Guest Diggers

16 Feb 2024 | Michelo Maunga

The hard road of economic reform

At midnight on 31st January 2024, a fuel price increment was effected, taking the cost of a litre of petrol and diesel to K34.19 and K32.15, respectively. The Kwacha is losing value on an almost […]

29 Jan 2024 | Michelo Maunga

The Benefits of a Weak Currency

The Zambian currency, currently trading at what are record lows, is amongst the worst performing currencies in the world. However undesirable a weak currency may be, it is not entirely a bad thing. It does […]

29 Jan 2024 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

Compromised by politics? A response to ‘The Judiciary of Zambia’

On 19 January 2024, I wrote a short article in which I asked why all the four cases involving the State-supported Miles Sampa versus the main opposition Patriotic Front (PF) were only allocated to judges […]

29 Jan 2024 | Aka Monde Mungela

A reaction to the “Dear school leavers”

Dear Aka- Monde, Your article reminded me of an incident that happened to me in my college days at one of the Public Colleges in Lusaka where I was doing a three-year diploma course. It […]

28 Jan 2024 | Aka Monde Mungela

Dear school leavers

Hello, I know there is a hive of excitement amongst you guys, some of you are happy to be heading into university and colleges as soon as schools open. Some of you are excited that […]

24 Jan 2024 | Edwin Mwiba

Persons with disabilities need to be carried upstairs to visit Lusaka National Museum

The Sililo Foundation keeps on raising awareness about the inaccessibility of many of public infrastructure to persons with disabilities in Zambia. And in line with this, was the organisation’s visit to the Lusaka National Museum […]

11 Jan 2024 | Michelo Maunga

Cholera: The Case of Hygiene in Zambia

The country is in the grips of yet another Cholera outbreak. As at 8th January 2024, some 200+ new cases were recorded. Presently, Lusaka is the epicenter of the pandemic, with the spread continuing to […]

31 Dec 2023 | Aka Monde Mungela

Resolutions and goal setting in the New-Year

My four-year-old daughter had an accident and wet her bed whilst sleeping on my lap, you should have seen me leap for fear of the urine reaching far. In Kalabo where I come from, we […]

25 Dec 2023 | Peter Mubanga Cheuka

Invest in research and development to solve vaccine access inequalities

As I was reading an electronic copy of the News Diggers newspaper published on November 28, 2023, I stumbled upon a story that covered the speeches delivered at the 3rd International Conference on Public Health […]

19 Dec 2023 | Linda Kasonde

Access to Information Bill – A Pandora’s Box

Zambians have been calling for an access to information law for about three decades. The intention behind these calls was to enable citizens to have greater access to information that is in the public interest […]