Opinion

Please China, spare us from Coronavirus
By Diggers Editor on 23 Feb 2020
Remarks that are coming from government on the country’s preparedness for the Coronavirus are sending a message that citizens are on their own. Last week,....
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Where is the father while the mother weeps “amwa peeling?”
By Diggers Editor on 21 Feb 2020
President Edgar Lungu says he will only address the nation on the ongoing gassing incidences around the country “once he knows the truth”, according to....
When a President goes tribal, there’s no way he can unite a nation
By Diggers Editor on 20 Feb 2020
In our previous editorial comment, we categorically emphasised on the issue of tribalism and challenged the top two political parties in the country to be....
Citizens take law in their hands when they’ve no confidence in State Police
By Diggers Editor on 19 Feb 2020
WHEN the gassing of innocent residents went viral on the Copperbelt, President Edgar Lungu informed the nation that fake pastors were behind this as they....
Ng’andu not sincere on Zambia’s reserves
By Diggers Editor on 18 Feb 2020
There is something we find amiss from Minister of Finance Dr Bwalya Ng’andu’s press conference, February 12, 2020. In the data which the minister released,....
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Look at the PF lies on Bill 10!
By Diggers Editor on 16 Feb 2020
On January 21 this year, President Edgar Lungu told PF and government officials not to sit “ndwii” while members of the civil society go around....
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Enjoy the sweet, but remember Guy Scott who sweated for it
By Diggers Editor on 15 Feb 2020
THE president of Lusaka, Mr Bowman Lusambo, says it’s foolish for anyone else to think that the Patriotic Front is just going to surrender power....
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Fire tenders can’t fix Lusaka floods, we need heads that can think
By Diggers Editor on 13 Feb 2020
We have seen huge entourages of government officials, among them jacketed and high-heeled bosses, from the office of the Vice-President, the provincial office in Lusaka,....
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How PF became a satanic and tribalist party in two weeks
By Diggers Editor on 12 Feb 2020
WHENEVER you invite Zambia’s founding president Dr Kenneth Kaunda to an event, regardless of the occasion you wish him to attend, when granted an opportunity....
Thank you, Judge Musaluke, for telling ECZ to wake up
By Diggers Editor on 11 Feb 2020
Constitutional Court judge Martin Musaluke has strongly condemned all forms of electoral violence in the country and has further reminded Electoral Commission of Zambia that....
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Don’t lie about coronavirus, or it will wipe us all
By Diggers Editor on 10 Feb 2020
The World Health Organisation has named Zambia among 13 African countries that are at high risk of importing the deadly Coronavirus which broke out in....
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Which fake pastors is Lungu talking about?
By Diggers Editor on 9 Feb 2020
When you’re going for war and your general starts believing in omens, just know that you have lost because that is a sign of cowardice.....
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UNZALARU Wants Salaries on Time, Not the Freedom to Insult
By Diggers Editor on 6 Feb 2020
Minister of Higher Education Dr Brian Mushimba MP says members of the University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (UNZALARU) are free to insult their....
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ECZ destined to deliver another disputed election in 2021
By Diggers Editor on 5 Feb 2020
If a policeman sees a thief breaking into a house of an unsuspecting owner, but says ‘I cannot arrest the robber until the owner of....
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Corruption in Chilubi by PF clever devils
By Diggers Editor on 3 Feb 2020
A British writer and theologian CS Lewis once said education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever....
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Why has the Bill 10 public debate angered Lungu?
By Diggers Editor on 1 Feb 2020
The President has accused those who are opposed to the enactment of Bill 10 as enemies of progress who convene in the cover of night....
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Arrest Seer 1 for election meddling and death threats
By Diggers Editor on 30 Jan 2020
A bizarre confession has emerged from a South Africa-based Nigerian prophet who claims that the Patriotic Front won the 2016 elections dubiously and with the....
When police believe in ghosts, criminals rejoice
By Diggers Editor on 29 Jan 2020
Copperbelt Province Police Commissioner Charity Katanga has expressed concern that the suspected ritual murderers in Chingola, whom police are hunting down, seem to be changing....
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Chingola riots a sign of people’s anger against govt lies
By Diggers Editor on 28 Jan 2020
Minister of Religious Affairs Reverend Godfridah Sumaili says government is concerned with reports of violence, riots and ritual murders in Chingola and that the Ministry....
We mean well with our public discussion forums
By Diggers Editor on 25 Jan 2020
We have been overwhelmed with the feedback from the recently-held public discussion forum, which we jointly hosted with Eden University, Chapter One Foundation and Prime....
Only PF has money to sponsor ballot printing observers in Dubai
By Diggers Editor on 23 Jan 2020
The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) says sending political party representatives to observe the printing of ballot papers is an unnecessary cost. According to Mr....
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An illegal central committee can’t endorse a sole candidate
By Diggers Editor on 22 Jan 2020
Yesterday, we saw what the Patriotic Front constitution provides for the elective General Conference. Today, we wish to look at how the ruling party is....
PF in breach of its constitution on General Conference
By Diggers Editor on 21 Jan 2020
The announcement by the Patriotic Front Secretary General that the ruling party will be going to the elective general assembly this July is a commendable....

Watch how Times of Zambia assets will be stripped!

By Diggers Editor on 19 Jan 2020

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) recently announced that the Times of Zambia board has been dissolved and management disbanded. According to the announcement, the Zambia....

How drug trafficking, wildlife smuggling destroys communities

By Diggers Editor on 17 Jan 2020

Zambia has joined the list of African nations that have legalised cannabis to some degree, as policy towards the drug slowly changes among countries in....

How Zesco imported Air from Eskom and made people pay for it

By Diggers Editor on 16 Jan 2020

We have argued from the the onset that increasing electricity tariffs again in order to allow Zesco to import emergency power would have the same....

PF and UPND must criminalise Tribalism if they truly detest it

By Diggers Editor on 14 Jan 2020

Through out the Patriotic Front campaign in all the previous election years, we have heard them preach against tribalism. In their preaching against tribalism, they....

235 MPs for what? You’re failing to fund 156 constituencies!

By Diggers Editor on 12 Jan 2020

Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) chief electoral officer Patrick Nshindano says stakeholders should appreciate how the delimitation of constituencies will improve service delivery instead of....

Let Lungu rest, but reflect on corruption and the collapsed economy

By Diggers Editor on 10 Jan 2020

President Edgar Lungu has gone on his annual leave. According to State House, the Head of State will be on a four-day retreat in Eastern....

Keep your salaries, but reduce stealing by at least 20% che

By Diggers Editor on 9 Jan 2020

The trouble that our government has is that where they are supposed to use economic sense, they are using politics. That’s the problem. This is....

We insist, PF needs a Mwanawasa to emerge from within

By Diggers Editor on 6 Jan 2020

When we look around and ask ourselves where the help for Zambia will come from, it makes our hearts bleed. Ordinarily, Zambians would have been....

Incompetent leaders govern with iron fists

By Diggers Editor on 5 Jan 2020

In Zambia today, the ruling party and its leadership have abused the word “patriotism” with unimaginable proportions. Anyone who opens their mouths to criticise government....

Farewell Amb Foote, You’re our 2019 hero

By Diggers Editor on 2 Jan 2020

It shall be written in the history books that once, there came an Ambassador from the United States of America who unsettled the authorities in....

Corruption must be treated as a crime against humanity

By Diggers Editor on 1 Jan 2020

Kenyan professor of law Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba holds the view that corruption must be treated as a crime against humanity because the vice has....

If campaigns have started, let PF level the playing field

By Diggers Editor on 31 Dec 2019

We have observed that the Patriotic Front has switched into full campaign mode. The chief executive of the ruling party, Mr Davies Mwila, and his....

If this isn’t a debt crisis, what is it?

By Diggers Editor on 30 Dec 2019

We will talk more about the government’s failure to settle a loan that has attracted sanctions from the Africa Development Bank next week but today,....

Lungu is riding a tiger, he can’t climb down

By Diggers Editor on 29 Dec 2019

That’s what power does. It goes to your head and when that happens, you cease to see the legal limitations of your ambitions. We saw....

Lungu on course to become longest serving President

By Diggers Editor on 28 Dec 2019

We listened to President Edgar Lungu introducing his desire to contest the 2026 general elections with absolute bewilderment. We could not believe what was coming....

Bishop Dr Chomba is right, Despite his fake PhD from Oxford

By Diggers Editor on 27 Dec 2019

A bridge constructed on Alick Nkhata Road in Lusaka has brought controversy. When driving on this bridge from either direction, it’s like a car climbs....

Deport Foote at your own peril

By Diggers Editor on 23 Dec 2019

The relationship between the Zambian government and the American Embassy in Lusaka seems to have collapsed irretrievably at this stage. The recent statement from President....

How processed Mukula comes back to Zambia

By Diggers Editor on 19 Dec 2019

The people of Zambia have been asking: where has the Patriotic Front been getting all the campaign materials from which they have been using to....

Chiefs aiding theft of wildlife, timber, minerals and land

By Diggers Editor on 18 Dec 2019

This country is now officially broke! It has been bankrupted. The thieves in government have stolen all there was to be stolen and there is....

President Lungu with his daughter Tasila Lungu: File picture

Tasila must learn from Henry Banda

By Diggers Editor on 17 Dec 2019

Our organisation is deeply concerned about one name that has been implicated in the Mukula smuggling saga. Tasila, the President’s daughter. Guilty or innocent, her....