JUST like any mortal person, second Republican president Frederick Chiluba may obviously not have been a perfect man. Yet Dr Chiluba’s character as well as some of the things the late Zambian president did for...

AS this year’s Zambia International Trade Fair (ZITF) which opened on Wednesday this week continues, we want to reflect on the history and importance of this event. It is interesting to note that what is...

Globally, when lawyers are criticised for engaging in immoral behaviour, it is usually suggested that the legal profession is peculiar in attracting individuals who lack moral fibre. Thus, the onus of policing lawyers lies on...

WE wonder if some of the so called western diplomats are here as envoys or spies. We say this after observing their penchant for interfering in internal affairs that cross diplomatic boundaries and border more...

IT is sad to note that the title of the novel Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton which represents the chaos, destruction, and corruption in apartheid South Africa, is significant even today because the...

LAST year in August, protesters held a loud and colourful demonstration against mining company Vedanta at the Lincoln Centre, Lincoln Inn Fields, London. They accused Vedanta of tax evasion and mismanagement at the Konkola Copper...

WE are dismayed with the information from the Energy Minister Dora Siliya that water levels in Kariba Dam have reduced meaning load shedding will be with us for a long time. However, looking at the...

THE Latin phrases De mortuis nihil nisi bonum (of the dead, nothing unless good) indicate that it is socially inappropriate to speak ill of the dead. So whatever ill has been spoken about the late...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TIZ)’s concerns over the need for politicians to sensitise the electorate and the general public on the importance of the Referendum as opposed to discouraging them is spot-on. It is really worrying...

First it was the Patriotic Front (PF) women who expressed disappointment when the United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema chose Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba, popularly known as GBM, as his running mate. Now...