OVER 30 employees of ABSA Bank Zambia PLC, formerly known as Barclays Bank Zambia, have appealed to the Lusaka High Court against Minister of Labour and Social Security Joyce Simukoko’s findings that they have been maintained on the old conditions of service when in fact they have been given new conditions to sign. Jonas Matende...

LUSAKA Principal Resident Magistrate David Simusamba has finally granted NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili K100,000 cash bail, with two working sureties from reputable institutions to be bound in the like sum. The total amount is therefore K300,000. But Kambwili's lawyer, Musa Mwenye State Counsel, says they are extremely unhappy about the stiff conditions, adding that K300,000...

NDC national youth chairman Charles Kabwita says Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo is a disgrace to the police service and Zambians. In a statement, Sunday, Kabwita said it was disheartening to hear Kampyongo claim that the police acted professionally in the manner they treated incarcerated NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili’s wife Carol and daughter Chanda at...

THE University of Zambia (UNZA) Council has admitted that it had been deducting money from its employees’ monthly union contributions. It has, however, submitted that it will subject the University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (UNZALARU) to strict proof as regards what is owed to them. This is a matter in which UNZALARU has...

VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina says there has never been formal advice from the opposition UPND to the Minister of Finance on how to manage Zambia’s debt. And Vice-President Wina says disrespect for the police is what is provoking some of the reaction being demonstrated by cops and other law enforcement agencies. She was speaking in Parliament,...

KASAMA PF member of parliament Kelvin Sampa has asked the Lusaka High Court to stay proceedings in a case in which RL Extrem Investment Limited has sued him for allegedly failing to pay over K2 million after supplying him with more than 4,000 security boots. Sampa wants the Court to stay proceedings and to refer...

LUSAKA Principal Resident Magistrate David Simusamba has set Monday, October 26, for hearing of an application for bail pending appeal by incarcerated NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili, after the latter successfully filed in the documents. Kambwili has also filed in a notice of appeal against his conviction and sentence, with 11 grounds of appeal, among them...

GOVERNMENT has not only abided by the provisions of the National Registration Act, but has also strictly followed the provisions of the Constitution in implementing the mobile registration exercise and in the issuance of NRCs, deputy registrar general in the Department of National Registration, Passport and Citizenship under the Ministry of Home Affairs Alick Mvula...

TWO Lusaka siblings, Chansa and Kelly Kapijimpanga, have taken fresh plea in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court and denied the charge of theft by director in a case in which they are accused of stealing over K52,000 belonging to a company. The two took fresh plea after the prosecution substituted the initial charge sheet with another...

SUSPENDED Eastern Province PF youth chairperson Emmanuel Banda, commonly known as Jay Jay, and four others have reappeared before the Lusaka Magistrates' Court on the same charge of aggravated assault with intent to steal. The Lusaka Magistrates' Court has since committed the five to the High Court for trial. Banda and the others had earlier...