Archive: 5 April 2019

5 Apr 2019 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

By-elections fooling Lungu into thinking 2021 will be easy – HH

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema says “the manipulated outcome” of by-elections has gone to President Edgar Lungu’s head and he has been fooled into thinking that Zambians are happy with his leadership and 2021 will be […]

5 Apr 2019 | Thomas Mulenga

Don’t follow Luo’s bad heart, ZCTU urges Lungu

The Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says it is arrogant for Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo to tell UNZA and CBU lecturers to resign if they are not happy with the conditions at […]

5 Apr 2019 | Mirriam Chabala

UPND won’t win to bring you back in 2021, Lungu tells fired govt workers

President Edgar Lungu has warned striking civil servants across the country to stop sabotaging government operations by abandoning their official duties because they will be dismissed from work. The President advised the civil servants and […]

5 Apr 2019 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

Sales Tax rate will be 16% on imported goods

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate will be pegged at 16 per cent on all imported goods into Zambia, while the rate on domestic services supplied within the country will be nine per cent. […]

5 Apr 2019 | Daniel Chansa

Ndola police fire shots to disperse bus drivers demonstrating against PF

Some local bus drivers in Ndola staged protests, Friday morning, against what they called harassment by PF cadres, who operate Rosa buses at various stations and others who collect illegal taxes from them. The drivers, […]

5 Apr 2019 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

2021 results will send Lungu into coma – CK

NDC Leader Chishimba Kambwili says President Edgar Lungu should save himself by not contesting the 2021 elections because he will be so shocked, he will get into a comma. On Tuesday, President Edgar Lungu dared […]

5 Apr 2019 | Daniel Chansa in Kitwe

We won’t open CBU till we’re sure hooligans can’t destroy property – Luo

Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo says Copperbelt University will only be reopened when the institution secures high security systems that will prevent “hooligans” from destroying property. Speaking at a press briefing this morning […]

5 Apr 2019 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Vespers’ mother weeps as UNZA clinical officer testifies

Vespers Shimunzhila’s mother yesterday burst into tears after a Clinical Officer General from the University of Zambia Clinic told the Coroners’ Court that he did not find any life in her daughter after carrying out […]

5 Apr 2019 | Thomas Mulenga

Those in and outside UPND saying PF has bought me are stupid – GBM

Those of you who are stupid and foolish in speculating rumours, both inside our party and outside our party, must stop it! UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM) fumed at a press briefing, Thursday. Meanwhile, […]

5 Apr 2019 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Zambians must stop PF’s manoeuvres to silence media -Katuka

UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka has appealed to Zambians to join hands with his party to stop the unwarranted manoeuvres by the Patriotic Front to silence the independent media in the country. In the UPND’s […]