GOVERNANCE Activist Rueben Lifuka says efforts to silence investigative journalism through unfounded legal challenges should not be tolerated. Former justice minister Given Lubinda and his lands counterpart Jean Kapata recently lost a case in which they sued News Diggers Media Limited and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) for libel in January 2020. High Court Judge Pixie Yangailo had ruled that Lubinda and Kapata had failed to prove that their reputations were injured as a result of the articles published by News Diggers and the EIA. Kapata, Lubinda and former president Edgar Lungu’s daughter, Tasila, had sued News Diggers Media Limited, its managing editor Mukosha Funga Njenga and the EIA in connection with a story on illegal Mukula trade. However, Tasila...
