• 5 Mar 2021
• Diggers Editor

Dr Miti and the headless civil service

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...

• 5 Mar 2021
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Lsk man gets 3 years for stealing phone

A 21-YEAR-OLD Lusaka man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a phone from a woman of Chibolya Compound, using violence. The robbery occured around 03:00 hours as the said women was coming out of the toilet. Michael Kayelu was initially charged with aggravated robbery but the same was reduced...

• 5 Mar 2021
• Ulande Nkomesha

Petitioning Lungu’s eligibility will be a threat to Zambia’s peace – Lubinda

JUSTICE Minister Given Lubinda says anyone trying to petition President Edgar Lungu’s eligibility is threatening Zambia’s peace. Debating President Lungu’s address on the progress made in the application of national values and principles, Lubinda said those planning to petition President Lungu’s eligibility were trying to create an environment of suspicion in the country. “Mr Speaker,...

• 5 Mar 2021
• Julia Malunga

IBA backs Cyber Security Bill

THE Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) says it supports the enactment of the Cyber Security Bill to curb rising incidences of cyberbullying and Internet abuse. In a statement, Thursday, IBA Board chairperson Mabel Mung’omba stated that the Authority was concerned about the rising incidences of cyber bullying, fake news, online rumours and general Internet abuse. “IBA...

• 5 Mar 2021
• Abraham Kalito

Politicians who buy votes can’t deliver - Kateka

ZAMBIANS must reject politicians dishing out money because they will not deliver on their promises as they have made vote-buying a yardstick for being elected, says New Heritage Party president Chishala Kateka. In an interview, Kateka cautioned that if politicians were not taught lessons on polling day, voters would have themselves to blame for sustaining...

• 5 Mar 2021
• Zondiwe Mbewe

NDC wrangles return to court

BARELY a week after they discontinued a case against their "expelled" leader, the Joseph Akafumba-led NDC have again dragged Chishimba Kambwili to the Lusaka High Court, seeking an injunction to restrain him from masquerading as NDC president or purporting to transact any business in the party’s name. Bridget Atanga, suing in her capacity as NDC...

• 5 Mar 2021
• Julia Malunga

DEC, FIC's probe into splashing of cash shouldn't be a sanitisation process - CCZ

PF NATIONAL mobilisation chairman Richard Musukwa says he is studying some PF members’ recent donations to their constituents despite banning the practice last month. And Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) general secretary Fr Emmanuel Chikoya hopes that the recent announcement by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) and Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) that they are...

• 5 Mar 2021
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Lsk man, 20, beats up his mother for refusing to buy him new trousers

A 20-YEAR-OLD man of Lusaka’s Matero Township yesterday appeared before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court for beating up his own mother after she failed to give him money he demanded for to buy a pair of trousers. The 20-year-old has, however, gone home after he reconciled with his mother, with a warning from the Court that...

• 5 Mar 2021
• Abraham Kalito

HH demotes Katuka, Kakoma

United Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema has dropped Stephen Katuka and Charles Kakoma from the positions of party secretary general and spokesperson respectively, appointing them as chairperson for national heritage and chairperson for commerce trade and industry instead. Meanwhile, Hichilema has challenged government to pay KCM workers their redundancy packages immediately. Speaking...

• 5 Mar 2021
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Cyber Crimes Bill passes second reading

THE Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Bill has passed the second reading stage in Parliament after 83 parliamentarians voted in the affirmative. The Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Bill No. 2 of 2021 came up for resumption of debate, Thursday. The Bill was then subjected to an electronic vote, where 83 members of parliament voted...