IT is essential to understand why freedom of expression and the accompanying media freedom are inextricably linked to free and fair elections. These freedoms are not only essential to political parties or the media, but to the voters as well, thereby providing a useful indicator of what principles to include when we are structuring our...

NEWS of our junior resident doctors making fruitless efforts to petition the government over their five months’ salary arrears and allowances makes sad reading. Yesterday, representatives of these 300 plus doctors walked to State House to seek intervention, only to be blocked and directed to go and see the President’s Principal Private Secretary at the...

IF there is a hypocrite in this country who speaks with a straight face, that person is President Edgar Lungu. Why are we saying this? President Lungu says the fight against corruption in Zambia has been corrupted because institutions of governance such as the courts of law mandated to dispense justice are failing to serve...

ONE thing that is clear about the millions of kwacha being thrown around by Patriotic Front cadres is that it is not fake money. This is legitimate money, the same money that PF ministers and members of parliament are dishing out to the people. So the question is, where is this money coming from? Who...

REVELATIONS that Zambia is among seven African countries using ICT tools developed by an Israeli telecoms company to spy on citizens’ phone calls and text messages, among other communications, could not have come at a better time than now when we are discussing the necessity of the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Bill. In a...