By MIRIAM ZIMBA – AFTER returning to Zambia in 1960 following her failed marriage in Southern Rhodesia, Malisela Tembo began working as a maid at the University teaching Hospital (UTH) maternity ward in 1973. Born...

By GETHSEMANE MWIZABI? – MAN for the people or man of action as he was often referred to, late Republican President Michael Sata was pretty passionate about labour and social security issues. The coming of...

BEFORE and at independence, there were few Zambian lawyers because the legal profession was a closed shop open only to expatriates mainly from the United Kingdom (UK) and the Republic of Ireland. This was, largely,...

By Allan Mkandawire – BY definition a settlement is a place where people establish a community. Sustainable means longlasting and able to meet future needs without struggling. The word sustainable has been used by mainly...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – BEING referred to as commander-in-chief of the armed forces was not only a title he earned by virtue of being Republican President – the men and women in uniform held a...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – HERS is a story of moving from owning a house of her own, to that of destitution and subsequently to being a dependant. Born in 1949 to late freedom fighter Bathsheba...

By STEPHEN KAPAMBWE – IT could have easily been 30 degrees below zero had celebrations to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between Zambia and Russia been held on a chilly day in Moscow. But...

By STEPHEN KAPAMBWE – Just ahead of the World Food Day, a study published in the American Journal of clinical nutrition has established that orange maize increases vitamin A storage in the body. This maize...

By NORMA SIAME – AS Zambia puts to rest President Michael Sata, it cannot be argued that in political circles he was larger than life – constantly refining his style of populist politics which eventually propelled...

PROBABLY everyone has had a headache at some time in their life. One of my friends who is a doctor, once said to me that in his house, Panadols are part of the weekly shopping,...