Fashion Sakala has revealed that he hid his knee injury from the teams’ medical staff during Zambia’s 3-1 loss to Nigeria at the U23 AfCON finals on Monday. The winger who has been ruled out for the rest of the competition says he could not leave the pitch after only two minutes of play, and...
Mufumbwe UPND member of parliament Eliot Kamondo has asked the Constitutional Court to dismiss Steven Masumba's election petition appeal saying the electorates voted freely without intimidation. In this matter, Masumba of the ruling Patriotic Front had challenged Kamondo's election in the High Court but he lost the petition. Masumba then challenged the loss in the...
Chilanga member of Parliament Keith Mukata's lover Charmaine Musonda today attracted attention at the Lusaka Magistrates' Court when she arrived on a wheelchair, covered by a chitenge material. Charmaine, who was brought straight from the hospital with a canular still on her hand, attracted the attention of onlookers when she hid her face with a...
High Court judge Sunday Nkonde has thrown out an application by the Law Association of Zambia to join Post Newspaper liquidation case, describing the application as lacking merit. Judge Nkonde in his ruling said the application by LAZ to join proceedings as amicus curiae might just delay the disposal of the proceedings to the prejudice...
UPP leader Saviour Chishimba says Zambia Revenue Authority's decision to sue him over alleged malicious falsehoods and the injunction obtained is intended to muffle freedom of expression. ZRA sued the United Progressive Party in the Lusaka High Court claiming K100 billion for malicious falsehoods relating to a tender that ZRA is alleged to have been...
LUSAKA magistrate Greenwell Malumani has refused to quash a personation charge slapped on Nchima Nchito State Counsel advising the latter to appeal to the High Court if unsatisfied. Nchima is accused of personating as an advocate for Post Newspapers Limited. The case was commenced as a way of complaint by a former Post employee Abel...
Lusaka High Court judge in charge Gertrude Chawatama has dismissed Hakainde Hichilema's application for habeas corpus saying it is the role of the trial court to establish the validity of the charges. "At this stage this court cannot pronounce itself on the validity of the charges," she ruled. Habeas Corpus proceedings according to judge Chawatama...
Lusaka High Court judge Sharon Newa says Precious Longwe purposefully shot her husband three times last year. And Precious maintained her composure throughout the two-hour long judgment which ultimately sentenced her to death; not shedding a single tear. Delivering judgment in a matter in which Precious was alleged to have murdered her husband Lubinda Litebele...
