Africa Confidential reports China is poised to take over strategic government institutions such as ZESCO after reports of the country’s failure to repay loans. China already owns 60% of ZNBC, take a look:
In this video, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) explains why it suspended negotiations of an economic bailout package for Zambia. Speaking during a press briefing from the Fund’s head office in Washington D.C. on July 12, IMF communications director Gerry Rice disclosed that the Fund had suspended discussions because the Zambian government’s borrowing plans had...
Controversial Zambian hip hop recording satirist Fumba Chama, known professionally as Pilato, has dropped another hit cover production depicting Zambia's social political state of affairs and plummeting democracy, just two months after returning from exile. In May 2015, Pilato faced arrest after releasing "aLungu Anabwela" a cover of Nashil Pitchen Kazembe's aPhiri Anabwela, as the...
A video footage has gone viral on social media in which a dizzied up Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe is filmed addressing some PF supporters. The unstable-looking Lusaka Central member of parliament is heard campaigning for PF Mayoral candidate Miles Sampa, but not in her usual eloquent manner, but rather in a drunken stupor-style of articulation....
In this video, a fierce inferno sweeps through a house belonging to substantive Zambia Police Spokesperson Charity Munganga Chanda in Lusaka's Chamba Valley area. Witnesses say the cause of the fire remains unknown, but that it started from one of the rooms yesterday evening and the fire brigade did not arrive on the scene early...
A private investigation has revealed how a Chinese owned company called Simuliya has been manufacturing counterfeit mineral water for various bottling companies, among them Aquasavana and Aquarite. And some dirty police officers are trying to cover up the crime by convincing the affected company owners that if the scam was exposed, it would destroy the...
In this video, President Edgar Lungu's spokesperson Amos Chanda explains that even with the support of PF rebel members of parliament Chishimba Kambwili and Harry Kalaba, the UPND cannot succeed to impeach the Head of State. He adds that the opposition UPND is relying on the Freemason spirits to succeed with the impeachment motion. Take...
In this video, Central Province Minister Sydney Mushanga orders soldiers to "act" on irate traders who raised the UPND symbol in protest of government's move to chase them from the streets. Chaos rocked Kabwe, Thursday morning, after a combined team of police and defence wings swiftly moved into the central business district to get rid...
