14 March 2011 (PlusNews) – When the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria suspended funding to Zambia in late 2010 it made international headlines and rocked donor confidence, but the stock-outs and drug rationing in the wake of the scandal have received little attention. In March 2009 a whistle blower’s allegations of corruption [...]

By David Mwanambuyu Zambia has become a global case study in the mismanagement of mining operations. The country’s ill-fated nationalisation programme should make the likes of ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema tone down their fiery rhetoric and listen to what they do not want to hear: the possibility that mine nationalisation in South [...]

Before Zambia’s public health sector started providing free antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to people living with HIV, Ephraim Banda, in the picture,  bought his own medication. But his supply was often interrupted and the available drugs changed frequently and he is now one of a growing number of HIV-positive Zambians who have developed resistance to both [...]

By Emmanuel Banda (ZANIS) Despite being endowed with abundant natural resources, Africa has continued to be looked down upon as a poor Continent. The assertion that Africa is indeed a poor Continent arises from the fact that its inhabitants are living in poverty – abject poverty for that matter! What is also known about Africa [...]

By Sity Mwitu I would not be surprised if you said no. In Zambia today we now have media organizations that are engaged in mediacide, which is defined as the deliberate and systematic denial of other ethnic groups termed as inferior tribes from accessing both electronic and print media in order to exercise their right [...]

On August 21, Australia voted the first Aboriginal representative in the lower House of Representatives in an election regarded widely as free and fair. Today, however, the ugly face of race in the lucky country has reacted by sending hate emails to Ken Wyatt whom the white electorate say they did not know was ‘black’ [...]

Many of the senior politicians in Zambia have forgotten the oaths they took as servants of the people. It boggles the mind when you have sitting MP’s being convicted of
criminal felony but still not able on principle to resign their positions let alone their political parties still allowing them to remain members of their parties. This rot goes
right through the whole political establishment whether ruling or opposition party. As the country goes to the polls next year it is important we understand the source
of the current polarised status of Zambian politics in order to develop a strategy that fully incorporates this understanding while at the same time lays the foundation
for ordinary citizens to participate fully in the creation of a truly multi-party democratic state in Zambia.

By Dr. Charles Ngoma Nearly everyone has now heard about the disease that was first defined in homosexual men in the USA in the early 1980s. The disease ravaged the immune system of its victims and they presented with symptoms similar to those who had some form of lack of immunity. Later on in France [...]

  Article Tools E-mail a friend Print Founder member of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika, has used his dogged, expressive style to ingrain himself on Zambia’s political and social conscience. Now he is head of TAZARA and promising more according to KALI MULUZI & FLOLICS KASUMBALESA  You don’t get small talk [...]