• 30 Aug 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

The Church is not God – YALI

YALI president Andrew Ntewewe says the Church should be told that they are not God because their back and forth standing on chairing the national dialogue has been divisive. And ZCID spokesperson Jackson Silavwe says the Church has on many occasions absconded scheduled meetings with the Centre. Speaking when he called-in during the ‘Add Your...

• 30 Aug 2018
• Stuart Lisulo

Inflation soars to 8.1%

The annual rate of inflation has leaped to 8.1 per cent, up from 7.8 per cent recorded in July, the highest on record this year so far, according to Central Statistical Office data. Announcing Zambia’s annual rate of inflation for the month of August, CSO acting director of census and statistics Goodson Sinyenga said the...

• 30 Aug 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

IMF's withdrawal of Baldini is a bad sign - Magande

Former finance minister N'gandu Magande says the withdrawal of IMF country representative Alfredo Baldini from Zambia will further jeopardise the country's chance of accessing a bailout package from the International lending institution. In July, the IMF revealed that talks on Zambia’s economic bailout package, widely expected to be around US$1.3 billion, had been suspended owing...

• 30 Aug 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Court fines Lusaka man K500 for battering wife

The Lusaka Magistrates' Court has slapped a 41-year-old man of Lusaka's 10 Miles area with a K500 fine for wife beating. Brighton Mweemba, a mechanical engineer, has also been ordered to compensate his ex-wife K1,000 and in default, six months simple imprisonment. Mweemba was charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Particulars...

• 30 Aug 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

LCC director appears in court for failure to manage waste

Lusaka City Council (LCC) director of public health Edgar Mulwanda has appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court for failing to manage waste in Misisi and Kanyama compounds. Mulwanda is jointly charged with Lusaka City Council and LCC Town Clerk Alex Mwansa with two counts of managing waste in a manner that results in an adverse...

• 30 Aug 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

Honour Chiluba's legacy as well, begs Chiengi MP

Chiengi FDD member of parliament Given Katuka has challenged the Patriotic Front government to explain why it cannot honour MMD founding president Frederick Chiluba by naming him after some of Zambia’s institutions and facilities. Katuta called News Diggers to complain that it was unfair for government to publicly display its hatred for the former Head...

• 30 Aug 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

Chief Ngabwe bemoans ignorance in separation of powers governing land

Senior Chief Ngabwe of Central Province says there are a lot of problems involving land administration in Zambia because there is ignorance in the separation of powers regarding the administration of State and customary land. And Senior Chief Ngabwe noted that government has been converting customary land into State land without signing the convention forms....

• 30 Aug 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Kitwe police nab 2 ZNBC employees for stealing digital migration equipment

Kitwe Police on Tuesday arrested two ZNBC employees, a cameraman and a driver, for stealing digital migration equipment worth about K18,000. ZNBC sources told News Diggers that Mathews Moono and a Mr Lukuma allegedly stole digital migration cables which were 30 meters long. But Copperbelt police commissioner Charity Katanga refused to give details, saying ZNBC...

• 30 Aug 2018
• Diggers Editor

What is Lungu's talent?

President Edgar Lungu has observed that Zambians have a talent of complaining with a lazy attitude towards work, while relying on government to give them handouts without working for them. The Head of State remarked during the commissioning of the MISSOIL Processing Plant in Mambwe District, Eastern Province, that Zambians were failing to develop their...

• 30 Aug 2018
• Mukosha Funga

CEC switches off power at KCM for failure to settle electricity bill

The Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) has started restricting electricity supply to at least two Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) transformers in Chingola, leaving only the Nchanga transformer which is also expected to be switched off once the copper processing smelter has been safely shut down. And CEC sources say KCM had been given enough notice, and...