THREE boxers are set to represent the country at the second World Olympic Qualification Tournament set for Thailand from May 24 to June 2. The three boxers are Commonwealth Silver medalist Steven Zimba, Mwengo Mwale and Margret Tembo. The trio will aim to book tickets for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and join Patrick Chinyemba....
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NEWS from the energy sector suggests that Agro Fuel has decided to withhold its diesel stock because the company feels that the pump price dictated by the Energy Regulation Board (ERB) is too low. Since this is the company that was single-sourced by government to supply fuel to the nation using the TAZAMA pipeline, one...
FORMER lands minister Jean Kapata has told the Lusaka High Court that her company makes approximately K250,000 every six weeks through chicken rearing, plus more income from her piggery and fish farming, but does not meet the ZRA threshold for tax registration. And after the court visited her house and other properties in Roma yesterday,...
A LUSAKA businessman has sued the state in the Lusaka High Court, seeking a declaration and order that the Mobile Money Transaction Levy Act No.16 of 2023 is unconstitutional and therefore void. Bishop Njanji, a resident of Lusaka's Ibex Hill area, has cited the Attorney General as the respondent in the matter. In his petition,...
MINISTER of Water Development and Sanitation Mike Mposha has warned that the current water crisis will worsen in the third quarter of this year due to reduced water levels. And National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) Executive Director Dr Aaron Chansa says schools should be spared from water rationing to avoid disruption in...
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says it is immoral for Zambia to be food insecure because of one dry season, highlighting the need to work together as a country to secure food. Speaking when he met the Livestock Services Board of Directors, Thursday, President Hichilema said there was a need to begin exporting beef in order to...
ECONOMIST Oliver Saasa says Zambia cannot correct its fiscal problem by only using the Central Bank's monetary instrument. And Professor Saasa says the increase in the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) was expected but his biggest worry is whether the Bank of Zambia (BOZ) will also tamper with the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR). On Wednesday, BOZ...
- 17 May 2024
- Mazombwe Banda
KANCHIBIYA PF Member of Parliament Sunday Chanda says the opposition shouldn't condemn everything the ruling party is doing but should also be able to commend where things are working. And Chanda says he will be handing over the first ever mortuary for Kanchibiya district since independence this Friday, which was constructed using CDF. He discloses...
- 17 May 2024
- Barnabas Zulu
MINISTER of Youth, Sports, and Arts Elvis Nkandu has assured that government will begin paying interns recruited under the Internship, Volunteer, Apprenticeship, and Graduate (IVAG) programme by the end of this month. He, however, says the delay in paying out the stipends is also due to some interns presenting forged grade 12 certificates and offer...
FORMER vice president Enock Kavindele has thanked President Hakainde Hichilema for his appointment as Presidential Envoy. And Kavindele says he is willing to campaign for President Hichilema in 2026 because of his good policies. On Wednesday, Chief Government Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa announced that President Hichilema had appointed all six living former vice presidents of Zambia...
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