OLD FRIENDS: Sata and Hichilema have differed over the years On Wednesday, President Sata has sued Hichilema for defamation of character and demanded to be paid K1.2 billion in damages. President Sata also indicated that he wanted Hichilema to retract the defamatory story published in The Daily Nation newspaper edition of May 16,2012 in which the paper [...]

THREE-hundred-and-seventy-nine Mechanised Mining Solution (MMS) employees working at Nchanga underground mine in Chingola have been retrenched. This is the biggest retrenchment involving miners this year. MMS, a Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) contracted company, held on to the workforce with a view that KCM would award it another three-year contract after the original agreement expired on [...]

THE Government Joint Investigations Team has warned and cautioned former MMD Lusaka Province chairperson William Banda for being in possession of suspected stolen property. Public relations officer (PRO) for the Government Joint Investigations Team Namukolo Kasumpa said in a statement yesterday that Mr Banda had been cautioned for being in possession of property suspected of [...]