• 9 Jan 2020
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Current leaders won’t deliver much this year, they’re pre-occupied with winning in 2021 - Nzamane

Senior Chief Nzamane of the Ngoni people in Eastern Province says there is a possibility that the current political leadership will not deliver much this year because they will be pre-occupied with securing a new mandate ahead of next year’s general election. And the traditional leader says Zambia is currently in economic mess, leading to...

• 9 Jan 2020
• Natasha Sakala

Zesco’s non-renewal of BSA with CEC could hit mining productivity, warns Chamber

The Zambia Chamber of Mines has warned that non-renewal of the Bulk Supply Agreement (BSA) between Zesco Limited and the Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) Plc risks affecting production in the mining sector. And the Chamber says non-renewal of the Agreement will cause severe price distortions in the electricity sub-sector if an agreement between Zesco and...

• 9 Jan 2020
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

PF steps up scrutiny of social media groups to clamp down “abuse”

Patriotic Front disciplinary committee chairperson Brian Mundubile says sub-committees of the party are assessing all social media blogs existing in the party’s name and their administrators to clamp down abuse. In an interview, Mundubile announced that the development was a result of continued abuse of social media by the general membership and some party sympathisers...

• 9 Jan 2020
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

UNZALARU must issue public apology, demands Mushimba

Higher Education Minister Dr Brian Mushimba has demanded a public apology from UNZALARU over their "idiot" remarks, saying they are intolerable. Commenting on the University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union’s (UNZALARU) general secretary Dr Kelvin Mambwe's remarks that only idiots would vote for the PF, Dr Mushimba said the former had apologized to him...

• 9 Jan 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Soldier in court for faking children’s death to claim K20,000

A 38-year-old Zambia Army soldier has been dragged to court for allegedly forging his children’s Death Cards and obtaining K20,000 from Liberty Insurance by purporting that his child died, when in fact not. In this matter, Victor Maluza, a soldier, has been jointly-charged with Edward Kapemfu, a 45-year-old mortuary attendant of Masala; Binwell Mwenya, a...

• 9 Jan 2020
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Govt moves to deregister UNZALARU over 'idiots' remark

The Ministry of Labour and the University of Zambia (UNZA) management has given UNZALARU a 48-hour ultimatum to show cause why the union should not be deregistered for breaching the recognition agreement. On Monday, The University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (UNZALARU) protested against their delayed December salaries. During the said protest, UNZALARU general...

• 9 Jan 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Graduare seeks judicial review in Lusaka decongestion project

Graduare Property Development Limited, the owner and operator of East Park Mall, has sought leave of the Lusaka High Court to apply for judicial review against the refusal or omission by ZEMA to enforce the compliance order it purportedly issued to the Ministry of Local Government in relation to the Lusaka Roads Decongestion Project. It...

• 9 Jan 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Lusaka man accused of trying to assassinate Lungu appears in court for treason

A 58-year-old businessman has appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court on a charge of treason for allegedly conspiring with another person to procure military equipment for purposes of assassinating President Edgar Lungu and other senior government officials. In this matter, Mwangala Ngalande of Lusaka’s Roma Township has been charged with one count of treason. It...

• 9 Jan 2020
• Zindikilani Banda in Sinda

Sinda Police rescue suspected wizard from mob justice at graveyard

Sinda Police moved swiftly to Chisichi Village where angry youths had tied a 58-year-old man to a tree at the local cemetery, with intent to kill and bury him on accusations that he caused the death of his nephew through witchcraft. Francis Mbewe, a known village elder, is accused of killing his 31-year-old nephew, Ernest...

• 9 Jan 2020
• Diggers Editor

Keep your salaries, but reduce stealing by at least 20% che

The trouble that our government has is that where they are supposed to use economic sense, they are using politics. That’s the problem. This is why the whole country laughed at the President’s intervention to cushion the effect of the increased fuel prices and electricity tariffs. In his wisdom, the President thought the most effective...