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Patriotic Front Monze District Chairman Gilbert Mwila says there is need to speed up the implementation of the Political Parties Act in order to promote maturity on the political front. Mr. Mwila says the people of Zambia have been subjected to immature politics perpetrated by some political players. He states that the Act is necessary in order to guide the ...

The President of the Adventist World Radio (AWR) Dr. Duane McKey has arrived in Zambia on a three – day official visit. Dr. McKey who has been director of Sabbath School and Personal Ministries at the world headquarters of the Seventh Day Adventist Church is in the country to consult with the leadership of the Southern Zambia Union Conference ahead ...

Traditional leaders in the Country have been urged to join government in the fight against lawlessness. Islamic Supreme Council of Zambia President Suzyo Zimba says it is important that traditional leaders work with government rather than issue threats to the government. Mr. Zimba says this is not the time for Chiefs to start issuing threats, but time to unite the ...

President Edgar Lungu says the country should completely eliminate malaria by 2021. And President Lungu has today launched the national malaria elimination strategy 2017-2021 which outlines various interventions towards the elimination of malaria. In a speech read on his behalf by health minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya, during the commemoration of the World Malaria day and launch of the national malaria ...

The Felix Mutati led MMD faction has charged that it’s presently unattainable for any government in Zambia to usurp the people’s rights. Faction National Secretary Raphael Nakachinda says it is also a fallacy for anyone to assume that a Democratic Country like Zambia can be governed by a dictatorship. Mr. Nakachinda says the ruling PF has no capacity to reintroduce ...

Transparent International Zambia has charged that President Edgar Lungu is not walking the talk in fight against corruption. TIZ Executive Director, Wesley Chibamba says President Lungu cannot claim to be fighting corruption when he is silent on some of the ministers he said are corrupt. He says that while the head of state has on different platforms condemned corruption this ...

Political Scientist Dr. Alex Ng’oma says it is necessary that President Edgar Lungu declares a State of Emergency given the increasing cases of arson in the country. Dr. Ng’oma, who is also a Political Science Lecturer at the University of Zambia (UNZA), has explained that when the State of Emergency is declared, people’s rights and freedoms will be suspended as ...

Consumer Unit and Trust Society (CUTS) International Zambia has welcomed government’s decision to license a fourth mobile phone service provider. CUTS International Zambia Coordinator, Chenai Mukumba tells QTV News that the approval to a fourth mobile service provider will encourage competition in the telecommunications industry which in turn will bring down tariffs. Ms Mukumba notes that there has been little ...

Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Emmanuel Mwamba has written to the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RATSA) to investigate passengers’ complaints regarding a bus that was involved in a road traffic accident in South Africa in three Zambians died on Sunday. The accident which involved a Jitotwe Bus Services bus left five other Zambians in a critical condition and ...

The ruling Patriotic Front in Lusaka Province says President Edgar Lungu’s threat to declare a state of emergency is justified. PF Lusaka province Chairperson Horace Longwe says this is however not to say that the party in the Province is encouraging President Lungu to declare a state of emergency. Mr. Longwe says the ruling PF in the province does not ...