RESIDENT Doctors Association of Zambia (RDAZ) president Dr Brian Sampa has written to President Edgar Lungu requesting him to have a meeting with the association’s national executive committee. In a letter dated June 11, 2021, Dr Sampa said the meeting aims at addressing various challenges being faced by resident doctors. “Your Excellency, Health is a...

GOVERNMENT has warned that it will not hesitate to ban political party road shows if they continue to be used as a recipe for anarchy. And government has condemned the conduct of PF cadres who attempted to disrupt the UPND road show in Mandevu Constituency on Thursday. Speaking to journalists, Friday, Home Affairs Permanent Secretary...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says he will win the August polls not by 50% plus one, but by over 60 percent. And President Lungu says the people of Zambia have seen a lot of development under the Patriotic Front government, and as such, they have decided to vote the party back into power. Speaking when he...

PF Lusaka provincial chairperson Kennedy Kamba says the party is not happy with the conduct of the police during the UPND roadshow in Mandevu Constituency, on Thursday last week. Commenting on the beating of PF cadres in Chaisa by UPND supporters after the PF cadres attempted to disrupt the opposition campaign roadshow, Friday, Kamba said...

THE Lusaka High Court has ordered that the nomination papers for Kalabo Central aspiring independent member of parliament Mooto Kalowa be accepted by the Electoral Commission of Zambia. This is a matter in which Kalowa dragged the ECZ to the Lusaka High Court, seeking to be allowed to file in his nomination after his nomination...

ZAMBIA’s cost of living has continued to soar despite copper prices being the highest the country has ever recorded, currently at US$10,000 per metric tonne. According to the Zambia Statistics Agency monthly bulletin, the country’s inflation has risen to 23.2 per cent from 22.7 per cent in April 2021. On average, prices of goods and...

HAKAINDE Hichilema says when the UPND Alliance forms government, the constitution will be amended to make sure that no President serves more than 10 years. Speaking during a press briefing, Saturday, Hichilema said he was duty bound to remove some lacunas in the Constitution, adding that once the “I want to commit to the people...

The developments coming out of the Constitutional Court cannot go without comment. Surely, we cannot stay quiet when shocking and alarming decisions are being dispensed by our judiciary. Something is amiss. In Mathew Chapter 5 verse 13, the Lord Jesus Christ tells his Disciples that they are the salt of the Earth. He also tells...

This article is the sequel to last week’s which argued that amid Zambia’s high public debt levels, China is an important developmental partner for Zambia because of Chinese FDI and aid, but Zambia will need to leverage this relationship to bolster its own industrial development. In this sequel, I draw upon field visits made to...