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Given Lubinda linked to presidential bye-election plot

Some Patriotic Front leaders and ministers have started speculating that there maybe a Presidential bye-election any time and have started jostling and pimping themselves for succession, according to information given to the Watchdog by the OP. The main sect is led by Information, Broadcasting and Tourism Minister, Given Lubinda who has been using the media to boost his [...]

As expected due to its politicised nature, the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has cleared President Michael Sata’s son Mulenga of allegations that he bought two motor vehicles worth K1.8 billion within days of his father ascending to the presidency. DEC, like most law enforcement agencies target opposition figures, private journalists and all opposed to the [...]

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the situation that is obtaining at the moment where Civil Society has been compromised and silenced, opposition leaders and members threatened with corruption allegations and Parliamentarians from the opposition corrupted with ministerial positions is worrisome. This situation breeds corruption and creation of poor governance systems, and consequently, society at large is made to bear the brunt.

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By 1963 the territory of Barotseland protectorate which is now called Western Province in Zambia, was administered jointly, with Northern Rhodesia protectorate by, and for British convenience for various economic and political reasons, in which case a protectorate within another protectorate occurred. Barotseland’s quest for independence was on record since 1911. It was inevitable that [...]

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By Given Mutinta A little while ago I visited my home village Makomba west of Pemba in Southern Province. On my second night at the village around 22 hours my aunt started to have birth pangs and I was asked to drive her to the clinic. At the clinic we found a family with a [...]

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