One of Gene Wilder’s best-loved performances was as Willy Wonka in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The child stars who played Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt and Violet Beauregarde have been paying their tributes to the actor, who has died aged 83. Michael Bollner, Augustus Gloop Michael Bollner now works as a tax lawyer in Munich I ...

Ireland should recover up to €13bn (£11bn) from Apple in back taxes, the European Commission has ruled. After a three-year investigation, it has concluded that the US firm’s Irish tax benefits are illegal. The Commission said Ireland enabled the company to pay substantially less than other businesses, in effect paying a corporate tax rate of no more than 1%. Ireland ...

Ghana vice-captain Andrew Ayew has offered to pay the travel costs for seven Black Stars so they can play in Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations tie. Ayew stepped in after Ghana’s Ministry of Youth and Sport said it will not pay for the travel of foreign-based players for the match against Rwanda in Accra. The Ministry has asked the Ghana ...

The three University of Zambia Unions have resolved to stage a go slow if August salaries are not paid by tomorrow, Wednesday 31st August. The three unions are the University of Zambia Lecturers’ and Researchers Union, University of Zambia Professional Staff Union and the University of Zambia and Allied Workers Union. They have further resolved that all staff will not ...

The Constitutional Court has reserved ruling on an application by UPND lawyers for the court to be in custody of the ballot papers and other election material to tomorrow afternoon. The election materials are currently in the custody of the Electoral Commission of Zambia. And UPND lawyers in the presidential petition have today served petition documents to lawyers representing President ...

The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has with immediate effect lifted the ban on the broadcasting license for Itezhi Tezhi Community Radio Station. IBA board Chairman Justin Mutale has told a media briefing that the IBA board and Itezhi Tezhi Community Radio Station management met this morning and resolved to lift the ban on the station’s broadcast license, through its Special ...

State House has dismissed as incorrect the assumption that the presidential election petition before the Constitutional Court has created a power vacuum in the country. Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda says there has never been a situation where a power vacuum has ever been created by the outcome of a general election. Mr. ...

The Constitutional Court has set Friday,2nd September as the date for commencement of the main hearing of the petition filed in by the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) challenging the re-election of President Edgar Lungu. And the court will this afternoon hear an application by the petitioners in which they are seeking to have President Lungu relinquish executive ...

The Independent Churches of Zambia (ICOZ) has called on political party leaders to stop dividing the nation and embrace dialogue. ICOZ board Chairperson Bishop David Masupa has told QFM News that it is good that politicians have admitted that they are the ones dividing the country. He says time has come for political leaders to stop calling each other names ...

The opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) has observed that mealie meal prices are likely to go up considering that most of the maize has been bought by private buyers in the ongoing marketing season. UPND Chairman for Rural Reconstruction and Development Moono Mapani notes that government through the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has not bought enough maize stocks ...