Grain traders have urged government to maintain Zambia’s open-border policy to ensure the country still remains competitive regionally, especially in in view of reduced maize output this year. And the Grain Traders’ Association of Zambia say they are lobbying government to have the 10 per cent duty on maize exports scrapped to provide much-needed relief....

Any violence associated with the UPND should be regarded as retaliation to PF’s brutality because it is done in self-defence, United Party for National Development (UPND) secretary general Stephen Katuka has insisted. Reacting to claims by the PF suggesting that UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema had failed to justify his vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba’s (GBM) ‘Panga...

Economist Chibamba Kanyama says government should embark on a turnaround strategy for Times of Zambia Printpak to reduce the payroll and encourage a much more independent editorial policy instead of liquidating the newspaper. In February this year, Minister of Information, Dora Siliya, disclosed that government would make a decision to either liquidate, recapitalize or look...

Murder-convict Kieth Mukata's wife Maricho Hoare has asked the people of Chilanga to vote for PF candidate Maria Langa in the parliamentary by-election saying she is a woman of integrity. At a media briefing in Lusaka, Tuesday, Hoare said she had forgiven Mukata for everything, including his affair with UPND candidate Charmaine Mehl Musonda. "It...

United Party for National Development (UPND) vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba says guns are sold so that people can defend themselves when attacked. And Mwamba says President Edgar Lungu cannot discipline violent PF cadres because he is a major beneficiary of their violence. Speaking during a press briefing in Lusaka yesterday, Mwamba vowed that should he...

Democratic Party (DP) party spokesperson Judith Kabemba says Luapula Province Minister Nickson Chilangwa's recommendation letter to have Harry Kalaba expelled from PF will not distract the party’s vision for the poor. And Kabemba says Chilangwa’s political fortunes are dwindling. In a statement, Kabemba stated that Chilangwa’s actions have only exposed his ignorance. Kabemba also stated...

Lusaka Mayor Wilson Kalumba has died. Local Government Minister Vincent Mwale confirmed this to News Diggers! in an interview, Tuesday, saying Kalumba was admitted at the University Teaching Hospital at 06:00 hours this morning and he died around 11:40 hours. Mwale said details of his illness would be communicated later. “It is with a heavy...

Rainbow Party General Secretary Wynter Kabimba has asked the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to investigate reports that PF cadres attacked the UPND candidate in Chilanga and disqualify the ruling party once found wanting. Commenting on an incident where UPND candidate for Chilanga Charmaine Musonda and her entourage were attacked on their way to address...

Retail prices of mealie-meal in Lusaka have jumped by an average K10.00 in some outlets, registering an eight-month record high of K80 per 25Kg breakfast bag. And the Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) says prices could be adjusted further depending on what price farmers decide to offload their maize this year. A check at Lusaka’s...

Transport & Communications Minister Brian Mushimba was yesterday grilled during the Parliamentary Committee on Budget over how his ministry, through RTSA, signed a concession agreement with Intelligent Mobility Solutions without availing it for review. And the Committee was saddened that despite writing to the Ministry to have a glimpse of the signed document, the Ministry...