• 18 Apr 2019
• Stuart Lisulo in Lumwana

2019 mining tax regime will push us out of business - Lumwana

The 2019 mining fiscal regime remains a matter of life and death for us, says Lumwana Mining Company Limited (LMC) country manager Nathan Chishimba. And Chishimba says the mining firm is still awaiting a response from government after it submitted a detailed financial model to show how the controversial changes in Mineral Royalties Taxes (MRT)...

• 18 Apr 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

DPP gives consent for Mwaliteta's prosecution in offensive weapon case

The Director of Public Prosecutions has issued a consent to prosecute the matter in which UPND Lusaka Province chairman Obvious Mwaliteta and another businessman are charged with being in possession of offensive weapons. However, authority to have the matter tried in another jurisdiction has not yet been obtained. In this matter, Mwaliteta, 48, is jointly...

• 18 Apr 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

I connived with cocaine thieves so I could expose them, court official tells court

An accomplice witness in a matter where six court officials and two businessmen are accused of trafficking in 24 Kg of cocaine has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that she pretended to be part of those who were stealing cocaine exhibits so that she could expose them. Florence Mshoka claimed that because she was the...

• 18 Apr 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

Kambwili names PF cadres who threatened him, gives police their contacts

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili has surrendered to police, names, National Registration Card numbers and contact numbers of the youths who threatened to kill him in a video which went viral on social media recently. And Kamwbili has demanded that government provides information on what President Edgar Lungu and the owners of Vendetta’s Konkola Copper Mines...

• 18 Apr 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

Lungu hopes commissioned milling plants will reduce mealie meal prices

President Edgar Lungu says the PF government has prioritised the construction of milling plants in rural areas in order to mitigate the challenges people face in accessing maize products. Speaking in Chongwe, Wednesday, at the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of 13 milling plants, president Lungu said the PF was still a pro-poor party...

• 18 Apr 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Over 700 Rhinos are killed annually in Africa - Minister

Between 700 and 1,000 Rhinos are killed annually from 2007 to date, says Tourism and Arts Minister Charles Banda. But Banda says Zambia has only lost three Rhinos from poaching in the last 10 years. Speaking when he launched the strategic Rhino Conservation and Management Plan (2019 –2023) and the Cheetah and Wildog national action...

• 18 Apr 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

ConCourt to rule on whether Deputy Mayors are eligible to re-contest their positions on May 17

The Constitutional Court will on May 17, this year, rule on whether Deputy Mayors and council chairpersons are eligible to contest their positions after the lapse of their term of office. This is the matter in which, former Chinsali Deputy Mayor Martin Chitondo and former council chairpersons Obert Tembo (Luangwa), Roland Hamamba (Chilanga), Ignatius Hang’ombe...

• 18 Apr 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Give me respect when you're on my soil, Nkomeshya tells Prof Luo

Senior Chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukamambo II of the Soli people of Lusaka Province yesterday took offence after Higher Education Minister Prof Nkandu Luo ignored her presence in the salutations during a state function. This happened at the University of Zambia Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre where President Edgar Lungu was officiating at the groundbreaking event for the...

• 18 Apr 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

High Court grants 2 dismissed Sesheke cops leave to apply for judicial review

Lusaka High Court Judge Pixie Yangailo has granted the two Sesheke cops who were dismissed from the Zambia Police Service after the parliamentary by-election, leave to commence judicial review proceedings. Judge Yangailo has also ordered that the said leave shall act as a stay of the decision of the Zambia Police Service to retire the...

• 18 Apr 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

14 perish in Chingola-Solwezi road bus accident

14 people have died while 15 others have sustained serious injuries after a Solwezi-bound bus they were travelling in hit into a stationary truck. The accident occurred Wednesday night at Emmanuel area along the Solwezi-Chingola road about 60Km east of Solwezi Boma involving a Zhong Tong bus belonging to the Scorpion Bus company. Police spokesperson...