FORMER Chilanga UPND member of parliament Keith Mukata has suggested before the Lusaka High Court that his former wife, Maricoh, himself and their children should share 33.3 percent each out of the proceeds of the sale of family property. Mukata has also proposed that he and Maricoh should be contributing a total of K79,000 per...

SECRETARY to the Treasury Felix Nkulukusa says it will be up to civil servants to ask government to reintroduce the debt swap, but if it was up to him, he would not recommend it because of its implications. In September 2021, government suspended the debt swap scheme. And in an interview, Nkulukusa said engaging in...

UPND deputy secretary general Gertrude Imenda says Catholic Archbishop of Lusaka Dr Alick Banda should not use the pulpit to advance a political agenda and attack a sitting government. In his homily for Easter Vigil on Saturday night during Holy Saturday mass at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus in Lusaka, Bishop Banda said the...

FORMER Archbishop of Lusaka Telesphore Mpundu says reconciliation does not entail forgetting about the past atrocities which were committed by the previous government, because people suffered from their actions. Speaking on Diamond TV Breakfast show, Monday, Archbishop Mpundu said people should not forget about the ills of the previous government. When asked whether reconciliation was...

FORMER commerce minister Bob Sichinga says the government should consider meeting lenders individually and determining their "red lines" as it implements the debt restructuring programme. And Sichinga has bemoaned the delay in appointing ambassadors to some countries, saying it is disadvantageous for Zambia. In an interview, Sichinga said government needed to understand each lender individually,...

GOVERNMENT Chief Whip Stafford Mulusa says UPND will be in government for more than 20 years as it has set out to address people's challenges. And Mulusa says there are a number of PF members of parliament who want to join UPND. In an interview, Mulusa said the current economic challenges the country was facing...

MINISTER of Small and Medium Enterprises Elias Mubanga says there was so much financial indiscipline at the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC) during PF's tenure, revealing that politicians were accessing funds which had not been recovered. In an interview, Thursday, Mubanga said it was difficult for SMEs to access money from CEEC in the past....

HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo has revealed that the management at Matero Level One hospital has been changed in order to improve the situation at the facility, adding that the Ministry will not wait for Miles Sampa to expose dirt in other hospitals. And Lusaka provincial health director Dr Consity Mwale says the current medical superintendent,...

FORMER labour minister Joyce Simukoko says she doesn’t blame those who were promising heaven on earth during campaigns, but the people who actually believed them. In an interview, Simukoko said there were crazy promises made during the campaign period, but so far, she had not seen anything which UPND had done differently. “They (UPND) are...

ACTIONAID Zambia country director Nalucha Ziba says Foreign Affairs and International Relations Minister Stanley Kakubo is not being truthful in addressing the purpose of his visit to Sinoma Cement company, arguing that it is questionable whether the company extends the same courtesy to other customers. And governance activist Brebner Changala says citizens have sounded an...