• 3 Apr 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

We won’t reduce load shedding despite COVID-19 - Zesco

ZESCO Limited public relations manager Hazel Zulu says the power utility will not review the load shedding schedule during the COVID-19 outbreak because it is still experiencing power generation constraints. Citizens have called on Zesco to reduce load shedding during this time in order to encourage more people to work from home and prevent the...

• 3 Apr 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

Milupi wonders how govt will pay newly recruited nurses, doctors with depleted treasury

ALLIANCE for Democracy and Development (ADD) president Charles Milupi says government decision to recruit 400 doctors and 3000 paramedics is welcome, though insufficient to cushion staff deficit, but wonders how government will cover salaries with a depleted treasury. He questioned how government would pay the health workers when they had already made it clear that...

• 3 Apr 2020
• Mirriam Chabala

Declaration of lockdown requires legal backing, Magande tells Lungu.

Former Finance Minister Ng’andu Magande says it is difficult for government to account for the purported lockdown in Zambia in the absence of invoking the necessary provisions of the law required to declare an emergency. On Wednesday, President Edgar Lungu announced that the country was already on lockdown based on government’s recently outlined science-led disease...

• 3 Apr 2020
• Mirriam Chabala

Introduce SI to stop landlords from collecting rentals, Changala urges govt

GOVERNANCE activist Brebner Changala has asked government to issue a Statutory Instrument (SI) stopping landlords from collecting rentals from their tenants during this period when people have been asked to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. And Changala has asked President Edgar Lungu to reduce the size of his Cabinet by at least...

• 3 Apr 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Mambwe's idiots remarks were demeaning, UNZA tells court

A REGISTRAR at University of Zambia (UNZA) has submitted to the Lusaka High Court that remarks by the UNZALARU general secretary that "only idiots or those enjoying with PF would vote for them if elections were held today", were derogatory, disparaging, demeaning, spiteful and injurious to the University management. Sitali Wamundila has further argued that...

• 3 Apr 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Businessman convicted for stealing 36,000 litres of TAZAMA diesel

THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has convicted a 35-year-old businessman for stealing 36,000 litres of diesel worth over K200,000 belonging to Tanzania-Zambia (TAZAMA) Petroleum Product Company. In this matter, Daniel Singoyi was facing six counts of forgery and theft of goods in transit. In count one, it was alleged that between March 14 and 30, 2016,...

• 3 Apr 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

It's pretty much premature to shut down Zambia - IRMZA

INSTITUTE of Risk Management Zambia (IRMZA) executive director Francis Ziba says there’s no data driven evidence at the moment to suggest that Zambia needs a complete lockdown as a result of the novel Coronavirus. And Ziba says the best the country can do at the moment is practice preventive measures already in place, adding that...

• 3 Apr 2020
• Mirriam Chabala

Don't reject Bill 10 before you test it, urges Serenje MMD MP

SERENJE Central MMD member of parliament Maxwell Kabanda says he will always put the interest of the electorate first whenever he debates parliamentary businesses because they are the reason he is in Parliament. And Kabanda has challenged critics opposing the Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 10 of 2019 to clearly state what is so conflicting about...

• 3 Apr 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

DEC nabs 2 E/Province businessmen for money laundering

THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit in Eastern Province, has arrested and jointly-charged two businessmen for being in possession of K6,000 counterfeit notes. In a statement, Thursday, DEC public relations officer Theresa Katongo stated that the duo, identified as Samson Luwaile, 38 and Edwin Chibanga 24, were intercepted at an...

• 3 Apr 2020
• Mirriam Chabala

ECZ proceeds with Nangula ward by-election despite COVID-19

THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) says the scheduled Nangula ward by-election in Western Province will proceed as planned today and that necessary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have been implemented. ECZ public relations manager Margaret Chimanse confirmed this in an interview, further explaining that the by-elections in Luapula Province would not go...