Louisa wins continental title
NDANGWA MWITTAH, Choma LOUISA Josephs Chingangu, who was early this year removed as Miss Zambia 2017 after some misunderstandings with the franchise owners, last week won the continental award of Miss...
View ArticleShepolopolo fumble in COSAFA semis
DIANA CHIPEPO, Lusaka ZAMBIA 3 (3) SOUTH AFRICA 3 (5) ZAMBIA yesterday gave away a three-goal lead to South Africa in the semi-finals of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA)...
View ArticleMilitia clashes escalate refugee arrivals
CHRISTINE CHIHAME, Chienge WIDESPREAD insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), characterised by clashes between Congolese and different militias around Pweto and Moba towns, has led to...
View ArticleLungu seeks solution to DRC refugee influx
ANGELA NDUBA, New York PRESIDENT Lungu has called on the international community to help address the causes of an influx of refugees from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into Zambia. The head of...
View ArticleWitness breaks down in court
CAROLINE KALOMBE, Lusaka A WITNESS yesterday broke down in the Lusaka High Court as he narrated how his two children died after his wife, Miriam Mulenga, allegedly made them drink a pesticide called...
View ArticleProbe fire tender purchase
ANGELA NDUBA, New York PRESIDENT Lungu has directed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to thoroughly investigate graft allegations in the procurement of 42 fire tenders at a cost of US$42 million to...
View ArticleCombine efforts to fight financial crimes
ARTHUR MWANSA, Lusaka GOVERNMENT has launched the 2016 Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing National Risk Assessment Report with a call on stakeholders dealing in anti-money laundering to combine...
View ArticleLusaka Film Festival kicks off
KELVIN KACHINGWE, Lusaka THE Lusaka International Film Festival was expected to open last evening at Fresh View Cinemas at Levy Shopping Mall in Lusaka with a Chinese film titled “Africans in Yiwu”, a...
View ArticleShepolopolo face Kenya, target bronze
ROBINSON KUNDA, Lusaka AFTER suffering a painful defeat to South Africa on post-match penalties in the semi-finals on Thursday, Zambia will today seek a bronze medal when they face Kenya in the...
View ArticleOnline shopping with Katanekwa
MEMORY MANINGA, Lusaka THERE are many faces to Katanekwa Matundwelo, a former model who represented the country at the Miss World 2006 beauty pageant in Russia. For most people though, they know her as...
View Article‘Zambia needs technical, financial support for development’
ANGELA NDUBA, New York PRESIDENT Lungu has called on co-operating partners to provide technical and financial support to Zambia to help it implement the county’s Seventh National Development Plan. The...
View ArticleFrom Transvaal to Kabwe on bike
CHAMBO NG’UNI, Kabwe PATRICK Moore, 63, was born in Bristol, in the southwest of England but his family came to the then Broken Hill town, now renamed Kabwe, in 1955, when he was almost two years old....
View ArticleZesco bank on home record
BENEDICT TEMBO, Lusaka and MULWANDA LUPIYA, Ndola HOME record and prestige are at stake today when Zesco United host Supersport United in the Confederation Cup quarter-final return leg at Levy...
View Article4 in court over theft of K6 million medicines
PRISCILLA CHIPULU, Lusaka FOUR out the seven people arrested for allegedly breaking into Medical Stores Limited and stealing medicines worth over K6 million appeared in the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court...
View Article2,000 more teachers to get jobs
CHOMBA MUSIKA, Parliament GOVERNMENT will this year recruit 2,000 teachers to enhance provision of quality education, Parliament heard yesterday. Minister of General Education Dennis Wanchinga said the...
View ArticleLungu exposes plotters
HONE SIAME, Lusaka PRESIDENT Lungu says he will not be swayed into firing his ministers on unsubstantiated allegations by people trying to create an impression that he is presiding over a corrupt...
View ArticleShe-polopolo grab COSAFA bronze
DIANA CHIPEPO, Lusaka ZAMBIA 1 (4) KENYA 1 (2) ZAMBIA yesterday ended the campaign at the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) Women Championship with pride when they beat Kenya to...
View ArticleZCTU calls for ceasefire on tenders
YANDE SYAMPEYO, Lusaka THE Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called for a ‘cease-fire’ on the debate on the procurement of 42 fire tenders by government as the talk could jeopardise...
View ArticleRumble in the Jungle: Cop vs motorist
Torn Apart: BOYD PHIRI THE hood has witnessed a lot of fights over the years, from domestic to street run-ins, but never before has it watched a brawl between a traffic police officer and some...
View ArticleWitch wraps up Euro tour
NKOLE NKOLE, Lusaka PSYCHEDELIC Zam-rock 70s band WITCH, an acronym for ‘We Intend to Cause Havoc’, ended its tour of Europe yesterday with a show in London. The tour began on September 16 with a show...
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