PF media director Sunday Chanda says UPND president Hakainde Hichilema should stop criticizing the 2021 national budget and instead offer an alternative. Commenting on Hichilema's remarks that the 2021 budget was a true reflection of economic failure in an interview, Chanda said Hichilema should graduate from being a heavy critic to an opposition leader who...

CHIRUNDU UPND member of parliament Douglas Syakalima says the people of Zambia are tired of the ruling Patriotic Front. Last week, Patriotic Front media director Sunday Chanda said there was wind of change blowing in UPND strongholds, which would lead to the re-election and consolidation of PF after the 2021 general elections. However, in an...

MINISTER of Livestock and Fisheries Pro Nkandu Luo has urged people to take care of Livestock the way they care for their children. Addressing about 146 women clubs in Sinda, Monday, Prof Luo Livestock like humans, livestock had feelings and it is important for people to show love to their animals. "Animals are like human...

KONKOLA Copper Mines Plc (KCM) now owes Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) an outstanding US $150 million electricity bill, up from around US $144 million at the end of June, 2020. And CEC managing director Owen Silavwe says CEC is currently doing “reasonably well" because in spite of the ongoing challenges it continues to face with...

AGRICULTURE Minister Michael Katambo says the country has been hit by an African Migratory Locust outbreak in Central, Southern, and Western Provinces. And Katambo says the government is concerned about this outbreak as it has great potential to disrupt the 2020/2921 agricultural season thereby affecting household and national food security. Speaking when he rendered a...

People's Alliance for Change president Andyford Banda says Konkola Copper Mines provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu should be removed from his position because he is destroying the mine. A scandal has emerged at KCM in which the mining giant paid US$1.6 million (about K32 million) to a company allegedly bought by the liquidator, Lungu, through his...

THE Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says workers are still overburdened with taxes despite the increase in the Pay As You Earn tax threshold from K3,300 to K4,000. In an interview, union deputy secretary general Elastone Njovu said although the decision to increase the threshold was positive, workers above the threshold still faced the...

UPND deputy secretary general Patrick Mucheleka and three others have appeared before the Kasama Magistrates' Court in a matter they are accused of aggravated robbery, among others. The matter could, however, not be mentioned as the presiding magistrate was out of jurisdiction. Mucheleka and others are still in custody as the charge of aggravated robbery...

THE National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) has dragged UPND deputy secretary general Getrude Imenda's company, Colger Enterprises, to the Lusaka High Court, claiming payment of over K130, 000, being outstanding rental arrears owed to the authority. NAPSA wants payment of K130,770.03 outstanding rental arrears in respect of the premises known as stand no 6976, Electra...

TOURISM and Arts Minister Ronald Chitotela says 28 people died while 25 others sustained injuries and were permanently disabled after being attacked by crocodiles between 2016 and 2019. And Chitotela says government has observed that some people who smoke cannabis get the wrong idea that they cannot be attacked when they go to crocodile infested...