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 say in order to manage the debt situation, government should implement a genuine austerity budget for 2020. Meanwhile, the CSOs...

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 equally cited 68 per cent of 50 members of parliament who support the full implementation of the E-voucher provided that...

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 Nsenga people in Nyimba district appealed to government to help resolve a land dispute between her chiefdom and Chief Nyamphande...

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 various KCM business units. According to sources, Konkola Mine in Chililabombwe will be run under the leadership of Dr Sixtus...

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, where he used to work. However, the security guard who is a State witness caused the court room to erupt...

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 shareholding agreement entered between the two parties. The Report disclosed that Yalelo and DBZ entered into a shareholders’ agreement in...

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 her findings, violence during the Sesheke parliamentary by-election was perpetrated by both UPND and the PF, as well as, the...

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 of Zambia’s (BoZ) hiked Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 10.25 per cent, CTPD’s lead researcher Bright Chizonde hailed the central...

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 go for President Edgar Lungu’s throat on June 18. In this matter, GBM was arrested on March 2, 2016 for...

UPND national women chairperson Namakau Kabwiku says lack of a national land policy has led to illegal land allocation and corruption. And Kabwiku says once in government, UPND will come up with a land policy that will allow women to own land easily. In a statement, Monday, Kabwiku said there was no political will on...