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PF will win Msanzala, Zambians love us-GMB

Defense Minister Geoffrey Mwamba has expressed confidence that the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) will scoop the forthcoming Msanzala by-election scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 16, 2012. Mr. Mwamba told ZANIS in an exclusive interview in Lusaka that the people of Msanzala will give the PF candidate massive votes because of what the PF [...]

Zambia’s consumer inflation slowed sharply in December on lower food prices while economic growth was seen down in 2011 compared with last year due to decreased output from mining in Africa’s largest copper producer, the Central Statistics Office said on Thursday. Inflation was at 7.2 percent year-on-year in December from 8.1 percent in November and [...]

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Durban-The ashes of drug mule Janice Linden were finally delivered to her family on Wednesday – three weeks after she was executed in China. The ashes were in a plain brown cardboard box wrapped in masking tape with a DHL sticker, and the package was handed over to the family by members of the South [...]

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The Marie Stopes clinic on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, recently performed the country’s first vasectomy. It stirred a public outcry. One man said Daoude Zia, a 41-year-old teacher with four children, had let himself be “castrated.” “We must sleep with women without using contraceptives,” wrote another, “and women should throw away [...]

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If Sata is really a virtuous person and Christian guided by the Ten Commandments as he claims, then he must apologise to the people for failing to honour his promises or be tagged a liar. Sata’s outlandish lies have made many people uncertain of his leadership and future of our country.

The most horrible thing a politician can do is rob people their freedom to rationally choose their leader by inebriating them with white lies. Sata’s unrealistic promises led people to vote for him something they would have not done if they knew that his promises were lies. His lies have injured people’s dignity and autonomy.

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President Sata says Barotseland was just another province of Northern Rhodesia before Independence. And Sata says the Litunga was illegally giving parts of Tongaland and Copperbelt to Europeans before Independence. Sata said this at State House when he met 12 people who claim to represent the Linyungandambo, Barotse Freedom Movement and the Movement for the [...]

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