Police in Kitwe yesterday stopped a white famer and businessman Kelvin William Soper, for a second time, from holding a lone protest walk over land allegedly grabbed from him by Northern Province Permanent Secretary Elias Kamanga.  In March 2018, Soper wanted to walk a 360-kilometer stretch to State House in Lusaka on a mission to...

Patriots for Economic Progress leader Sean Tembo says the Patriotic Front is undermining the dialogue process by unilalerally drafting a Constitutional Amendment Bill which will be tabled in parliament during the next sitting. And Tembo says President Lungu must stop playing silly political games by ensuring that the dialogue process succeeds. In a statement, Sunday,...

On 24 April 2018, voters in 16 different wards spread across the country went to the polls to choose new representatives following a series of vacancies occasioned by the death or resignation of incumbent councillors. The affected wards were Luapula and Kansuswa on the Copperbelt, Chiweza and Chiwuyu in Eastern Province, Ntumbachushi and Munwa in...

The Zambia Council for Social Development says the three church mother bodies must take up the responsibility of spearheading the dialogue process because their independence makes them neutral players. In a statement, Sunday, ZCSD executive director Lewis Mwape observed that the Zambia Centre for Interparty Dialogue was not the best organisation to lead the dialogue...

Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila says the party has picked Maria Langa as it's candidate ahead of the Chilanga parliamentary by-election. And by press time yesterday, the UPND central committee was still locked up in interviews with the 10 shortlisted applicants, among them Keith Mukata's girlfriend Charmaine Musonda. Briefing the press at the PF...

By all means, venture in business you understand. This has been my message in the past 15 years in all publications and public presentations. Africa’s leading entrepreneur Aliko Dangote just confirmed this assessment a couple of weeks ago when he jointly appeared in a discussion forum with another businessman, Strive Masiyiwa. Asked if he had...

President Edgar Lungu has thanked the Anglican Church for the role it has played over the last 40 years to alleviate poverty in Zambia. According to a speech released by State House, ahead of the president’s attendance of the Eucharist Service of the Zambia Bath And Wells link at the Anglical Cathedral of the Holy...

United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema was on Saturday among thousands of people that attended the colourful 2018 Kuomboka traditional ceremony of the Lozi people. But despite President Edgar Lungu staying away, the event was not without confusion as some suspected PF cadres stormed the VIP area, pushing people in the process,...

Bahati PF member of parliament Harry Kalaba who is also former minister of foreign affairs, has made very honest observations about the nature of ‘developmental’ projects we have in Zambia. “We are doing projects in this country, not because the projects are important, but because somebody will get a kickback. Are you telling me it...

President of the Republic, His Excellency Edgar Chagwa Lungu has called on Zambians to launch The Keep Zambia Clean, Green and Healthy Campaign. This event is being organized by Lifebuoy and Domestos brands today so that Unilever Zambia staff could take practical action to help eradicate cholera and improve hygiene and sanitation. “We are proud...