Archive: 14 March 2022

14 Mar 2022 | Diggers Correspondent

COF PRESS STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA’S PARLIAMENTARY ADDRESS ON THE NATIONAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES

Chapter One Foundation Limited is a non-governmental organization that promotes and protects human rights, human rights defenders, constitutionalism, social justice, and the rule of law in Zambia, primarily through strategic litigation, advocacy, and capacity building. […]

14 Mar 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

I had mild Covid-19 illness because I was vaccinated – Njekwa

A KITWE based media practitioner Mwakoi Njekwa has narrated how he contracted COVID-19 even after being vaccinated. In an interview, Njekwa, however, encouraged people to get vaccinated saying he only experienced mild illness compared to […]

14 Mar 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

Covid has impacted people’s mental health – Masebo

MINISTER of Health Sylvia Masebo says Covid-19 has been a triggering factor to people experiencing mental illness worldwide. Speaking during Covid-19 briefing, Masebo said there had been a reduction in the number of Covid-19 cases […]

14 Mar 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

Only 9 of 60 Covid-19 patients on ventilators survived – MoH

MINISTRY of Health Director of Infectious Disease and Internal Medicine Specialist Dr Lloyd Mulenga says they always avoid putting Covid-19 patients on ventilators because their chances of survival are very slim. Meanwhile, Dr Mulenga says […]

14 Mar 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

BETUZ urges schools to enforce Covid prevention rules

BASIC Education Teachers Union of Zambia director workers education Kabika Kakunta says in view of increased populations in schools since government introduced free education, school administrators must try by all means to enforce Covid-19 prevention […]

14 Mar 2022 | Boyd Muleya

Does the Digital Economy Offer Opportunities for Domestic Resource Mobilisation? Part I – With Mr Boyd Muleya

In this week’s Monday opinion, we explore the digital economy, and its potential for Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) in Zambia. This article will focus on harnessing tax opportunities within the Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) […]

14 Mar 2022 | Davies Chilufya

HOME AND FAMILY: Children and temperaments

IT HAS often been said that a seed (or fruit) does not fall far from the tree. This saying, when applied to parenting would mean that children may most likely take after the traits and […]

14 Mar 2022 | Mwenya Mofya

HH salutes RB’s intervention after 2021 polls: “He played a wonderful function to unite us”

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says former president Rupiah Banda kept the country hopeful during the difficult days after the general elections last year, revealing that what the nation saw was superficial because there was much more... […]

14 Mar 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

Place Amos, 2 others on defence so they can present their story, ACC tells court

THE Anti-Corruption Commission has asked the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court to find former president Edgar Lungu’s press aide Amos Chanda and two others with a case to answer in the use of insulting language case. The... […]

14 Mar 2022 | Philip Chisalu

Self employment pays, HH tells youths

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says it pays to work for oneself, encouraging youths to value self-employment so that they can also employ others. And President Hichilema says his administration remains committed to supporting every Zambian youth.... […]