• 10 May 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Magistrate Hamaundu’s son in court for assault

Lusaka magistrate Faides Hamaundu's son has been dragged to court for one count of assault. Eddie Nthawe, 38, an assistant protocol officer, is jointly charged with Davies Chisha Mulenga, 35, a technician. The two are charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, contrary to section 248 of the penal code chapter 87...

• 10 May 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Attorney General must resign for advancing Lungu's political ambitions in court - Tembo

Attorney General Likando Kalaluka says he is not representing President Edgar Lungu in the ongoing eligibility case in the Constitutional Court. But Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) leader Sean Tembo has demanded that Kalaluka must resign as he cannot continue to waste tax payer's money on advancing an individual's political ambitions. Responding to a letter...

• 10 May 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Langa promises to launch Disney World in Chilanga

Patriotic Front Chilanga parliamentary candidate for the upcoming by-elections Maria Langa says the constituency needs a theme park to reclaim the area as the first tourist destination. And PF National Chairperson for Women Jean Kapata says the Electoral Commission of Zambia had given her party a yellow card for failing to control their members during...

• 10 May 2018
• Mukosha Funga

Maureen steps out of politics, tells unhappy UPND members to respects her rights

Former first lady Maureen Mwanawasa says she has put ice on politics and will remain a private citizen. But her statement has not settled well with some UPND members who now accuse her of using the party for expediency. Mwanawasa who contested the Mayoral elections in Lusaka under the opposition ticket in 2016 snubbed her...

• 10 May 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Court summons Kambwili after Tayali accuses him of tampering with evidence

The Lusaka Magistrates' Court has summoned NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili to appear and answer for contempt allegations leveled against him by Chilufya Tayali. Tayali has alleged that Kambwili tampered with evidence in a case in which the latter is facing three counts of forgery, uttering false documents and giving false information to a public officer....

• 10 May 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

DPP enters nolle in case where PF cadres were charged with aggravated robbery

The Director of Public Prosecutions has entered a nolle prosequi in a matter in which four PF cadres who intercepted Mukula logs were charged with aggravated robbery. In this matter, Venny Musonda, Augustine Mukuka, Robson Chipili and Fanny Zimba are charged with theft of property belonging to ZAFFICCO. Allegations are that on December 29, 2017...

• 10 May 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

ConCourt dismisses UPND's Mkushi South parliamentary election appeal

The Constitutional Court has dismissed UPND losing candidate Sydney Chisanga's appeal for Mkushi South parliamentary seat on account that it lacks merit. In the election petition filed in the Lusaka High Court against PF's winning candidate for Mkushi South, Davies Chisopa, Chisanga had asked the court to declare the election invalid, null and void. And...

• 10 May 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

Amnesty International demands release of doctor who 'defamed' Lungu

Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of a Zambian medical doctor who was slapped with a seven-year jail sentence for allegedly insulting President Edgar Lungu in a Facebook post. Kwalela Kafunya, a medical doctor at Luampa Mission Hospital in Western Province, was on May 8, 2017, sentenced to seven years imprisonment...

• 10 May 2018
• Diggers Reporter

Auditor Generals ponder anti-cyber crime initiatives

The 15th Governing Board Meeting for the African Organisation of English-speaking Supreme Audit Institutions (AFROSAI-E) has opened in Kigali, Rwanda with a call for Auditors General to help curb cyber crime in their respective countries. Speaking at the official opening of the meeting with one of the thematic topic on combatting Cyber Crime, the Right...

• 10 May 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Protestors burn down Zambian trucks in SA

Protestors in South Africa's Limpompo Province have burnt three Zambian trucks to ashes using petrol bombs. According to a statement issued by Zambia's First Secretary for Press in South Africa Naomi Nyawali, the trucks were burnt in two separate incidents, Wednesday night. She stated that none of the drivers died but one sustained life threatening...