CUTS Zambia Center Coordinator Chenai Mukumba The Consumer Unity Trust Society (CUTS) has opposed the Constitution of Zambia Amendment Bill No. 10 of 2019 on Public Financial Management and Debt Management. Centre Coordinator Chennai Mukumba has regretted that the proposed constitution amendment bill will take away the provision that empowers Parliament to approve debt, contradicting the will of the people. ...

Finance Minister Bwalya Ng’andu says Sales Tax will now be implemented in January 2020. The implementation of the Sales Tax was initially set for July 2019 before it was deferred to September 2019. Dr. Ng’andu this afternoon moved a motion in parliament to withdraw the Sales Tax Bill before the house adjourned sine die. Addressing the house through the Speaker, ...

Libya plans to shut down three of its biggest migration detention centres, the country’s Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has announced. The centres in question are in Misrata, Tajoura and Khoms. Organisations that monitor the situation in Libya fear these closures may lead to even more overcrowding in the remaining centres. They also fear the possibility of many more migrants being ...

Simon Zukas Freedom Fighter Simon Zukas has expressed concern over the continued tendency by political cadres to terrorize citizens thereby creating a culture of fear to speak out on pertinent national issues affecting the nation. Mr Zukas has noted that most of the cadres engaging in such vices are those from the ruling party. Speaking when he addressed a Media ...

Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has assured the nation that government through his ministry is strengthening strategies and programmes aimed at preventing the outbreaks of measles and Ebola that has broken in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. In a ministerial statement on the measures being put in place to prevent Ebola or measles outbreaks,Dr Chilufya says people entering Zambia from ...

Vice President Inonge Wina says attacks on Journalists are not only acts of cowardice but are also barbaric and should not be tolerated. Responding to a question during the vice president’s question time by Kanchibiya Member of Parliament Dr. Martin Malama, who wanted to know what government is doing to ensure the protection of journalists during course of their duty, ...

MAZABUKA Member of Parliament Garry Nkombo has escaped jail after being found in breach of Parliamentary privileges after he tabled a falsified document purported to be a ZESCO Internal memorandum in which the ZESCO director of Finance allegedly wrote to the Managing Director informing him that he had paid K3 million of the K10 million he was directed to pay ...

The National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) has condemned the continued incidences of examination leakages in the country. NAQEZ executive director Aaron Chansa says the arrest of 10 people who were found with leaked exam papers in Matero marked a dark day for education in Zambia. Mr. Chansa is calling on investigative wings to establish where the culprits ...

The Zambia National Education Coalition has commended Higher Education Minister Brian Mushimba for announcing the reopening of the Copperbelt University on 19th August, 2019. ZANEC Executive Director George Hamusunga says the reopening of CBU should be seen as the first step in addressing the many problems facing higher learning institutions in the country. Mr. Hamusunga says the problems that are ...

Transparency International Zambia has challenged the Anti-Corruption Commission to reopen the closed case against a named Ministry of Finance official who allegedly owned 48 housing units recently forfeited to the State. ACC acting Director General Rosemary Khuzwayo recently disclosed that the commission had closed the case for lack of evidence linking ministry of finance official to the said properties. But ...