Albie Sachs, the celebrated retired judge of the South African Constitutional Court, while delivering a lecture, once asserted that every judgment he wrote was a lie. By this he meant that the formality of every […]

The Zambian economy has faced challenges of constricting fiscal space and the devastating effects of climate change. Fiscal space is commonly defined as the budgetary room that allows a government to provide resources for public […]

Two Zambian males were recently sentenced to a hefty 15 years in jail for committing a crime not against any person, but “against the order of nature”. Mr Daniel Foote, the American ambassador to Zambia […]

The long march towards constitutional stability in Zambia continues. We are yet again at the precipice of possibly another failure at constitutional reforms. Bill No 10 was intended to be a process to address lacunae […]

On 8 November 2019, President Edgar Lungu, speaking in his first press conference for four years, brought up Zambia’s elections scheduled for 2021 before declaring: “I am game”. Breaking with his usual practice of governing […]

The nation was recently engaged in a debate on the rearing of livestock in residential areas. This debate arose from reports that the mayor of the city of Lusaka was keeping Friesian cows at his […]

Is there such as thing like ‘let us cut a million-tree campaign in Zambia? Yes, there is but only in practice. This submission dares to make an argument that what Zambia is currently experiencing is […]

While much of the country is waiting for rains to cool the current heatwave, many farmers under the e-voucher are hoping they will hold. Our recent field visit to e-voucher districts in Lusaka and Southern […]

What will next year hold? Making predictions can make a fool of any of us. But, as the dust settles on the 2020 budget which sets the country’s economic direction for the year ahead, we […]

Transparency International Zambia has followed with keen interest the investigations into the ownership of initially 48 and now 51 houses in Chalala area. Following the Presidential directive to the Minister of Home Affairs and all […]