Zambia’s Baluba copper mine, owned by China Non-Ferrous Metals Corp., stopped production on Thursday due to a strike by miners over working conditions, a company spokesman said. The mine’s concentrator, power plant, filter plant and cable belt were the worst-affected, spokesman Sydney Chileya said. “The workers went underground this morning but obviously the entire plant [...]

The Auditor General’s report for the year 2009 has revealed glaring irregularities in various parastatals. Irregularities that have been cited include unretired imprest amounting to 1 point 4 Billion Kwacha, 14 Billion Kwacha in unsupported payments and irregular payments totalling 4 Billion Kwacha. Parastal bodies that have been found wanting include ZESCO, the Road Transport [...]

United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema has warned President Michael Sata that if he arrests people who are demanding inclusion in government the country will go on fire. Hichilema told journalists at UPND secretariat in Rhodes park that there is nothing treasonable in the Northwestern chiefs’ demand that their people should also [...]

A group of individuals claiming to be Patriotic Front (PF) cadres that helped president Sata scoop the September 2011 poll have accused the president of ditching them shortly after emerging victorious. The alleged cadres who sought anonymity, claimed to have sacrificed, fought and been loyal to president Sata for the last ten years of his [...]