In this week’s Monday opinion, we look at the role that trade and investments play in Zambia’s economy. Government has come under attack from some sectors of society over the trips made by the Head of State in the recent past, where President Hakainde Hichilema has visited a number of countries in and outside Africa,...

IT HAS often been said that women are more supportive to their parents than men. That’s where I draw the screaming headline for today. It appears men are so horrible at some important matters when they are needed most, except when it comes to football hooliganism or political rivalry! There are more men prisoners than...

Zambia has a huge underclass – a large army of impoverished out of school, unemployed youths hungrily loitering in our villages, towns and cities, in all our provinces. Zambia is rich with an adult population that is willing to work either as employees or self-employed but neither opportunities are available. Many of the unemployed Zambians...

WITHIN a space of one week Zambia experienced six deaths of school children(in school environment, by the way). One was in Chongwe where an animal concrete statue fell on a boy, another in Lusaka where a table killed another boy; and as if that was not bad enough, we had another sad story of four...

As poverty bites hard, it is easy to fool oneself, that marrying a better off person may just be the solution to your poverty. A young man (any male above 18 years and not older than 40) suddenly starts thinking “if only I can find a rich woman, whatever their age, I will marry them...

OVER the years that I have facilitated a parenting program to prevent HIV/AIDS, we have often ask the question, ‘What are some of the causes of rape or child sexual abuse?’ And one of the answers that parents offer is, “Akazi benangu si bavala bwino” (Some women don’t dress properly). Arguably this statement is shared...

Knowledge spans from general to specifics; interventions range from unstructured to structured. Health Sector is an industry perfected to provide structured interventions, ranging from preventive to curative health services, to the general public in the General Environment. Intrinsically, Education Sector is designated to produce a specified quantity and quality of health professionals, of specified tranches,...

DISCIPLINE by definition is the practice of training people to obey rules and orders and punishing them if they do not. We find discipline in all spheres of life – from work places, religious groupings, schools and homes - everywhere. For all intents and purposes, rules are meant to keep orderliness and compliancy to expected...

We are a young country rich with an extremely young labour force and massive minerals, water and other natural resources, found throughout the country. We can afford every human being in Zambia a full, rewarding, and happy life. Much of Zambia’s population is squeezed into Lusaka, Ndola, Kitwe and Mufulira, with the rest of the...

So, five months ago, in early December, my cousin’s husband, Bashi Malama, took off and disappeared in thin air without notice. Two months later, in January, word came that the disappeared had been spotted alive-and-happy at another house in a nearby township; this is to say, in plain language, that he was staying with another...