COMMERCE, Trade and Industry Minister Chipoka Mulenga says the cost of living has indeed gone up and government does not take pride in seeing citizens failing to afford a commodity which is available in shops. Speaking when he featured on Hot FM’s Hot Seat programme, Thursday, Mulenga admitted that the cost of living had risen. “We say yes, the cost of living has gone up and we are definitely going to work to reduce [it for] the Zambian public. We do not take pride in seeing our people queueing or failing to afford a commodity which is available in shops. Yes, some of the basic things have gone up, we’ve been listening to their cries and that is why we...