MANY people have found casualisation absolutely repugnant for a number of reasons, and news that the Casualisation Bill has now been drafted must have, therefore, been greeted with a big round of applause among the...

By Hicks Sikazwe – There is no better news that elates a farmer than a weather report assuring of a good yield or a pronouncement of an increase in the price of the crop he...

By LILLIAN BANDA – Self-confidence, a strong work ethic and ambition are vital elements of success. These attributes are also essential characteristics of an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship has become an increasingly discussed topic of our times....

By AUSTIN KALUBA – TO begin with, Lusaka itself was a very pleasant surprise and turned out to be modern, spotlessly clean city with an abundance of parks and gardens. Indeed, it was much nicer...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA  and MARGARET MANGANI – ADVOCACY for Good Governance Gender and Equity (AGE) justice has urged President Edgar Lungu to include more female prisoners on the list of those who are being pardoned....

By CHARLES SIMENGWA – ZAMBIA is steadily moving onto a higher rung on the governance ladder by seeking to introduce vital Constitutional offices in line with the principles of democracy. Part 18, Chapter 252 of...

I OFTEN hear unbelievers make the statement that Christianity is a crutch. It’s a statement intended to insult believers — to imply that only a weak person needs religion. And, in our culture, it’s a...

AS I illustrated last week, the four-day National Schools Arts  Association of Zambia (NASAAZ) festival held at Mansa College of Education in Mansa, Luapula Province, was a loud and thunderous success. Today and next week...

THE gist of last week’s column was to look at some basic elements of poetry and make a deliberate attempt to dissuade would-be writers of poetry from the pedestrian stuff commonly displayed in newspapers, schools,...

DEAR Josephine MY husband died in a car accident last year. After burial, her relatives and some of my superstitious relatives demanded that I should be cleansed of his ‘ghost’. I refused since I am...