Archive: 15 July 2019

15 Jul 2019 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

I don’t know how to steal – Lungu

President Edgar Lungu has wondered how people can expect him to develop a country within five years when it took God six days to create the world. And President Lungu says he doesn’t know how […]

15 Jul 2019 | Mirriam Chabala

KCM takeover is against Mines Act, Vedanta will haunt govt – Sinkamba

Green party leader Peter Sinkamba says ZCCM-IH is not government but a company in which government is a shareholder, just like Zamtel, and as such, it has no legal backing to takeover Konkola Copper Mines […]

15 Jul 2019 | Natasha Sakala

Chibamba calls for cost benefit analysis to consider fuel subsidy

Economist Chibamba Kanyama says Zambia’s annual rate of inflation should be expected to remain under pressure on account of the anticipated fuel price increase and poor rainfall. And Kanyama has called for a Cost Benefit […]

15 Jul 2019 | Mirriam Chabala

Lungu will jet to Kenya on Tuesday – Malanji

Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji has announced that President Edgar Lungu is on Tuesday expected in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, where he is scheduled to attend the country’s Trade Fair and a high level business summit. […]

15 Jul 2019 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

If DPP doesn’t appeal Chitotela’s acquittal, we’ll know ruling was state-sponsored – Changala

Civil Rights Activist Brebner Changala says if the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) does not appeal in the Chitotela case, then the public will assume that the minister’s acquittal was sponsored by […]

15 Jul 2019 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

As a human being, 1 or 2 people may not like me – Lubinda

Justice Minister Given Lubinda says as a human being, there may be one or two people who don’t like him but inciting people to attack him is uncalled for. And Lubinda says President Edgar Lungu […]

15 Jul 2019 | Ulande Nkomesha

Luo talking nonsense – CBUAU

Copperbelt University Academic Union (CBUAU) Secretary General Willy Ngosa has described the reasons being given by Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo for the continued closure of CBU as nonsense. And Ngosa says Prof […]

15 Jul 2019 | Mirriam Chabala

Hiked fuel prices will trigger job losses, warns ActionAid

ActionAid Zambia country director Nalucha Ziba says the looming upward adjustment in petroleum products will lead to job losses and poverty in the country because an increase in fuel prices will automatically increase the cost […]

15 Jul 2019 | Natasha Sakala

Cadres running bus stations not a PF problem – Mwale

Local Government Minister Vincent Mwale says the issue of cadres running markets and bus stations will not end unless all parties accept that it is not a Patriotic Front problem and work together to find […]

15 Jul 2019 | Mirriam Chabala

There’s no agreement stopping UPND from contesting Lubwa ward – Musenge

Mwenya Musenge says the UPND is in order to contest the Lubwa ward by-election in Kitwe and face the NCD in the campaigns because there is no Opposition Alliance agreement which stops members from challenging […]