Archive: 12 April 2022

12 Apr 2022 | Agnes Musonda Munalula

Minister Silvia Masebo and the Crises in Our Public Health Sector: Reforms or Revolution, is the Question!

I do sympathise and feel sorry for Minister of Health Silvia Masebo; she has an impossible mountain to climb! The UPND inherited a collapsed public health system. I mean “collapsed” as in “dysfunctional”, “broken down”, […]

12 Apr 2022 | Zondiwe Mbewe

5 former RDA directors sue agency, demand to be on payroll until payment of benefits

FIVE former Road Development Agency (RDA) directors have sued the agency, seeking a declaration that the decision to remove them from the payroll without paying them their terminal benefits was unconstitutional. Last year, RDA terminated... […]

12 Apr 2022 | Mwenya Mofya

Citizens aware govt’s hands are tied on fuel prices – Tayali

MINISTER of Transport and Logistics Frank Tayali says citizens are aware that government’s hands are tied with regard to the hike in fuel prices. In an interview, Tayali said government was not happy with the... […]

12 Apr 2022 | Julia Malunga

DPP Siyunyi must not stay another day in office – Changala

Governance Activist Brebner Changala says following her letter to the Drug Enforcement Commission in which she expressed displeasure with the arrest of Milingo Lungu, Director of Public Prosecutions Lillian Siyunyi SC should not be allowed... […]

12 Apr 2022 | Chamuka Shalubala

China being strategic in Zambia’s debt restructuring programme – Chibamba

ECONOMIST Chibamba Kanyama says China is taking advantage of the country’s debt situation to renegotiate its own relationship with Zambia. Last week, UK Minister for Africa Vicky Ford revealed that there was one international creditor... […]

12 Apr 2022 | Ulande Nkomesha

We’ll remove all subsidies on fuel in June – Kapala

ENERGY Minister Peter Kapala says government will remove all subsidies on fuel by the end of June. Recently, Finance and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane said government was already subsidising the price of fuel... […]

12 Apr 2022 | Charity Kauseni

ZAMMSA dispatches medical supplies to all provinces

THE Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) says it has managed to dispatch health commodities to all provinces, highlighting that health commodities like Anti-malarial drugs, ARVs, COVID-19 Supplies, Anti-TB drugs, among others, had so... […]

12 Apr 2022 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

Appearing before Economic and Financial Crimes Court discriminatory, Milingo tells court

FORMER Konkola Copper Mines Provisional Liquidator Milingo Lungu has argued that the allocation of a case in which he is charged with possession of property suspected to be proceeds of crime to the Economic and... […]

12 Apr 2022 | Mwenya Mofya

Once global issue is settled, we’ll deliver our promises – Kasanda

CHIEF government spokesperson Chushi Kasanda says government wants to lower the cost of living, but the global crisis is beyond them and they cannot fight it. In an interview, Kasanda said once the global issue... […]

12 Apr 2022 | Julia Malunga

Suspension won’t break me – Jonas

LUSAKA Lawyer Jonas Zimba says he is not shaken or broken by his suspension. The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) last week suspended Zimba from practicing law. This was after the Legal Practitioners Committee found... […]