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Many minds have applied thought over the final decision of the Dora Siliya Tribunal. By all means, the Tribunal was highly successful, with unanimous support from both the petitioners and defendants. This is good for Zambia.While many have welcomed the ou...
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We see neither reason nor merit, in reinventing the wheel, simply because it is expedient or politically correct. To violently or reasonably disagree with the government of the day is a democratic right and if we must disagree, with government, we shall d...
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OUT-SPOKEN MMD spokesperson, Benny Tetamashimba has maintained that President Rupiah Banda is the best candidate for the ruling party to field in the 2011 general elections.And Tetamashimba has described Heritage Party president, Brigadier-General, Godfre...
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ZIMBABWE’S white commercial farmers have demanded US$5 billion in immediate compensation from the government before they can vacate their farms, their leadership said last week.“The compensation is equal to the country’s present debt, about US$5 bil...
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SOME Chiefs have protested against the statement by the Human Rights Commission (HRC) that traditional leaders are violating human rights of their subjects.Speaking in separate interviews, the Chiefs claimed that the subjects that had complained of mistre...
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STANDARD Chartered Bank says it will support government’s efforts to diversify the economy from over dependence on copper.And the bank has commended government for calling the just ended national indaba which was aimed at finding solutions to economic p...
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IT is becoming increasingly clear that only when we attach the importance that we must attach, to the office of the President, will Zambia’s so called political tension stabilize, having without reform, at the time, inherited what development economists...
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A Political activist, Dante Saunders has called upon government to lead by example by reducing on unnecessary expenditure in view of the economic melt down. And Saunders has said three quarters of the people invited to the just ended indaba did not even h...
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THE German Parliamentary Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development has expressed satisfaction with government’s implementation of German aided projects in Zambia.The parliamentarians who were on a three-day visit in Zambia last week inspected Ge...
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A civic leader in Lufwanyama district in Chief Nkana’s area on the Copperbelt Province has expressed concern over increased illiteracy levels in her ward among young girls.Sokontwe Ward Councilor, Doreen Maseka, said there were high illiteracy levels am...
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This past weekend, witnessed a serious effort at National Dialogue, beyond formal platforms. Over five hundred (500) delegates, Zambians and foreigners met to discuss an important subject matter, which has resonated through out the civilised world.The gat...
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On the surface of it, this question appears straight forward. The answer is supposed to be “the government of the Republic of Zambia, headed by the President, in this case and at this time, President Rupiah Banda.We have decided to raise this fundamenta...
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AN ongoing three-month strike by 37,000 contract teachers in Niger threatens recent gains toward meeting the country’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of providing universal primary education, according to union leaders.A skeletal staff of 7,000 p...
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IN a time of growing food shortages and high prices, humanitarian agencies have begun exploring ways to respond to crises sooner. Pre-positioning food aid closer to where it is needed to save money and time is one idea gaining ground. Leading the efforts ...
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RAIN continues to lash countries along the course of the upper Zambezi River, aggravating already extensive flooding in Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia, where crops and infrastructure have been destroyed. In Namibia at least 90 lives have been lost a...
