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Zambia’s power deficit reaches 700MW, reveals energy minister
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by David Julian Wightman on 13 Sep 2019CTPD expects Lungu to speak to issues affecting people – Mwaipopo
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4 Lusaka men sue Kaizer Zulu for kidnapping and beating them
by David Julian Wightman on 13 Sep 2019Judge Nkonde asks ConCourt to dismiss M’membe’s application for review of costs
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U17 girls under duress to emulate senior sides – Kaluba
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How will judges rule on Bill 10 after submitting to Parley?
by David Julian Wightman on 15 Sep 2019Don’t reward incompetence, reject new electricity tariff hikes
by David Julian Wightman on 9 Sep 2019Lungu’s silence is deafening
by David Julian Wightman on 7 Sep 2019South Africans are now pushing their luck too far
by David Julian Wightman on 5 Sep 2019
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by Chisoni Mumba, PhD on 17 Aug 2019Improve State Owned Enterprises performance to tackle high debt
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Huawei Zambia pledges to foster a value-sharing platform and robust business ecosystem with local partners
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David Julian Wightman is a Zambian-Canadian journalist and human rights activist.
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How much will we bare under the Threatened State of Emergency
By David Julian Wightman on July 8, 2017Speaking upon his return to Zambia from the AU conference in Addis, President Edgar Lungu asked the nation to bare with him as his government....
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Zambia’s war on cannabis is insane, immoral
By David Julian Wightman on June 18, 2017The headline is no exaggeration: the war on cannabis currently being waged by the Drug Enforcement Commission and Zambian judges and magistrates is completely insane....
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Exchanging nude photos privately shouldn’t be a crime
By David Julian Wightman on June 10, 2017Imagine sitting in your living room watching TV and noticing someone outside looking in your window. How would you feel? What if that stranger is....
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Against Cultural Conservatism
By David Julian Wightman on May 27, 2017Cultural conservatism is once again rearing its ugly head in Zambia, in strange and somewhat contradictory ways. First there was that bizarre bit of news,....
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Rastafari: Roots and repression in Zambia
By David Julian Wightman on May 10, 2017Rastafari have become a common sight in Zambia, easily identified by their dreadlocks, “Rasta rainbow” colours, and their entrepreneurship as artists, musicians, and painters. While....
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Screw the Death Penalty
By David Julian Wightman on May 3, 2017Question: How can a nation self-declared as “Christian” sentence a woman to death on the anniversary of the execution of the Messiah? This is not....
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A Brief History of the Police State in Zambia
By David Julian Wightman on April 25, 2017“I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker....
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The Economics of Legal Weed
By David Julian Wightman on April 10, 2017To my mind, the strongest reason to overturn cannabis prohibition is on moral grounds. Caging millions of non-violent people worldwide for cultivating, distributing, or consuming....
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President Trump is no friend of Africa
By David Julian Wightman on April 1, 2017US President Donald Trump has a significant fanbase here in Africa. This is due in part to his populist rhetoric, as African voters are similarly....
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In Defence of Informal Traders
By David Julian Wightman on March 20, 2017I love salaula shopping. Not only is it one of my favourite things to do in Lusaka, but also I have taken people―including the reviewer....
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