Police in Mongu have begun interrogating leaders of the Barotse Freedom Movement over Thursday’s protest in which some of their members tore copies of the Draft Constitution, according to the PF government controlled ZNBC. Western Province Police Commissioner Fanwell Siandenge says arrests will be effected once interrogations are concluded. And Mr Siandenge has warned Barotse [...]
President Michael Sata has told diplomats accredited to Zambia not to interfere in the country’s internal politics. He says it will be embarrassing for a diplomat to be expelled on the basis of interfering with internal politics. Sata also says Zambia has enjoyed good bilateral relations with countries across the world but has not exploited [...]
Continue reading …By George Lubasi When people from other walks of life join government, we normally have hope that they will continue carrying the interests of the constituency they have belonged to for many years. We normally think lawyers that join government will stand up for the rule of law; that journalists will influence the government to [...]
Continue reading …UPND lawyers have been given a court order for the Kanyama mass rally to go ahead as scheduled this Sunday 9th Sept. The court directive to allow the UPND rally comes after an attempt by PF government through the police to stop the rally citing flimsy grounds that the police officers would be busy with [...]
Continue reading …THE Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) management has been forced to employ Patriotic Front (PF) sympathetic cadre-Journalists to foster the image of the “self-destructive” ruling party. The Journalists mostly from Muvi television, radio phoenix and the Post Newspaper were employed on the national broadcaster on instructions from State House press aide George Chellah and Amos [...]
Continue reading …Under no circumstances should the rights of the media be curtailed because they offer harsh or even derisive criticism of political leaders. It is positive for the media to present a robust diversity of views and opinions, even those which might be controversial or very harsh.
Continue reading …The PF Government-engineered “seditious letter” which was attributed to a non-existing “Tonga on Oath” grouping has back fired and is causing embarrassment and confusion to the PF Government, according to reliable sources within the PF inner circles. The source who collaborated the earlier information to the watchdog that the letter was engineered by PF government [...]
Continue reading …By Ackim Mumba Dear editor, I am a retired miner on the Copperbelt and I wish to comment on president Sata’s disclosure and criticism of Hakainde Hichilema’s wealth. I was taken a back when I read the story because I could not understand what the president was trying to achieve. The president said HH’s wealth [...]
Continue reading …Hundreds of angry Barotseland activists Thursday invaded the District Administration Office in Mongu and tore over 500 copies of Draft Zambian Constitution booklets translated in Lozi. But Mongu DC Morris Litula said the Constitution Consultation process in Western province would go ahead because the Draft Constitution copies torn at his office were just a few. [...]
Continue reading …Dear Editor, The government is losing billions of kwachas on a daily basis at Nakonde RTSA office. There seems to be a syndicate of issuing fraudulent RTSA road toll receipts by the RTSA officers manning the Nakonde office. This syndicate starts from the Lusaka office where they issue extra original RTSA receipts books which are [...]
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