• 12 Aug 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

K1,500 surcharge for CBU students a fundraising venture – Kabwita

NDC national youth chairman Charles Kabwita says the Copperbelt University (CBU) wants to use the re-opening of the institution as a fundraising venture by slapping a K1,00 surcharge on 'innocent' students in the name of repairing damages. Kabwita’s reaction came in light of the CBU’s notice requesting all returning students to pay K1,500 each as...

• 12 Aug 2019
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

PF has opened overnight street vending along Lusaka's Lumumba Rd - Moonga

PF Lusaka Province executive chairman Paul Moonga says the party provincial executive has agreed to open a night vendor’s market along Lumumba Road, which will be operational from 16:00 hours to morning. And Moonga has asked the Divisional Traffic Officer (DTO) to arrest drivers and impound any buses that will be found parked at undesignated...

• 12 Aug 2019
• Natasha Sakala

Maize shortage causing high mealie meal prices, explains MAZ

Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) president Andrew Chintala has disclosed that the country is currently experiencing a shortage of maize on the market, which is a major contributor to the prevailing high mealie meal prices. And Chintala has called on Zambians who are complaining about high mealie meal prices to choose the cheaper option of...

• 12 Aug 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Siame loses bid for monthly salary payment during assessment

The Registrar of the Lusaka High Court has ruled that he will not consider former Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) executive director for operations Paul Siame’s payment of over K4 million monthly salaries from date of dismissal, during assessment. Francis Nsokolo says the claim for maintaining Siame on payroll has come rather late in the day...

• 12 Aug 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Nawakwi thanks loyal Legana consumers, demands jailing of malicious detractors

Legana Investments Limited proprietor Edith Nawakwi says she is deeply indebted for the faith and support that citizens have shown after the product came under "unwarranted attacks from detractors" who alleged that the sausages contained condom particles. And Nawakwi says she wants to see her detractors in jail, adding that allegations that Legana sausages are...

• 12 Aug 2019
• Ulande Nkomesha

AG signs MoU with Norway to enhance technical cooperation

There is need to boost transparency and accountability in the extractive industry because companies in this sector take a lot for themselves, but not for the host nation, says Head of International Division Office of the Auditor General in Norway Olivind Larsen. And acting Auditor General Davidson Mendamenda says Norway’s initiative has come at the...

• 12 Aug 2019
• Diggers Reporter

1,500 people in Mpulungu to receive free meat packages as Muslims celebrate Eid

Direct Aid Society has identified 1,500 people in Mpulungu district to receive free meat packages as Muslims celebrate Eidul adha. The festival is in commemoration of Prophet Abraham's willingness to slaughter his son in sacrifice to God. Every tenth of the twelfth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, Muslims around the world commemorate Abraham's sacrifice...

• 12 Aug 2019
• Diggers Editor

Foreigners have taken our copper, give gold licences to Zambians!

Gold! It is the world’s most well-known precious metal and also one of the most expensive in the world. To extract gold, one has to dig deep into the Earth’s crust, in many cases using all sorts of heavy-duty extractive industry machinery. But here in Zambia, this world’s ‘most expensive’ metal has been discovered right...