THE BIBLE in the Book of Timothy 5 verse 8 says that “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an...

By CHARITY MOONGA  – GENDER Links has bemoaned the increase in the number of widows in the sub-Saharan region. This is according to the 2015 Global Widows Report which indicates that there is an estimated...

By CHARITY MOONGA – THE Reformed Open Community Schools (ROCS) in Mbala District has handed over a health post to the Ministry of health. The facility which is known as the Mutwizi rural health centre...

By JOWIT SALUSEKI – ZAMBIA held public hearings from March 27, this year, to get views from the citizens on the country’s membership to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This was following a resolution made...

THE Zambian textile and clothing industry has seen better days and is now facing stiff competition from imported cheap garments and also from cheap second-hand clothing commonly known as ‘salaula’. The ordinary Zambian would rather...

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) once said, ‘All truth goes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident’. It has been estimated that more...

By DOROTHY CHISI – WAYS of sustaining projects in rural constituencies had been a major challenges to most parliamentarians in the country. While the Government can fund some projects in constituencies using Constituency Development Fund,...

By MARTIN NYIRENDA WOMEN are possessed with the passion of change in the astute lives of communities and the world, something that cultivates a sharp-witted life where society has to determine itself. In Zambia and...

By JIMMY KANZOBYA “ENTREPRENEURSHIP is not something you do, it is something that you have to become…” This is something Lusaka Quantity Surveyor Mumba Joshua Manda has come to learn by experience. Mumba believes that...

By CHIPEMA SAKAIMBO – “I tried out the female condom once and it felt so uncomfortable especially with the lubricant‘s unpleasant scent; I couldn’t even enjoy the act at all said,” says Margaret Mbewe of...