IT may not surprise many people that the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) has finally been consigned to Zambia’s historical records. In the face of some long-running controversies, the phasing out of this important body is...

THE Patriotic Front (PF) Government has of late exhibited great care for the people of Zambia going by its growing concern over the high cost of essential commodities such as mealie-meal. Because of the ever...

THE announcement that the Government will amend the increase of the contentious 65 years retirement age should bring smiles to many employees who felt the Government acted overbearingly when it made the increase. As Labour...

DRUG abuse wreaks disastrous effects on society. Some careers and jobs have been lost, savings squandered and families destroyed because of the abuse of these illicit drugs. Despite the dangers associated with the abuse, many...

AS women toast their day today, it would be pleasing if they used their powerful voice to highlight corrupt practices that appear to be an everyday phenomenon at the grassroots level. Corrupt behaviour is wrong,...

SINCE being introduced more than a decade ago, the Farmer Input Support Programme remains one of the most important cogs in the support of small-scale farmers in Zambia. In the current farming season, Government targeted...

Since the social media became popular in Zambia leading to several online publications getting popular, regular old hard copy newspapers started finding it difficult to keep their popularity. The obvious argument was, who would be interested in...

THE need by the Zambian Government to widen the tax dragnet has become more imperative with the dwindling sources of alternative public resources. Following Zambia’s attainment of the lower middle income country status, a few...

ON independence back in 1964, Zambia adopted a coat of arms that is indicative of all that the country was and aspired to continue being. One of the most significant parts of the coat of...

RECENTLY, Zambians recoiled at the news that a father had been defiling his own ailing daughter at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH). What was surprising wasn’t the story, which is no longer news in Zambia,...