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Konkola Copper Mines has spent over 160 Million United States dollars in Cooperate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the last 10 years. KCM Community Relations Manager, Brian Siatubi says the mining giant has spent the funds in various sectors which include health and education. Speaking to journalists after the tour of Ndeleni Early Childhood Care Education and Development Centre in Chingola’s ...

People’s Redemption Party (PRP) President Gerry Sikazwe has urged political parties to always use the right channels to complain whenever aggrieved. Mr. Sikazwe says resorting to violence when aggrieved does not resolve anything, but simply worsens the situation. He says it is expected that violence should be a thing of the past because it simply gives the country a bad ...

Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) President Charles Milupi says it is unfortunate that the Public Order Act is still in use in Zambia 51 years after independence. Mr. Milupi says he does not understand why the Country should continue using a piece legislation enacted in the colonial days. He says this is especially now when the Country has a ...

The opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) has distanced itself from the assertion by PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya that a named political party has resolved to cause confusion at state functions to create an impression that the country has become ungovernable. UPND Deputy Secretary General Captain Walusiku Lyambela says it is the ruling party themselves who are causing ...

Defence Minister Richwell Siamunene has warned Zambians against changing government in the August 11th general elections. Mr. Siamunene says if any other political party other than the ruling PF is given a chance to run the country, it will be job on training. He says governing a country is not like running a personal company. Mr. Siamunene who is also ...

The Ministry of Home Affairs has warned people against buying maize in bulk and stockpiling it with the view of export it illegally. Ministry Spokesperson Moses Suwali says do so is an offence and tantamount to economic sabotage. Mr. Suwali says security wings have since been placed on alert countrywide to ensure no one exports maize illegally. He says the ...

Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda has reaffirmed government’s commitment to addressing the current hardships the people of Zambia are going through as a result of global turbulences. Mr. Chikwanda says the people ought to know that the current hardships are temporal and will be a thing of the past soon. He adds that government has also responded positively to the challenges ...

The Lusaka province Women’s Fellowship of the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) has recommended that the Grade 12 Certificate requirement for people seeking elective political office be reviewed for local government and Parliamentary candidates. In a communiqué issued following a women’s symposium on building capacity of women to participate in governance held on Monday in Lusaka, the women expressed ...

The United Party for National Development says it is too late for President Edgar Lungu to start going round the country to woo voters on pretext of inspecting various developmental projects. UPND Chairman for Rural Reconstruction and Development Moono Mapani says President Lungu missed the opportunity given to him by Zambians. He says President Lungu will regret not taking advantage ...

The European Union Delegation and the Heads of Mission of EU Member States are deeply concerned by the recent incidents of politically motivated violence in Zambia. They note that the absence of violence is required to guarantee the Zambian people their democratic rights to free, fair and peaceful elections. In a statement issued today, they state that preventing such incidents ...