OVER the years, the media has taken a bashing from members of the public, especially politicians who feel the industry has lost touch with professionalism. They say the media is no longer objective. Others say the media has been turned into a propaganda tool in the hands of those who have money to control it....

PATRIOTIC Front presidential aspirant Brian Mundubile has condemned the heavy handedness of the police in enforcing the Public Order Act. Speaking in Mpika when he visited the catholic clergy, Honourable Mundubile said although it is understood that the police may have abused their powers in enforcing this law previously, continuing with the wrong cannot be...

AGRICULTURE Minister Mtolo Phiri says government gets concerned whenever it observes that prices of mealie meal are rising rapidly. In a statement addressing the escalating prices of the staple food, the minister said millers ought to understand that the maize they use in their business is produced by Zambians who are supposed to be fed...

WE made an observation last week that in order to fix the numerous challenges that Zambia is struggling with, President Hakainde Hichilema and his party would have to face the reality of being hated. Our view has been that the UPND inherited a country that had been subjected to all manner of abuse. Unprecedented debt,...

ON Thursday last week, the Ministry of Health announced that it had recorded three Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours, while nine patients were on oxygen therapy, with three in critical condition. Health Minister Sylvia Masebo expressed worry that Covid-19 was still claiming the lives of many citizens regardless of age. In this regard, the government...

ASKED to comment on the headways that the UPND government has made towards the long awaited Access to Information Bill, Justice Minister Mulambo Haimbe said Zambians should expect more progress once the media resolves the issue of self-regulation. The minister said the Access to Information Bill comes with the responsibility intended to be managed through...

FINALLY, after eight editorial comments on the matter, we got what we wanted to hear from Zesco. The power utility, through its board chairperson, has admitted that it misled President Hakainde Hichilema by informing him that load shedding had been resolved. Speaking on radio two days ago, our friend Vickson Ncube owned up and took...

THIS past weekend was packed with interesting news. After a week of being bashed on social media over load shedding, President Hakainde Hichilema, in good faith, took off to go and have an on-the-spot check of the situation at Lake Kariba. Upon return, the President wondered why the media had not done its work on...

Continued… IN 2012, just a year after Zambians had elected Michael Sata as Republican President, opposition political party leaders started calling him out for failing to deliver on his campaign promises. Michael and his vice-president Dr Guy Scott were called all sorts of names; chimbwi no plan, muzungu opusa etc. Leading that onslaught was yours...

IN THE past few days, President Hakainde Hichilema has taken quite a bashing on social media over Zesco’s implementation of the 12 hours load shedding. Citizens are reminding him of the things that he promised during campaigns, which he is now seemingly struggling to deliver. At one point someone wrote on the President’s page during...