By Derrick Sinjela CENTRAL Province Minister Sydney Mushanga is optimistic that the province will record a substantial maize harvest in the 2020/2021 farming season. And Mr. Mushanga expressed delight in an interview that the distribution of fertiliser and seeds ahead of the 2020/2021 farming season was successfully done and the province did not record any fraud. Currently serving as Patriotic Front (PF) Bwacha Member of Parliament (MP), Mr. Mushanga says the province has continued receiving positive results as inputs were delivered on time for the first time over a couple of years. “I am happy that to note that as...

By Derrick Sinjela FORMER Civil society for Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) Board Chairperson Bishop John Hard Mambo is alarmed at the deteriorating human rights situation in Zambia ahead of the country’s 2021 polls, worsened on Wednesday 23rd January 2020, when a National Prosecution Authority (NPA) Prosecutor Nsama Nsama Chipyoka and Joseph Kaunda of the United Party for National Development (UPND) were killed by two live bullets. A fortnight and a day after the shooting, Bishop Mambo has noted with dismay the increased hostility by state officials and security agents in Zambia towards the media and opposition elements in the run-up to...