GOVERNANCE activist Brebner Changala says Zambians have now woken up from the slumber due to the torturous seven years under the PF, hence the high voter turnout. In an interview, Changala said the last time he experienced such kind of high voter turnout was in 1991 when Zambia drifted from a one-party state to a...

THE University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers' Union (UNZALARU) has appealed to the incoming government to help dismantle the 10-year debt owed to its members in terminal benefits. In a statement, Tuesday, UNZALARU general secretary Kelvin Mambwe noted that for the past 10 years, UNZA had failed to pay terminal benefits to retired and serving...

UPND parliamentary candidate for Bwacha constituency Percy Chato has gone into hiding after being attacked by suspected PF cadres and later having his house surrounded by police, defence forces and prison officers. In an interview, Chato, who is a former correctional services commissioner general, narrated that after receiving reports that his polling agent was being...

EUROPEAN Union chief observer Maria Arena says the observer mission has no interest in who is going to win the elections but simply wants to observe Zambia's commitment to the democratic process. Speaking to the media, Thursday, Arena said the observer mission stood on a strong foundation and could not interfere with Zambia's electoral process....

FORMER Finance Minister Dr Bwalya Ng’andu has urged Zambians to rely on the PF government for a stronger economy. In an interview, Dr Ng’andu said unlike the opposition parties, PF had a clear plan on where it wanted to take the country's economy. “Our message in the past months as we campaigned point to the...

AFRICAN Union Head of Observer Mission Ernest Bai Koroma says he hopes that the will of the Zambian people will be respected and accepted by political players. Speaking to journalists, Thursday, Koroma, who is former president of Sierra Leone, said there had been no incidence of violence and hoped that it would continue after polling....