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 ...

Rwanda has reopened its border with DR Congo, where an Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,800 people in the past year. The border was closed for several hours after the confirmation of a third case of Ebola in the Congolese city of Goma, where two people have already died. At least 2,700 people have been infected in the worst ...

The Christian Churches Monitoring Group says the failure by the Electoral Commission of Zambia to accredit its members and other non-partisan electoral stakeholders to observe the recent Katuba parliamentary by-election has the potential to reduce public confidence in the electoral process. Giving a post election statement on the Katuba by-election at a media briefing, CCMG Steering Committee Chairperson, Cleophas Lungu ...

Chief Justice Ireen Mambilima has noted an increase in the number of people reporting their problems to the courts of law. Justice Mambilima says the small claims court has proved to be a huge success for recovery of small debts as people now know and trust that the courts will give them redress. Speaking during the launch of the High ...