• 8 Dec 2020
• Abraham Kalito

Corruption, violence climaxed under PF in 2020 - Sinkamba

ZAMBIANS will remember 2020 as the year where the economy was brought to its knees, while corruption, anarchy and violence reached the highest levels in the country’s history, says Green Party president Peter Sinkamba. In an interview, Sinkamba lamented that Zambians would remember 2020 as the year where the PF inflicted severe economic pain on...

• 8 Dec 2020
• Natasha Sakala

Tembo denies assaulting PF colleague

KABWATA PF aspiring candidate Clement Tembo has denied assaulting a Libala ward official saying the allegations are coming from scared individuals who want to dent his image. Libala ward seven PF vice chairperson Peter Kazembe has reported Tembo to Woodlands police for allegedly assaulting him after the former refused to endorse the former's aspirations to...

• 8 Dec 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

HH signs social contract, pledges to empower youths once elected

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has insisted that it is time for change because Zambians have suffered enough. Speaking when he signed a social contract with UPND youths, pledging to empower them once he forms government in 2021, Hichilema wondered why PF was seeking reelection when they had already failed. "We have only one agenda and...

• 8 Dec 2020
• Abraham Kalito

PF ferrying Congolese to register as voters, charges Katuka

UPND general secretary Steven Katuka says his party has reliable information that the Patriotic Front (PF) is ferrying Congolese nationals into the country to be registered as voters ahead of next year’s elections. And Katuka says UPND does not believe that ECZ has really registered over 4.3 million voters, given the slow pace and the...

• 8 Dec 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

Scott shouldn't be called names for speaking on governance - Kabimba

RAINBOW Party leader Wynter Kabimba says former vice-president Dr Guy Scott has a right to express his views on governance issues and does not deserve to be called names for doing so. And Kabimba says the Electoral Commission of Zambia is not to blame for the challenges in the voters registration exercise, arguing that the...

• 8 Dec 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

PF must go before Zambia collapses - Kalaba

DEMOCRATIC Party president Harry Kalaba says the PF is to blame for the Electoral Commission of Zambia's shortcomings. On Friday, ECZ Chief Electoral Officer Patrick Nshindano said the Commission had so far registered about 4.3 million eligible voters. “Let me take this opportunity to mention that the Commission continues to make tremendous progress in registering...

• 8 Dec 2020
• Julia Malunga

Voter registration exercise extension inevitable - Zukas

OUR Civic Duty Association (OCIDA) chairperson Simon Zukas says he believes the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) will eventually extend the voter registration exercise because they would not have met their target by December 12. And National Restoration Party (NAREP) president Steven Nyirenda has vowed that he will protest if ECZ doesn’t extend the exercise....

• 8 Dec 2020
• Tenson Mkhala

Sichalwe hails Chalimbana University for offering diploma in tradition governance

CHIEFS and Traditional Affairs Minister Lawrence Sichalwe says Chiefs need to embrace capacity building programmes in order to have understanding of their subjects and natural resources under them. And House of Chiefs chairperson Senior Chief Luembe has noted with sadness the succession and boundary wrangles being experienced in most chiefdoms throughout the country. In a...

• 8 Dec 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

HH donates K50,000 to musicians

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema says he salutes artists who have refused to sell themselves, adding that he is aware that some musicians who are associated with the "mwankoles", are getting cash handouts. Hichilema was speaking on Sunday evening when he attended a fundraising event organised by some musicians in Lusaka's Chilanga District, where he contributed...

• 8 Dec 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

ConCourt orders ex-ministers to pay back K3.7 million within 30 days

THE Constitutional Court has ruled that the 63 former cabinet ministers and their deputies who received emoluments after the dissolution of Parliament in 2016 should pay back over K54,000 each to the State within 30 days. Constitutional Court registrar Dorcas Malama said in a ruling yesterday, Monday, that the assessed amounts ranging from K54,889 to...