GREEN Party president Peter Sinkamba says the Electoral Commission of Zambia’s (ECZ) online voter registration process has potential to cause civil war because around 70 per cent of the country's population lack access to technology. And Sinkamba says the ECZ can hire experts from the Zambia Statistics Agency (ZSA) to clean up the existing voter...

LUAPULA Hydropower Corporation Limited and its two directors, Brian Chisala and Katambi Bulawayo, have pleaded not guilty to the charge of failure to surrender water permits before the Lusaka Magistrates' Court. This is a matter in which Luapula Hydropower Corporation Limited, Chisala and Bulawayo are charged with one count of failure to surrender water permits...

THE Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has urged schools to desist from imposing the purchase of identical face masks on parents as it is against the CCPC Act. In a statement, Monday, CCPC senior public relations officer Namukolo Kasumpa stated that such practices eroded consumer welfare as they limited consumers’ choices. “The CCPC would...

LUSAKA Principal Resident Magistrate David Simusamba yesterday closed a case in which NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili is charged with forgery, uttering a false document and giving false information to a public officer and set October 12, this year, as date of judgement. This was after Kambwili's lawyers failed to show up as they were before...

NEWLY-elected Mwansabombwe PF member of parliament Kampampi Kabaso says it is time for healing in the constituency to get rid of wrangles that engulfed the area over the past nine years. In an interview, Kabaso said following his triumph in last Thursday’s polls, it was now time to work, adding that he owed the victory...

DEMOCRATIC Party president Harry Kalaba says the tribal politics and vote buying being practiced by the ruling PF will not save them in 2021. In an interview Kalaba, said PF had run out of ideas and had resorted to using tribalism as a strategy going into the 2021 general elections. "The PF relies on tribal...

THE Court of Appeal has upheld the ruling of the Lusaka High Court which quashed the decision by the Registrar of Societies to deregister Harry Kalaba's Democratic Party (DP). The State had appealed against this decision on two grounds, but the Court of Appeal threw out the appeal, further advising that the public authority must...

COURT of Appeal judge Mubanga Kondolo has vacated the injunction which restrained Zambia Airforce Projects Limited, Kingsland City Investment Limited, among others, from continuing works at Kingsland City. On February 17, this year, judge Kondolo granted Chalimbana Headwaters Conservation Trust Limited and nine traditional leaders of the Soli people an injunction restraining the continued works...

UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka says the party refused to have leader Hakainde Hichilema on ZNBC's Sunday Interview programme because the national broadcaster wanted him to feature as chairperson for the privatization committee and not UPND president. Katuka had written to ZNBC on September 10, 2020, requesting that the party be given an opportunity to...

UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka says the party has no plans of replacing president Hakainde Hichilema, despite its past defeat to the Patriotic Front and the poor performance in recently held by-elections. In an interview Katuka said the party was shocked to hear about social media reports suggesting that that he and party chairperson Mutale...