• 10 Sep 2018
• Stuart Lisulo

Govt to narrow public service wage bill in 2019 budget projected at K84.6 Bn

Government has projected to roll out a K84.6 billion national budget next year expected to be supported by increased tax revenues amounting to around K7.4 billion more than last year’s budget. And government has proposed to keep debt interest payments to an average K14.4 billion per annum over the medium-term period (2019-2021), and to narrow...

• 10 Sep 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

CUTS highlights need for healthy diets

Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) centre coodinator Chenai Mukumba says Zambia is among the countries struggling with alarming levels of malnutrition because of mono-diets. In an interview on the sidelines of a Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) organised workshop dubbed Sustainable Diets for All, Mukumba observed that Zambians had to start dealing with...

• 10 Sep 2018
• Abraham Kalito

SA’s recession may affect Zambian economy - ZACCI

South Africa’s economic recession may negatively affect the Zambian economy in the short-term as much of that country’s finished products end up in the local retail sector, says the Zambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ZACCI). Commenting on the technical recession South Africa is now in where real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in that country...

• 10 Sep 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Former civil servant sues State for early, wrongful retirement

A former chief education officer in the Ministry of General Education has sued the State and the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) in the Lusaka High Court, demanding for an order that his termination of service before his preferred retirement age, is premature, malicious and wrongful. Peter Kakoma Kasaji has alleged that the TSC, acting on...

• 10 Sep 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Former lecturer drags CBU to court over K172,678 gratuity

A former Copperbelt University lecturer has sued the institution in the Lusaka High Court, claiming that they had neglected to pay him over K100,000 gratuity, as well as K172,678 accrued salaries, after he resigned. In a statement of claim filed in the Lusaka High Court, Dr Festus Mushabati cited the Council of the Copperbelt University....

• 10 Sep 2018
• Abraham Kalito

Police charge Petauke video author with indecent assault

Police in Petauke have charged Rogers Mwanza 28, with Indescent Assault on a female and production and circulation of obscene material. Mwanza is a suspect in a video that went viral last week where he confessed to have had sexual intercourse with an unconscious woman and later invited other men to join him in the...

• 10 Sep 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

Kalabo health worker on the run after killing 3 with poisonous drug

Police in Western Province are looking for a man identified as Nyambe Lienda of Katoya Village in Kalabo District for suspected poisoning of six people, three of whom died, while others are still hospitalized. Police spokesperson Esther Katongo disclosed in a statement that, Lienda of unknown age, a daily classified employee at Nyingo Rural Health...

• 10 Sep 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Democratic Party's court victory elates Harry Kalaba

Bahati PF member of parliament Harry Kalaba says now that the court has nullified the deregistration of the Democratic Party (DP), Zambians must support the political movement which he is leading. And Kalaba says he will re-look the invitation letter from DP to contest the presidency on its ticket in 2021. Meanwhile, Kalaba has wondered...