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Patriotic Front Deputy Secretary General Mumbi Phiri says the ruling party is assured of victory in the August elections based on the infrastructure development it has delivered in the five years of being in power. Ms. Phiri says Zambians will vote for the PF because they have seen what the party has done during the time it has been in ...

The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) says preliminary investigations have revealed that the accident in which five Chirundu Council fire fighters died was caused by poor breaking system. RTSA Acting Senior Public Relations Manager Fredrick Mubanga in a statement says according to one of the survivor Stanley Kambole, the truck had lost brakes and caused the driver to fail ...

Government has resolved to sale 47 flats of the defunct Kafue Textiles of Zambia (KTZ) to the former worker at K4, 000 and K17, 000. Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda disclosed the development when he addressed the former workers in Kafue today that government has used the 1993 and 1999 evaluation. Mr. Chikwanda says the flats which were supposed to be ...

The Non Governmental Organizations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has condemned in the strongest terms the violence and the stripping naked of an opposition a UPND female by Patriotic Front cadres during the youth day commemoration at the Freedom Statue on Saturday, 12th March 2016. NGOCC Board publicity Secretary Rachel Chakalashi in a statement says act by the ruling party cadres to ...

Republican President Edgar Lungu has assured the people of Shiwang’andu district in Muchinga that he means well. Speaking during the commissioning of the district administration block in Shiwang’andu district this morning, President Lungu has urged the people to work with humble people who will not forget them once in power. President Lungu says leaders are servants of the people because power ...

Chief Nabwalya of Mpika district has described President Lungu as a ‘savior’ who has come to the rescue of his people from all their challenges. The traditional leader said this yesterday when the Head of State paid a courtesy call on him at his palace. He said President Lungu is just like Jesus to the people of Nabwalya as he ...

Southern Province Minister Nathaniel Mubukwanu says government will not be discouraged to take development to his province on account of criticism from the opposition. Mr. Mubukwanu says government is aware that no mater how good something is some opposition political parties still find it difficult to appreciate or acknowledge that difference has been made. He says government is however going ...

The ruling PF is happy that government has done away with meal allowance for students at the Country’s public Universities. PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya notes that no student at these higher learning institutions will now complain of being discriminated against. Mr. Bwalya says his party does not also think that students that are on bursary will be failing to ...

Government Chief Whip in Parliament Yamfwa Mukanga has hailed the confidence that Members of Parliament have been showing in the ruling PF. Mr. Mukanga says the confidence of MPs in the ruling PF is evidenced by the number of legislations that Parliament has passed in the last five years. He says no party in government in Zambia’s history has passed ...

The opposition UPND says Zambia needs a leadership and a government that will protect women’s rights as human rights. The UPND says her party is concerned that President Edgar Lungu has allegedly failed to be action-oriented in curtailing the spiraling violence that is being witnessed in the country. UPND National Women’s Chairperson Namakau Kabwiku notes that this is despite President ...