• 17 May 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Cop goes in 3 years for stealing K30,000

A 48-year-old police officer of Matero Township has been convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing K30,000. Lusaka magistrate Austin Mubita jailed Chela John Sinyangwe to 36 months after finding him guilty of theft by servant. Particulars of the offence in this matter were that Sinyangwe, between January 1, 2018...

• 17 May 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Kwacha sprinting away while Lungu is jogging, says Lubezhi

Namwala UPND member of parliament Moono Lubezhi says it is frustrating to see President Edgar Lungu jogging every morning when the cost of living under his administration has continued “sprinting away”. And Lubezhi has challenged Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo to tell the nation how much maize government exported outside the country during the 2017/2018 farming...

• 17 May 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

CTPD report exposes child labour in tobacco cultivation

The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) has asked government through the Ministry of Labour to investigate the extent to which children are being engaged in the production of tobacco in the country. CTPD executive director Isaac Mwaipopo revealed in a statement, Thursday, that in a survey recently conducted by his organisation on the...

• 17 May 2019
• Stuart Lisulo

Sales Tax will shut down businesses, warns Mutati

Zambian small-scale businesses are all going to shut down following the implementation of the controversial Sales Tax after next month, former Finance Minister Felix Mutati has warned. And Mutati has called on government to defer the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) by at least another six months, or ideally by 18 months, to allow...

• 17 May 2019
• Thomas Mulenga and Mirriam Chabala

PAC proposes non-partisan movement to defend Constitution

Peoples’ Alliance for Change (PAC) president Andyford Banda has suggested the formation of a non-partisan movement to block the enactment of proposals made by the National Dialogue Forum for the amendment of the Constitution. And Banda says some proposals, such as allowing members of parliament to remain in office until the day of elections, will...

• 17 May 2019
• Mukosha Funga

KCM must go – Lungu

President Edgar Lungu says Attorney General Likando Kalaluka and other lawyers will guide him on how to 'divorce' Konkola Copper Mines and Mopani Copper Mines. And President Lungu says Sales Tax is here to stay, boasting that as soon as KCM and Mopani are kicked out, other investors will readily take over. Meanwhile, President Lungu...

• 17 May 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

PF’s coalition govt proposal motivated by fear of losing 2021 - South UPND

The UPND in Southern Province says the proposal to allow the formation of government of national unity by the National Dialogue Forum was aimed at giving the Patriotic Front an opportunity to form a coalition government with smaller opposition political parties if it loses the 2021 election. In a statement, Southern Province UPND deputy spokesperson...

• 17 May 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

Opposition Alliance will never allow coalition govt, vows Kambwili

National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Chishimba Kambwili says his party and the UPND will ensure that the proposed introduction of a coalition government does not see the light of day once its taken to Parliament. And Kambwili says the proposal by the just ended National Dialogue Forum (NDF) to reduce the election campaigns time is...

• 17 May 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

It's evil to bring back deputy ministers when economy is bleeding - Kazabu

Lackson Kazabu has said it is “evil” to think of bringing back deputy ministers in a country whose economy is on its knees. And Kazabu says the “cadres” that should be scrapped are the district commissioners whom he said are just draining the Treasury. On Monday, the National Dialogue Forum (NDF) spokesperson Isaac Mwanza told...

• 17 May 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

Chipata man defiles 7-year-old, strangles her to death

A seven-year-old girl of Chipata’s Mafuta village has been strangled to death after allegedly being defiled by an unknown person on Wednesday. Eastern Province Police Commissioner Luckson Sakala revealed this in a statement to News Diggers, explaining that the mother to the deceased, Zabeta Banda, aged 38, reported her daughter’s death in a phone call...