• 16 Mar 2020
• Mirriam Chabala

Lungu a beneficiary of wrong ConCourt judgment – Kabimba

RAINBOW Party general secretary Wynter Kabimba says he does not agree with the Constitutional Court’s interpretation of a Presidential term of office, which, according to him, deems President Edgar Lungu eligible to contest the 2021 general election next year. And Kabimba says he supports the clause in the Constitutional Amendment Bill 10 of 2019, which...

• 16 Mar 2020
• Sishuwa Sishuwa

The Judiciary is now lawless: the suspension of John Sangwa

On 13 March 2020, the Judiciary’s Acting Chief Registrar, Prince Boniface Mwiinga, announced that prominent constitutional law expert John Sangwa would no longer be allowed to appear before any court in Zambia. In a notice to all judges of the Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Registrars and Magistrates, Mwiinga stated that...

• 16 Mar 2020
• Mirriam Chabala

Stay away from politics, Lungu tells church again

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has urged the Church to stay away from the political arena and concentrate on playing its God-given role of providing counsel to the nation’s leadership. And Munali PF member of parliament Professor Nkandu Luo has asked the Church to seek God’s intervention into the coronavirus outbreak, saying the disease is Biblical and...

• 16 Mar 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

3 Kulima Tower Bus drivers threaten to sue market chairperson for breaching injunction

THREE Kulima Tower Bus drivers have threatened to sue station chairperson Tresford Mwila for failing to adhere to a court injunction which allowed them to operate at the bus station without intimidation. On Thursday last week suspected PF cadres, including Mwila, assaulted and banned Kingsley Limbali, Gestable Chikambwe and Christopher Nengule from operating at Kulima...

• 16 Mar 2020
• Stuart Lisulo

Airtel’s profit slumps to K15.7m

AIRTEL Networks Zambia Plc has posted reduced net profits of only K15.7 million during its 2019 financial year period compared to over K64 million in the prior corresponding period in 2018, partly triggered by the kwacha’s depreciation in the second half of last year. In a statement announcing the company’s audited financial results for the...

• 16 Mar 2020
• Mukosha Funga

UN Rapporteur on Independence of Judges and Lawyers defends Sangwa

THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges & Lawyers Diego García-Sayán has strongly condemned the Zambian Judiciary's move to bar Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa State Counsel from appearing before any court. On Friday, the Judiciary barred Sangwa from appearing before any court in Zambia pending determination of its complaint against him to...

• 16 Mar 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Save us the embarrassment, step down, KBF tells Lungu

I DON’T think President Edgar Lungu will impose himself on the people, let alone the embarrassment of having to be disqualified under a Constitutional Court decision, step aside ba President you have done your best, says 2021 presidential aspiring candidate Kelvin Bwalya Fube (KBF) And Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa SC says reports that he now...

• 16 Mar 2020
• Stuart Lisulo

Kwacha trades in red as it hits K16 per US dollar

THE kwacha has depreciated to hit the K16.00 per dollar psychological barrier for the first time in Zambia’s history, owing to a sustained high demand for the greenback on the local market, compounded with little supply. According to financial market players, the kwacha maintained a weak position, depreciating to breach and crash through the K16.00...