Veteran Broadcaster and Former Zambia’s Deputy Ambassador to the United States of America Ben Kangwa has been put to rest. Mr. Kangwa ,63, joined ZNBC in the 70s where he worked for many years and rose to the rank of director of programmes. Mr. Kangwa had full electronic and print media career, having worked in both radio and television at ...

Turkey has vowed to reveal all details about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after Saudi Arabia admitted for the first time he had been killed in its consulate in Istanbul. “Turkey will never allow a cover-up,” a ruling party spokesperson said. Saudi Arabia suggested on Friday Mr Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi critic, had died in a “fist fight”. Turkish ...

Born Short Living Tall (BSLT), has embarked on a three year campaign dubbed seventeen eighteen (17-18) aimed at raising awareness on the rights of people who are differently abled which is scheduled to start in April 2019. This campaign will endeavor to empower the underprivileged with knowledge and skills to help them start their own businesses so that they can ...

Governance activist Leslie Chikuse has insisted that the ruling Patriotic Front lied its way into power and added that such a conduct by the Pf is dangerous for the country’s democracy. Mr. Chikuse has reminded the PF leadership that the movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) lost the 2011 elections because the ruling patriotic front gave Zambians enormous promises. He has ...

Law enforcement agencies have been urged to enforce the electoral code of conduct to the latter during ongoing campaigns for the Mangango parliamentary by-election. Anti-Voter Apathy Project (AVAP) Executive Director Richwell Mulwani says his organization will monitor how the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) will enforce this code. Mr. Mulwani says AVAP expects the ECZ to disqualify any candidate or political ...

Some University of Zambia students have distanced themselves from reports attributed the Zambia National Students Union (ZANASU) alleging that the students are opposed to the newly introduced guilds style of leadership at the institution. Speaking at a media briefing students representative Jonathan Phiri says Unza students does not have a union in place, they are not affiliated to ZANASU hence ...

The Southern African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has encouraged Zambians regardless of political affiliation to take part in the independence day commemorations which will be held next week. SACCORD Executive Director Boniface Chembe has noted with concern that there is a political culture that has developed where some stakeholders are shunning national events. Mr. Chembe told ...

Former Transport and Communication Minister William Harrington has appealed to President Edgar Lungu to consider shifting the Day of National Prayer, Fasting, Reconciliation and Repentance to the last Sunday of the month of October. Speaking in a walk in interview with QTV News, Mr Harrington says the move will allow for the separation of the state from the national day ...

  The opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) have threatened to petition the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to disqualify patriotic front (PF) aspirant Godwin Putu in the Mangango parliamentary by-election on account that he does not qualify. The Mangango seat left vacant following the death, in a road traffic accident, of then UPND Member of Parliament Naluwa Mweene. ...

The United National Independence Party (UNIP) has urged the ruling Patriotic Front and the opposition UPND to reconcile for the sake of the country. UNIP Deputy Secretary General Reverend Alfred Banda says the political tension the two political parties are creating is unnecessary. Reverend Banda has told QTV that Zambians expect that the two parties would have by now ironed ...