BY NGOYA CHANSA – Developing countries around the world are undergoing an epidemiological transition from communicable or infectious to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases,cancer and diabetes. These NCDs were responsible...

WHEN Botswana’s independence hero and former president Kenneth Kaunda’s best friend Sir Seretse Khama died in July 1980, I was still in London as one of 10 the journalists from 10 Commonwealth member countries undertaking...

By Dixon Bwalya – A SIGNIFICANT number of diseases currently ravaging Africa, including Zambia, and which are easily managed or do not even exist in other countries may probably be a consequence of the type...

By GUNSTON CHOLA – IN a short while, the Golden Jubilee shall be history. Another 50 years, Zambians shall celebrate, this time not the Golden Jubilee but a Century of political and, perhaps, of economic...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – THE pain of living through the loss of three children, was enough to discourage Constance Mudenda from ever contemplating parenting! Her story dates as far back as 1989, when she dropped...

By CHARLES SIMENGWA – IT may have been reduced to a whirlpool of accusations and counter-accusations, but the red flag on sexual harassment raised by a former female employee of Game Stores in Lusaka should...

BY JOWIT SALUSEKI – GENDER equality in key positions of decision-making has continued to be a topical and debatable issue around the globe with the media sited at the helm of enlightening the public about...

By JULIUS PHIRI – THE road transport has undeniable socio-economic benefits which are often underestimated in difference to its negative impacts. Indeed, the weight of the road transport sector within the economy is considerable not...

IN the recent past, news media organisations have been accused of promoting hate speech between individuals and or organisations. It has also come to some people’s light that some journalists in some news media organisations...

REVELATIONS by Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) that three officials from the Ministry of Local Government and Housing have been suspended for misappropriating funds meant constituency development; make sad reading let alone hearing. Approximately K1.3 million,...