• 19 Sep 2019
• Stuart Lisulo

20,000 mining jobs at risk due to sales tax, Chamber warns

Implementing the Goods and Services Tax (GST) risks resulting in the loss of over 20,000 indirect jobs in the mining sector if government insists on implementing it from January 2020, the Zambia Chamber of Mines has warned. And the Chamber says government is on course to losing an estimated $140 million in mining tax revenues...

• 19 Sep 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

About 50,000 teachers can’t find jobs anywhere, reveals NAQEZ

The National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) has said Zambia currently has around 50,000 teachers who cannot find jobs in government or private schools, warning that the situation might turn into a social, economic and political catastrophe if nothing is done to help the situation. In a statement, NAQEZ executive director Aaron Chansa...

• 19 Sep 2019
• Julia Malunga

CUTS opposes Bill 10 proposal to scrap parliamentary oversight in debt contraction

Consumer Unit Trust Society (CUTS) says deleting constitutional clauses that seek parliamentary oversight in the contraction of public debt will weaken the system of checks and balances. Making a submission before the parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Bill No. 10 of 2019 at parliament buildings, Tuesday, CUTS stated that making the...

• 19 Sep 2019
• Natasha Sakala

Govt has no money to rebuild gutted City Market, says Minister

Local Government minister Charles Banda has disclosed that government has no money to rebuild the gutted Lusaka City Market, explaining that companies that made false donations towards the cause cannot be pursued to pay because a pledge is not a debt. Banda was speaking in parliament, Tuesday, in response to a question from independent member...

• 19 Sep 2019
• Natasha Sakala

We're poorly funded to fight all corruption - ACC

The anti Corruption Commission chairperson justice Anderson Zikonda has attributed the failure by the commission to explicitly carry out its duties to the lack of funding to the institution. And Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) president Rueben Lifuka says results from the latest Zambia Bribe Payers’ Index (ZBPI) Survey Report shows that the highest bribe seeking...

• 19 Sep 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Tutwa reports Sangwa to LAZ for “professional misconduct”

Lusaka Lawyer Tutwa Ngulube has written to the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) complaining about professional misconduct against Constitutional lawyer John Sangwa with regard to his letter to President Edgar Lungu in which he asked him to withdraw Bill 10. Ngulube argues that because President Lungu is represented by lawyers, it was professional misconduct for...

• 19 Sep 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Zambia plans maize exports to DRC

Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo says government is finalising a Memorandum of Understanding with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for exports of maize and other crops. And Katambo has claimed that current national food stocks are sufficient to last until the next harvest season. He has, however, acknowledged consumption pressure considering that Zambia “only produced...

• 19 Sep 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

ConCourt sets Sept 27 for ruling on preliminary issues in LAZ Bill 10 case

The Constitutional Court has reserved judgement on the Law Association of Zambia’s (LAZ) request to dismiss a notice of motion by the State to have the petition where LAZ is challenging the Amendment of Bill No 10, thrown out for irregularity. This was after a panel of five Constitutional Court judges led by its president,...

• 19 Sep 2019
• Stuart Lisulo

Bailiffs seize furniture, laptops from Atlas Mara

Atlas Mara Zambia says it deeply regrets the interruption in the provision of its banking services that occurred on Wednesday as a result of an execution of a High Court judgement in favour of one its creditors, who the bank owes nearly US$1 million. On Wednesday morning, bailiffs pounced on the commercial bank’s head office...

• 19 Sep 2019
• Ulande Nkomesha

HH shouldn’t be moving around like a cockroach in the kitchen - Bowman

Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo has warned UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema to stop moving around like a "cockroach in the kitchen" as he insists on carrying out his donations. And Lusambo has charged that Hichilema's declaration of the hunger crisis a national disaster is an attempt to try and overthrow government. Commenting on Hichilema's decision...