ABZ leader Fr Frank Bwalya says his party is on a countrywide mass recruitment exercise and is receiving many members from the PF and has described ailing dictator Michael Sata as a task leader who can only carry out a given task under supervision. Speaking to the Watchdog, after his two days stay in Kabwe, [...]

THE Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE) says the people of Western Province are happy with development projects in the province. Acting Ngambela Induna Kalonga (Godfrey Siisi) said this yesterday when he and other indunas met Minister of Finance Alexander Chikwanda at Country Lodge in Mongu. “We don’t shout or yearn for this development from a weak [...]

Luanshya municipal council workers have demanded that government should pay them education allowances or else they will down tools.  The workers made the resolution during a meeting held at Mikomfwa hall today. (Friday) Zambia United Local Authority Workers Union(Zulawu) Luanshya branch chairman Felix Lukama said the workers want the council  and government to pay them [...]

In their usual bufi, the Patriotic Front-PF leadership in Lusaka province has reacted sharply to reports carried by the Watchdog that a party cadre has been arrested and detained in Feira. In denying their cadre, possibly one of the recently released criminals, Lusaka province chairperson Geoffrey Chuumbwe said the person is not a PF cadre [...]

About 68 medical staff at the newly constructed Shangombo District Hospital are sharing 14 houses and hospital wards for their accommodation. Shangombo District Hospital Medical Superintendent Patrick Chikunta has disclosed. Dr. Chikunta explained that the  hospital was operating without a laboratory and x-ray room including a mother’s shelter. He noted that relatives to patients are [...]

The Oasis Forum says they are finalizing the draft private members’ bill which will be presented to parliament seeking to protect the content of the draft constitution. Oasis Forum Spokesperson who is also Zambia Episcopal Conference General Secretary Father Cleophas Lungu says the private members bill is still an option for the forum. Father Lungu [...]

The UPND in Feira constituency by-elections effected a citizens arrest of a PF cadre whose mission was to harm the UPND candidate Eularia Zulu. UPND vice-president for politics Dr. Canisius Banda disclosed that at about 18:00 hours yesterday, UPND members instituted a citizens’ arrest of a PF cadre who was carrying a dangerous weapon. “He [...]

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is expected in Zambia on 17th June, 2013 to chair a two-day high level meeting on illicit financial flows. The high level panel on illicit financial flows in Africa, which was established by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union (AU), was inaugurated in February [...]

Foreign Relations, says President Mugabe and Zanu-PF will win harmonised elections expected by July 31 this year. In a paper titled “What is a possible future for Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe?” submitted in response to a query from New York University on Monday, John Campbell, a Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies at [...]

The PF government has run out of money to buy maize and in a trial system aimed at avoiding the looming hunger, a maize/ fertilizer barter system where four 50Kg bags of maize will be exchanged with two 50 Kg bags of fertilizer has been introduced. Sources from the ministry of agriculture told the Watchdog [...]