Party of National Unity (PNU) president Highvie Hamududu has noted the need to change the Constitution to allow the Republican President address Parliament more than twice a year. Mr. Hamududu wants Zambia to be in tandem with other democratic Countries where heads of states address Parliaments more than twice in a year. He has told QTV News the Republican Constitution ...

British High Commissioner to Zambia Fergus Cochrane-Dyet has hailed President Edgar Lungu for placing emphasis on the fight against corruption in his State of the Nation address to Parliament. Mr. Cochrane-Dyet says corruption remains one of the biggest challenges Zambia is currently facing. In an interview with QTV, Mr. Cochrane-Dyet says he is heartened that in his address to Parliament ...

President Edgar Lungu has called for perpetrators of political violence to be brought to book regardless of political affiliation. Delivering his State of the Nation address on the application of national values and principles in Parliament, President Lungu says political violence threatens national unity. He says no one is above the law, and that anyone who goes against the law ...

Zambia Center for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID) Trustee Katele Kalumba has advised the three church mother bodies namely Council of Churches of Zambia, Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia and the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops to withdraw their facilitation of the national dialogue. Dr Kalumba says the leaders of the three church mother bodies should realize that they are being unfair to ...

The Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) says the church remains best placed to lead the National Dialogue. ZCCB Secretary General Cleophas Lungu says the Church still inspires the confidence of all stakeholders to lead the National Dialogue. Father Lungu has disagreed with the suggestion that the church has been compromised by the resignation of Council of Churches in Zambia ...

The United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) says the delay by the Electoral Commission of Zambia to set the date for the Kafue Council Chairperson by-election is depriving political parties the 30 days traditional campaign period. UPPZ Spokesperson Francis Kope says the delay to announce the date is a clear assault on the country’s democratic process. Mr Kope says political ...

Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) President Sean Tembo has expressed concern that domestic arrears have risen to an all-time high of about K15 billion or approximately US$1.2 billion. Mr. Tembo who is also an economist says Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe has been contracting additional external debt without any regard to the country’s ability to repay these loans, and without Parliamentary approval as ...

Zambia Association of Manufacturers [ZAM] President Rosetta Chabala says the manufacturing sector is facing a huge uncertainty over the sales tax to be implemented on 1st April, 2019. Speaking at the Zambia Association of Manufacturers high level meeting in Lusaka, Mrs Chabala says the sector has no idea the impact the new tax policy will have once it comes into ...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism and Arts, Howard Sikwela has instructed the Zambia Tourism Agency to correct the misconception that the victoria falls is located in a named country other than Zambia and Zimbabwe. Reverend Sikwela says failure to which he will be forced to engage the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to address the issue. Speaking at a ...

Over 1.4 million males across the country have been circumcised from 2016 to date, Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has disclosed. Dr Chilufya says the circumcision of the 1.4 million males will prevent the contraction of over 340,000 new hiv infections by 2020. Speaking when he received a mobile ambulance from the government of Israel which has the Prepex Male Circumcision ...