By Ashton Kelly Bunda FISHERIES and Livestock Minister Professor Nkandu Luo says the Patriotic Front (PF) leadership led by Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu will resuscitate the cotton growing sector as a first step toward reviving the legendary Serioes International Clothing firm, which ceased operations when  late Dr. Frederick Titus Jacob Chiluba’s Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) succeeded Dr. Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda’s United National Independence Party (UNIP) government after the 31st October 1991 Tripartite Election. With a predicted two-horse race between PF’s ECL and HH or Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND), the PF through Media...

…read Hicks Sikazwe’s’ Zambia’s Fall-Back Presidents, a Curse for fear of succession! Book Review Title: Zambia’s Fall-Back Presidents, a Curse for fear of succession Author; Hicks Sikazwe Our Leaders, Succession, and the truths we hold …………. Kenneth Kaunda, the first nationalist president had to be forced out of power in 1991 when he still had three more years to serve before another general election. In 1978 Kaunda blocked his former vice-president Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe, long-time opposition rival Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula and businessman Robert Chiluwe from contesting elections to challenge him. He had in 1972 imposed a one-party dictatorship. For 27...

By Derrick Sinjela and Ashton Kelly Bunda Electoral Commission Of Zambia (ECZ) Director Electoral Operation  Royd Katongo is reassuring citizens that the electoral body remains committed to continuously provide updates on the progress of activities on the National Electoral Calendar (NEC) leading to the Thursday 12th August 2021 General Election. During a Tuesday 11th May, 2021 Media and Civil Society Organisations Meeting at Radisson Blu Hotel in Lusaka witnessed by Electoral Commission of Zambia Management, Staff  and Technical Committee on COVID-19 and Elections Members, Mr. Katongo explained that the alluded to interaction was construed  to brief citizens on the mandate...

Good day! This is Joy Yeom, the coordinator of the Public Relations Department of Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), a peace NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN ECOSOC and associated with UN DGC headquartered in South Korea. I’m writing to ask for media coverage on Joint Statement on Myanmar’s Human Right  Crisis by Global Youth. HWPL has never stopped marching toward peace and cessation of war even though the world has been suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the recent efforts of the Myanmar military to suppress nonviolent protests have led to dozens of deaths and...

We will domesticate FCTC, assures Dr. Jonas Kamima Chanda   By Derrick Sinjela   However despite this assurance by Dr. Chanda, the FCTC is not among the eight (8) bills approved for presentation by the Zambian Cabinet on Thursday 8th April 2021, as stated below in a Press Statement circulated by Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations, Mr. Isaac Chipampe. “Press Statement by the Chief Government Spokesperson Ms. Dora Siliya on the Decisions made by Cabinet at the 5th Cabinet Meeting held virtually On Thursday, 8th April, 2021. His Excellency the President Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu...