Being alert from the start and avoiding giving away early points will be top of the agenda as South African’s Lions prepare to face the Crusaders in Saturday’s Super Rugby final in Christchurch. The Lions have been forced onto the back foot after going behind early in their last three games, seemingly slumbering their way through the opening exchanges before ...

Rap superstar Cardi B has found out the hard way how tough it is trying to carry on with your career soon after having a baby. She was due to join Bruno Mars on the road less than two months after giving birth to daughter Kulture Kiari. But after some soul-searching, she decided to pull out, saying: “I’m not ready ...

California’s deadliest current wildfire is getting larger, officials warn, despite thousands of firefighters battling it. “Erratic winds” and dry conditions have caused the Carr fire to grow early on Sunday, firefighters said. It is one of eight major wildfires currently burning in the state. The fire, in the Shasta County in northern California, has killed six people so far, including ...

Voters in Zimbabwe are going to the polls in the country’s first election without the involvement of long-time leader Robert Mugabe. The country’s founding president, Mr Mugabe was ousted in a coup last year after almost four decades in power. The main contenders in the presidential vote are incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa, of the ruling Zanu-PF party, and opposition leader Nelson ...

The Movement for National Transformation (MNT) has accused government of mismanaging the 2011 the Euro Bonds, and other domestic Debt it contracted. Party leader Daniel Shimunza says this can be evidenced by the high poverty levels both in the country’s urban and rural communities. He laments that fiscal discipline is lacking in the way government is managing the economy through ...

The Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) has challenged President Edgar Lungu to step down and call for early elections, for what he has described as failure to run the country’s economy. Party leader Sean Tembo tells Q News that such a gesture would give an opportunity to those who are bubbling with ideas of how to turnaround the economic fortunes ...

Civil rights activist Brebner Changala has called for an urgent money trail audit of the financial status of the ruling PF. Mr. Changala is concerned that the ruling party seems to have in excess money than any other political party that has stayed in power in Zambia. In an interview with QTV News Changala has wondered where the ruling PF ...

MMD president Nevers Mumba says Zambia’s future depends on collective ability to confront and correct corrupted systems. Dr.  Mumba says this means that it is currently unwise for any opposition political party to rush in taking part in elections. He has told QTV News that this is the reason why his party the MMD believes that dialogue on the electoral ...

The Zambian Government has called on China to help expedite the completion of works on the web press at the Government Printers Works and Supply Minister, Felix Mutati, says the equipment that was procured from China for Government Printers has never been operational. Speaking when Chinese ambassador to Zambia Li Jie called on him, Mr. Mutati disclosed that this is ...

The Small Scale Farmers Development Agency (SAFADA) says the K5 upward adjustment in the government maize purchasing price is still a mockery. SAFADA Executive Director Boyd Moobwe says small scale farmers find the adjustment to be a joke. Mr. Moobwe says this is considering the cost of maize production in Zambia. He notes that farmers are spending more in labor ...