OUR country has suffered a slow pace of development because our politicians spend more time attending to non-issues while neglecting the real problems that are affecting our people. This is reflected in the kind of debates that our leaders engage in. The quality of politics in our country calls for deep meditation from all citizens...

THE statement issued by the Ministry of Health on the Honey Bee Pharmacy Contract is embarrassing. This statement confirms all our fears. It is very clear that there is something very rotten about this contract. What is particularly embarrassing is the fact that a very well educated spokesperson for the ministry was prepared to issue...

HAKAINDE Hichilema, president of the opposition UPND, says never before in the history of Zambia has any piece of legislation been so heavily marketed as Bill 10. He says the campaign by the Patriotic Front to pass Bill 10 is enough proof that "there is certainly an evil motive behind it because a good piece...

ONE great news editor once said the truth doesn’t need to be defended because it defends itself. This editor who is now retired and serving public office contended that once you tell the truth, there is no need to belabour the point that you are not lying, the truth is always there to speak for...

LAST Week, President Edgar Lungu posted his condolence message, expressing grief at the passing of President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi. The Head of State listed what he described as significant roles that Nkurunziza played for his country and the African continent, adding that he was scheduled to democratically hand over power to the President-elect of...

When people with common interests band together, their voices can be heard and their chances of influencing the political debate increase. That is what is expected of a healthy democracy. Democracy is more than the sum of government institutions operating freely. A healthy democracy depends, in large part, on the development of a democratic civic...

MUCH has been said about foreign investment in the past few weeks. We have seen the Mayor of Lusaka and his team carrying out operations to deal with questionable foreign investment, and later being asked to apologise for doing so by the supposed superior authorities in the name of Local Government Minister. We have also...

BELARUSSIAN businessman Aleksandr Zingman has threatened to take us to court for refusing to disclose our sources of his controversial photographs where he was pictured interacting with our Head of State, Lusaka Business Valden Findly, Defence PS Sturdy Mwale, ZAF commander Lt Gen David Muma, Zambia’s defence attaché in Russia Robert Kampeshi and Alexander Mikheev,...

Dictators often rise to power out of conflict or a coup d'etat. However, there have been dictators who got into power democratically or legally. Adolf Hitler, for example, was appointed chancellor, or head of government, by President Paul von Hindenburg in 1933. After Hindenburg DIED, Hitler made himself "Fü­hrer" (a combination of president and chancellor)....

We don't want to be carried away by the technical legal jargon from government ministries. This development of government declaring all of Copperbelt Energy Corporation’s power infrastructure as “common carrier” looks like nationalisation and we have not found any explanation that dismisses this fact. It would make sense to us if Zesco transmission and distribution...