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They failed to build toilets at UNZA, can they build airports? Mundubile asks Chisamba electorate NRPUP Presidential candidate Brian Mundubile says every parent prides in seeing their children in University and as such, this pride should not be disturbed by closures. Addressing Chisamba electorate Mundubile wondered why UNZA had been closed and implored President Hakainde […]

PF ONLY EMPLOYED 7,000 TEACHERS IN 10 YEARS. A lively debate unfolded on Capital FM after a supporter of the Toonse Pamodzi Alliance was challenged over claims that the Patriotic Front (PF) employed more teachers during its 10 years in office than the current UPND administration. Speaking confidently during the live programme on Capital FM, […]

90 DAYS OF CAMPAIGNS SHOULD NOT CREATE PERMANENT ENEMIES SAYS THOMAS SIPALO. United Party for National Development (UPND) aspiring Munali Member of Parliament Thomas Sipalo has appealed to politicians and their supporters to ensure that the 90-day campaign period does not destroy friendships or create lasting divisions. Sipalo made the remarks after meeting independent Lusaka […]

RESOLUTE Party leader, Dr Martin Phiri, has lamented that since the merger of Makebi Zulu’s PF Pamodzi Alliance and Brian Mundubile’s Tonse Alliance, internal disputes have arisen. Phiri explains that when the time for filing nominations came, there was a mutual agreement that the Resolute Party would field candidates in Copperbelt, Lusaka and Eastern Provinces, […]

HH REVEALS EMERGENCY NGABWE PIT STOP WITH GUY SCOTT …as Chopper forced unscheduled touchdown after nature issues high-stakes ultimatum to future President By DAVID KANDUZA IT was supposed to be a standard campaign flight, but nature does not respect political boundaries, flight manifests or the State security apparatus. In a hilarious recollection shared by President […]

HH takes South campaign blitz to shatter rally records….with nearly one million voters on line, the President launches an unprecedented 65-plus rally crusade in his birthplace By DAVID KANDUZA PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema is set to launch a high-stakes campaign blitz across his traditional political stronghold of Southern Province, aiming to rewrite Zambia’s electoral history books […]

Malema says xenophobia is self-hate, you chase Zimbabweans but call white foreigners investors Julius Malema stood before the Botswana National Front conference in Jwaneng on Sunday and named the disease eating at African solidarity. Xenophobia, he argues, is not really about foreigners at all. It is self-hate. Africans connected by history, culture and family, married […]

Captain Ibrahim Traoré walked into a prison. Not for a photo op. Not to announce a crackdown. To hand inmates the keys to their own freedom. Here’s the deal:At the Baporo Agricultural Penitentiary Centre, prisoners aren’t sitting in cells. They’re farming 130 hectares of maize, rice, sorghum, and soybeans. And for every month they work, […]

INFORMATION and Media Permanent Secretary Thabo Kawana has refuted claims that government has no funds to pay farmers. Speaking during the “Mind Your Business” Podcast, Monday, Kawana said delays by FRA to announce the maize floor price were procedural. “Then farmers in terms of FRA announcing the price, it is not true to state that […]

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says former vice-president Dr Guy Scott began working with the UPND government when he realised that the PF was driving the economy in the wrong direction. Meanwhile, President Hichilema says the UPND government amended the Constitution to allow former vice-presidents to be given retirement benefits, stating that it was unfair for them […]