Board Meetings are Sacred
Last year, I was 30 seconds late for a scheduled board meeting at one of the local organisations. The Chairman greeted me warmly and as I took my seat, he expressed his displeasure about keeping everyone waiting, ‘Director Kanyama, we value your busy schedule though you kept us waiting. The meeting was scheduled to start […]
Allow parents with financial difficulties to pay fees in instalments, Wanchinga urges schools
GENERAL Education Minister Dennis Wanchinga says non-examination classes will reopen on September 21, 2020 to give parents enough time to prepare while examination classes will begin lessons next Monday. And Dr Wanchinga, who is also acting Higher Education Minister, says universities and colleges will reopen on September 28, 2020. Meanwhile, the minister has appealed to…...
Zambia records first maternal COVID-19 death
HEALTH Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya says the Zambia has recorded its first maternal mortality in the COVID-19 outbreak after a mother, who had presented with severe pneumonia, died, leaving behind a six-day-old baby. And Dr Chilufya says 109 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours out of 1,133 tests conducted. He […]
Lungu predicts economic rebound in 2021
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has directed the re-opening of all schools, universities, bars and nightclubs following their indefinite closure in March, 2020, due to COVID-19. And President Lungu has predicted that Zambia’s economy will bounce back next year in view of an anticipated response to contain the Coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, President Lungu says the 2021 election…...
FDD members plot to expel Nawakwi over privatisation stance
Divisions have emerged in the FDD, as some officials are calling for the expulsion of president Edith Nawakwi on grounds that she is using the name of the party to advance a personal agenda, in relation to her stance against a fellow opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema of the UPND. Meanwhile, the FDD Central Province Chairman…...
Court rejects Mwiimbu’s application to renew judicial review petition against Matibini over Bill 10
THE Court of Appeal has refused to grant Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Jack Mwiimbu leave to commence judicial review proceedings against Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini’s decision to allow continued consideration of Bill 10 in Parliament despite it lapsing. In the ruling delivered by Court of Appeal Judge Justin Chashi…...
ECZ postpones commencement of mobile voter registration to Oct 28
THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has moved the dates for the mobile voter registration exercise which was scheduled to be conducted between October 19 and November 20, 2020, to between October 28 and November 30. And the ECZ says already registered voters will be retained in the new register on condition that they present…...
NGOs ask ConCourt to compel govt to include marginalized groups in governance
THREE women NGOs have petitioned the Constitutional Court of Zambia seeking the Court’s intervention in redressing discrimination of marginalized women and youths from participating in the democratic governance of the country. In a joint statement which was read by NGOCC Legal Advisor Daisy Ng’ambi, NGOCC, Chapter One Foundation, and the Young Women in Action charged…...
ACC must act on Nawakwi’s allegations against HH – Mumbi
PATRIOTIC Front deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri has wondered why the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has not acted on former finance minister Edith Nawakwi’s allegations on UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema’s role in the sale of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). And Nawakwi says Zambia will completely be transformed in terms of development if the ruling party is given…...
Supply of toxic drugs by HoneyBee heartbreaking – HH
UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says it is heartbreaking to learn that HoneyBee Pharmacy has supplied toxic drugs after being illegally awarded a US$17 million supply tender by the Ministry of Health. And ADD president Charles Milupi says it is senseless for Honeybee Zambia to say the drugs which it supplied to government were procured from…...