The Solicitor General’s letter to the DPP states categorically that: “We seek your indulgence to CONSIDER POSTPONING THE TAKING OF PLEA TO THE 17TH JANUARY 2022, TO ALLOW MY OFFICE, IN COLLABORATION WITH YOURSELVES ENGAGE IN AND POSSIBLY CONCLUDE THE AFOREMENTIONED NEGOTIATIONS. What does he mean when he says in “collaboration with yourself?” Why should...

A LETTER has emerged in which Solicitor General Marshal Muchende, State Counsel, asked Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lillian Shawa Siyunyi to postpone the taking of plea by the arrested Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu in order to allow time for negotiations. In his letter, the Solicitor General categorically states that there...

FIRST Quantum Minerals Ltd says it had approved a US$1.25 billion project to expand its Kansanshi copper mine in Zambia after the UPND government committed to a more predictable investment climate. They are saying with this investment and their good working relationship with the new government, their mining activities in Zambia will go beyond 2040,...

RECENTLY when the President officiated at the Media Conference in Lusaka, he spoke strongly against publishing information that tends to agitate members of the public without making an effort to verify. The good news is that journalists are always eager to ask questions. The bad news is that those from whom answers are expected prefer...

WHEN the UPND was pronounced as winner of the 2021 general elections, many of us Zambians were happy that we were going to see fresh faces and names in government. We were happy that the era of the captured Patriotic Front had come to an end. However, we were alive to the fact that we...

IF there was a winner from the 2021 general elections other than the political party that is now in power, it was the media. The fourth Estate was on the verge of collapse under the Patriotic Front administration. Seeing how its leaders are now relying on the same media houses that they strove to close...

TODAY’S workers are not living in an age of rising prosperity. Poverty remains on the rise because workers no longer have a disposable income to talk about. Wages and prices for basic needs are chasing each other. Fuel prices have been pushed several times higher than ever imagined. Today, it’s just as hard for a...

HONOURABLE Gary Nkombo! Where do we even begin? We get that over the years, you have earned yourself a reputation as a no nonsense, action oriented man. But your recent actions? Forcing a poor helpless woman and her children to drink kachasu? Ummmmm, that is a big NO! You’ve crossed a line which even the...

HONOURABLE Gary Nkombo! Where do we even begin? We get that over the years, you have earned yourself a reputation as a no nonsense, action oriented man. But your recent actions? Forcing a poor helpless woman and her children to drink kachasu? Ummmmm, that is a big NO! You’ve crossed a line which even the...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema on Monday defended his call for plunderers of public resources to surrender the loot and avoid going to prison, saying this is a law that he found and there is nothing wrong with it. When asked if it was fair that petty thieves are locked up for many years while perpetrators of...