Inflation slows to 15.5%
THE annual rate of inflation has marginally decreased to 15.5 per cent in August, down from 15.8 per cent recorded in July, mainly induced by price decreases in food items, according to the Zambia Statistics Agency (ZSA). Announcing Zambia’s annual rate of inflation for the month of August, ZSA Interim Statistician General Mulenga Musepa said…...
ARC Tours sues Kaizer over outstanding K132,665 in unpaid air tickets
ARC Save Travel Tours and Car Hire Limited has sued President Edgar Lungu’s former special assistant for political affairs Kaizar Zulu seeking payment of over K132,000 owed to it in outstanding air tickets. ARC Save Travel Tours and Car Hire is claiming K132,665 being monies owed for air tickets as well as damages for loss…...
Removing Lungu the only way to save economy – HH
UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says removing President Edgar Lungu is the only way to revive Zambia’s economy because he has been a disaster. And Hichilema says Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya’s acquittal is a sign that the PF has continued mocking and intimidating the judiciary and law enforcement agencies. Commenting on President Lungu’s remarks that…...
Support Bill 10, Lungu pleads with chiefs
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has asked traditional leaders to support Bill 10 because it will give the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) powers to demarcate boundaries and create more constituencies. And President Lungu says traditional leaders should sensitise their subjects to desist from involving in mealie meal and maize smuggling because doing so is depriving the…...
Chilufya will sue ACC for K10m if they harass him again – Lawyer
HEALTH Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya’s lawyer Tutwa Ngulube says his client has the right to sue the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for not less than K10 million, for damaging his reputation. And Ngulube has demanded that the commission lifts the suspension imposed on its investigating officer Chipampe Manda who told the court when he appeared as…...
HH confronts Nawakwi on radio after being called a thief
UPND president Hakainde Hichilema yesterday took on Edith Nawakwi on radio and confronted her for lying after the FDD leader called him a thief. Featuring on Hot FM’s Hot Seat programme, Thursday, Nawakwi said Hichilema was a rich man who lacks wisdom and is self-conceited, with no respect for anyone. But Hichilema took exception to…...
PF reminds Mboweni how the Rand depreciated after he was appointed Governor
PATRIOTIC Front (PF) media director Sunday Chanda says South Africa’s Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni must shut up and stop poking his nose in Zambia’s internal affairs of because he also caused the Rand to fall when he was Governor. But Mboweni says there is no relationship between his concern about the independence of the…...
Kambwili’s lawyers ask court to cancel Simusamba’s warrant of arrest
NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili’s lawyers have asked the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court to cancel the warrant of arrest issued against the accused person on Tuesday for missing court in a case he is charged with forgery. This is according to a notice of motion to cancel warrant of arrest filed by Kambwili’s lawyers from Messrs Mwenye…...
News Diggers! ePaper Edition 763 Friday August 28, 2020
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If there is anyone who deserved to be fired, it’s the IDC board chairman
WHEN we hear politicians claim that they are working tirelessly to return the country back on a path of economic recovery, we feel they are ignoring the most fundamental cause of the downturn. To us, almost all the problems that are facing SMEs cannot be traced to the high cost of electricity. Zesco needs to…...