Zambia will face Malawi in an international friendly next month. The Football Association of Zambia disclosed on Wednesday that the two sides will meet in Lusaka on May 10. FAZ spokesperson Nkweto Tembwe said both teams will field home-based players in that friendly that will be used as build up for both sides’ participation in next month’s 2015 Cosafa Castle ...

President Edgar Lungu has disclosed that regional leaders are working quietly to address the issue of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. President Lungu says the issue of xenophobic attacks in South Africa will also be an issue that will be discussed further by SADC leaders when they convene in Zimbabwe under the leadership of President Robert Mugabe next week. He ...

Patriotic Front youths in Eastern province have urged party Secretary General Davies Chama to discipline members who are undermining his authority. PF provincial youth Chairman Makabaninso Maimisa says it is shocking that some party members in the province are being sponsored by unknown people to undermine the leadership of the party’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Maimisa says the party in ...

The Zambia Consumers Association (ZACA) says it is government’s responsibility to protect consumers from greedy merchants who take advantage of the market and exploit consumers through abnormally high food prices. ZACA Executive Secretary Samuel Simutunda says for a long time, the people of Zambia have continued to be exploited by some business people who want to make huge profits at ...

The Bankers Association of Zambia (BAZ) is happy that government has finally settle the impasse with the mining sector by approving changes to the mineral royalty tax which have seen mineral tax pegged at 9 percent for both underground and open cast mining. BAZ Chief Executive Officer Leonard Mwanza says the banking sector was badly affected by the impasse between ...

The Patriotic Front Government has been advised to stop governing the country by decree. Former Communication and Transport Minister William Harrington is concerned that governance by decree under the PF government is now reaching extremes where Deputy Ministers’ verbal pronouncements are allegedly becoming law. Mr. Harrington has referred to the recent ban on the use of light trucks to transport ...