THE CIVIL Servants and Allied Workers Union of Zambia (CSAWUZ) says it's surprised that government has suspended the debt swap, two months after its introduction, without following the due process of the law. Reacting to a Zambia Daily Mail report that government had suspended the debt swap scheme in a statement, Tuesday, CSAWUZ General Secretary...

PATRIOTIC Front deputy mobilisation chairperson Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba, alias GBM, has refuted claims that he gave an assistant presiding officer pre-marked mayoral ballot papers to be fused into ballot boxes in Lusaka’s Matero area. Mwamba has also denied being in Matero on the material day or meeting with any assistant presiding officer. This is a...

KAUMBWE constituency PF aspiring member of parliament Aaron Mwanza says the grassroots want him to defect to the ruling UPND. And Mwanza says the PF lost the presidential elections because of the insecurity that was in the country in terms of cadres having more powers. In an interview, Mwanza said during his consultations, people had...

THE Zambia Association of Gynecologists and Obstetricians study has revealed that Kitwe has the highest number of unsafe abortions in the country at 14 percent. ZAGO president Dr Swebby Macha has noted that seven percent of all maternal deaths in Zambia were due to unsafe abortions. Dr Macha said this during sensitization of media personnel...

COPPERBELT Permanent Secretary Bright Nundwe says he doesn’t want to see any civil servant derailing the programmes of the UPND government. In an interview, Nundwe advised civil servants to work hard and execute the programmes, policies and the agenda of the UPND. “I don’t want to see any civil servant derail programmes of the government...

UPND Secretary General Batuke Imenda says President Hakainde Hichilema will only serve for two terms and, thereafter, hand over the mantle to someone else. Commenting on Constitutional lawyer John Sangwa’s fears that President Hichilema would become a de facto life president, Batuke said the Head of State believed in the tenets of democracy. “One would...

THE Non-governmental Gender Organisations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) says the women's movement is concerned that the scrapping of the Ministry of Gender will have a far reaching impact on the positive gains made in advancing the gender agenda. In a statement, Tuesday, NGOCC executive director Engwase Mwale said there was need for government to provide clear...

ROAD Development Agency (RDA) board chairperson Samuel Mukupa says he is surprised that the Auditor General’s Office has not been auditing the Agency. But Mukupa has assured the auditors that there has been no overpricing of road projects. Commenting on Auditor General Dr Dick Sichembe’s letter to RDA in which he informed them that his...