By Chilufya Mwelwa, Head of Corporate Affairs; Chilufya.Mwelwa@zm.multichoice.com TO CELEBRATE Africa Day on Tuesday, 25th May, MultiChoice Zambia is launching M-Net Movies Afro-Cinema, a pop-up movie channel dedicated to showcasing and celebrating contemporary African films. The Afro-Cinema Channel will be available from Friday, 21 May, to Sunday, 30 May 2021, on Channel 198 to DStv customers on Access, Family, Compact, Compact Plus and Premium packages. The Afro-Cinema Channel is curated to celebrate Africa’s cultural diversity, aptly reflected and captured in the work that is being produced by filmmakers all over the continent. Through collaboration and turning challenges into possibilities, local film industries...

 By Ashton Kelly Bunda   Zambia Athletics (ZA) president Elias Ng’andu Mpondela says success in any human endevour favours people who are always prepared in whatever they are engaged in be it athletics, business, academics examinations and leadership.   The veteran athletics administrator told Kwilanzi Newspaper crew as he advised coaches and athlete at the National Heroes stadium after the All-Comers meet that attracted international athletes meant to qualify athletes for fast approaching Tokyo Olympics in Japan, Asia that will run from July to August 2021.   Mpondela said athletes as well as non-athletes must have a ‘Vision the Clarity’...

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...