The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has thwarted a scam in which 67 illegal immigrants were being smuggled in Zambia using a Tanzanian registered cargo transport truck. The incident happened last evening around 18:00hrs during the Authority’s field test trial for its new scanner that will be commissioned on Monday tomorrow at its Enforcement center along the Great North Road in ...

The Private Sector Development Association (PSDA) has commended President Michael Sata for encouraging local enterprises to list on the Stock Exchange. In his speech to open the 4th meeting of the 11th session of Parliament on Friday last week, President Sata directed Secretary to the Cabinet Roland Msiska to operationalise the industrial development corporation and ensure that state-owned enterprises list ...

Minister of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Mwansa Kapeya, says government is working with traditional rulers to ensure Zambians access land with title so they develop it. And Mr. Kapeya says accessing land without title has contributed to the much confusion that has been happening in the recent past concerning who owns a particular land. He notes that land ...

Ministry of Foreign Affairs permanent Secretary George Zulu has expressed confidence that with its newly approved foreign policy, Zambia will sustain a good relationship with other countries. Mr. Zulu says with this new foreign policy which he says has eluded the country for about 16 year now Zambia will also sustain its peace. He says this is especially that in ...

The Southern African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has observed that President Michael Sata’s Friday speech to Parliament has not responded to the immediate and long term needs of the people of Zambia. Executive Director Boniface Cheembe says the Zambian people have been very consistent with regards the issues they think need to be addressed with urgency. ...

Senior Chief Nsokolo of Mbala District in Northern Province is disappointed that most of the more than 2,000 farmers in his chiefdom have not yet been paid for the crops supplied to the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) in the area. Chief Nsokolo says the non-payment for the produce has left many farmers desperate with the oncoming planting season as they ...

The Grand Coalition on the Demand for the People Driven Constitution says people in the country should not feel betrayed that they have not been availed with the details of the recent meeting it had on the constitution with the Justice Minister Edgar Lungu. Coalition chairperson Leonard Chiti says this is because the meeting was only exploratory talks. Father Chiti ...

Minister of Community Development, Mother and Child Health, Emerine Kabanshi says the country through the leadership of President Michael Sata has continued to record impressive macroeconomic stability and growth over the last three years. Ms. Kabanshi says this is because of the many policies that government has put in place especially those aimed at addressing the plight of the poor ...

Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President George Mpombo says President Michael Sata’s cracking voice and inability to complete his last Friday’s speech to Parliament does not justify calls that the President should take a rest from work. Dr. Mpombo says he personally does not think the health of an individual should be judged on his voice as it is a ...

The Zambia National Women Lobby (ZNWL) has urged the new women Members of Parliament to ensure that they represent the women in the country. ZNWL Board Chairperson Beauty Katebe says the women in the country have confidence that their fellow female will be their voices in parliament and speak out on many issues affecting the women in the country. She ...