IN the second edition of this column following its renaissance, I featured an article concerning the performance of pupils who sat for the 2013 Grade seven examinations and qualified to grade eight. I noted that...

By JOSEPH BANDA FROM the time some nurses went on strike last December and Government decided to dismiss them, it cannot be denied that something is amiss in the health sector. It all begun when...

IN this weekend’s column, focus shifts to yet another rural Constituency, Sinazongwe, which is located in the Gwembe Valley of the Southern Province. Like any other rural area in the country, the area unveils its...

By MARTIN NYIRENDA – A CULTURELESS country is astray. Which, by extension, magnifies that aboriginal language forms the miasma of culture. Government recently introduced a policy that children from pre-school to grade four be taught...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – NOT many of his contemporaries have lived to see this day, let alone boast of having been married to one woman for the last 68 years! Although record keeping was seen...

By SYCORAX TIYESA NDHLOVU – PROFESSOR Nkandu Luo’s appeal to Zambians to emulate the Japanese work culture for the country to grow should be taken seriously. It is only after improving the work culture that...

What comes does not beat a drum otherwise BWAKIYA BVUNDAMINA and a close friend of hers would have much rather sat on the last floor of her flat chatting over a cup of tea, than...

By Sam Phiri – WITH a good number of tall thin ladies as perfect runway models, or fashion magazine cover page main images; it would be wrong to assume that those are the best women...

By CHUSA SICHONE – SUSTAINABLE management of Zambia’s natural resources and environment is critical for Zambia’s social and economic development, particularly with respect to land preservation. Land is one of the factors of productions which...

By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA – THE early childhood life for 46-year-old Doris Mwamba of Kitwe was all fine until at the age of 18, when something that looked like a pimple popped out on the left...