Archive: April 2020

2 Apr 2020 | Zondiwe Mbewe

2 Tafuna chiefs in court over succession dispute

DEPUTY Senior Chief Tafuna of the Lungu people of Northern Province has dragged Senior Chief Tafuna to the Lusaka High Court seeking a declaration that he is the only person on the throne until the […]

2 Apr 2020 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Lusaka woman asks court to declare missing brother dead

A YOUNGER sister of a missing Zambia Army officer has asked the Lusaka High Court to declare him dead to enable the management of his estate as nothing has been heard of him for over […]

2 Apr 2020 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Lsk residents sue Victoria Hospital for donating facility to MoH as COVID-19 screening centre

A CHAIRMAN of the Old Brentwood Drive Neighbourhood Association has sued Victoria Hospital Limited and three others in the Lusaka High Court for donating the health centre to the Ministry of Health for use as […]

2 Apr 2020 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Don’t travel until lockdown is lifted, Miti advises Zambians in S.A

THE Zambian High Commission in South Africa has advised Zambians in that country wishing to travel back home to wait until the COVID-19-induced lockdown is lifted. The 21-day lockdown in South Africa is expected to […]

2 Apr 2020 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Kaizer asks court dismiss his contempt case for irregularities

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu’s former Special Assistant for Political Affairs Kaizer Zulu has asked the Lusaka High Court to dismiss a matter where two soldiers want him committed to prison for contempt of court for commenting […]

2 Apr 2020 | Ulande Nkomesha

Lungu gives incentives to health workers fighting COVID-19

HEALTH Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya says President Edgar Lungu has ordered the recruitment of 400 doctors and 3,000 paramedics to enhance the fight against COVID-19. And Dr Chilufya says President Lungu has also granted incentives […]

2 Apr 2020 | Diggers Editor

Name govt officials who are infected, in quarantine

Why would a government be so aversive to the idea of closing its borders to human movement in the face of such a vicious global disease outbreak? What interest is this government protecting? We ask […]

2 Apr 2020 | Mirriam Chabala

We’re already on lockdown – Lungu

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says Zambia is already on lockdown based on government’s recently outlined science-led disease outbreak preparedness and contingency plan in which measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 were highlighted. In a statement […]

1 Apr 2020 | Ulande Nkomesha

Whipping people patronising bars against human rights – Kasonde

CHAPTER One Foundation executive director Linda Kasonde says it will be a violation of human rights for Lusaka Province minister Bowman Lusambo to start whipping individuals patronising bars and night clubs against the directive that […]

1 Apr 2020 | Joseph Mwenya in Kabwe

Kabwe dog meat seller on the run

A KABWE man is on the run after his neighbours alerted authorities that he was selling dog meat to unsuspecting members of the public on the pretext that it was game meat. A neighbours who […]