Archive: 2018

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lusaka Province Police Commissioner Nelson Phiri has confirmed the death of a 3rd year law student at the University of Lusaka (UNILUS) who died in a road accident. Phiri told News Diggers! in an interview […]

An officer in charge has admitted in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that the demonstration by the fire tender protesters last year was peaceful and that citizens have a right to demonstrate peacefully in matters of […]

Bloomberg-Zambia’s High Court rejected an appeal by an employee of diamond billionaire Lev Leviev against his deportation, according to official documents seen by Bloomberg. In a ruling dated June 19, Judge Dancewell Bowa said he […]