• 17 Mar 2020
• Mirriam Chabala

Your action against Sangwa is illegal, Wynter tells Chief Justice

FORMER justice minister Wynter Kabimba has written to Chief Justice Ireen Mambilima telling her that the Judiciary's action against constitutional lawyer John Sangwa State Counsel has no legal backing and should therefore be reversed. On Friday, the Judiciary Sangwa from appearing before any court in Zambia pending determination of its complaint against him to the...

• 17 Mar 2020
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

I'll continue harassing those who buy mealie meal in bulk, vows Lusambo

IF arresting mealie meal shoppers who buy in bulk is harassment, then I will continue harassing them until we normalize the supply of the commodity, Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo has vowed. Speaking when he featured on Muvi TV’s Sunrise Breakfast show, Monday, Lusambo claimed that traders in communities were sending young boys to buy...

• 17 Mar 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

No party asset has been sold, UNIP official tells court

UNIP administrative secretary Welfare Mfune has argued that the party secretary general Alfred Banda did not commit any perjury when he told the Lusaka High Court that no party asset has been sold by the leadership. He also submitted that no party assets have been sold, adding that all assets, which were being referred to...

• 17 Mar 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

Govt shuts all schools to prevent COVID-19 outbreak

GOVERNMENT has announced the closure of all schools, universities and colleges, effective Friday, March 20, 2020, to enhance the prevention of the deadly Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, which has already ravaged some African countries. Speaking during a media briefing in Lusaka, Tuesday, Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya, flanked by General Education Minister David Mabumba,...

• 17 Mar 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

ZICTA social media officer testifies in Luanshya man's defamation of the president case

A STATE witness has testified that the complaint of a Luanshya man allegedly insulting President Edgar Lungu during a phone-in programme on Millennium Radio was referred to the Zambia Police Service as it fell out of ZICTA’s mandate to investigate. Boniface Sianankange, a Social Media Compliance officer from ZICTA, told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that...

• 17 Mar 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

PF youths rise against their national chairman

LUSAKA PF youths yesterday marched from the party secretariat to Central Police station to demand the release of their provincial youth chairperson Daniel Kalembe who was yesterday arrested and charged for two counts of assault. And PF youths have presented a second petition to PF Lusaka provincial chairperson Paul Moonga demanding the dismissal of PF...

• 17 Mar 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

5 Lusaka residents sue State, LCC seeking damages after Lusambo demolished houses

FIVE Lusaka residents have sued the State and Lusaka City Council (LCC) in the Lusaka High Court seeking a declaration that they are legal owners of the land that Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo alleged that they occupied illegally. Emmanuel Mulenga, Yvonne Sinkala, Charity Mututubanya, Makabe Jere and Nanyatonya Ngambi are also seeking damages for...

• 17 Mar 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Lusaka lawyer wants his alleged abuse of judicial process case determined on merit

LUSAKA Lawyer Gilbert Phiri has submitted to the Lusaka High Court that it is in the interest of justice that his case where he has sued a woman of unknown profession for accusing him of abusing the judicial process and State machinery be determined on its merit. He has argued that the conduct of Dora...

• 17 Mar 2020
• Mirriam Chabala

PF returns with Bill 10, as Sangwa urges MPs to reject it

JUSTICE Minister Given Lubinda says it is Zambians who will suffer miserably if Bill 10 fails to be enacted into law because President Edgar Lungu will still win next year’s elections without it. And Lubinda yesterday lost his temper after a caller told him that he had overstayed as Kabwata member of parliament when he...

• 17 Mar 2020
• Julia Malunga

CSOs plead with MPs to reject Bill 10

A CONSORTIUM of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) say there is a danger that Parliament could adopt the original Constitution Amendment Bill Number 10 of 2019 or include harmful clauses. But another group of CSOs has urged members of parliament intending to walk out of Parliament when the Bill comes for Second Reading in the current...