ZAMBIA Civic Education Association (ZCEA) Executive Director Judith Mulenga has attributed the high number of children who are in school to weak compulsory laws on education. Ms. Mulenga has told QFM News that the country needs to come up with punitive laws which will deal with parents or guardians who fail to enroll children who have attained the school enrollment ...

Rainbow party Spokesperson Goodson Banda says the ruling Patriotic Front can only underrate his party their own peril. Mr. Banda says the Rainbow party is getting stronger everyday and that come 2016, the PF will be in for a rude shock. Mr. Banda has wondered where Patriotic Front is getting the impression that the Rainbow party under its leader Wynter ...

Vice President Inonge Win says her statement in Parliament last week on opposition political party meetings on the Copperbelt has been taken out of context. During the Vice President’s question time this morning, Ms. Wina says at no point did she insinuate that all political meetings on the Copperbelt had been banned. She says what she said was that at ...

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said European countries must “wake up” to terror threats, following the attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead. He spoke after it emerged that the suspected Belgian ringleader of the attacks had entered France undetected. Belgian PM Charles Michel has defended Belgium’s security services amid claims the attacks were organised there. It comes ...

Nakambala Leopards coach Patrick Phiri is delighted his players delivered on their promise to survive demotion from the Faz Super League this season. Nakambala beat Konkola Blades 2-1 at home in Mazabuka on Wednesday, to swap places and see the latter demoted from the Super League. The win ensured Nakambala, who have failed to leave the bottom three of the ...

The Patriotic Front (PF) has urged the opposition UPND against importing their infamous and violent campaign formula known as the Mapatizya formula into places such as the Copperbelt Province. And the ruling party says UPND Leader Hakainde Hichilema must be the last person to play victim because he does not even have the morality to denounce the violence perpetrated in ...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) says the continued blocking of opposition leaders from meeting people on the Copperbelt is indirectly de-campaigning President Edgar Lungu. YALI Governance Advisor Isaac Mwanza says President Lungu has a very good Political Advisor in Kaizer Zulu who should be advising the Head of State correctly. He says the President needs to distance himself from ...

Green Party President Peter Sinkamba has called on the Patriotic Front Government to respect opposition political parties. And Mr. Sinkamba has called on his fellow opposition political leaders to embrace democracy as this is a pillar upon which peace and stability will be built. Mr. Sinkamba says there is a need to refocus on the role political parties are playing ...

The Professional Teachers Union of Zambia (PROTUZ) has attributed the continued engagement of teachers in leakage related activities to lust for money by some teachers. PROTUZ General Secretary Albert Muyembe has told QFM News that the union is deeply saddened that despite many attempts to stop teachers from engaging in such illegal activities they have continued to do so. Mr. ...

The opposition United Party for National Development has doubted the PF Government’s capacity to save jobs in the mining industry. And the opposition political party says it has been vindicated when it suggested that President Lungu’s trip to the Copperbelt was fruitless as seen from the continued job losses in the mining sector. UPND Spokesperson Edwin Lifwekelo says the laying ...