ZRA workers have no capacity to audit mines – Chanda
FORMER Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) commissioner general Kingsley Chanda says ZRA workers do not have the capacity and skills required to audit mining companies. And Chanda says VAT refunds cannot work in a country where the manufacturing sector is very small. Meanwhile, Chanda says the mining sector’s contribution to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)…...
We’ve started blending fuel with ethanol – ERB
ENERGY Regulation Board (ERB) Chairperson Reynolds Bowa says the country has initiated a pilot project in Lusaka where fuel is blended with ethanol. Bowa however says that the quantity of ethanol currently being produced in the country is not sufficient to fully support the initiative. In an interview, Thursday, Bowa said the process of fuel…...
There’s a lot of discontent among citizens, it’d be folly for UPND to ignore concerns – TIZ
TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (T-IZ) Executive Director Maurice Nyambe has urged the UPND to go back to the people and have an honest conversation with them on their failures, saying there’s a lot of discontent among citizens. And Nyambe has insisted that President Hakainde Hichilema should suspend Energy Minister Peter Kapala to pave way for investigations…...
If drought is bigger than anticipated, we’ll have food, electricity problems – Nkulukusa
SECRETARY to the Treasury Felix Nkulukusa says if the scale and magnitude of the prevailing drought is bigger than initially projected, the country may not only have challenges with food security but also electricity security. And Bank of Zambia Governor Dr Denny Kalyalya says one of the reasons the Central Bank decided to pull resources…...
Speaker approves motion to debate re-introduction of subsidies on mealie meal
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti has approved Petauke Independent member of parliament Emmanuel Jay Banda’s request to move a private members’ motion urging government to re-introduce subsidies on mealie meal. And Banda says every well-meaning member of parliament should support the motion because it will help the people to be able to afford…...
Kang’ombe wonders whether govt plans to change law on GMOs
KAMFINSA PF member of parliament Christopher Kang’ombe has wondered if Agriculture Minister Mtolo Phiri’s remarks that people should not demonise genetically modified products means that government plans to change the law on GMOs. On Tuesday, Phiri said although Zambia was GMO free, people should not demonise genetically modified products because the country had tolerance levels…...
Say things as they are, numbers don’t lie – HH
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says it’s important to say things as they are because numbers don’t lie. Earlier this month, President Hichilema’s predecessor, Edgar Lungu, criticised the UPND government for the state of the country’s economy, asserting that his worst was far much better than what Zambians are currently experiencing under the new dawn administration. The…...
DJ in court for having sexual intercourse against order of nature
A 25-YEAR-OLD man of Kanyama has appeared before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to charges of unnatural offences. Kelvin Mutale, a DJ and businessman, is facing four counts of unnatural offences Contrary to Section 155(a) of the Penal Code Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia. Mutale is alleged to have on…...
IGC director heaps praise on HH: Last 3 yrs were less awful thanks to him
INTERNATIONAL Growth Centre (IGC) director Sir Paul Collier says for the first time after 50 years in Zambia, there is a President who is ambitious for decisive change. And Sir Collier, who is also Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, says the last three years could have been awful with any President but…...
It’s not prudent to amend Constitution just to increase constituencies – VEEP
VICE-President Mutale Nalumango says it will not be prudent to amend the Constitution purely for the purpose of increasing the number of constituencies. The Vice-President was responding to a question in the National Assembly, Wednesday, posed by Msanzala PF member of Parliament Elias Daka on whether government had plans to delimitate some constituencies prior to…...
