By ALEX BASOPO NJOVU  Vice President THE Zambia Union of Journalist (ZUJ) Press statement Thursday, January 18, 2018 THE Zambia Union of Journalists (ZUJ) is disappointed to learn that some Zambia Air Force (ZAF) officers abducted and tortured a Daily Nation journalist Michael Miyoba in the central business district of Lusaka on Monday. It is shocking that the officers, who have been assigned to keep vigil in the central business district in town in light of the outbreak of cholera and subsequent removal of street vendors, subjected Mr Miyoba to inhuman treatment. We understand that this included pulling his manhood....

By Highvie Hamududu-President Party of National Unity (PNU) THE current crisis in Lusaka is a build-up of the failed economic policies devoid of people centeredness over the last two decades. Economic policies need a complete overhaul beginning with the 2018 budget, which disappointingly remains business as usual. All arms of government; Executive, Legislature and Judiciary must be repositioned to serve the greater interest of the majority. The post 1990 neoliberal economic policies blindly adopted have failed Africa, and threw the majority into squalor as evidenced by the growing informal sector that is unregulated, unsecured, unconnected to finance and better markets...

Republic of Zambia (This Document is the Property of the Government of the Republic of Zambia) THE NATIONAL DECENTRALISATION POLICY “TOWARDS EMPOWERING THE PEOPLE” Office of the President Cabinet Office P.O. Box 30208 LUSAKA November, 2002 FOREWORD Over the years since our political independence in 1964, successive Governments of our Republic have designed and endeavoured to implement measures aimed at the attainment of full democratic governance and economic independence with prosperity for all citizens. In view of the highly centralized and exclusive structure and systems of government inherited from the colonial era, the subject of decentralization has as a matter...