No power in Solwezi
Solwezi town in Northwestern province has been engulfed in darkness since Saturday night. Power was cut in the wh0le town around 19 hours and no explanation had been given by Sunday evening Only kansanshi mine has power but it was not clear if the mine was using generators. On Friday and most of Saturday, it [...]
The PF government is inducing by-elections in order to have more numbers in parliament to amend the constitution to extend the current parliamentary term of office from five to eight years, says opposition People’s Party president Mike Mulongoti. Such a change he said could not pass the vote in parliament where the PF has less [...]
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The Police, operating under instructions from their Commander Michael Sata teargassed students in their rooms at the University of Zambia. Here 19-year old, armless female students seen locked in a room filled with teargas as after the 76-year old dictator ordered the police to beat them up. They could not run out as brutal police [...]
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Over 280 patients have been screened and treated for various diseases under the mobile hospital services which took place yesterday in Shiwang’ndu district of Muchinga Province. Speaking to ZANIS in an interview, Mobile hospitals and emergency services team leader for Muchinga and Northern Provinces, Stephen Phiri, said 18 operations have since been conducted from the [...]
Continue reading …Editor, It is very disappointing to see the direction our beloved nation is heading. The PF (BUFI) government have hurt this nation worse just like the Kaunda era. They are treating us the voters as though they are not accountable to anyone. The resignation of opposition leaders, is betrayal of morality and the recent resignation of [...]
Continue reading …Allow me please to contribute to “Zambian Watchdog”. I am an Englishman and have been in Zambia since 1957; I am educated at the St. Edmonds secondary school in Mazabuka and am married with sixteen children and ten grand children. It is my dream to be buried in Zambia and I do not believe [...]
Continue reading …Musician Petersen has advised students in higher learning institutions in Lusaka, Kabwe and Copperbelt to continue the fight. Students from the three government Universities have been demonstrated against the PF regime’s decision to remove subsidies on fuel and cereals including maize thereby pushing the cost of living higher. Only students from Evelyn Hone College, once [...]
Continue reading …PF Copperbelt province youth secretary Chanda Kabwe has accused some mine houses of sponsoring some students at Copperbelt University of staging demonstrations against the removal of fuel subsidies. Mr Kabwe said his party has information that some mining firms have released money to support demonstrations against removal of fuel subsidies by students. “We have information [...]
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Hundreds of students from the country’s oldest and largest public university are still detained by Zambian authorities. The students, mainly girls were arrested on Friday after president Michael Sata ordered police to arrest them for protesting against rising cost of living in the country. Hundreds of students were last night relocated to a Millitary base [...]
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At a media briefing in Lusaka Saturday morning, UPND president Hakainde Hichilema said the following: The removal of meal mill, fuel and agriculture subsidies is a wrong decision. The increase electricity tariff is also a wrong decision. You may want to know why this is so and why this government is doing this. It is [...]
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