Blame game continues, Vice President Guy Scott has told the people of Feira constituency that the much criticized removal of subsidies was started by the former ruling party – MMD. Addressing a few people after the ruling Patriotic Front candidate Patrick Ngoma filed in his nomination papers, Dr. Scott told the people of Feira in [...]
By Mendez Fernandez Our PF government is at it yet again with the “Don’t kubeba theme”: It has brokered a loan access deal between Development Bank of Zambia and the Drivers Association of Zambia to enable poor Zambian Drivers access loans from the bank in order to buy 60 to 65 sitting Higer Buses from [...]
Zambia’s First President Kenneth Kaunda has commended the African Union (AU) for recognizing the role the county played in liberating Southern Africa. Dr. Kaunda said people should have fear of God and his ten commandments nothing that they should love God with all their hearts and do unto others as they would want them to [...]
United Party for National Development (UPND) has summoned its Sinazongwe Member of Parliament (UPND) Richwell Siamunene to appear before its disciplinary committee. But the law maker who is also Commerce Deputy Minister has snubbed the summon opting to go for a government assignment. According to the national Broadcaster, ZNBC Siamunene said he will not appear [...]
Unionized workers at the Tanzania Zambia railway authority [TAZARA] in Kapiri Mposhi have started a sit in protest following the railway company’s delay to pay them their April salaries. The workers have not been paid their April monthly salaries. Workers Union of TAZARA (WUTAZ] Coordinating Secretary, Josam Nkhoma confirmed the development to Zambia News and [...]
Former Church Of God Presiding Bishop John Mambo has joined the Black Friday Campaign and accused President Michael Sata of betraying the poor people who put him in office in 2011. Bishop Mambo who is Chairperson of the Chikondi Foundation says the president has divorced himself from the plight of the poor which he strongly [...]
Police this afternoon attempted to disrupt an address by opposition UPND leaders to thousands of its supporters who turned up to give solidarity to their candidate during filing in of nominations. Thousands of Feira residents gathered on the grounds of the market to be addressed by UPND leaders after their Candidate Eularia Mwale Zulu successfully [...]
By Chinoda Ngwira Dear Editor, It is rather saddening to note that people have chosen to believe that Michael Sata ascended to power to offer service to the Zambian masses who unknowingly voted for him, it is also disheartening to see that Sata is failing to admit that there are no leadership qualities in him, [...]
Opposition UPND has summoned its Sinazongwe Parliamentarian Richwell Siamunene who has been appointed to serve as Deputy Minister of Health in President Michael Sata’s Patriotic Front government. Siamunene has since been written to notifying him to present himself before the party’s Disciplinary Committee on May 29, 2013. In a letter dated May 21, 2013, the [...]
By Roy Clark ‘Hullo Thoko!’ I exclaimed, as she came sailing round the corner of the veranda. ‘You’re soon back from school! What have you been learning about at school today?’ ‘Subsidies,’ she replied. ‘Ooh, very modern,’ I chortled. ‘So explain it to me, what is a subsidy?’ ‘I thought I knew [...]
