PETER Hoekstra, who is a Dutch American politician serving as the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands was recently quoted saying good governance requires working towards common ground which he said is not easy. We...

THE concerns raised by Infrastructure and Development Minister Ronald Chitotela in Kitwe at the weekend about the emergence of political groupings in the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) should be taken with the seriousness it deserves...

PLANS by the Government to introduce an electronic payment system to collect levies from bus stations and markets in Lusaka will eliminate a huge and lingering source of frustration and friction in two very politically...

POLITICAL violence carries the trappings of all forms of democratic degradation. The violence that manifests its ugly images of public insecurity has recently been prominent during general and by-elections held in various parts of the...

OVER the past few years, the Auditor-General’s Report has been revealing glaring financial impropriety in a number of Government Ministries involving millions of tax payers’ money. These millions of Kwacha have been unaccounted for or...

THE good performance of any Government is dependent of the flawless performance of its various departments. A failure in the departments brings down efficiency gives a government a bad name. This is why we are...

AFRICAN politics have a strange skin of personal hatred for those on the opposite side of the political power, a historical culture that has been breeding character assassination. This was evident when late second Republican...

MORALITY should be the guiding light in politics, especially in Zambia, a country that prides itself as a Christian nation. Rainbow Party leader Wynter Kabimba’s concerns regarding the Socialist Party sources of funding and sexual...

AFTER months of an intense battle against cholera, there is no doubt that the disease which killed more than 70 people is on the verge of being contained completely. We say this because we have...

LIKE many Governments in the Global South, Zambia struggles with the provision of affordable Housing. The national housing deficit, which is compounded by rapid population growth and continued rural to urban migration currently stands at...