THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) deserves unqualified commendation for a job well done during the combined national registration card (NRC) and voter registration campaign that it conducted in readiness for next year’s general elections....

What do you do when you are a leader and find yourself equally guilty of an offence committed by your peers and you get punished for it? This is the dilemma CLARA KINTAMBWE found herself...

MANY, many times, I have heard cases in which surviving wives and husbands are put to task by relatives of their deceased spouses when one of them dies and dowry was not paid by the...

The celestial City of New Jerusalem that the aged and blind Apostle John saw in a vision on the island of Patmos was reportedly spotted by the ultra-powerful Hubble Telescope operated by the National Aeronautics...

By MOSES KABAILA JR – THE old adage that ‘the richest place is the grave yard’ could seem to suggest that people are buried with money and other valuable items. As odd as it might...

By HLUPEKILE NKUNIKA – HYPERTENSION is one of the most common medical complications encountered during pregnancy in the Southern Africa Development Committee (SADC). Accounting for 16 per cent of maternal related deaths, hypertension is becoming...

LAST week I discussed the impulsive spending habits that have spread through some miners who received their retrenchment packages from Mopani Copper Mines in Kitwe recently. About two weeks ago, the mining company released K18,000...

By MOSES KABAILA JR – TATTOOS are slowly becoming common in our Zambian culture. A weekend at an entertainment or public place hardly passes without seeing somebody with a Western or modern tattoo, especially our...

By AUSTIN KALUBA – MATTEO Phiri, whose unmistakable resonant voice on-the-air brought him something of a cult following as one of Zambia’s best-known radio personalities, died last week at his home in Chalala in Lusaka. He...

THIS week Friday is Christmas Day, and there is just something about the festive period that gets your juice running. That it is holiday time probably has something to do with it, but there is...