Thursday 11th March 2021 Press Release 10:00hrs – 11:00hrs VENUE: Plot189 Villa Elizabetha next to ZRA on Luanshya Road United National Independence Party By Lt Col. Henry Muyoba (Rtd) Interim UNIP President CELL: +260977513304 I wish to welcome members of the press, all ladies and gentlemen to this UNIP press briefing and kindly feel at home. I wish in the first place to state that I am one of the aspiring UNIP presidential candidates and with what I shall do for Zambian people. My political experience background is as follows. – I joined UNIP in 1959 as a freedom fighter and I...

REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON MEDIA, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON THE CYBER SECURITY AND CYBER CRIMES BILL, N.A.B. NO. 2 OF 2021 FOR THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE TWELFTH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Published by the National Assembly of Zambia REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON MEDIA, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON THE CYBER SECURITY AND CYBER CRIMES BILL, N.A.B. NO. 2 OF 2021 FOR THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE TWELFTH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TABLE...

Market Announcement – CEC Judicial Review Application In accordance with Section 3.4(b) of the Lusaka Securities Exchange Listings Requirements (“LuSE Listings Requirements”), the Board of Directors of Copperbelt Energy Corporation Plc (“CEC” or “the Company”) wishes to inform shareholders and the market that following the Minister of Energy’s declaration of CEC’s transmission and distribution lines as common carrier through the promulgation of SI No. 57 of 2020 dated 29th May 2020, and the subsequent decision of the Energy Regulation Board of 31st May 2020, directing a wheeling tariff equivalent to 30% of CEC’s standard network tariff, the Company took the decision to...

By Ashton Kelly Bunda and Derrick Sinjela AFRICA Directions Executive Director Mark Chilongu has appealed to parents in Zambia and globally to help their biological children and young people under their care to juggle school and an extra talent as ‘putting all eggs in one academic basket’ is not good. The Africa Directions Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who  has passion for children’s welfare said though  many children have a good direction and focus on academic and theoretical activities, young people still have the convincing ability to excel and succeed in recreational and vocational use of hands in performing arts and...