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Join MMD, HH advised

A Nephew of Senior Chief Mushili of the Lamba speaking people of Masaiti District on the Copper belt has joined calls urging opposition United Party for National Development -UPND- President Hakainde Hichilema to join the MMD. Mandela Nkole says Mr. Hichilema is wasting time in the pact and should instead reconsider his political career by [...]

WHEN I BECAME PRESIDENT IN NOVEMBER 2008, MY FIRST STATE VISIT WAS TO NIGERIA. WHY? BECAUSE ZAMBIA FEELS EXTREMELY FORTUNATE TO HAVE NIGERIA AS A PARTNER IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. OUR TWO COUNTRIES HAVE A GREAT DEAL TO OFFER EACH OTHER, IN THE LONG-TERM, FOR THE MUTUAL BENEFIT OF BOTH OF OUR PEOPLES.

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Judgment in the appeal case by former president Frederick Chiluba’s wife, Regina, against her conviction over receiving stolen property will be delivered on October 29, 2010, the Watchdog has been told. The judgment was supposed to be announced tomorrow October 1, 2010. Judge Evans Hamaundu called lawyers for both parties Thursday (Today) afternoon to inform [...]

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United Party for National Development (UPND) has charged that patriotic front leader, Michael Sata has gone back to his old thuggery ways. The party has also asked Mr. Sata to back off and not push around everyone just because he feels he is more experienced than others. UPND national youth chairperson, Joe Kalusa says that [...]

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South African undercover police officers have arrested five illegal diamond dealers after the men offered to pay R120 000 for a raw, uncut diamond. Police spokesman Captain Khephu Ndlovu said police officers had been following the suspects for a few hours and managed to make a breakthrough in the case after they presented themselves as [...]

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OPOSITION Patriotic Front (PF) leader Micheal Sata has said the Pact and the nation cannot be led by an ‘under five’ or immature leaders who lack experience and financial discipline. And Sata has said the Memorandum of Understanding between PF and UPND, as the name implied, was not a statute and that if UPND were [...]

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By Jackie Kemp The price of copper is exploding, and money is pouring in to an impoverished African nation. That should be good news for the people of Zambia. Except they’re barely seeing any of it – and sometimes it’s even going to shareholders in the UK. It is claimed that less than one penny [...]

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