Stories gaining reader attention across Zambia, including viral debates, entertainment, music, sports, and local updates.
Stories gaining reader attention across Zambia, including viral debates, entertainment, music, sports, and local updates.
Fellow Citizens and Hon. Independent MPs-Elect, 2026, Let me start with congratulations and gratitude 1.CONGRATULATIONS To the 20 newly elected Independent Members of Parliament of 2026 — history has been made. This is the highest number of Independents ever elected in Zambia’s multiparty era. You join a proud legacy of leaders who stood on their […]
13 Views By Nic Cheeseman and Nicole Beardsworth Zambia’s election was not supposed to end like this. For much of the campaign, President Hakainde Hichilema looked well-placed to secure a second term. Instead, the country has emerged from the 13 August vote with its democratic credibility in serious doubt. The most troubling evidence that Zambia’s […]
MBALA District is in mourning following the death of newly elected Mayor Steward Simutenda, who died in the early hours of Wednesday, 19th August 2026, just six days after winning the mayoral seat. Mr. Simutenda’s brother, Gabriel Simutenda, confirmed he died around midnight on 18th August following an illness. The late Mayor-Elect contested the mayoral
President Hakainde Hichilema used his first address to the nation since being declared winner of the presidential election to pledge to serve all Zambians equally, thank the more than 80,000 people who worked to deliver the vote, and issue a pointed warning against what he called…
NRPUP presidential candidate Brian Mundubile says President Hakainde Hichilema will not be sworn in yet, as he prepares a legal challenge against the declared election results. Mundubile insists he did not lose the election and says he is ready to take the matter to court,…
By Brian Matambo, Media Director, PF Pamodzi Alliance There is now a serious problem with the results of Zambia’s 13 August election, and it does not require complicated mathematics to understand. Let me use myself as an example. On election day, I went to vote at Kabulonga Boys.…
LUSAKA MAYORAL UPDATE: We are currently having technical challenges for us to announce Lusaka Mayoral results. - ECZ at Nakatindi Hall, Civic Centre
17 Views …AS GIVEN KATUTA URGES THEM TO PROTECT THEIR INDEPENDENCE LUSAKA — Zambia has recorded a historic rise in the number of independent Members of Parliament, with 20 Independent MPs elected in the 2026 general election, according to former Chienge Independent MP and 2026 presidential candidate Rev. Dr. Given Katuta Mwelwa. Katuta says the […]
ELECTIONS WERE NOT CREDIBLE, ECZ SALARIES A WASTAGE – Saboi Tuesday, 18th August, 2026 “It’s with deep sadness and uttermost sincerity to say that the 2026 elections were certainly not credible and have left a big stain on Zambia’s democracy.” “We have those processes from the polling station to the totalling centre for a reason. […]
By Nic Cheeseman(Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham, founder of www.democracyinafrica.org and author of ‘How to Rig an Election’.) and Nicole Beardsworth(Political science lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand) Zambia’s election was not supposed to end like this. For much of the campaign, President Hakainde Hichilema looked well-placed to secure a second term. […]
