Archive: 29 May 2019

29 May 2019 | Mirriam Chabala in Chisamba

7,000 Lusaka residents to benefit from sanitation programme upgrade – LWSC

The Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC) says about 7,000 households in George, Kanyama and Chawama townships are going to benefit from the onsite sanitation upgrading project under the LSP programme, which is being funded […]

29 May 2019 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

Govt must consider cutting emoluments to manage debt crisis – CSOs

A consortium of seven Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) say Zambia’s debt has created liquidity problems in the economy and contributed to a loss in investor confidence, forcing government into harmful policy decisions. And the CSOs […]

29 May 2019 | Stuart Lisulo

58% of Zambia’s farmers prefer E-Voucher – CUTS

58 per cent of farmers nationwide prefer using the electronic voucher over the old traditional Direct Input Supply (DIS) system under the Famer Input Support Programme (FISP), a CUTS survey reveals. And the same survey […]

29 May 2019 | Chipata Diggers Correspondent

Give us chiefdom boundary maps to end wrangles – Mphamba

Chief Mphamba of the Tumbuka speaking people in Lundazi district of Eastern province says government should quicken the process of availing traditional leaders with the 1958 chiefdom land maps. Last week, Chieftainess Mwape of the […]

29 May 2019 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

KCM liquidation committee names interim managers for Konkola, Nchanga mines

Impeccable sources in Chingola have told News Diggers! that the consultative meeting held to chart the way forward for the liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines, Monday, resolved to appoint some interim managers to run the […]

29 May 2019 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Security guard causes laughter in court with conflicting statements on Chitotela

A 24-year-old security guard has testified in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Courts that Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister Ronald Chitotela became his boss in 2016 after he purchased a house in Ibex Hill from Austin Liato, […]

29 May 2019 | Thomas Mulenga

Yalelo failed to pay K17.3m dividends to DBZ – AG

The Auditor General’s Report on the parastatal bodies and other statutory institutions has revealed that Yalelo Limited failed to pay nearly K17.3 million in dividends to the Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ), contrary to a […]

29 May 2019 | Zondiwe Mbewe

This victory is for Sesheke, UPND – Kang’ombe

The Lusaka High Court has declared Romeo Kang’ombe as duly elected Sesheke UPND member of parliament saying the will of the people prevailed. High Court judge in charge Gertrude Chawatama told the court according to […]

29 May 2019 | Stuart Lisulo

Zambians should expect to continue suffering economic hardships – CTPD

Zambians are expected to continue facing hard economic times with escalating poverty levels if government fails to urgently implement corrective fiscal measures, says the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD). Reacting to the Bank […]

29 May 2019 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Court adjourns GBM’s throat case again

Lusaka magistrate Nthandose Chabala is expected to deliver her ruling on a case to answer in a matter in which former UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba is alleged to have issued a statement threatening to […]