LAST week, assistant Parish Priest at Our Lady of Africa Parish in Kitwe Fr Chalwe Chonde delivered a homily in which he urged congregants to observe how load shedding would likely reduce as the country... […]

ON Monday, after Bill 7 scraped through its third reading with 135 votes from UPND, PF and Independent MPs, Speaker Mutti did something that shocked even seasoned parliamentary observers. She did not join MPs in... […]

IT has been very interesting observing, and also engaging in, the often heated debates around Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 7. Those debates are now largely academic. Parliament has voted in favour of the amendments, and... […]

IF we are to put things simply, we could say, the statements on delimitation are confusing. In one breath, Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Chief Electoral Officer Brown Kasaro says the delimitation report does not... […]

SOMETIME last week, police in Lusaka carried out an operation that led to the rescue of five women who had been lured to the city and confined in a house in Chalala. The story received... […]

ON Monday, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) revealed that it had arrested three officers from the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries for allegedly misappropriating part of a US$10 million loan which government obtained from the African... […]

THE concession of the Tanzania–Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has been packaged as a major victory for our country. Finance and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says the... […]

NOW that Bill 7 has finally been taken back to Parliament, it is almost certain what will happen to the proposed amendments. The political signals are clear, the ruling party has the numbers, and the... […]

WE have found it hard to move passed the remarks made by former PF secretary general Davies Mwila who says that Mr Given Lubinda is a white man and cannot be President of Zambia. Those... […]

ZAMBIAN football has long been characterised by poor wages, inconsistent contracts, and the late or even complete non-payment of allowances. This chronic problem has repeatedly created standoffs between players and the clubs they represent. Even... […]