A CONSORTIUM of civil society organisations say Honeybee Pharmacy Limited's maneuvers to discredit and shut down News Diggers! through letters addressed to statutory bodies in the hope of finding breaches are attempts to curtail the freedom of the press and intimidate independent media houses. In a joint statement, Wednesday, Chapter One Foundation, ActionAid Zambia, Alliance...

ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) president Kasonde Mwenda says February 5, 2021, has been declared the beginning of a countrywide work standoff if chain store workers, mobile money booth agents, marketeers and mini-bus drivers are not tested and prioritised for vaccination against COVID-19. In a letter to President Edgar Lungu, Mwenda said government must commit to...

THE PF have transformed the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) into their cash cow as evidenced by the several questionable transactions overseen by the board chairperson President Edgar Lungu, says New Heritage Party president Chishala Kateka. Commenting on a News Diggers! investigation which revealed that IDC, National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) and the Workers Compensation Fund...

MONZE Central UPND member of parliament Jack Mwiimbu says it is clear that the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) is trying to learn bad habits from notorious electoral commissions in Africa such as Uganda that have failed to deliver free and fair elections. On Tuesday, the ECZ said in an event that a travel restriction...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says abusing public institutions like the National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) to suppress press freedom by threatening News Diggers! newspaper is wrong. And Hichilema says because of former health minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya, many Zambians are treating sexually transmitted diseases and dealing with unwanted pregnancies. Meanwhile, Hichilema has asked President Edgar...

THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has told Lusaka lawyer Tutwa Ngulube that the Authority cannot disclose News Diggers! Media Limited’s tax compliance information, as demanded by his client Honeybee Pharmacy Limited, because it is confidential in nature. In a letter addressed to Tutwa S. Ngulube & Company dated January 27, ZRA director for legal services...

MINISTER of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo has announced that President Edgar Lungu has commuted the sentences of 246 inmates on death row to life imprisonment, among them former Chilanga member of parliament Keith Mukata. The inmates whose sentences were commuted are all based at Mukobeko maximum correctional facility and Kabwe female correctional facility; 225 being...

THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has told Lusaka lawyer Tutwa Ngulube that the Authority cannot disclose News Diggers! Media Limited’s tax information as demanded by his client Honeybee Pharmacy Limited because it is confidential in nature. In a letter addressed to Tutwa S. Ngulube & Company and dated January 27, ZRA director for legal services...