There’s no load shedding because we’re importing from Mozambique – Zesco
ZESCO Board Chairperson Vickson Ncube says the importation of power from Mozambique to Zambia is working perfectly and that is the reason why Zambia is not experiencing any load shedding. And Ncube has insisted that the outages which some areas experience are due to maintenance works, and not load shedding. In an interview, Ncube said…...
Public university unions demand reintroduction of Higher Education Ministry
A CONSORTIUM of unions from Public Universities has called on government to establish a separate Higher Education Ministry, arguing that the Education Minister has failed their sector and is simply “a minister of desks”. The unions have also appealed to government to allocate a higher percentage of the national budget to public universities to adequately…...
Mabeta refutes owning company which got K200,000 CDF loan
SOME Kankoyo constituents have complained that their area member of parliament Heartson Mabeta’s company called Twachi also received a K200,000 CDF loan. But Mabeta has refuted the claims, saying his only relationship with Twachi is that they advertise their business on his busses. Last month constituents in Kankoyo expressed concern that the MP had diverted…...
My officers’ BP has shot up, Akafumba tells PAC
HOME Affairs and Internal Security Permanent Secretary Joseph Akafumba and his team yesterday had a hard time explaining corrective action which had been put in place against the findings of the 2022 Auditor General’s report when they appeared before PAC. And the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) called some Ministry of Home Affairs officers incompetent and uncoordinated…...
We already had information on Kapala – Moono
ANTI-Corruption Commission (ACC) Head of Corporate Communications Timothy Moono says the commission already had information on the awarding of contracts to fuel suppliers by Energy Minister Peter Kapala. On Friday PF Chairperson for Information and Publicity Emmanuel Mwamba reported Kapala to the ACC for abuse of power. Commenting on this in an interview, Monday, Moono…...
If you can’t afford minimum wage, pay on hourly or daily basis – Tambatamba
MINISTER of Labour and Social Security Brenda Tambatamba says the law allows employers to structure conditions of service for their workers based on what they can afford to pay them. Recently, government announced an increase in the minimum wage for domestic workers which now stands at K1,300. Speaking when she featured on ZNBC’s Sunday Interview,…...
If I’m wrong, I’ll admit it but so far, I am not – Mutti
IF I was wrong, I will say I was wrong but I have not seen that so far, says Speaker of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti. And Speaker Mutti says when people want to break you, they will say you are incompetent but when that doesn’t work, they resort to mocking you for not being…...
HH hasn’t instructed us to arrest any opposition member – Police
POLICE Spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says President Hakainde Hichilema has not issued any instructions for police to arrest any member of the opposition. PF recently alleged that President Hichilema had ordered the jailing of Zambia’s key political figures on espionage charges after they featured in a documentary denouncing the SADC Electoral Observer Mission report which accused […]
Finding defective drugs in health kits isn’t unusual – ZAMRA
THE ZAMBIA Medicines Regulatory Authority says there is no need to be alarmed regarding the defective batches of Erythromycin Stearate BP 250mg tablets because it is not unusual in the pharmaceutical manufacturing space to have such occurrences. In a statement Monday, ZAMRA Senior Public Relations Officer Ludovic Mwape said such abnormalities also happened in other…...
Kafwaya jumped the gun by reporting Speaker to ACC – Kantanshi MP
KANTANSHI PF member of parliament Anthony Mumba has described Lunte PF MP Mutotwe Kafwaya’s move to report Speaker of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti to ACC for abuse of office as a misplaced action. On Thursday last week, Kafwaya reported Speaker Mutti to ACC for abuse of authority of office, saying she acted contrary to…...