Former Ministry of Youth and Sport Permanent Secretary, Teddy Mulonga has encouraged young people in the country to form cooperatives as a way of creating job opportunities for themselves. Mr. Mulonga says youths should rise to the occasion and create employment for themselves instead of depending on government. He notes that a lot of youths are losing out on skills ...

Hope for Human Rights says the decision by the Energy Regulation Board to authorize the increase in electricity tariffs by ZESCO by up to 200% is ill-timed considering that Zambians are going through a very difficult time. Public Affairs Officer Francis Brotherton says while his organisation understands the need to attract investors in the power sector, the increase in electricity ...

Villagers in Wachepa Village in Chief Kapatamoyo’s Chiefdom in Chipata district have appealed government to quickly come to their aid and build them houses as promised in 2011. The villagers have complained that ever since their houses were demolished by a combined team of Police officers and court bailiffs in October 2011 they have been living in makeshift tents on ...

The ruling Patriotic Front has accused the UPND of having devised a strategy to demonize the PF government and the Police by deliberately holding illegal public gatherings in order to attract the attention of the Police. PF Central Committee Chairperson for Information Frank Bwalya says the UPND is using this as a strategy ahead of 2016 in order to attract ...

A new political party called New Foundation Zambia (NFZ) has been formed with a pledge to reverse Zambia’s economic crisis once elected to power. Speaking at a media briefing to launch the party in Lusaka today, Interim president Frasier Malama has observed that Zambia is currently in reverse gear because successive governments have failed the people. Mr. Malama has cited ...

Three people from the same family have died in a road accident while seven others sustained injuries after a Toyota Regius registration number ALJ 7302 they were travelling in driven by Dickson Masangu 38 had a rear tire burst along the Serenje – Mansa road in Chitambo District. Central Province Deputy Police Commissioner Yobe Luhana has confirmed the development to ...

Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick says it is “disrespectful” to claim the club’s players are not trying their best for manager Louis van Gaal. United’s Boxing Day defeat at Stoke was their fourth in a row and extended their winless run to seven games. Van Gaal, who says he could quit, was at United’s training ground on Sunday. “It is ...

For the fourth year running, fantasy series Game of Thrones has topped a list of the most pirated TV shows. According to Torrentfreak, the season five finale was illegally downloaded 14.4m times. More than half of those came in the week after its US premiere. The Walking Dead and The Big Bang Theory rounded up the top three, with 6.6m ...

Japan and South Korea have agreed to settle the issue of “comfort women” forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War Two, in their first such deal since 1965. Japan has apologised and will pay 1bn yen ($8.3m, £5.6m) – the amount South Korea asked for – to fund victims. The issue has been the key cause for strained ...

President Edgar Lungu has been urged to ignore people holding him back from signing into law the recently passed constitution amendment bill. Zambian Voice Executive Director Chilufya Tayali says president Lungu should ignore the petition by Heritage Party President Brigadier General Godfrey Miyanda and assent to the constitution bill. He says Zambians have waited for the new constitution for too ...