stealing K32,000 cash belonging to his cousin. In this matter, Rodrick Chimwase was charged with theft and he pleaded guilty. Particulars of the offence were that between October 31 and November 8 last year in...

Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila has called for discipline among students and academic staff in higher learning institutions. And Mwila says the "listening PF government" is implementing its vision for quality, lifelong and accessible education for all, adding that the reduced school fees will help address early child marriage and reduce school dropouts. In...

The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has announced another closure of the Great North Road from Mandevu Round about to Sheki-sheki turn off for two months effective April 8, to facilitate for installation of sewer pipes. And Avic International Lot 3 has also announced the 80 days closure of the Obama road beginning April 15. Meanwhile...

Chief Kathumba of the Chewa people in Katete district has applauded government’s decision to reduce school fees starting next term. Last week, government announced that pupils in rural schools will be paying K150 per term, while those in urban area will be paying K200 and that boarding fees should be charged at K1,200 or less,...

Former Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) president Linda Kasonde has been elected as the vice president for the Africa Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association. Kasonde was elected, Monday, at the 21st Commonwealth Law Association Conference held at the Avani Resort Hotel in Livingstone. And speaking when he officiated at the event, President Edgar Lungu urged legal practitioners...

We will leave the debate around the contents of the National Dialogue Bill to highly qualified technocrats like Professor Muna Ndulo who says the whole charade is a scheme by PF to manipulate the Constitution; and State Counsel Wynter Kabimba who says people like Professor Ndulo are nothing more that mischievous critics. As these two...

Five former African Heads of States are expected to visit first Republican president Dr Kenneth Kaunda on April 28 to mark his 95th birthday celebrations. And Zambia's High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba has described the visit as historic and a symbolic recognition of Dr Kaunda’s great contributions to the liberation of southern Africa....