“We Will make the law on your behalf”, President Edgar Lungu vowed at one of his national address last year and alerting those opposed to Bill 10. But the preamble of our current Constitution opens thus: WE, THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA…and ends with…DO HEREBY SOLEMNLY ADOPT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION”. It does not […]
By Samuel Ngwira In his press statement UPND National Youth and Publicist Secretary Mr Ngwira has highlighted why the ritual killings are not being attended firmly: The ritual killings that are taking place in Chingola and some parts of the Copperbelt are part of the systems failure under the PF government. These failures are now […]
By Elias Munshya With their mouths dripping with honey laced with Doom, backbenchers of the Patriotic Front government made media runs deceiving the people of Zambia. Mainly, Honourable Sebastian Kopulande, of Chembe and Milenge, was on record making it sound as if he and his colleagues had somehow amended Zambia’s infamous Bill 10. But as […]
By Linda Kasonde I grew up in Zambia in the 1980s and 1990s. I am old enough to remember some of what it was like to live under authoritarian one-party rule in Zambia. I remember that people felt afraid of speaking openly and frankly over the phone. I remember stories of people dying under mysterious circumstances. […]
By Juliette Garside, David Pegg and Hilary Osborne Leaks show how Isabel dos Santos became Africa’s richest woman at expense of Angolan state Isabel dos Santos and her husband, the art collector Sindika Dokolo. The complex financial schemes that helped Africa’s richest woman amass […]
By a Concerned Citizen over Mediocrity It is with deep regret that we have to finally release all the brakes and hold back we had on Tutwa Ngulube. State Counsel Sangwa what happened, how did that chap manage to even get a law degree? The dullness of Tutwa Ngulube supersedes that of Bowman Lusambo. While […]
Venue: Hotel Intercontinental Date: 17th January 2020 Bill 10 is flawed and evil Bill 10 will take away power from people and give more power to PF and ECL Bill 10 has not been changed. Nakacinda’s report is not binding nor is it law. It is just a proposal. The select committee has no powers […]
Chief looter and campaign manager for the PF Chilubi constituency by-election Chitalu Chilufya is literally dripping money to seduce, buy and lure the electorate to vote for PF because PF has lost grip of the grassroots. In other words, he is there to bribe the electorate. Chilufya who is currently oscillating between Samfya and Mansa […]
Public finances head south while the Patriotic Front clamps down on dissent ahead of next year’s election. The ruling Patriotic Front’s continued state of denial about the country’s dire debt situation sees the year begin with loan defaults, dwindling state revenues, disintegrating public services and unpaid civil service salaries. The government’s failure to make a […]
By Sishuwa Sishuwa In contrast to the shortage of authentic, consistent heroes in public life, Zambia had a huge surplus of disappointing individuals and institutions in 2019, as the competition for uninspiring conduct grew even fiercer. Indeed, such is the surplus that if we are really serious about diversifying and resuscitating Zambia’s ailing economy, we […]
