News Diggers! ePaper Edition 795 Tuesday October 13, 2020
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Zambia records 91 new COVID-19 cases, 8 BIDs
MINISTER of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya has announced that Zambia has recorded 91 new COVID-19 cases out of 2,741 tests, with eight brought in dead cases recorded in the last 24 hours. Speaking during the COVID-19 briefing, Monday, Dr Chilufya said despite the downward trend in the number of cases, there was a worrying trend […]
2021 budget shows Zambia’s economy is between a rock and hard place – ZNFU
THE Zambia National Farmers Union says the 2021 budget has shown that Zambia’s economy is between a rock and a hard place. And the Union says Zambia’s agriculture sector is dire stress and that strides that have been made over the years will be wiped off if no meaningful reforms are put in place. In…...
CSOs defend Telesphore from PF attacks
A CONSORTIUM of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have called on senior political leaders to abstain from endorsing messages that promote anarchy and intimidation. And the CSOs have urged the ruling party to return to the democratic practices the country was founded on by promoting peace and freedom in all aspects of the Zambian society. This…...
Focus on issuing NRCs, Kampyongo tells mobile officers in S/Province
HOME Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo has urged officers in the mobile National Registration Cards (NRC) issuance exercise to focus on the job and not to be swayed by distractors. Kampyongo was in Southern Province, Sunday, to inspect phase two of the mobile issuance of NRCs in that province. Speaking when he paid a courtesy call…...
Jay Jay gets nolle, rearrest
THE State has entered a nolle prosequi in a matter in which suspended Eastern Province PF youth chairperson Emmanuel Banda, commonly known as Jay Jay, and four others were accused of assaulting a police officer at Lusaka Central Police Station. But Banda and others were rearrested shortly after the case was discontinued. Earlier this month,…...
The tenacity, resilience, courage and patience of Hakainde Hichilema
RECENTLY, we expressed our views on the state of the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) through an editorial opinion that highlighted some of the challenges that we have observed in the party. The opinion was necessitated by an admission from the party’s chairman for elections, Gary Nkombo, who said although the governance system…...
Farmers drag each other to court over witchcraft allegations
A FARMER of Shicitaza Village of Chief Kaingu’s area in Central Province has dragged another farmer of the same area to the Lusaka High Court for allegedly accusing him of being a witch. Physical Muntanga, who has sued Humphrey Muntanga, claims that the latter accused him of being responsible for his illness and misfortune and…...
Parties like Rainbow should be deregistered for not participating in by-elections – UPND
UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka says if he had his way, political parties such as Wynter Kabimba’s Rainbow would be deregistered for failure to participate in electoral activities. Meanwhile, Katuka has lamented that Zambia is now subdivided into two parts; one for the PF and where laws are not applicable. Commenting on Kabimba’s remarks that…...
In 2021, elect all candidates from one party, even if you choose opposition – Lungu
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says if Zambians decide to vote for the opposition in 2021, they must elect members of parliament, council chairpersons and councillors from the same political party, a situation he says makes it easy for the sitting President to deliver development. And President Lungu has told the PF mobilisation committee that it has…...