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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Fact today: In 2010 17 Trillion was national Budget.  Today 17 trillion goes to salaries and personal emoluments e.g 88 Ministers. It all started with increase of salaries for the President and Ministries immediately Sata took office; In fact he again increased his salary three months down the line. Then the minimum wage which most Economists advised against; [...]

Dear Editor, Please hide my identity for fear of being victimized. Even before we could receive our new increament in September, the PF government has decided to remove the 20% Resposibility Allowance from all the  Diploma Holders serving in secondary schools without any notice, despite this being part of our conditions of service, which infact [...]

.Prices of most essential commodities have gone up in Chipata Eastern province following the increment in fuel prices after government removed subsidies on fuel. A Random survey conducted by ZANIS in the Central Business District revealed that prices of goods especially food stuffs such as bread, mealie meal, cooking oil, sugar and cement among others [...]

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) is deeply saddened by instruction of the President Sata to the police to have demonstrating young people arrested for conducting peaceful demonstration over the failure by the PF to clearly provide leadership to challenges the poor majority face as a result of the his governments failure to protect them [...]

GOVERNMENT has denied any abuse of human rights as alleged by a report compiled by the United States of America. Minister of Justice Wynter Kabimba says the 2012 Zambia Report on Human Rights does not reflect the correct picture of the overall human rights and governance situation in the country. Mr Kabimba says the Zambian [...]

The minimum qualification for a UN job is usually a senior Degree from a recognized University which qualification must be relevant to the job applied for especially if its a technical one. What may have disadvantaged Mutati’s candidacy is the International standing of the nation currently under PF who were his backers. There’s nothing up [...]

The  Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) in Central Province has demanded fresh negotiations for increased salaries and better conditions of service following the removal of subsidies on fuel by government. Provincial chairperson Charles Mwila says  that it is just right for the unions and government to sit and agree to increase the salaries for [...]