• 13 May 2019
• Daniel Chansa in Ndola

2021 takuli ifyabupuba - HH

2021 tatulefwaya ifyabupuba nefya buwelewele (we don't want nonsense in 2021), UPND president Hakainde Hichilema told hundreds of supporters in Ndola's Misundu area on Saturday. And Hichilema has demanded the immediate reopening of the Copperbelt University. Meanwhile, Hichilema says in Zambia today, it is either you are with PF and its corruption, or you support...

• 13 May 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Ex-ZNFU employee sues union over salary arrears

A former Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) employee has sued union president, Jervis Zimba, in the Lusaka High Court over unpaid salary arrears, leave pay and gratuity amounting to over K300,000. In a statement of claim filed in the Lusaka High Court principal registry, May 8, Godwin Mumba stated that he had sued Zimba in...

• 13 May 2019
• Stuart Lisulo

Zambia’s gross reserves continue dropping to $1.4bn

Zambia’s gross international reserves have continued to drop to below US $1.5 billion, a historic 10-year low, triggered by government’s huge external debt servicing commitments, Ministry of Finance data reveals. But Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe says government remains committed to building up the dwindling reserves through implementation of measures, such as payment of mineral royalty...

• 13 May 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

Hiked electricity tariffs will be met with resistance - PMRC

The Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) says the best time to implement cost reflective tariffs is way before elections, but warns that they will be met with resistance. According to a policy brief prepared by PMRC senior researcher Albert Kasoma with support from director Bernadette Deka Zulu, the Centre noted that the increase in...

• 13 May 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Petition against Mwila is going ahead this Thursday - Komaki

Renowned Patriotic Front (PF) cadre Julius Komaki says Lusaka Province party chairperson Paul Moonga and his executive should read the party constitution before exposing his ineptitude and inadequacies in his administration. And Komaki says he will go ahead to present a petition against party Secretary General Davies Mwila on Thursday May 16 despite being threatened...

• 13 May 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

GBM ran away when HH was in prison, he has a mental problem - Gary

UPND Chairman for elections and Mazabuka central MP Gary Nkombo says former party vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba was possibly suffering from Schizophrenia, a mental disorder that he says is causing him to imagine things that are not there. Nkombo was reacting to GBM's claim that UPND made him acting party president when Hakainde Hichilema was...

• 13 May 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Cops nab Luanshya man for insulting Lungu

Police have arrested a 31-year-old man of Luanshya’s Zaoni street identified as Fred Maanya for Defamation of the President. In a statement, Monday, Police spokesperson Esther Katongo said the suspect phoned-in during a live programme on Millennium Radio on March 28 and issued derogatory remarks against President Edgar Lungu. Katongo stated that the suspect introduced...

• 13 May 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

ECZ says it will learn from SA's electoral commission how to manage polls

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) says it will engage the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) on the best practices involved in the management of elections. ECZ chairperson Justice Essau Chulu says his Commission would engage the IEC on how to effectively manage electoral related disinformation and abuse of social media. According to...

• 13 May 2019
• Mukosha Funga

HH's C/Belt tour rattles PF

Patriotic Front media director Sunday Chanda says his party is aware of schemes by UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema to incite citizens and sow seeds of discord on the Copperbelt. In a statement on Sunday, Chanda stated that people who had left a "trail of misery on the Copperbelt" were shamefully attempting to launder themselves as...

• 13 May 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

NDF recalls D/ministers, wants councillors to vote for mayor after general elections

National Dialogue Forum (NDF) Spokesperson Isaac Mwanza has clarified that NDF’s appeal to repeal the colonial Public Order Act and replace it with an Act that will contribute to people’s enjoyment of their rights and further contribute towards the growth of the country's democratic dispensation, shall not apply to religious gatherings and traditional events held...