Introduction The 2025 national budget, themed “Building Resilience for Inclusive Growth and Improved Livelihoods,” comes at a time when the nation grapples with pressing challenges. A dry 2023/2024 farming season and an energy crisis have […]

Things have changed a lot in the last ten years. There are now more products and services available that people want and need. What used to be hard to find is now just a click […]

In the 2025 national budget, the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocation has been increased to K36.1 million per constituency, up from K30.6 million in 2024. The increase somewhat reflects a sustained effort to decentralise resources […]

A lot of debate in the past week on whether a woman who has a past (community project) can really change and turn into a decent married wife. It is alleged that old habits die […]

Introduction The mining sector continues to be the major economic sector driving the Zambian economy. Consistently, it has over the past decades provided in excess of over 70 percentage in foreign exchange earnings and been […]

Peter and Jane grew up in the same neighbourhood. They went to the same primary school, same high school, same university, and were churchmates. Their parents knew each other and in their high school days, […]

In a few weeks time, Zambia will be turning sixty. A good old ripe age. For a man’s equivalent, it is often the age that is associated with one having a well rounded view of […]

In April 1967, Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first post-colonial president announced “Humanism” as the country’s ideological and philosophical standpoint. It was a philosophy he announced, that put the “human” at the centre of all activity, although […]

In the last six months, Zambia has experienced long hours of loadshedding adversely affecting the economy. The government has approached this crisis with a steady urgency and is poised to undertake several measures under the […]

Dear Aka- Monde, I am in a relationship with a beautiful intelligent lady, and I intend to reach to reach her parents’ home and do the lobola negotiations. I am in my mid-40s and I […]