Archive: 3 May 2018

3 May 2018 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Lusaka High Court acquits Njoya Tee’s wife

The Lusaka High Court has squashed Zambia Association of Musicians president Njoya Tembo’s wife Brenda’s conviction saying it had no legal basis. Lusaka Magistrate Greenwell Malumani had sentenced Brenda to five years simple imprisonment for […]

3 May 2018 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

I broke up with Mukata, Charmaine defends her adoption as UPND splits

Confusion has rocked the opposition UPND over the adoption of Charmaine Musonda as its candidate for the forthcoming Chilanga parliamentary by-election. But Musonda who was acquitted after being jointly charged for murder with outgoing member […]

3 May 2018 | Zondiwe Mbewe

ActionAid challenges PF to publish breakdown of jobs it claims to have created

ActionAid country director Nalucha Ziba has challenged the Patriotic Front to publish a breakdown, sector by sector, of all the jobs it claims to have created since 2011. In a statement, Wednesday, Ziba observed that […]

3 May 2018 | Abraham Kalito

Kalabo woman stabs husband to death

Police in Kalabo have arrested a 36-year-old woman of Namutondo Village for allegedly stabbing her husband to death after a marital dispute. In a statement, Wednesday, Katongo revealed that Nyambe Siteba had stabbed her husband, […]

3 May 2018 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

DEC nabs fraudulent Ndola banker

The Drug Enforcement Commission in Ndola has arrested a 32 year-old banker for money laundering activities involving over K1.6 million. Ezra Malemuna, a banker of House No. 2810 Mushili, Jacaranda Villa in Ndola district, has […]

3 May 2018 | Zondiwe Mbewe

There’s freedom of speech but no freedom after speech – TIZ

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) says journalists must be allowed to keep public officers accountable without intimidation or harassment. In a statement to commemorate World Press Freedom Day which falls today, TIZ executive director Wesley Chibamba […]

3 May 2018 | Diggers Editor

News is what you don’t want us to publish, anything else is PR

Freedom of the press is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted are not allowed to think for themselves. Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to […]

3 May 2018 | Abraham Kalito

PF has created invisible jobs – UPND

United Party for National Development Secretary General Stephen Katuka says the Patriotic Front is lying about creating over a million jobs since 2011 because there is no evidence to that effect. And Katuka says PF […]

3 May 2018 | Kalunga Funga

Kabila is the face of instability in South Central Africa – Katumbi

Visiting Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Moses Katumbi has charged that his President Joseph Kabila is a heartless murderer who is the face of instability to Congo’s neighbouring countries. Katumbi who is also former […]

3 May 2018 | Abraham Kalito

Zambia Police records increase in GBV

The Zambia Police Service has recorded an increase in the number of Gender Based Violence and child defilement cases in the first quarter of 2018 compared to the first quarter of 2017. In a statement […]