Zambia is still feeling the impact of policy inconsistencies in the mining sector because the country has not yet benefitted as much as it should, says Consumer Unity Trust Society (CUTS) coordinator Chennai Mukumba. In an interview with News Diggers! in Lusaka, Mukumba noted that the country was still reeling from the effects of an...

Mopani Copper Mine Chief Financial officer John Chiwele says the mine has embarked on an extension plan which will see its operations extended by an additional 25 years. In an interview with News Diggers! in Lusaka, Chiwele said the expansion plan involved sinking and equipping three new shafts. “As a company, we are in the...

Bishop John Mambo says he would rally alongside a ‘naked’ Chishimba Kambwili, with a Bible in his hands, to protest any decision by government to dismiss Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) Director-General Mary Tshuma. And Bishop Mambo says Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe's latest statement that the Lusaka Ndola dual carriageway’s purported cost US $1.2 billion is...

We are living in a time when female politicians are joining their male counterparts in acting as if they are paid bonuses to disappoint the nation. Currently, there are no serious female contenders for the republican presidency in Zambia. The only one whom we had been counting on, Edith Nawakwi, stopped counting herself in, without...

If High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet was representing Burundi or any other less influential developing country, we would be reporting on him in absentia today. By now, he would have been made to pack his katundu and forced out of Zambia like an Ebola-infected illegal immigrant. The Patriotic Front government is angry with this British High...

The Kitwe Magistrate Court has acquitted National Democratic Congress Youth Chairperson Charles Kabwita on one charge of conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace. This is a matter in which Kabwita is accused of having an altercation with Home Affairs minister Stephen Kampyongo at a restaurant in Kitwe. Particulars of the offence are...

Action Aid Executive Director Nalucha Ziba says the government’s recently-announced austerity measures were mere rhetoric given the lack of concrete action to follow-up on such pronouncements. Ziba observed that the government’s austerity measures, which were recently announced by Finance Minister, Margaret Mwanakatwe, were mere rhetoric as evidenced by continued rampant spending of public resources on...

The Human Rights Commission (HRC) says that despite torture being prohibited under international law, as well as under Article 15 of Zambia’s Bill of Rights, some law enforcement officers are habitually engaged in the cruel vice. In a statement, issued on the day of Commemorating the International Day of Support of the Victims of Torture...