Shang’ombo UPND member of parliament Mubika Mubika says he has stopped consuming food from the National Assembly restaurant as a way of protesting against government on the suffering of his electorate. And Mubika has urged government to apologise to its corporate partners and resolve the impasse on the suspended Social Cash Transfer funding so that...

Attorney General Likando Kalaluka has submitted to the Constitutional Court that the President cannot be compelled to avail former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mutembo Nchito with a report of the tribunal that recommended his dismissal, when there is no basis at law requiring him to do so. He has therefore asked the court to...

Muchinga Province Minister Sichone Malozo says Zambia is lucky to have a strong opposition party in the UPND which will remain an opposition party beyond 2021. And Malozo says UPND should join the October 18 National Day of Prayers because the party needs a lot of prayers. Malozo said this in his debate on the...

Vice President Inonge Wina says investigative wings have discovered that the controversial houses in Lusaka’s Chalala area, whose owners have still not been found are actually 51 and not 48, as widely reported. And Wina says government raised a total of K1.7 million for the reconstruction of City Market, which was gutted in July, 2017,...

Katombola UPND member of parliament Derrick Livune says parliamentarians should dedicate their efforts to issues that affect Zambians like poverty, instead of moving “frivolous motions” to ban political parties that allegedly support homosexuality. On Wednesday, tempers flared in Parliament when Kanchibiya PF member of parliament Martin Malama moved a private member’s motion seeking Parliament’s support...

UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says the party will take legal action on some individuals in the Patriotic Front who are propagating that the opposition party supports gay rights. On Wednesday, Kanchibiya PF member of parliament Martin Malama moved a private member's motion seeking parliamentary support to ban political parties and organisations that support gay, lesbian,...

University of Zambia (UNZA) Vice Chancellor Professor Luke Mumba has congratulated School of Veterinary Medicine dean Professor King Nalubamba for being installed as senior chief Nalubamba of the Ila people in Namwala District of Southern Province. Prof Nalubamba was on Sunday crowned as senior chief at the Mbeza Royal establishment after ascending to the thrown...

Christian Churches Monitoring Group (CCMG) chairperson Fr Cleophas Lungu says the never-ending tension between the UPND and PF has worsened the suffering of many ordinary Zambians, as they have advanced from the use of stones, to pangas and now guns. Commenting on the recent violence in Kaoma where one person was shot dead, Fr Lungu...

This feature argues that tendencies to curtail comments on the Zambia economy by some social commentators highlight a worrying trend of possibilities of elitism in Zambian politics and economics, and somewhat of an assault on the liberal values. Elitism advances a superior attitude or behaviour associated with an elite or the belief that a society...

The Constitutional Court will on Thursday, this week, rule on the request by the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) to restrain the National Assembly from continuing with the legislative process to enact the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill No.10 into law, pending determination of its petition. And the court will on October 22 rule on the State’s motion...