CHIEF Machiya of Mpongwe has said Lambas will not vote for President Rupiah Banda and the MMD in 2011 elections. And chief Machiya has advised Ndola businessman Terrence Findlay to go to his palace and apologise for showing contempt for Lambas failure to which he will show him that Lambas are not people to play [...]

By Meluse Kapatamoyo Zambia is currently carrying out the Living Conditions Monitoring Survey V1 2010 (LCMS), Central Statistical Office (CSO) director, Efreda Chulu has confirmed. The nationwide survey, which started in February and ends this month, March 2010, is covering both rural and urban areas in all the 72 districts of Zambia. Chulu said the [...]

Citizens Forum has castigated the Ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) for being stubborn and not listening to the people of Zambia, though the party claims to be a listening Government. Forum Executive Director, Simon Kabanda said he wondered why Government is so quick to condemned citizens when they air their views instead of addressing [...]

CLOSE to a thousand Mufulira residents on Friday scrambled for red cards from Catholic priest Fr Frank Bwalya who was in the area to distribute the cards in protest against President Rupiah Banda’s administration. Fr Bwalya who is also Change Life Zambia (CLZ) executive director had earlier distributed the cards to passengers on a minibus [...]

The MMD has suspended George Mpombo for allegedly involving himself in activities inimical to the party, according to the Post newspaper. But Mpombo yesterday vowed to fight the MMD’s mischievous activities to the bitter end. In a letter to Mpombo dated March 23, 2010, which was copied to President Rupiah Banda and MMD national chairman [...]

VICE-President George Kunda was on Thursday challenged by Katombora UPND member of parliament Regina Musokotwane to explain why late home affairs deputy minister Misheck Bonshe died alone in Nigeria and why he was not evacuated to South Africa. And home affairs minister Lameck Mangani said the government did not evacuate Bonshe at the same time [...]

British newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times will charge readers to access the titles online from June, Rupert Murdoch’s News International announced Friday. Customers will be charged one pound (1.10 euro, 1.50 dollars) for one day’s access and two pounds for a week’s subscription. Both titles will launch new websites in early May, replacing [...]

The following article was published in the Times of Zambia and posted on State house website. What is your opinion? IT has always been put across that making slanderous remarks about the Republican presidency constitutes a criminal offence and convicted offenders deserve nothing less than a jail term. The reason is that a president plays [...]

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Mutale Nalumango has castigated Patriotic Front (PF) Roan Member of Parliament (MP) Chishimba Kambwili for breach of parliamentary privileges. Nalumango asked Kambwili to apologize to the house for failing to appear before the Parliamentary Committee though,he was summoned. She said failure of MPs to adhere to the rules of [...]