• 29 May 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Security guard causes laughter in court with conflicting statements on Chitotela

A 24-year-old security guard has testified in the Lusaka Magistrates' Courts that Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister Ronald Chitotela became his boss in 2016 after he purchased a house in Ibex Hill from Austin Liato, where he used to work. However, the security guard who is a State witness caused the court room to erupt...

• 29 May 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

Yalelo failed to pay K17.3m dividends to DBZ - AG

The Auditor General’s Report on the parastatal bodies and other statutory institutions has revealed that Yalelo Limited failed to pay nearly K17.3 million in dividends to the Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ), contrary to a shareholding agreement entered between the two parties. The Report disclosed that Yalelo and DBZ entered into a shareholders’ agreement in...

• 29 May 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

This victory is for Sesheke, UPND - Kang'ombe

The Lusaka High Court has declared Romeo Kang’ombe as duly elected Sesheke UPND member of parliament saying the will of the people prevailed. High Court judge in charge Gertrude Chawatama told the court according to her findings, violence during the Sesheke parliamentary by-election was perpetrated by both UPND and the PF, as well as, the...

• 29 May 2019
• Stuart Lisulo

Zambians should expect to continue suffering economic hardships - CTPD

Zambians are expected to continue facing hard economic times with escalating poverty levels if government fails to urgently implement corrective fiscal measures, says the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD). Reacting to the Bank of Zambia’s (BoZ) hiked Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 10.25 per cent, CTPD’s lead researcher Bright Chizonde hailed the central...

• 29 May 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Court adjourns GBM's throat case again

Lusaka magistrate Nthandose Chabala is expected to deliver her ruling on a case to answer in a matter in which former UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba is alleged to have issued a statement threatening to go for President Edgar Lungu’s throat on June 18. In this matter, GBM was arrested on March 2, 2016 for...

• 29 May 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

UPND demands land policy

UPND national women chairperson Namakau Kabwiku says lack of a national land policy has led to illegal land allocation and corruption. And Kabwiku says once in government, UPND will come up with a land policy that will allow women to own land easily. In a statement, Monday, Kabwiku said there was no political will on...

• 29 May 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Unpatriotic Zambians exaggerating economic situation - Dora

Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says people who do not mean well for the country are exaggerating Zambia’s economic challenges. And Siliya says government is neither afraid nor opposed to criticism but that people should criticise in a constructive manner to move the country forward. Speaking when Economic Association of Zambia president Dr Lubinda Haabazoka...

• 29 May 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Lubinda’s failure to consult experts will plunges justice system into chaos - CiSCA

The Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) says it understands that not being a lawyer, Justice Minister Given Lubinda fails to grasp some issues at the centre of his work but he must consult qualified personnel within the ministry before he plunges the justice system into chaos. During a press briefing in Livingstone in the council...

• 29 May 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Court detains Mushipe for absconding proceedings

Lusaka magistrate Nsunge Chanda yesterday detained UPND lawyer Martha Mushipe at court holding cells for about six hours for not appearing in court in a case relating to failure to produce NAPSA documents for employees. This is in a matter in which Mushipe, a director of Nyenyezi Christian Academy, is jointly charged with other directors...

• 29 May 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

Chishinga Royal establishment defends Chitotela

Chairperson of the Chishinga Royal Establishment Musonda Mushota says calls for Minister of Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela's dismissal are misplaced because the Pambashe PF member of parliament is innocent. And Mushota has vowed that the royal establishment will stand with Chitotela, who is also a headman in Chitotela village, saying they won't support him if...