Opinion

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Is Kampyongo suggesting that slim people, like his appointing authority are HIV suspects?
By Diggers Editor on 6 Apr 2020
We are in shock. We can’t seem to understand what exactly angered Home Affairs Minister Honourable Stephen Kampyongo about our headline which reported the fact....
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COVID-19 is airborne? Why is Ministry of Health misleading us?
By Diggers Editor on 4 Apr 2020
On the 3rd of March, 2020, this newspaper carried an editorial in which we predicted that it was “not a matter of if, but when”....
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Why whip patrons if there’s no lockdown?
By Diggers Editor on 3 Apr 2020
For all we know, Zambia is not on lockdown. The President here has not declared a State of Emergency. The laws of the Republic of....
Name govt officials who are infected, in quarantine
By Diggers Editor on 2 Apr 2020
Why would a government be so aversive to the idea of closing its borders to human movement in the face of such a vicious global....
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Lungu’s Cabinet leadership on COVID-19 scary
By Diggers Editor on 1 Apr 2020
Authorities in the USA have just announced that they expect about 200,000 thousand deaths on account of the Coronavirus (COVID 19). In the past few....
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Stop load-shedding to keep people at home
By Diggers Editor on 31 Mar 2020
One thing we are failing to understand is why government has remained adamant to closing the borders and imposing a mandatory shut down in the....
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Let’s sympathise with Lungu and help him, or we will all perish!
By Diggers Editor on 29 Mar 2020
WE watched President Edgar Lungu’s national address with a strong sense of solicitude. Many things didn’t appear right. While declaring war on the COVID-19 pandemic,....
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What will be Mr Lungu’s achievements by 2021?
By Diggers Editor on 28 Mar 2020
“Dear President Edgar Lungu Sir, When you formed government, you made a commitment to turn the country around, economically, politically and socially. As we head....
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Ba UPND, Osasunga evidence monga reg, give us imweee!
By Diggers Editor on 26 Mar 2020
THE opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) claim to be in possession of evidence showing how the Patriotic Front tried to bribe the party’s....
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Is Kambwili in cahoots with his MP on Bill 10?
By Diggers Editor on 25 Mar 2020
Last Wednesday, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) member of parliament Joseph Chishala opted to stay in Parliament and vote for the Constitution Amendment Bill number....
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Ba Lungu, landeni na bantu twapapata
By Diggers Editor on 24 Mar 2020
Why is President Edgar Lungu the Head of State? What is his Job? And while we are still asking questions, where is he? Alikuti? We....
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Why bribe an MP to vote for a good law?
By Diggers Editor on 23 Mar 2020
Whenever the enactment of a bill, any bill, is supported only by those who are in government, the ruling party and its agents, just know....
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Prime needs adverts, it doesn’t survive on TV levy like ZNBC
By Diggers Editor on 22 Mar 2020
MINISTER of Information and Broadcasting Dora Siliya announced that government will no longer conduct any business with Prime Television because they have demonstrated lack of....
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Arresting mealie meal customers signals a failed state
By Diggers Editor on 20 Mar 2020
LUSAKA Province minister Bowman Lusambo carried out an operation around supermarkets in Lusaka in the company of police officers, apprehending people who were buying mealie....
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Stop the Judicial bullying, if you are qualified, sue Sangwa for defamation
By Diggers Editor on 18 Mar 2020
The decision by the Judiciary to bar State Counsel John Sangwa from appearing in any Zambian court on grounds that he disrespected the Constitutional Court....
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Don’t waste money on useless Commission of inquiry on gassing
By Diggers Editor on 17 Mar 2020
WE are glad that President Edgar Lungu brought up the issue of gassing and the death of innocent citizens in his speech to Parliament the....
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What’s PF’s interest in the CEC, Zesco deal?
By Diggers Editor on 15 Mar 2020
LAST week, Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila announced that the ruling party had appointed a task force to ensure that the negotiations for the....
Speaker Matibini, a good man gone bad
By Diggers Editor on 12 Mar 2020
WE would like to draw the attention of our readers to the Constitutional Court judgement in the case of National Democratic Congress (DNC) president Chishimba....
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Lungu’s eligibility: “Holding office” Vs “term of office” in Chipimo’s explanation
By Diggers Editor on 11 Mar 2020
In our next edition, we will publish the judgement of the Constitutional Court on the matter where Dan Pule and others were seeking an interpretation....
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Lungu doesn’t qualify, we warned you; find a Mwanawasa from within
By Diggers Editor on 9 Mar 2020
The Patriotic Front has taken issue with Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa State Counsel for saying that President Edgar Lungu does not qualify to contest the....
If Lungu doesn’t address gassing issue, Parley speech will be immoral
By Diggers Editor on 5 Mar 2020
As President Edgar Lungu makes his address to Parliament on progress made in the implementation of national values and principles, all eyes and ears will....
The Bugatti and money laundering sham an embarrassment to DEC
By Diggers Editor on 4 Mar 2020
Selective application of the law is something that our law enforcement agencies take so casually in Zambia. But it is a very serious matter with....
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Coronavirus is knocking, how prepared is our govt
By Diggers Editor on 3 Mar 2020
Considering the rate at which the Coronavirus is spreading around the world, it is not a question of “if” but “when” a case of this....

Disputing accurate information should be a crime, just like spreading falsehood

By Diggers Editor on 2 Mar 2020

Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says the story we published to the effect that diplomats abroad have not been paid their foreign service allowances from....

Indeed, PF has lost its social contract to govern  

By Diggers Editor on 1 Mar 2020

In 2011 before the PF formed government, the exchange rate was around K7,000 to a dollar (K7 rebased). External total debt was at US$3.5 billion.....

If Lungu doesn’t know, then he’s not in control

By Diggers Editor on 27 Feb 2020

State House says President Edgar Lungu doesn’t know the truth about what is going on regarding the gassing incidences across the country, and as such,....

Crooks planning takeover of CEC must be stopped

By Diggers Editor on 26 Feb 2020

We are hearing from very reliable sources that Zesco, with the government’s facilitation, has engaged the Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) for negotiations aimed at extending....

God hates such useless prayers!

By Diggers Editor on 25 Feb 2020

The Church in Zambia has just concluded the three-day prayer and fasting programme meant to end the gassing incidences happening across the country. This might....

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,....

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,....

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....

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....

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,....

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....

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....

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.....

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....