People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) president Andyford Banda has advised President Edgar Lungu to verify facts before issuing statements that have the potential to promote tribalism in Zambia. Last Saturday, President Lungu described as economic sabotage the vandalism that took place on an electricity pole in the Macha area of Southern Province and added that...

Government should consider temporary emergency cash transfers to urban poor households to enable consumers afford the escalating prices of mealie meal, says the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI). And IAPRI says mealie meal and maize smuggling across Zambia’s borders will intensify given the lucrative prices obtaining in the regional export markets. Meanwhile, IAPRI says...

Paul Moonga is just a political decimal, he can speak to my branch chairman, says National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Chishimba Kambwili. And Kambwili says President Edgar Lungu is a known tribalist. Commenting on Kambwili’s announcement last week that he would parade President Lungu for everyone to see after he arrested him for theft when...

Governance activist Brebner Changala says there is no doubt that the protest march, which was undertaken by the Constitution Reform and Education Coalition (CRECO) at Parliament grounds, Friday, was government-sponsored. CRECO members, led by YALI president Andrew Ntewewe, launched the ‘One Zambia, One Nation’ campaign under the theme: “the Zambia we love” and marched at...

Economic and Equity Party (EPP) president Chilufya Tayali says he wants to change his kind of politics so that he can be less controversial and provocative. Meanwhile, the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has acquitted Tayali of contempt of court and defamation charges leveled against him after he reconciled with the complainant in the matter. In this...

Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa has asked the Road Development Agency (RDA) to “stay in its lane” and avoid overstepping into his duties. Sampa was reacting to the installation of traffic lights at the junction of Los Angeles Boulevard and Nyerere Road in Kabulonga which he said he had no idea about as Mayor. In a...

The Christian Churches Monitoring Group (CCMG) has urged political party leaders to refrain from scaring voters by telling them to vote in their favor is they want to see development. And CCMG has advised the Electoral Commission of Zambia ECZ to consider conducting voter education as soon as the date of an election is announced....

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) says Zamtel Plc’s increase in their number of subscribers to over three million as at June, 2019, has translated into growing its market share to 19 per cent this year. In a statement, IDC group chief executive officer, Mateyo Kaluba stated that Zamtel’s increased number of subscribers had translated in...

Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja has warned all political players against causing violence ahead of polling day in the Katuba constituency parliamentary by-election. In a statement, Monday, Kanganja cautioned that the tendency of ambushing the peace-loving electorate would not be tolerated by police. “With the one day remaining to polling day, I wish to...

The Lusaka High Court has reserved ruling to a date to be advised, on Vedanta Resources Holdings' application to stay and refer the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) winding-up proceedings to arbitration. This is the matter in which ZCCM Investments Holdings PLC is seeking an order to have Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) liquidated. Early this month,...

Vice-President Inonge Wina says the austerity measures are not envisaged to cause regime change, but are an ongoing process that will remain in place until government gets the desired results. Vice-President Wina said this in Parliament, Friday, when she responded to questions during the Vice-President’s Question Time. When asked by Roan National Democratic Congress (NDC)...

An Italian construction company CMC di Ravenna has gotten itself in trouble in Kenya after it emerged that it won a government tender for the construction of two dams at an inflated cost of US$608 million from the original cost of about US$410 million. Close to 26 people, among them company directors, government officials and...