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Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has made a strong and passionate appeal to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to thoroughly investigate allegations that the NATSAVE Managing Director made an irregular payment for an advert in a French magazine of over K630,000 which was not published and a further 46,366 Euros to a French advertising agency. Executive Director Goodwell Lungu in a statement ...

ZAMBIA Civic Education Association (ZCEA) Executive Director Judith Mulenga has attributed the high number of children who are in school to weak compulsory laws on education. Ms. Mulenga has told QFM News that the country needs to come up with punitive laws which will deal with parents or guardians who fail to enroll children who have attained the school enrollment ...

Rainbow party Spokesperson Goodson Banda says the ruling Patriotic Front can only underrate his party their own peril. Mr. Banda says the Rainbow party is getting stronger everyday and that come 2016, the PF will be in for a rude shock. Mr. Banda has wondered where Patriotic Front is getting the impression that the Rainbow party under its leader Wynter ...

The Patriotic Front (PF) has urged the opposition UPND against importing their infamous and violent campaign formula known as the Mapatizya formula into places such as the Copperbelt Province. And the ruling party says UPND Leader Hakainde Hichilema must be the last person to play victim because he does not even have the morality to denounce the violence perpetrated in ...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) says the continued blocking of opposition leaders from meeting people on the Copperbelt is indirectly de-campaigning President Edgar Lungu. YALI Governance Advisor Isaac Mwanza says President Lungu has a very good Political Advisor in Kaizer Zulu who should be advising the Head of State correctly. He says the President needs to distance himself from ...

Green Party President Peter Sinkamba has called on the Patriotic Front Government to respect opposition political parties. And Mr. Sinkamba has called on his fellow opposition political leaders to embrace democracy as this is a pillar upon which peace and stability will be built. Mr. Sinkamba says there is a need to refocus on the role political parties are playing ...

The Professional Teachers Union of Zambia (PROTUZ) has attributed the continued engagement of teachers in leakage related activities to lust for money by some teachers. PROTUZ General Secretary Albert Muyembe has told QFM News that the union is deeply saddened that despite many attempts to stop teachers from engaging in such illegal activities they have continued to do so. Mr. ...

The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) says tax revenue collections have in the last three years performed favorably against parliament target averaging at 4.2%. In a presentation at a media training workshop organized by Actionaid Zambia in Lusaka today, ZRA senior economist for policy and coordination research and planning department Yenda Shamabobo says over the last three years, tax revenue to ...

Government has reaffirmed its commitment to creating more than 500, 000 jobs by 2016 through the industrialization and value addition strategies. Republican Vice President Inonge Wina says in order to achieve this, government is open to ideas and best practices of incentivizing the upcoming women and youth entrepreneurs so that government can create more jobs and wealth and consequently deliver ...

President Edgar Lungu has disclosed that government has begun the process of reviewing the legal framework for strengthening Zambia’s intellectual property system. President Lungu says this is being done by the introduction of five bills to Parliament next year. He states that the bills are aimed at consolidating the law with regards traditional folklore, patents, trademarks, integrated circuits and industrial ...