Gold! It is the world’s most well-known precious metal and also one of the most expensive in the world. To extract gold, one has to dig deep into the Earth’s crust; in many cases, using all sorts of heavy-duty extractive industry machinery. But here in Zambia, this world’s ‘most expensive’ metal has been discovered right...
Zambians are already fatigued with PF scandals PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says the people will soon get fed up of PF if some undisciplined top officials are left unchecked and scandals continue to characterise the ruling party. The Head of State said this when he addressed party officials in Kasempa last Friday, stressing that the same...
Madam Mumbi Phiri, the deputy secretary general of the Patriotic Front and a very high profile member of the Central Committee, announced a few days ago that there are criminals posing as cadres who are using the ruling party to engage in illicit activities. At first glance, this sounds like a fair complaint for the...
YESTERDAY, we published photographs from a investigation linking President Edgar Lungu to a Belarusian oligarch named, Alexander Zingman who has been reported in foreign media as being behind some questionable deals between Russian dealers and African countries. On those photographs, President Lungu is seen with Defence Permanent Secretary Sturdy Mwale, Zambia Air Force Commander Lt...
THE arrest, prosecution and subsequent acquittal of Cabinet Minister Ronald Chitotela last year without him vacating office said everything that needed to be said about President Edgar Lungu's weakness on governance. While the whole country was expecting him to decisively suspend the minister to pave way for genuine investigations into corruption allegations, Mr Lungu said...
MUCH talk and discussion has been held about Zambia needing to clinch an economic bailout package with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in recent years. But this elusive economic programme seems to be a dream that President Edgar Lungu’s government will never see materialise into reality, mainly on account of Zambia’s insatiable appetite for reckless...
THE announcement by Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya that she has tested positive for COVID-19 is sobering and calls for reflection and introspection. What Dora Siliya has done is very good and inspiring. This is what the people of Zambia expect of our leaders. This action by the Minister of Information and Broadcasting goes straight...
Last Monday evening, some unruly PF cadres attacked Iso FM Radio in Isoka District by throwing a container of an unknown gas into the studio as a live phone-in programme was being aired on which UPND president Hakainde Hichilema was featuring. A few days earlier, PF cadres disrupted another radio programme in Muchinga Province where...
THE dynamic nature of politics means that it's almost impossible to predict who will govern our country during what period. The very fact that Mr Edgar Lungu is Head of State in Zambia today underscores our point. In 2011 when the Patriotic Front formed government, if anyone pointed at Mr Lungu and said ‘this guy...
LAST month, president Edgar Lungu said his government would be buying more than one million tonnes of maize this year for strategic reserves during the forthcoming maize marketing season. This is a huge quantity of maize. In fact, if that is achieved, it would be more than double the amount of grain that the Food...
THE government has taken great exception to the conduct of PF cadres who disrupted a radio programme in Muchinga Province where opposition UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema was featuring. Describing another incident in Mpika where the said opposition leader was blocked from featuring on radio, Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya said the act of lawlessness from...
As far as stereotypes go, a step child is hated simply for not being someone’s biological child. No matter how well they do or how good they are, the step parent is never pleased with the efforts and accomplishments of the step child. In fact, hate-filled parents find it normal to punish the step child...
LAST month, Transport and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya announced that the already much-delayed launch of the national carrier, Zambia Airways, has been pushed back yet again because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Speaking in his constituency recently, Honourable Kafwaya said that the Covid-19 pandemic had affected business and the aviation industry had been badly affected. As...
While we are still talking about our government's insatiable appetite for borrowing and its superficial commitment to the International Monetary Fund, it would be the right time to look back at the conflicting statements that have come out of government. This review says everything that we, as citizens, need to know about why there will...
CONSIDERING the nature of loans that the PF has continued to contract, it can no longer be in doubt that the PF government is not committed to debt sustainability. This regime has such an extreme insatiable appetite for borrowing that they don't care about the implications any more. At this rate, it is becoming increasingly...
MANY critics of the Patriotic Front government have been heard describing this regime as being lost. We find that to be unfair. How can someone who doesn't know where they are going get lost? Only a person who has a clear understanding of where they are going can get lost along the way. The Patriotic...
IF government conducted about 170 Covid-19 tests in Nakonde and out of those 76 were found to be positive; and if those tests were taken randomly, then we are talking about a likelihood that one in two people in Nakonde are infected. Now, this news should speak to the conscience of those who are providing...
LET us commemorate this year's World Labour Day with women in mind. Specifically, we want to celebrate women in agriculture. Women in the front line of export market leading in horticulture, front line of plant production. Many women in Africa do not make a living wage, work in unhealthy and unsafe workplaces, are denied basic rights,...
