By PERCY MABVUTO-NGWIRA – Tourism and travel have become one of the largest and most important industries in the world today. According to preliminary figures released in January 2019 by the United Nations World Tourism...

By MOSES ZANGAR Jr – Victor Chenda Mpanga, 39, knows his livelihood depends on the forest, but like many others eking out a living in Zambia’s vast woodland, he had little choice but to help...

By MOSES CHIMFWEMBE – AFRICAN governments have been implored to create gender-centric policies that address barriers in women’s right to health care. And the continent’s parliamentarians are pressing for an increase in domestic financing and...

By DOROTHY CHISI – ANITA Hoff is one woman who has decided to follow her passion of baking as a living through the support of her family. As this year’s women’s Day theme depicts, Think...

THE church is a neutral ground which accommodates people from all walks of life. The self-employed, employers and employees, renowned business men, marketeers and street vendors all have to go to churches of their choice...

Till recently, Zambia was a classic example of a literary desert with very few published writers of note not to talk of the country suffering from a shortage of funded, robust publishing houses dedicated to...

RANDY BANDA concludes narrating the tale of a love triangle and how the victims planned to teach their common ‘enemy’ a lesson, but to no avail. Names of characters and places have been fictionalised. Read...

FROM time immemorial land ownership has always been an emotive issue in Zambia as well as globally. In this country, there are two categories of land. State land comprising of 6 per cent and customary...

By MARTIN MUSUNKA – A RECENT Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) report on First Quantum Minerals (FQM) and its human and environmental impact has inaccurately portrayed to the international community a mining company hell-bent on...

By HICKS SIKAZWE – Tina Mutale (not her real name), broke up with her husband more than two years ago because she could not bear children. Stella Mwanza (not her real name either) even lost...