Police fail to arrest HH, despite GBM orders
Despite specific orders from Defence minister Geoffrey Mwamba to the police to sort out UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema, the police have let UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema go home. They only managed to record one of those famours ‘warn and caution statements.’ The statement of charge is that Hichilema has publicised false news with intent to [...]
The protest by Zambia over the eligibility or otherwise of a Sudanese player in their world cup qualifying defeat earlier this month has been referred to the Fifa disciplinary committee. Pursuant to earlier statement released earlier today, the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has further announced that it had been notified by the world soccer [...]
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How people easily forget when they ascend to power. Michael Sata, the person who is now ordering the police to harass his political opponents is here captured after being teargassed by police in November 2010. That time, Sata saw everything wrong with the president and other government officials to order police to harass opposition leaders [...]
Continue reading …President Michael Sata has appointed his relative Justice Lombe Chibesakunda as the new acting Chief Justice while Judge Florence Mumba is the new Acting Deputy Chief Justice with immediate effect. Sources have told the Watchdog that the current Chief Justice, Ernest Sakala, and his Deputy Dennis Chirwa have been forced to go on leave pending [...]
Continue reading …Caritas concerned with confusion and lack of clarity in constitution making process
June 14, 2012 11 CommentsIt is still not crystal clear as to when this Constitution making process will end and Zambia is likely to have a new Constitution that has come out of a process which includes a referendum. There seems to be also confusion as to what happens after the ninety days discussion of the first draft. There is talk of conventions; the Technical Committee is yet to come out clearly as at what levels such conventions will be held, in what order and what time frame.
Continue reading …Police are under pressure to arrest opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema. Information just received from police headquarters in Lusaka indicate that the PF government is piling pressure on the police to arrest him when he goes to meet them at 14 hours today. Meanwhile, the police headquarters may turn into a battle ground as PF thugs [...]
Continue reading …Natural resource organisations reject mining project in Lower Zambezi park
June 14, 2012 24 Comments
The Zambia Community Natural Resources Management Forum (ZCBNRM) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on behalf of over 100 natural resources and environmental organizations and individuals in Zambia have objected to the proposed mining project in the Lower Zambezi National Park. ZCBNRM and WWF objections come in the wake of the application by [...]
Continue reading …President Michael Sata has arrived in Lusaka from the United Kingdom. Sata and his huge entourage arrived early this morning on a British Airways commercial flight since his presidential Challenger jet was left behind as it is one of the planes banned in the European Airspace. Meanwhile, Lusaka city last night experienced over two hours of [...]
Continue reading …Dear editor, It is my hope that this complaint be published. Following the highly praised salary negotiation, so many things have gone wrong in the implementation. I fill betrayed by our government and especially the unions. There could be better ways of balancing the wage bill than this evil that has been committed. Retention allowance [...]
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