Monday 25th May, 2020 Boniface Cheembe Executive Director THE Southern African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) would like to join the rest of the African continent in celebrating a day that is dedicated to everything there is about the African continent and her people. SACCORD welcomes this year’s theme of “Silencing the Guns: Creating Conducive Conditions for Africa’s Development.”  There is no doubt that since independence conflicts of a different nature have characterized the African continent to an extent where there has been a peace deficit and thereby challenges where development is concerned as peace is a...

Government and stakeholders should panel beat labour laws to favour both parties! THE contra verse seen in the new employment laws need to strike some balances by promoting the plight of workers and also ensuring that economic activities also do remain reliable and sustainable in order to be able to cater for the macroeconomic factor, which is highly required complimentary puzzle fit for the nation. The Employment Code Act which was amended in 2019, has been widely criticised for not balancing up with both fiscal requirements and economic actors. Statutory Instrument that was issued on 10th May 2019 catered for...

ONLINE courses are now great opportunities to exposed to, and we should definitely need to seek ways and means in taking full advantage of online studies like never before. Knowledge should be pursued with a deep sense of solving challenges that the country and regions are facing, as opposed to just passing examinations. We all need to increase our knowledge economy especially for this country and within this time such as this, when the economic shapes have really been totally disrupted with Novel Coronavirus popularly known as COVID 19, its actually good to seek a broad range of online based...

PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday 25th May 2020 AS we celebrate this year’s Africa Day under the theme “Silencing the Guns: Creating Conducive Conditions for Africa’s Development” it is important that we take stock of our progress towards a more prosperous future in which all African citizens, young, old, female, male, of all creed and backgrounds are empowered to realize their full value and potential. The African Union (AU) has made significant progress in driving Agenda 2063 which is the continent’s blueprint and masterplan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the near future. In line with this...

House No. 128 Mwambula Rd Jesmondine P.O. Box 37475 Lusaka, Zambia Telefax: +260 1 293649 E-mail: tizambiageneral@gmail.com Website: www.tizambia.org.zm Monday 25th May, 2020 For Immediate Release The News editor TI-ZAMBIA’S REFLECTIONS ON THIS YEAR’S AFRICA FREEDOM DAY Maurice K. Nyambe TI-Z Executive Director TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TI-Z) joins the rest of the African continent in celebrating this year’s Africa Freedom Day. We believe that this day provides an opportunity for us as a continent, and for individual countries including Zambia, to take a moment to look back on our journey and reflect not just on the strides we have made...