Ministry of Mines Permanent Secretary Paul Chanda says mining companies should brace for the introduction of the Sales Tax and quickly re-orient their working plans to fall in line with the policy once it takes effect early next year. In an interview, Chanda urged mining companies to brace for the introduction of Sales Tax next...

Northern Province Minister Brian Mundubile says the provincial administration is expected to attract investment pledges amounting to US$2 billion from the upcoming Tourism and Investment Expo in the Province. And Mundubile says activities to showcase the country’s potential investment opportunities will continue beyond the Northern Province Expo, which is scheduled to take place from November...

A 29 year-old man of Lusaka's John Laing compound has been dragged to court for defiling a mentally challenged juvenile. And three people have appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Courts on one count of theft of chemicals used for making Boom detergent paste. In this matter, Peter Kombe, a machine operator, is charged with defilement...

Lawyers representing seven court officials and two businessmen charged with trafficking in narcotic drugs have urged the Lusaka Magistrates' Court to take the nolle prosequi entered by State Advocate Grescillia Mulenga in the last proceedings seriously saying the said nolle was done illegally and unconstitutionally. They say that if the advocate entered a nolle prosequi...

The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has intercepted a truck with smuggled chicken pieces worth K260,000 in unpaid taxes. In a statement, ZRA corporate communications manager Topsy Sikalinda stated that the consignment of chicken pieces was declared as transit goods going to a neighbouring country when in fact were destined for Lusaka. “The chicken pieces and...

Chiengi FDD member of parliament Given Katuta has charged that the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) is like slavery because government uses it to continuously exploit peasant farmers and subject them to poverty. And Katuta says it is hard for members of parliament to conduct any reasonable works in their various constituencies when the Constituency...

UPND deputy spokesperson Patricia Mwashingwele says Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo is still on the streets and the streets cannot be taken away from him. Last week, Lusambo said UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema was useless and if he was still on the streets, he would have called him stupid. But in an interview, Mwashingwele said...

The Zambia Police Service has charged the traffic officer who was involved in an altercation with a motorist in a video that went viral on social media with the offence of common assault. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo disclosed this in a statement, adding that administrative action had been instituted in the matter, following Inspector General...

The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) public relations manager Fredrick Mubanga says the agency has noted an increase in motorists performing the Idibala-fainting dance whilst driving. In a statement, Tuesday, Mubanga said the dance, coupled with a tendency by women to apply make up whilst driving, was destructive to other road users. “The Road...

Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga has allowed PF solidarity protests in Ndola today. On Monday night, PF Copperbelt Youth Chairman Nathan Chanda announced that the PF would on Tuesday hold solidarity march pasts in support of peace and unity, against incitement of xenophobic attacks. "To all the youths on the Copperbelt Province who may wish...