• 17 Jan 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Malanji calls for diplomatic support as Zambia preps to host ECOSOCC

Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Malanji has appealed for support from the diplomatic corps as the country assumes Chair of the SADC Organ Troika on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation in August this year. Meanwhile acting Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Apostolic Nuncio Julio Murat appealed to the diplomats to convey to their governments to...

• 17 Jan 2018
• Diggers Reporter

M'membe challenges Post liquidation, sues ZRA

Former Post Newspaper proprietor Dr Fred M'membe has sued five ex-employees together with the Zambia Revenue Authority for consenting to wind up the company without his permission. But Post Liquidator Lewis Mosho has filed a motion to discontinue the case saying the company no longer exists. Dr M'membe, who jointly sued with The Post Newspaper...

• 17 Jan 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Nawakwi questions ZRA Commissioner's involvement with Nishati clearing company

FDD president Edith Nawakwi has challenged Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Commissioner General Kingley Chanda to explain who is auditing a clearing and forwarding company called Nishati, which she says belongs to him. And Nawakwi says Zimbabwe will in the next 24 months overtake Zambia in terms of food production in the agriculture sector. She was...

• 17 Jan 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Luo acts without thinking - ZANASU

University of Zambia and Copperbelt University student unions have expressed annoyance at the decision by Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo to ban squatting. ZANASU president Joseph Busenga says Professor Luo makes decision without critical thinking. Meanwhile COBUSU president Njiko Musuku says Professor Luo is interfering in management issues by making emotional decisions. In an...

• 17 Jan 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

Street vendors are hungry and angry - GBM

United Party for National Development vice-president Geoffrey Mwamba says the ongoing protests by streets vendors in Lusaka are a sign of people’s anger and hunger, adding that the country’s economic status is "rubbish". Featuring on Prime Television’s Oxygen of Democracy programme on Monday night, Mwamba his party would continue to politicise the cholera crisis because...

• 17 Jan 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Kapata demands proof of Mukula smuggling from timber association

Lands and Natural Resources Minister Jean Kapata says the Zambia Association of Timber and Forestry Based Industries is composed a bunch of politicians who are working with the opposition. In an interview, Friday, Kapata also challenged the association to produce evidence that 5,000 mukula containers had been shipped to China since the ban was announced....

• 17 Jan 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

CBU dean rejects trip to Israel for seminar, says its a waste of money

Copperbelt University Dean of students at the School of Mines and Mineral Sciences Dr Kawunga Nyirenda has written to the Registrar of the institution to cancel his US$5,700 scheduled trip to Israel saying that it is costly and not to the interest of the public. In his letter dated 12th January 2018 addressed to the...

• 17 Jan 2018
• Diggers Reporter

Magistrate commits 11 to High Court for aggravated robbery trial

The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has committed 11 accused persons to the High Court for aggravated robbery involving K10,161,779.70. Allegations are that Yotam Banda and 10 others on April 2, 2017, jointly and whilst acting together with other persons unknown and whilst armed with a firearm did steal K7,580.047.90, US$159,435,00 and 50 British pounds cash, the...

• 17 Jan 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

Lungu must stand in 2021 so that he collapses with defeat - Kambwili

Chishimba Kambwili says the Constitutional Court should declare President Edgar Lungu eligible to stand in 2021 so that he can fall from the ballot and cry like his godfather, Rupiah Banda. And the National Democratic Congress political consultant says government will create destitution if it completely bans street vending. At a press briefing, Tuesday, Kambwili...

• 17 Jan 2018
• Diggers Reporter

Juvenile pleads not guilty to rape

A 16-year-old boy has pleaded not guilty to a charge of rape and aggravated robbery. This is in a matter in which the boy, who was acting together with Zambia National Soccer team head coach George Lwandamina’s son Mofya; who committed suicide, allegedly tied, beat and raped the victim who sustained multiple cuts on the...