Authorities in the USA have just announced that they expect about 200,000 thousand deaths on account of the Coronavirus (COVID 19). In the past few days, European countries with some of the most advanced healthcare delivery systems like Spain and Italy have been experiencing a death rate of over 700 people per day on average!...

One thing we are failing to understand is why government has remained adamant to closing the borders and imposing a mandatory shut down in the face of the Coronavirus. Somehow it appears our government enjoys making reactive decisions instead of being preventative. We remember writing an editorial opinion before the first case of Coronavirus was...

WE watched President Edgar Lungu’s national address with a strong sense of solicitude. Many things didn't appear right. While declaring war on the COVID-19 pandemic, our President appeared to be in a state of defeat already; not only from the Coronavirus, but from other things as well. He did not sound like a General in...

“Dear President Edgar Lungu Sir, When you formed government, you made a commitment to turn the country around, economically, politically and socially. As we head towards the end of your almost seven years in power, we have some pertinent questions that deserve your attention, sir. Your Excellency, we remember when you started, you said you...

THE opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) claim to be in possession of evidence showing how the Patriotic Front tried to bribe the party’s members of parliament to vote for the Constitution Amendment Bill Number 10 of 2019. They say this evidence which is in their possession in form of text messages and voice...

Last Wednesday, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) member of parliament Joseph Chishala opted to stay in Parliament and vote for the Constitution Amendment Bill number 10 of 2019. This is contrary to what he had promised his party supporters in Roan constituency and his opposition alliance partners. Well, several other opposition members rebelled and stayed...

Why is President Edgar Lungu the Head of State? What is his Job? And while we are still asking questions, where is he? Alikuti? We ask these questions because there is something very suspicious about the way President Lungu is governing this country. It's almost as if he is also an ordinary citizen waiting for...

Whenever the enactment of a bill, any bill, is supported only by those who are in government, the ruling party and its agents, just know that that there is something critically wrong with that law. If all those who are outside government and don't support the ruling party refuse to support the enactment of a...

MINISTER of Information and Broadcasting Dora Siliya announced that government will no longer conduct any business with Prime Television because they have demonstrated lack of patriotism by refusing to air free Coronavirus awareness messages. “Government wishes to announce that it has ceased to cooperate with Prime Television station with immediate effect. The cessation of cooperation...

LUSAKA Province minister Bowman Lusambo carried out an operation around supermarkets in Lusaka in the company of police officers, apprehending people who were buying mealie meal in bulk. The minister also ordered police to pick up young citizens who were found with bags of mealie meal, saying underage buying of mealie meal is not allowed....

The decision by the Judiciary to bar State Counsel John Sangwa from appearing in any Zambian court on grounds that he disrespected the Constitutional Court has left us dumbfounded. This is unbelievable. One doesn't need to be a lawyer to see that there is something wrong with this decision. In fact, there are so many...

WE are glad that President Edgar Lungu brought up the issue of gassing and the death of innocent citizens in his speech to Parliament the other Friday. In his report to the National Assembly on the progress made towards the implementation of national values and principles, President Edgar Lungu said it was regrettable that over...

LAST week, Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila announced that the ruling party had appointed a task force to ensure that the negotiations for the Bulk Power Supply Agreement (BSA) between Zesco and Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) are concluded before March 31, 2020. Mwila, who also unveiled former Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe as the chairperson...

WE would like to draw the attention of our readers to the Constitutional Court judgement in the case of National Democratic Congress (DNC) president Chishimba Kambwili and Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini. In this matter, Mr Kambwili petitioned the Constitutional Court for a declaration and order that the Speaker exceeded his powers...

In our next edition, we will publish the judgement of the Constitutional Court on the matter where Dan Pule and others were seeking an interpretation of the law on the term of office of the President, and a ruling on whether or not Mr Edgar Lungu is eligible to contest the 2021 general elections as...

The Patriotic Front has taken issue with Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa State Counsel for saying that President Edgar Lungu does not qualify to contest the 2021 general elections because he has already been elected into office twice, as prescribed in the Republican Constitution. Those disagreeing with this point from the ruling party are basing their...

As President Edgar Lungu makes his address to Parliament on progress made in the implementation of national values and principles, all eyes and ears will be on him. There is a good reason for this. The nation has gone through some of the most heartbreaking experiences we have ever had. What started as almost nonsensical...

Selective application of the law is something that our law enforcement agencies take so casually in Zambia. But it is a very serious matter with dire consequences on society and the economy. Everything that we are experiencing today as a country, all the economic woes, can be linked to the selective application of the law...

Considering the rate at which the Coronavirus is spreading around the world, it is not a question of "if" but "when" a case of this virus will be detected in Zambia. COVID 19 is a highly infectious disease with a mortality rate of about two per cent in countries with advanced health care systems. Mortality...

Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says the story we published to the effect that diplomats abroad have not been paid their foreign service allowances from September to December 2019 is fake. We heard the Minister explain that government has put in place a liquidation plan to pay off the arrears, so we wondered what arrears...

In 2011 before the PF formed government, the exchange rate was around K7,000 to a dollar (K7 rebased). External total debt was at US$3.5 billion. The PF went to the people of Zambia and said “the country’s economy is in a mess; vote for us, we can fix this”. They put reducing the exchange rate,...

State House says President Edgar Lungu doesn’t know the truth about what is going on regarding the gassing incidences across the country, and as such, he has nothing to say to citizens who are crying for his national address. If this is true, then Zambia is under very dangerous times. This means the President is...

We are hearing from very reliable sources that Zesco, with the government’s facilitation, has engaged the Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) for negotiations aimed at extending the power supply agreement under new terms, after plans for a compulsory takeover of the business have flopped. This is a good development, but we have a message for whoever...