DEFENCE Minister Ambrose Lufuma says government will not force school leavers to join the "compulsory" life skills training through the Zambia National service, but incentives will be granted to ensure that people volunteer. In an interview, Lufuma said the training programme was expected to target youths aged between 18 and 25, adding that once government's...

GOVERNMENT, through the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, has commenced preparations for the 2023 National Budget and the 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). Acting Secretary to the Treasury Danies Chisenda has called on members of the public, private sector, among others, to submit tax, non-tax and expenditure proposals for review and possible inclusion...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has pardoned 2,045 inmates to commemorate Africa Freedom Day which falls on May 25. Addressing the media, Tuesday, acting Home Affairs Minister Ambrose Lufuma said among those pardoned, 2,649 were male, while 90 were female. "To commemorate Africa Freedom day which falls on 25th May every year, His Excellency, Mr. Hakainde Hichilema,...

THE Judicial Service Commission has transferred at least 10 Magistrates, among them Lusaka magistrate Jenipher Bwalya who recently discharged former Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela of two counts of possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. According to sources, Magistrate Bwalya has been transferred to Mansa, Luapula Province, while...

ACTING Minister of Health Charles Milupi says Zambia has not recorded any case of monkeypox, but cautions that health workers, household members and sexual partners would be at greater risk of exposure and infection as the outbreak spreads through close contact. And Milupi says an unprecedented 845,808 COVID-19 doses have been administered across the country...

Homosexuality is one of those things that has historically been politicized the world over. It has consistently featured as a subject of contentious and heated debate even in the most liberal of nations, including the USA, and a number of European Union nations. As an exemplar, in the USA, it is the case that the...

Tomorrow, 25th May, is African Unity Day. Back in the days when Africa had anti colonial political parties fresh from acquiring independence, the whole of May would be a month spent thinking and doing things about Africa’s history, reliving its struggles against slavery and colonialism and applying our minds to the question of how Africa...

UPND deputy secretary general Gertrude Imenda says the party is not happy with some court rulings on corruption cases, arguing that there are concerns that the corruption fight is going nowhere. Commenting on the several UPND supporters, led by their Lusaka Province youth chairperson Anderson Banda, who stormed the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court on Friday calling...

MINISTER of Transport and Logistics Frank Tayali has encouraged private players in the aviation sector to understand the business and have the financial discipline to help their companies stay afloat. And Tayali says government was looking at ways of reducing certain fees in order to make it favourable for all players Recently, Mahogany Air founder...