Archive: 11 September 2018

11 Sep 2018 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Mushipe sues Mashi Hardware over K170,000 legal fees

Suspended UPND lawyer Martha Mushipe has dragged Mashi Refrigeration and Hardware Limited and its director Isaac Mwitila to court, seeking an order to pay her K170,000, being the outstanding balance for professional and legal services […]

11 Sep 2018 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

Let’s be willing to give up power to young ones – Mumbi

PF deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri has asked the PF leadership to set the example and be willing to give up power to the young ones since party positions are not personal-to-holder. Speaking at the […]

11 Sep 2018 | Mirriam Chabala

Zambians may rise against Chinese if govt continues favoring them, warns UPND

UPND Secretary General Stephen Katuka has warned that Zambians will rise against Chinese if government continues giving them contracts at the expense of locals. In a statement, Monday, Katuka observed that the rate at which […]

11 Sep 2018 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

Zambia is not in a debt crisis – EAZ

Economics Association of Zambia president Dr Lubinda Haabazoka says the country is not in a debt crisis and it has room to borrow more. And Dr Habazoka says government should consider nationalizing mines which are […]

11 Sep 2018 | Mirriam Chabala

MPs must challenge 30 ngwee Internet tariff in Parliament – GBM

UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba has advised opposition members of parliament to prepare a motion against the newly-introduced 30 ngwee Internet tariff, saying Zambians have rejected it. And Mwamba says the Patriotic Front government cannot […]

11 Sep 2018 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

10 arrested, as 24kg missing cocaine implicates magistrates, DEC officers, court officials

The Drug Enforcement Commission in Lusaka has arrested about 10 Lusaka Magistrates’ Court officials in connection with 24kg of cocaine which went missing last month. And Judicial and Allied Workers Union of Zambia president Peter […]

11 Sep 2018 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

Lungu fears Congo election crisis may spread into Zambia

President Edgar Lungu has expressed fear that the outcome of the December 2018 Congo DRC elections might be endangered by the lack of an all inclusive electoral process. And President Lungu has further expressed fear […]

11 Sep 2018 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

UNZA lecturers on go slow

University of Zambia lecturers have downed tools in protest against management’s delays in paying them their longstanding gratuities, among other things. UNZALARU publicity secretary Moffat Moyo asked lecturers to suspend all classes after a meeting […]

11 Sep 2018 | Diggers Editor

While being raped, sold, Zambians are sleeping like the Petauke victim

We thank God that police have succeeded to arrest the perverted Petauke man who raped and filmed an unconscious woman and circulated an obscene video on social media. In our view, that act was beyond […]

11 Sep 2018 | Abraham Kalito

Mungwi police nab 2 Chinese nationals for killing Zambian

Police in Northern Province have arrested two Chinese nationals of Ng’wena main area in Mungwi for beating a 42-year-old Zambian man to death after accusing him of theft. Northern Province Police Commissioner Richard Mweene confirmed […]