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A white man has just been found dead in a room at Protea Hotel, Cairo Road in a spate of increasing crime in the country. The body of the man with British passport has since been taken to University Teaching Hospital (UTH) but management at Protea are trying by all means block the story from [...]

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I have further proposed to the next sitting of NEC that any leader in our party who has been convicted by the courts of law should step aside and allow for the process to take place. I am aware however, that there is a scheme to persecute and harass our leaders using the investigative and security wings of the state. In view of this, we shall ensure to distinguish between political harassment and a case based in justice.

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Minister of Finance Alexander Chikwanda says that President Michael Sata’s salary increment is not outrageous and remains three times less than that of the Central Bank governor’s pay. He did not say how much times it is above that of civil servants or ordinary people who voted for him. He also did not say why [...]

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Nelson Mandela’s grandson and political heir has banished his wife from their home after he discovered that she had given birth to his brother’s baby. Mandla Mandela, 38, was accused of bigamy when he married the teenage Anais Grimaud while still married to his first wife. Now, following weeks of media speculation that their marriage had ended amid blazing rows, MrMandela has [...]

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In just four days, University of Zambia in the capital Lusaka, has erupted into yet another riot this time students demanding their meal allowances, according to Zambia Reports About 30 students were on Thursday evening arrested and detained in various police stations in Lusaka. Police as usual fired teargas cannisters and were by Friday morning [...]

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Police have formally charged and arrested Chisamba Member of Parliament Moses Muteteka for motor vehicle theft contrary to section 281A of the Penal Code Cap 87 of the Laws of Zambia. Police deputy public relations officer Charity Munganga Chanda has confirmed the arrest of Mr Muteteka in a statement. Chanda says Mr Muteteka is alleged [...]

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By Roy Clarke           ‘Mr Ha Ha,’ said the judge, as he leant towards the accused, ‘you have been charged with landing as mfwiti on the roof the girls’ hostel of Evelyn Horny College. You were found naked in the girls’ shower, thereby causing a great itching of the girls’ private parts and giving all [...]

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President Michael Sata has again increased his salary by K50 million within two months. A new Statutory Instrument unearthed by the Watchdog show that president Sata has also increased his special allowance by a further K19 million. On April 1, 2012, Sata increased his salary from the K164 per annum which Rupiah Banda was earning [...]

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United Party for National Development (UPND) Leader Hakainde Hichilema has vowed that he will not be silenced by any political maneuvers by the Patriotic Front government. Hichilema said he will continue exposing  the ills and failures of the PF Government and any attack on him will not succeed. The UPND President further said that the [...]

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FIVE people believed to be from one family, including a baby, died in a road traffic accident on the Ndola-Kitwe highway yesterday as road carnage continues to take its toll. And three children aged between four and six, believed to be from the same family in Kalabo district, have been founded dead in a pond, [...]

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