The world theme for the World Press Freedom Day is: ‘Journalism under surveillance’. How would you interpret that in today’s media environment in Zambia? Journalism is one of the riskiest professions in the world. According to a 2021 report by Reporters without Borders, “a record number of journalists – 488, including 60 women – are...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God! This is found in the Good Book, the Bible; it is the opening verse of the 51 verses of John Chapter 1. John Chapter 1 contains part of the story of Jesus Christ as told by John the...

The controversy surrounding the proposed FTJ Chiluba University has given rise to public debate and it has become a subject of many a political discourse. ON 12 May 2022, the erstwhile governing party- the Patriotic Front held a press conference, ostensibly to respond to the political attacks levelled at the party leadership and former Cabinet...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) says so far there is no corruption investigation linked to former President Edgar Chagwa Lungu (ECL), or something to that effect. Essentially, the ACC cannot say whether or not they have any evidence linking ECL to corruption, yet. Even before the saliva had dried up in the mouth of the Acting...

WHEN Thelma (not her real name) died, her acquaintances had this sketchy Bemba phrase to say, ‘Thelma ubusuma bwakwe bwamulya.’ This translates in English to something like, ‘Thelma’s beauty has led to her death.’ Recently we had a trending story about a beautiful Kitwe lady who allegedly killed her husband. The two stories are similar...

The goal of education is for humans to have knowledge on how nature works, and be able to improve their lives through judicious use of primeval resources. Zambia’s Education Sector has straddled two centuries, with more than five decades of experience, and all knowledge quality parameters have been subsumed into its education system as a...

For more than 100 years now, International Labour Day has been celebrated on the 1st of May for the majority of the countries of the world, Zambia included. For many decades now, millions of unemployed young Zambians have watched, on the side-lines, the Labour Day celebrations. A horrible statistic which best captures the unemployment crisis...

It has become urgent and necessary for Hakainde Hichilema to make public his declaration of assets and liabilities. He does not need any permission from anyone to do this, and he will not be violating our Constitution or any law. His behaviour and utterances lately make this demand extremely urgent. Why are the courts taking...

I hate that TV advert showing girls in skin tight pants telling everyone what they use that time of the month. For goodness’s sake, who wants to know what it is you use when only you know what time of the month you need it? Worse still, I don’t like them wriggling their waists in...

A good young friend of mine, a UNZA and Oxford University graduate, who is very conscious of the perilous path Zambia has taken by ignoring, among other morbid things, the miserable plight of callboys and party cadres, recently asked me this frightening question: where do callboys and party cadres go when they are removed from...