• 10 Oct 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Zimbabwean builder narrates how Chita Lodge CEO sent him K700 so he could flee Zambia

A Zimbabwean builder has testified before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that Chita Lodge managing director James Chungu sent him K700 last month, via Airtel Money, and advised him to leave Zambia, saying the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) wanted to arrest him. The witness also admitted that Chungu contracted him to build a double-storey house in...

• 10 Oct 2019
• Ulande Nkomesha

Police yet to arrest PF cadre who shot dead UPND member

Police say they are yet to arrest the PF cadre who shot dead UPND member Laurence Banda in Kaoma on Sunday. On Sunday, Western Province Police Commissioner Charles Lungu told News Diggers! in an interview that police had nabbed a UPND cadre who indiscriminately shot and injured two people, one of them his fellow opposition...

• 10 Oct 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

5 insist on being heard in LAZ’s Bill 10 matter

The three political party leaders and two others challenging Law Association of Zambia (LAZ)’s decision to sue President Edgar Lungu and the National Assembly for attempting to alter the Constitution through Bill 10 of 2019 have submitted that the Constitutional Court has jurisdiction to hear their matter as it relates to the interpretation of the...

• 10 Oct 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

Debt repayments mustn't impede social sector spending in 2020 budget – ZTP

Zambia Tax Platform Coordinator Ibrahim Kamara says implementation of the 2020 national budget must address how the country’s rising public debt will be effectively dismantled, while ensuring sufficient resources will be made available to address critical social sector areas. In a statement, Kamara called on government to allocate more resources to sectors such as social...

• 10 Oct 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

LAZ files grounds against single judge’s decision on Bill 10 case

The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has submitted before the Constitutional Court that justice Annie Sitali misdirected herself on a point of law when she refused to restrain the National Assembly from considering the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill No.10 of 2019 on the premise that the lawyers’ body had not proved that it will suffer irreparable...

• 10 Oct 2019
• Ulande Nkomesha

Zambia's poor economy ripe for early elections - Sichinga

Zambia's economic conditions are ripe for an early general election because the country desperately needs political transformation, says former Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Robert Sichinga. Speaking on Prime Television's Oxygen of Democracy programme, Monday evening, Sichinga observed that the country’s early general election held in 1991 was due to the same deteriorating economic conditions...

• 10 Oct 2019
• Julia Malunga

MISA condemns 'masked assailants' for storming Petauke radio

Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia chairperson Hellen Mwale says the organization is saddened by reports that seven masked assailants on Saturday stormed Pasme radio station in Petauke district and disrupted a programmme which was supposed to feature UPND officials. And Mwale has condemned some Livingstone City Council police officer for attacking a Prime...

• 10 Oct 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Nurse, student admit illegally selling govt medicines at drug store

A 37-year-old nurse and a 21-year-old student have admitted illegally selling various government medicines at a drug store in Lusaka’s Chainda area. In this matter, Patricia Ncube, a nurse, and Precious Chambanenge, from Ibex Hill extension, are charged with selling at a place not a pharmacy, contrary to section 44 (1) and 66 of the...

• 10 Oct 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Sesheke MP asks ConCourt to dismiss Masule’s appeal

The Constitutional Court yesterday reserved judgment in a matter where Sesheke PF losing candidate Dean Masule is challenging the High Court’s decision to declare UPND’s Romeo Kang’ombe as duly elected member of parliament. And Kang’ombe has argued that Masule’s appeal lacks merit and should be dismissed with costs. In this matter, Masule has appealed to...

• 10 Oct 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

G12 pupil in court for homosexuality gets nolle

The Director of Public Prosecitions (DPP) has entered a nolle prosequi in favour of a grade 12 pupil who was jointly charged with a 53-year-old white farmer for allegedly engaging in sexual acts against the order of nature. In this matter, Douglas Quentin Watt of farm number 4007 in Chisamba and a 17-year-old male juvenile...