ARCHBISHOP Telespore Mpundu says the continued acceptance of cash donations by clergymen from politicians takes away their freedom and ability to speak out on the ills affecting society. And Archbishop Mpundu says this year’s election will be a litmus test for Zambia’s “self-proclaimed” democracy, insisting that as things stand now, the country is a dictatorship....

UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says his party has demonstrated that it is the most democratic party in the country and the onus was now on PF to emulate them. Reacting to PF's remarks that the UPND general conference was a sham in an interview, Kakoma said the ruling party was bitter because the UPND did...

KASEMPA UPND member of parliament Brenda Tambatamba says it is frustrating that the Ministry of Health does not take the guidance given to them by the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee seriously. And Tambatamba says transferring people who are found wanting to other ministries or government departments is merely transferring problems. In an interview, Tambatamba said...

People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) president Andyford Banda says President Edgar Lungu's address to Parliament was disappointing because he did not address a number of issues which were currently affecting Zambians. In an interview, Banda said President Lungu deliberately avoided addressing key challenges as he no longer had the will to fight corruption. “As we...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says once elected, he will pick his Cabinet from all the 10 Provinces, regardless of the voting pattern in the August 2021 general election. And Hichilema says now is not time to celebrate by drinking, but it is a time for the party to work hard to ensure that it forms...

DEFENCE Minister Davies Chama has cautioned Zambians that UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema is not a messiah who can rescue citizens even if he were to be elected Republican President. During the official opening of the UPND general conference in Lusaka, Sunday, Hichilema said he was ready to rescue Zambians, but that the power was in...

A UNIVERSITY of Zambia student has been sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour, suspended for 12 months for stealing Jameson Irish whiskey from Pick n Pay worth over K500.  (A suspended sentence is a judicial punishment which is not enforced unless a further crime is committed during a specified period.) Brian Chansa, 27,...

THE Lusaka Magistrates' Court has committed the four pupils who are accused of killing a Kabulonga Secondary School pupil to the High Court for trial. Lusaka Magistrate Nsunge Chanda informed the four that they would appear in the High Court at the next criminal session. The four pupils of Twin Palm Secondary School and aged...

THE Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) has submitted to the Lusaka High Court that Honeybee Pharmacy Limited was never granted any licence by ZAMRA, but that the authority only granted a licence to Honeybee Pharmacy, a sole trader. ZAMRA has further submitted that a certificate of analysis of samples of medicines and allied substances which...