Attan Shansonga’s lawyers have resisted his extradition from Denmark to Zambia saying he is a British Citizen. Meanwhile, the Zambian government has formally requested Denmark to extradite Shansonga to Zambia where he faces 169 counts of various charges of theft of public funds. Shansonga appeared in a Danish court (today) Monday but was sent back [...]
By: N. Mbolela I do not blame President Sata at all. Sata like Kaunda, late Chiluba and Mwanawasa and recently former president RB Banda, is a politician and he does what politicians do which is ‘lie’. The problem is that it appears that the majority of Zambians continue to hold the belief that Zambia politicians [...]
Continue reading …President Micheal Sata says Livingstone has no capacity to host the 4000 tourists expected in the country next year to attend the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) conference scheduled for August 2013 in Livingstone. Speaking when he addressed a group of people who attended a public rally at Villa grounds in Livingstone today, Mr Sata said the 4000 [...]
Continue reading …CHAMA North MMD candidate in Thursday’s by-election Yotam Mtayachalo says President Michael Sata should address real issues instead of attacking personalities. Reacting to President Sata’s sentiments that he was looking for a job because he was jobless, Mtayachalo said the President should concentrate on campaigning for his candidate January Zimba whom he claimed was no [...]
Continue reading …Three Zambian nationals were arrested for transporting drugs worth R34m into South Africa on Saturday. Gauteng (Johannesburg area) police spokesperson Capt Pinky Tsinyane yesterday said the suspects were arrested by the hawks after a tip-off. “The truck was from Tanzania, it came through the Botswana border to deliver in South Africa,” she said. Tsinyane said [...]
Continue reading …Patriotic Front cadres on Sunday attacked the opposition MMD camp in Muchinga injuring five women in the process. The cadres from the ruling PF descended on their counterparts after President Michael Sata addressed a public rally in Muchinga where he told a crowd not to vote for the MMD. However, the PF cadres found that [...]
Continue reading …By Dambisa Moyo IN June 2011, Secretry of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech in Zambia warning of a “new colonialism” threatening the African continent. “We saw that during colonial times, it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders and leave,” she said, in a thinly veiled swipe at [...]
Continue reading …
Follow Us