By Derrick Sinjela, Kafue Estates, Lusaka Province, Bill 10 is here to cure Zambia’s constitutional contradictions, insists Nominated Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) Member of Parliament (MP) Raphael Nakachinda (RMN), as citizens continue to await it Second Reading, which Speaker of the National Assembly, State Counsel Patrick Matibini will chair. Briefing the electorate in Kafue at a meeting which observed  Coronavirus (COVID 19) one metre Social Distancing Practice, by participants sitting on classroom desks, following a resident driven petition against United Party for National Development (UPND) Kafue Member of Parliament (MP), Mirriam Chonya, Mr. Nakachinda explained that the ongoing Bill...

A LAW APPROVED on 2nd December 1776 and Incorporated in the Constitution firmly places Sweden as the first country to recognize the right of information. This country is also a pioneer in self-regulation. The three professional organisations – the Journalist Union, the Swedish Association of Newspaper Editors, and the Journalists Club – gave life to the Pressen opinionsnamind (press council) in 1916, which is a court of honor that monitors journalism practice. Any person or organisation that feel that they were wronged in their right of information by a published story may ask the intervention of this court. The press...