IT is essential to understand why freedom of expression and the accompanying media freedom are inextricably linked to free and fair elections. These freedoms are not only essential to political parties or the media, but to the voters as well, thereby providing a useful indicator of what principles to include when we are structuring our...

THE International Monetary Fund says Zambia has made significant progress on addressing its macroeconomic challenges, but discussions on the country’s economic bailout package are expected to continue. And Finance Minister Dr Bwalya Ng’andu has reiterated that with the help of the IMF, Zambia will be able to address its fiscal and economic challenges, return the...

LUSAKA Province PF chairman Paul Moonga says the opposition is trying to bribe Judges to disqualify President Edgar Lungu from standing in the August election. And Moonga has wondered why people keep saying things are expensive in Zambia when various commodities are finishing from shelves. At a press briefing, Friday, Moonga said by October last...

NEWS of our junior resident doctors making fruitless efforts to petition the government over their five months’ salary arrears and allowances makes sad reading. Yesterday, representatives of these 300 plus doctors walked to State House to seek intervention, only to be blocked and directed to go and see the President’s Principal Private Secretary at the...

A 21-YEAR-OLD Lusaka man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a phone from a woman of Chibolya Compound, using violence. The robbery occured around 03:00 hours as the said women was coming out of the toilet. Michael Kayelu was initially charged with aggravated robbery but the same was reduced...

JUSTICE Minister Given Lubinda says anyone trying to petition President Edgar Lungu’s eligibility is threatening Zambia’s peace. Debating President Lungu’s address on the progress made in the application of national values and principles, Lubinda said those planning to petition President Lungu’s eligibility were trying to create an environment of suspicion in the country. “Mr Speaker,...

THE Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) says it supports the enactment of the Cyber Security Bill to curb rising incidences of cyberbullying and Internet abuse. In a statement, Thursday, IBA Board chairperson Mabel Mung’omba stated that the Authority was concerned about the rising incidences of cyber bullying, fake news, online rumours and general Internet abuse. “IBA...

ZAMBIANS must reject politicians dishing out money because they will not deliver on their promises as they have made vote-buying a yardstick for being elected, says New Heritage Party president Chishala Kateka. In an interview, Kateka cautioned that if politicians were not taught lessons on polling day, voters would have themselves to blame for sustaining...

BARELY a week after they discontinued a case against their "expelled" leader, the Joseph Akafumba-led NDC have again dragged Chishimba Kambwili to the Lusaka High Court, seeking an injunction to restrain him from masquerading as NDC president or purporting to transact any business in the party’s name. Bridget Atanga, suing in her capacity as NDC...

PF NATIONAL mobilisation chairman Richard Musukwa says he is studying some PF members’ recent donations to their constituents despite banning the practice last month. And Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) general secretary Fr Emmanuel Chikoya hopes that the recent announcement by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) and Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) that they are...