• 10 Apr 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Nevers gets bail, as GBM accuses magistrate Simusamba of bias

UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM) has accused magistrate David Simusamba of being biased. GBM was speaking to journalists at the Lusaka Magistrates' Court after magistrate Simusamba finally granted MMD leader Nevers Mumba K30,000 cash bail, pending appeal. In his ruling, which was delivered in his chambers yesterday, magistrate Simusamba also ordered Mumba to have...

• 10 Apr 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

UPND insists, Janet Rogan helped rig 2016 polls

United Party for National Development (UPND) deputy secretary general Patrick Mucheleka has insisted that the UN resident coordinator Janet Rogan connived with EZC officials and Patriotic Front leaders to rig the 2016 elections. Speaking when he featured on a Diamond Television show dubbed Costa on Sunday night, Mucheleka not only accused Rogan of having participated...

• 10 Apr 2018
• Abraham Kalito

Global Finance Magazine names Barclays best bank in Zambia

Barclays Bank Zambia Plc has been named the 2018 Best Bank and Best Corporate Bank in Zambia by the Global Finance Magazine and Global Banking and Finance Review respectively. Speaking in Lusaka, Barclays Bank Zambia Managing Director Mizinga Melu said the bank would focus and commit towards driving a customer centric organization that provides clients...

• 10 Apr 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Appeal against former ministers' refunds meant to intimidate ConCourt - CiSCA

Civil Society Constitutional Agenda (CiSCA) Chairperson Bishop John Mambo says the appeal against the Constitutional Courts ruling which ordered former monsters to pay back salaries is an abuse of the judicial system and it is meant to intimidate the court. And Bishop Mambo says government should not rush to rubbishing the impeachment motion against President...

• 10 Apr 2018
• Joseph Mwenda

Hidden UNDP report says ECZ was vulnerable to external influence

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) survey on Conflict Structural Vulnerability, which the UN country office in Zambia has kept under wraps, reports that institutions like the Electoral Commission of Zambia is vulnerable to external influence. And the report which was concluded in November 2017, but never released to the public, also shows that the...

• 10 Apr 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

PeP asks UN to recall Janet Rogan

Patriots for Economic Progress president Sean Tembo has asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to recall the organisations' representative in Zambia, Janet Rogan, in the wake of allegations that she helped the PF rig 2016 elections. On Friday, UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema charged that Rogan helped the Patriotic Front to manipulate elections. Hichilema wondered why...

• 10 Apr 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

DEC nabs Supreme Court official for money laundering

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) in Lusaka has arrested and jointly charged a Human Resource Officer at the Supreme Court and three others for being in possession of K20,000 counterfeit notes. And the commission in Eastern Province has arrested and jointly charged a 48 year-old Magistrate and a student for being in possession of another...

• 10 Apr 2018
• Abraham Kalito

K76.5bn Kalumbila tax scam must be investigated without political interference - CTPD

Centre for Trade Policy and Development executive director Isaac Mwaipopo says investigations into the K76.5 billion tax scam by Kalumbila Copper Mines must not be jeopardized by political interference. In an interview, Mwaipopo commended the Zambia Revenue Authority for exposing the scam, noting that the tax burden would change if government collected all the tax...

• 10 Apr 2018
• Diggers Editor

Commonwealth used and dumped like tissue

There is no way that President Edgar Lungu and his arch rival Mr Hakainde Hichilema were going to sit on a dialogue table and agree on how to resolve governance issues as stakeholders. Even if that much talked about dialogue were to happen, it would be a mere academic exercise, built by sanctimony and achieved...

• 10 Apr 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

It's not govt's intention to stifle private media growth - Siliya

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dora Siliya says she will study how the creation of Topstar has negatively affected private broadcasters before responding to their grievances. Recently, the Zambia Independent Broadcasters Association (ZIBA) accused government of trying to use them to repay the US$282 million digital migration loan through exorbitant prices. The association members who are...