Saturday, November 23, 2024

Feature Column

What on Earth is Going On?

By Dr.Charles Ngoma This year the Zambian people are going to vote in the 10th Presidential and Parliamentary general election, since independence from Britain in...

Land and minerals: Worth Defending

By Gerald Nkisu Katayi Word on the streets of copperbelt in the 70s had it that Northwestern province was “backward” and the people from the...

King Fred The II, So Long Mr President.

By Anthony Kasonde The recent passing of Zambia’s second Republican President Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba a.k.a. FJT marked an end of an era. It...

Edward Mumbi, The Chief Political Spoiler (CPS)

By Daimone Siulapwa   WHO is the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) spokesperson? For those that have come off the bus and are new...

Functions of the Republican President

In a news article entitled “RB Should Be Left to Decide Election Date,” which appeared in the Lusaka Times of 12th May 2011, comrade Ronnie Shikapwasha was quoted as having said that there was nothing wrong with President Rupiah Banda’s delay in announcing the polling date, and that he should be left alone to decide as the President has every right to do so. He was further quoted as having said that those calling for early polls are doing it out of ignorance and are not following the constitution as it states that the country’s leader has the power to announce the election date at whatever time he feels the nation is ready.

Zambia in the eyes of a fiction writer

WRITING books in a society where the reading culture has declined drastically may not be a fulfilling venture but that has not stopped Grieve...

Let’s talk about Mbita Chitala…

By Daimone Siulapwa   IN the next few articles to come, I will break it down as to how our politicians are playing games with us,...

Rejects will cost the PF Victory

By Daimone Siulapwa SO, it seems the Patriotic Front (PF), a party which is championing change and hopes to form the next government after this...