• 6 Nov 2017
• Mirriam Chabala

Mopani wins mining company of the year award

Mopani Copper Mines Plc has been crowned the Mining Company of the year 2016 for the third time in three consecutive years. This was after the company amassed the highest number of awards at the Zambia Chamber of Mines (ZCM) organised Awards Gala night held at Ndola’s Protea Hotel on Friday, November 3, 2017. To...

• 6 Nov 2017
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Sleeping Lusaka Mayor sparks social media frenzy

A picture of a sleeping Lusaka Mayor today went viral on social media with netizens taking turns to mock him after he ordered council police to demolish Zoona, MTN and Airtel vending kiosks around the City. Meanwhile, PF cadre Munir Zulu says Kalumba must be impeached for ordering the demolition the kiosks in the central...

• 6 Nov 2017
• Mirriam Chabala

Govt reforms have made it easy to do business in Zambia - Commerce PS

The Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry has attributed Zambia's improved rating on the ease of doing business to the favourable business environment reforms government is undertaking. But the World bank global educators group says Zambia needs to improve on the aspect of insolvency and its electricity supply systems if the country is to thrive...

• 6 Nov 2017
• Diggers Correspondent

International Consortium of Investigative journalists names HH in Paradise Papers

Nearly 100 media groups are part of a consortium that is investigating how the world’s powerful and ultra-wealthy, secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens. Zambia’s opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has been named in the latest exposé dubbed “The Paradise Papers”, but with a huge disclaimer about some of the people named...

• 6 Nov 2017
• Mukosha Funga

A proper interpretation of the law disqualifies Lungu for 2021 - Chipimo

NAREP president Elias Chipimo says it is not possible for President Edgar Lungu to run for office again in 2021 based on a proper constitutional interpretation. And Chipimo has commended the Law Association of Zambia for being brave, noting that those criticizing the association had failed to pinpoint their problem with the association’s statement on...

• 6 Nov 2017
• Joseph Mwenda

A person with average intelligence can't defend Lungu's threats on judges - Ndulo

​I do not know how anyone with average intelligence can interpret what President Edgar Lungu said as meaning anything other than threats and intimidation against the Judiciary," says Cornell University Law Professor Muna Ndulo. And Prof Ndulo says President Lungu's remarks were not only ill-conceived and ignorant but simplistic because they showed that the Head...

• 6 Nov 2017
• William Chileshe

Female driver dies at Kansanshi Mine following Rigid Dump Truck accident

A female miner at Kansanshi Mine in Solwezi has died after a Rigid Dump Truck she was driving lost control and hit into another truck. The deceased has been identified as Annet Kalolo 34, of Mitec area in Solwezi. Northwestern police commissioner Auxensio Daka confirmed the mine accident to News Diggers! Daka said the accident...

• 6 Nov 2017
• Mukosha Funga

Only PF will be affected if Lungu is disqualified for 2021 - Chipimo

There will be no chaos in Zambia but in the Patriotic Front after the Constitutional Court rules on the eligibility case, says NAREP president Elias Chipimo. Last week Thursday, President Edgar Lungu warned that there would be chaos in the country if ConCourt judges chose to be “adventurous” by emulating their Kenyan colleagues. “To my...