• 18 Dec 2019
• Julia Malunga

Blood is in short supply, people are dying - UTH doctor

Consultant gynecologist and obstetrician at the University Teaching Hospital Dr Mulindi Mwanahamuntu says the hospital is in short supply of blood, a situation which is leading to increased deaths. And Dr Mwanahamuntu says it is shocking that people in rural areas are more willing to donate blood even though the highest consumers are from the...

• 18 Dec 2019
• Ulande Nkomesha

Delayed payment to agro dealers will affect crop production – Kazabu

Government’s continued delay to pay agro dealers will mean farmers will not plant a sufficient crop this farming season, says former Agriculture and Livestock Deputy Minister Luxon Kazabu. Last month, Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo disclosed in Parliament that government still owed agro dealers K374 million. And last week, some agro dealers told Hot FM news...

• 18 Dec 2019
• Ulande Nkomesha

Zesco, Eskom power deal lacks transparency - Milupi

Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) president Charles Milupi has accused government of lying to the Zambian people on the importation of power from South Africa’s utility Eskom. Last week during a joint press briefing, Eskom’s chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer told the media that the contract signed with Zesco was “non-firm”, meaning that the...

• 18 Dec 2019
• Julia Malunga

We’re in the dark over govt takeover of Horizon School - Mbula

Leslie Mbula says he is wondering why government has announced a compulsory take-over of Horizon School within five years, when it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that it would operate for 90 years. And Lands Minister Jean Kapata confirmed, Monday, that the land on which Horizon School was sitting had been compulsorily acquired, insisting...

• 18 Dec 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Chongwe man denies defiling, fathering 2 with step daughter

A 39-year-old Chongwe man accused of defiling his step daughter and twice impregnanting her, has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that he has never had sex with the victim and that the allegations against him are false. Meanwhile, the court has set December 30 this year, as date for judgment. In this matter, Tobias Chilimbo,...

• 18 Dec 2019
• Julia Malunga

Courts should be impartial; no one must influence judges - Lungu

President Edgar Lungu has said no one should influence the judges when discharging their judicial functions. And President Lungu says it is a fundamental human right for any accused person to be subjected to a court process that guarantees a speedy and fair outcome. Officiating at the Judicial Conference in Livingstone, Tuesday, President Lungu said...

• 18 Dec 2019
• Natasha Sakala

Marijuana still illegal, until laws are changed - Wina

Vice-President Inonge Wina says the cultivation and use of cannabis in Zambia is still illegal and laws need to be changed before it can be made legal. Meanwhile, Vice-President Wina says a strong storm and wind blew off some billboards which fell on the City Market shelter, causing damage to buses which were stationed near...

• 18 Dec 2019
• Zindikilani Banda in Sinda

We've not received CDF, laments Mkaika MP

Mkaika MMD member of parliament Peter Phiri says his constituency has not received its allocation of the Constituency Development Funds (CDF), a situation he fears could jeopardize his chances of being re-elected in 2021. But Phiri, however, encouraged his constituents to remain calm amidst their ongoing economic challenges because there is light at the end...

• 18 Dec 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Miles' desire to pay K1,500 child support ill-founded says ex-wife

Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa’s ex-wife has argued that his request for the Lusaka High Court to reduce child maintenance from K7,000 per month to K1,500 is ill-founded because no circumstances have changed since the ruling was granted early this year. Mwika Mwenechanya has therefore asked the court not to vary the ruling on maintenance. In...

• 18 Dec 2019
• Natasha Sakala

Wina calls for joint-task force to slow imported food

Vice-President Inonge has directed line ministries to work closely with the Zambia National Farmers' Union (ZNFU), supermarket chain stores and other importers to develop a phased import substitution programme by the end of January, 2020. And the Vice-President says government will take all necessary measures to ensure price stability of wheat and wheat products in...