Hope for Human Rights Executive Director Smart Chanda has encouraged Zambians to know and understand their rights. Mr. Chanda notes that the challenge in Zambia is that very few people take their time to research on human rights and that all they know is that they are entitled to their rights without understanding their right in depth. Mr. Chanda adds ...

Chiefs and Traditional Affairs Minister Joseph Katema has praised traditional leaders for their efforts in combating child marriages. Dr. Katema says traditional leaders have shown total commitment in supplementing government’s efforts in ensuring that child marriages are stopped. He states that many are the times when traditional leaders have stood up to protect the girl child from being married off ...

Government has been advised to reduce the number of missions abroad as part of rationalizing expenditure in the revised 2015 national budget. Chairperson on the Expanded Parliamentary Committee on Estimates, Highvie Hamududu has observed that the world is changing and Zambia should follow suit with how big economies are downsizing on foreign missions. Mr. Hamududu does not think Zambia needs ...

Opposition Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) President Charles Milupi says maneuvers to defer the 2016 general election to 2022 are a complete waste of the Judiciary’s time. Mr. Milupi adds that such maneuvers amount to abuse of the judicial process because they are totally unattainable. He has told Qfm News by telephone that this is because the country’s constitution ...

Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Chama says Rainbow party president Wynter Kabimba should check himself first before accusing the ruling party of habouring corrupt elements. Mr Chama has told QFM News that Mr Kabimba’s formation of a political party is aimed at protecting himself from some hidden agenda. He says it is Mr Kabimba who has been flashing out monies ...