The Bemba Royal Establishment (BRE) has demanded an explanation from government as to why the farming inputs for the 2015/2016 farming season under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) have reduced. BRE Spokesperson, Washanga Impika Shalubemba has told QFM News via telephone that the reduction may affect production for this farming season. Washanga says the government through the Ministry of ...

Government has been challenged to tell the Zambian people exactly what its fears are in passing the Access to Information Bill (AIB) into law. The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia is wondering what the PF government is hiding from the Zambian people to delay the passage of the Bill it promised to enact while in opposition. MISA president ...

Rainbow Party Leader Wynter Kabimba says Zambians are losing jobs because of the capitalist policies of the ruling Patriotic Front. Mr Kabimba says the challenges the country is facing require a socialist system of governance which his party is advocating for. He states that capitalism has not worked for Zambia and thus the need to try socialism which he says ...

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema says it is an insult for President Edgar Lungu to tell retrenched miners to venture into farming. Mr. Hichilema has wondered how the former miners would go into agriculture when they have no knowledge about farming. He says this only shows that the PF government does not care about the welfare of the miners. Mr Hichilema ...