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Nothing president Sata does surprise us

When, some tabloid screamed “I will cry if Sata wins, RB”, we at the Watchdog, prophetically, understood the former President’s predicament. When he, ironically, offered tearful congratulations to the former Victoria Station Sweeper, and gracefully bowed down in defeat, we knew, only too well that he was doing so for the less than 50 + [...]

The High court has ordered the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) to defreeze the bank accounts of Lewis Nathan Advocates, a local law firm  led by Lewis Mosho. This is in a matter in which the law firm sued Zambia’s Attorney General and the DEC challenging the action of the DEC to seize their bank accounts. [...]

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PRESIDENT SATA ON JUDGE PHILLIP MUSONDA’S REQUEST FOR EARLY RETIREMENT LUSAKA, Friday, May 11, 2012 – His Excellency Mr Michael Chilufya Sata, President of the Republic of Zambia, has decided to make the letter containing suspended Supreme Court judge Phillip Musonda’s application for early retirement public. The President said he has acted in this manner to [...]

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Robert Amsterdam, the International Lawyer representing former president Ruppiah Banda son Henry Banda has once more denounced the dictatorial tendencies of the current PF government in Zambia and president Michael Sata. Featuring on South Africa’s SAFM radio this morning also available on satellite, Amsterdam of Amsterdam and Peroff LLP said the politically driven allegations against [...]

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Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) Presidential aspirant candidate, Nevers Mumba, has promised to create a new MMD that will inspire Zambians. Addressing MMD district officials in Choma yesterday, Dr Mumba reiterated his intention of rebranding the former ruling party and helping remove the tag of corruption which has tainted the party’s image. Dr Mumba claimed [...]

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ‘interfering’ in Zambia’s internal affairs with, then opposition PF leader Michael Sata last year before elections.

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Opposition leaders in Zambia have declared that Zambia is now a police state under the PF regime and have condemned president Sata for threatening diplomats in accredited to Zambia. And the opposition have called upon Finance minister Alexander Chikwanda and Solicitor General Musa Mwenye to resign following the exposure of letters they wrote to the Development [...]

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The magistrate court trying musician Clifford Dimba known as General Kanene this week chased his lawyer from court. Magistrate Charles Kaoma told Nicholas Chanda that he, Chanda has no practicing certificate. Magistrate Kaoma told Chanda that he has a letter of instruction from the Law Association of Zambia stating that Chanda has no practicing certificate. [...]

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PF government agents last Wednesday carried out their most ambitious attack on the Zambian Watchdog website with view of  destroying it. “The site has been attacked using denial of service and no personal information has been compromised” The attackers have used Optima/Darkness DDoS botnet that is popular in the Russian-speaking cybercrime black market. The Attack caused inaccessibility to the news [...]

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