The 2019 mining fiscal regime remains a matter of life and death for us, says Lumwana Mining Company Limited (LMC) country manager Nathan Chishimba. And Chishimba says the mining firm is still awaiting a response from government after it submitted a detailed financial model to show how the controversial changes in Mineral Royalties Taxes (MRT)...

The Director of Public Prosecutions has issued a consent to prosecute the matter in which UPND Lusaka Province chairman Obvious Mwaliteta and another businessman are charged with being in possession of offensive weapons. However, authority to have the matter tried in another jurisdiction has not yet been obtained. In this matter, Mwaliteta, 48, is jointly...

An accomplice witness in a matter where six court officials and two businessmen are accused of trafficking in 24 Kg of cocaine has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that she pretended to be part of those who were stealing cocaine exhibits so that she could expose them. Florence Mshoka claimed that because she was the...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili has surrendered to police, names, National Registration Card numbers and contact numbers of the youths who threatened to kill him in a video which went viral on social media recently. And Kamwbili has demanded that government provides information on what President Edgar Lungu and the owners of Vendetta’s Konkola Copper Mines...

President Edgar Lungu says the PF government has prioritised the construction of milling plants in rural areas in order to mitigate the challenges people face in accessing maize products. Speaking in Chongwe, Wednesday, at the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of 13 milling plants, president Lungu said the PF was still a pro-poor party...

Between 700 and 1,000 Rhinos are killed annually from 2007 to date, says Tourism and Arts Minister Charles Banda. But Banda says Zambia has only lost three Rhinos from poaching in the last 10 years. Speaking when he launched the strategic Rhino Conservation and Management Plan (2019 –2023) and the Cheetah and Wildog national action...

The Constitutional Court will on May 17, this year, rule on whether Deputy Mayors and council chairpersons are eligible to contest their positions after the lapse of their term of office. This is the matter in which, former Chinsali Deputy Mayor Martin Chitondo and former council chairpersons Obert Tembo (Luangwa), Roland Hamamba (Chilanga), Ignatius Hang’ombe...

Senior Chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukamambo II of the Soli people of Lusaka Province yesterday took offence after Higher Education Minister Prof Nkandu Luo ignored her presence in the salutations during a state function. This happened at the University of Zambia Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre where President Edgar Lungu was officiating at the groundbreaking event for the...

Lusaka High Court Judge Pixie Yangailo has granted the two Sesheke cops who were dismissed from the Zambia Police Service after the parliamentary by-election, leave to commence judicial review proceedings. Judge Yangailo has also ordered that the said leave shall act as a stay of the decision of the Zambia Police Service to retire the...

14 people have died while 15 others have sustained serious injuries after a Solwezi-bound bus they were travelling in hit into a stationary truck. The accident occurred Wednesday night at Emmanuel area along the Solwezi-Chingola road about 60Km east of Solwezi Boma involving a Zhong Tong bus belonging to the Scorpion Bus company. Police spokesperson...

The Livingstone High Court has subpoenaed Diggers Editor Mukosha Funga and reporter Thomas Mulenga to testify in a matter in which losing PF Sesheke candidate Dean Masule petitioned the election of UPND’s Romeo Kangombe. The subpoena was filed by Masule's lawyers from Messrs Eric Silwamba, Jalasi & Linyama on April 12, 2019. "You are commanded...

The purported winner of the 2012 K1 billion MTN WIN BEEG Promotion and two others have been sentenced to four years imprisonment for fraudulently manipulating the competition in her favor. Namuchana Sinuma, the purported winner, was arrested together with Jones Ilukena, the MTN Call Centre Support Engineer and Richard Kawana, a teacher in Livingstone in...

INTRODUCTION Criminal defamation has continued to be a thorny issue in most countries around the globe. This is despite the fact that Freedom of expression is an indispensable avenue which empowers members of particular societies to demand better service delivery from, and expose any maladministration and corruption among those entrusted with political power by the...

National Democratic Congress secretary general Mwenya Musenge says he is extremely excited that his newly formed party already has parliamentary representation through the hard work of Chishimba Kambwili, but insists that the Roan by-election victory will not make him withdraw his demand for the “consultant” to apply if he wants to join the party. “I...

A 37-year-old woman of Lusaka's George compound was on Wednesday morning found dead along with her 27-year-old niece whom she was sharing her apartment with. And a 63-year-old man of Mwembeshi area in Lusaka has been murdered by unknown criminals who broke into his house on Monday evening and attacked him. Police deputy Spokesperson Rae...