PATRIOTIC Front (PF) media director Sunday Chanda says the ruling party has nothing to do with the debate around privatization as it is an issue between UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema and his FDD counterpart Edith Nawakwi. And Chanda says PF identifies with the suffering of the masses, given the escalating cost of living and doing...

THE Mine Workers’ Union of Zambia (MUZ) says government’s intention to buy 90 per cent shares in Mopani Copper Mines from Glencore will redeem the mine’s operations. In an interview, MUZ president Joseph Chewe hailed government’s recent announcement of its intention to acquire Glencore’s 90 per cent shareholding in Mopani, saying the move will help...

TWO Health Practitioners have told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that COVID-19 results for NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili were negative on September 4, this year, after re-testing him. Copperbelt Provincial Health director Robert Zulu told the Court that Kambwili's latest results came out negative on September 4, this year, but were only communicated to him by...

FORMER finance minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says Zambians should brace themselves for harsher economic times as the local currency is expected to depreciate further against other convertibles. And Dr Musokotwane says the 2021 National Budget will be rendered useless if government does not engage the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In an interview, Dr Musokotwane said...

SENIOR Chief Mukupa Katandula of Nchelenge District in Luapula Province on Monday appeared before the Lusaka Magistrates' Court on summons, as a shareholder and director in Luapula Hydropower Corporation Limited. This is in relation to a complaint that has been lodged in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court against Luapula Hydropower Corporation Limited for failure to surrender...

LUSAKA Magistrate Alice Walusiku has ordered that two Marshlands Consortium Limited directors, Tobias Milambo and Richard Lubemba, will remain in custody until September 22, this year, when the case comes up for hearing of the State’s response to their bail application. This is in a matter in which three Marshlands Consortium Limited directors are facing...

VETERAN politician Vernon Johnson Mwaanga says it is shocking that while the economy is in the intensive care unit, government officials are arrogantly exhibiting scandalous opulence, which is way above their salaries and allowances. And Mwaanga has urged Zambians not to vote for any member of parliament who supports Constitution Amendment Bill Number 10 0f...

THE Livingstone Magistrates' Court has acquitted Alliance for Community Action (ACA) executive director Laura Miti and her programmes manager Bornwell Mwewa who were accused of assaulting police officers. The two were appearing before the Livingstone Magistrates' Court on charges of disorderly conduct at a police station and assaulting a police officer. Miti and Mwewa were...

THE Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has called on the Ministry of Finance to ensure a pro-poor budget for 2021 is implemented to address the skyrocketing cost of living in Zambia And JCTR says the cost of living for the mouth of August, 2020, stood at K7,178.22, reflecting a marginal reduction of K26.02 from...

INSPECTOR General of Police Kakoma Kanganja says the command is aware of some political parties who are mobilising cadres from different parts of the country for transportation to Lukashya and Mwansabombwe constituencies ahead of the by-elections. And Kanganja says political campaigns in Mwansabombwe and Lukashya constituencies are going on smoothly and peacefully. In a statement,...