ARCHBISHOP Telesphore Mpundu says the ruling PF is demonising the opposition and slapping them up with trumped up criminal charges so that they fail to stand at next year’s general election. In an interview, Archbishop Mpundu predicted that after targeting convicted NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili, the next target would be UPND president Hakainde Hichilema. “The...

THE Office of the Auditor General has released the 2019 report on Accounts of the Republic which highlights an upward trend in several irregularities such as wasteful expenditure, which has increased from K222,534 in 2018 to K3.7 million in 2019. According to a statement issued by the head of public relations Ellen Chikale, Monday, the...

COUNCIL of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) secretary general Fr Emmanuel Chikoya says it is time Zambians moved on from the failed Bill 10 and transition into 2021 as a unified and peaceful country. And Fr Chikoya says people should draw lessons from the failure of Bill 10 that not everybody is available for sale and...

CHIEF Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says she will not apologise for advising Easterners to emulate how Southerners vote. And Siliya claims she did not coach headmen in Sinda on how to defraud the system to access Social Cash Transfer funds but rather, she advised them to invest in agriculture and their children's education. Meanwhile, Siliya...

KABWE Central PF member of parliament Tutwa Ngulube says the ruling party is equally waiting for UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema to file in his nomination papers because he got a hotel from Livingstone without declaring interest. And Ngulube says the PF is not shaken by the fall of the Constitution Amendment Bill Number 10 of...

JUSTICE Minister Given Lubinda says the failure of Bill 10 is a temporary setback as nothing will stop the President Edgar Lungu from pushing for the rights enshrined in the bill after the 2021 elections. And Lubinda says with permission from President Lungu, he will soon present the political parties bill in parliament in accordance...

CIVIL rights activist Laura Miti says the Yellow Card Movement Peaceful Day of Reflection will proceed as planned, saying there is no law that requires citizens to be registered for them to gather. Police, in a letter dated October 30, 2020, refused to grant the Yellow Card Movement its request to hold a peaceful protest...

SUSPENDED Eastern Province PF youth chairperson Emmanuel Banda, commonly known as Jay Jay, and others yesterday failed to take plea in a case they are charged with aggravated assault with intent to steal before the Lusaka High Court. Banda and others could not take plea as their two co-accused persons were not before court. In...

UPND chairperson for mobilization Sylvia Masebo says Zambia's current political situation is worse than it was under the one party state as the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) has made it difficult for the opposition to effectively participate. And Masebo says UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema is just as good as under house arrest because he cannot...