Dear Editor Am not a regular writer to your paper but i read your paper religiously and i think you are more neutral than other public and private papers. I dont support or belong to any political party am neutral. These are my personal views as an electorate and one who has rights of expression. [...]

  By Charles Nyambe My humble understanding of the term “political expediency” is to say or do something for the sole purpose of gaining political mileage. I must hasten to mention that this is exactly what I saw in the editorial of the POST of Thursday July 21, 2011 edition and found it to be very primitive [...]

By Trevor Simumba The stakes are very high for this year’s tripartite elections due most likely this September or even earlier if the prophecy of Mr. Sata is to be believed. Both RB and Sata are in this race for the last time. Sata and his Patriotic Front (PF) have yet another opportunity to wrestle [...]

    The second edition of our printed weekly will be on the streets Thursday morning. We are happy to report that the first edition was sold out within two hours last week. Encouraged, we have increased the number of copies but unfortunately distribution will still be limited to Lusaka this week. Find out what we have in the [...]

Reporters Without Borders condemns a violent attack by members of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) on a Muvi TV crew that included two women that went to Nakachenje,  west of Lusaka, on 18 July to investigate claims that MMD members were illegally seizing and sharing out land. The police, who are investigating the [...]

Grassroots activists in Africa have come together at AfricaSan 3, Kigali, Rwanda to demand that their leaders and international governments demonstrate strong leadership and take urgent action on the continent’s critical sanitation situation. Only 31% of people living in Africa have adequate access to sanitation, despite sanitation and water being a recognised human right. This [...]

By Gregory Chifire We are rather shocked by the gross political misconduct of Patrick Mwanawasa. We find that his recent behaviour and utterances are unacceptable in any normal society. In a space of a very short time, Patrick has been quoted in the media insulting President Rupiah Banda, Mrs. Thandiwe Banda, and former Republican Vice-President [...]

I WISH TO BRIEF THE NATION ON THE BAROTSELAND AGREEMENT OF 1964 AND THE ON-GOING DIALOGUE BETWEEN MY GOVERNMENT AND THE BAROTSE ROYAL ESTABLISHMENT. YOU WILL RECALL THAT SINCE THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT OF 1969, WHICH REVOKED THE BAROTSELAND AGREEMENT OF 1964, VARIOUS REPRESENTATIONS HAVE MADE TO GOVERNMENT TO REVIST THE MATTER. REPRESENTATIONS WERE MADE DURING [...]

I am a Bemba from Chitimukulu area. In the last 5 years I have visited my home village three times and was surprised to know that our area MP is Emmanuel Munaile! I talked to many people including my uncle who is one of the headmen in Chitimukulu and they confirmed that their area MP [...]