• 10 May 2019
• Mukosha Funga

Pilato launches "Open CBU" online campaign

Pilato launches "Open CBU" online campaign By Thomas Mulenga Satirical singer Chama Fumba alias Pilato, has launched an online campaign dubbed "#Open CBU", hoping to compel government to reopen the Copperbelt University. Fumba says Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo should come back to her right frame of reasoning and re-open the institution. In...

• 10 May 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

PF making progress in bridging gap between the rich and poor - Mwila

Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Davies Mwila says government, through the successive implementation of the Food Security Programme (FSP), has made steady progress in bridging the gap between the rich and the poor. And Mwila says through the Ministry of Trade and Industry, has further developed an Industrial Policy to support and accelerate Industrialisation in...

• 10 May 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

NDF assembled to legitimise raping of Constitution – Milupi

Opposition alliance chairperson Charles Milupi says the on-going National Dialogue Forum was assembled to legitimise the raping of the Republican Constitution in order for the PF to continue in power. And Milupi says people will still rise and vote against the PF in 2021 even if they manipulate the Constitution in their favour. In an...

• 10 May 2019
• Joseph Mwenda

Kasolo marshals scribes into a media regulation Indaba

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo has insisted that the soon to be enforced statutory media regulation will be mandatory and will leave none out. And Kasolo says self-media regulation must be supported by statutory legislation to ensure journalists’ interests are protected, whilst guaranteeing that the growth of the media in...

• 10 May 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

Withdrawal of some NDF participants has vindicated us - Hichilema

UPND President Hakainde Hichilema says the withdrawal of some participants from the National Dialogue Forum is an indication that the process is not credible. In a statement, Hichilema insisted that the NDF was a PF engineered process that should not be entrusted with making the constitution. “The withdrawal by some participants from the ongoing PF...

• 10 May 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

NDF geared to manipulate Constitution to favour PF - Mwape

Governance activist Lewis Mwape says the National Dialogue Forum (NDF) cannot produce a credible Republican Constitution as it is aimed at protecting the interests of PF officials who are currently enjoying power. And Mwape urged Zambians to demand for transparency from leaders over the NDF because keeping quiet will allow leaders to manipulate the Constitution...

• 10 May 2019
• Sandra Mulenga

New mine tax regime forces Mopani to cut operations

About 600 Mopani Copper Mines direct workers will lose their jobs by June 2019 as the company has failed to maintain Mindolo North shaft and Central shaft in Kitwe. The three Unions (MUZ, NUMAW and UMUZ) said  Mopani Copper Mines had informed them that the company had invested in new state of the art technology in...

• 10 May 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

Lungu must completely reject Zesco tariff hike proposal, demands NDC

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked President Edgar Lungu to ultimately reject Zesco’s proposal to upwardly adjust electricity tariffs by 91 per cent, saying the cost of living is already high. On March 9, 2019, Zesco applied to the Energy Regulation Board (ERB) to revise retail electricity tariffs upwards and among the proposals was...

• 10 May 2019
• Joseph Mwenya in Kabwe

PF cadres' criminal trespass case scheduled to commence today

The matter in which Patriotic Front (PF) Kabwe District Chairperson Richard Bango, two PF councilors and five cadres are charged with criminal trespass and malicious damage to property is scheduled to take off in the magistrates' court today. The eight were arrested on Tuesday in connection to an incident which occurred on April 30 when...

• 10 May 2019
• Diggers Editor

Dipak’s free advice: Hidden debt is toxic

We have written on the collapse of the economy of several occasions, but those who hold economic degrees in the PF government say we have no right to give an analysis on things that we “don’t understand”. So today we went to dig out the former Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry to use this...