A 27-year-old man of Mansa has allegedly committed suicide after a dispute with his mother over a K20 he wanted to use to buy beer on Christmas Day. Luapula Province Police Commissioner Elias Chushi said Christopher Sikasote narrated to the Police how Terries Nkomanga of Musumali village had on December 25 around 11:00 hours insulted...

Government, through the Bank of Zambia (BoZ), will buy and collect more than 40,000 kilogrammes of gold from primary and secondary sources, including artisanal and small-scale gold miners, Mines Permanent Secretary Barnaby Mulenga has announced. And ZCCM-IH chief executive officer Mabvuto Chipata has disclosed that the institution has embarked on a programme to set up...

Transport and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya has challenged ZICTA to up its game in meting out sanctions on any telecommunications company that fails to provide high quality service to consumers. And Airtel Zambia Plc has apologized for the network outage experienced by its subscribers for almost two hours, Thursday morning, blaming a power outage at...

A few days ago, President Edgar Lungu announced a 15 to 20 per cent reduction on his salary and the salaries of both cabinet ministers and the chief executives of parastatal companies. Lungu further directed the Secretary to Cabinet to extend the measure to top-earning non-unionised civil servants, which, in effect, means all workers in...

That’s what power does. It goes to your head and when that happens, you cease to see the legal limitations of your ambitions. We saw this from President Edgar Lungu’s expression while in Solwezi where he hinted that after winning the 2021 elections, he will stand again in 2026. He was saying this knowing too...

Albie Sachs, the celebrated retired judge of the South African Constitutional Court, while delivering a lecture, once asserted that every judgment he wrote was a lie. By this he meant that the formality of every judgment masks the underlying considerations that birthed it, that is, the final format of the judgment belies the manner in...

The Zambian economy has faced challenges of constricting fiscal space and the devastating effects of climate change. Fiscal space is commonly defined as the budgetary room that allows a government to provide resources for public purposes. How has the constricting fiscal space and the devastating effects of climate change affected the livestock subsector? In this...

We listened to President Edgar Lungu introducing his desire to contest the 2026 general elections with absolute bewilderment. We could not believe what was coming out of the President’s mouth, especially that he claims to have stopped taking what was regularly going into his mouth and making him high. But we will give the humble...

President Edgar Lungu has announced the reduction of his salary and that of his Cabinet between a range of 15 and 20 per cent, with savings realized due to be allocated towards cushioning the vulnerable, amidst the high cost of living. But the status of the former Cabinet Ministers, who illegally stayed in office following...

Former Finance minister Felix Mutati says government’s failure to pay the African Development Bank (AfDB) an outstanding loan of US$1.4 million has caused panic and eroded confidence in the economy. And Mutati says an IMF programme is indispensable if Zambia is to regain investor confidence and resuscitate the exchange rate. Meanwhile, Mutati has charged that...