Sunday, November 24, 2024

Feature Column

One Hundred Days before the FIFA World Cup—What is Zambia Doing?

There is now less than 100 days before the FIFA 2010 World Cup kicks off in South Africa. Here in Zambia there is little or nothing that is being done by authorities to take advantage of this big event in our front yard. What exactly is wrong with our leaders? A fortnight ago I visited the ministry of tourism to find out what they were planning, here in Zambia, as far as the world cup was concerned. There seemed to have been no one particularly responsible for this. After running around and bouncing from office to office I was referred to the Zambia Tourism Board Managing Director who was too busy and still waiting for a call from him.

Chiluba’s Pettiness – a disappointment in the Diaspora

By Patrick Hatontola On 21st February 2010, Former President Dr. FTJ Chiluba called for a press conference at this Kabulonga residence which has been generally...

The Last Ten Years, The Next Ten Years

By Wesley Ngwenya Over the last few weeks, I have been looking back at the last decade particularly on the impact it has had on...

Mandela: The Last Black Man Standing

By Anthony Kasonde 20 years ago, today, the world stood still in anticipation of the realization of the...

George Kunda Is an Inept Vice President

By Henry Kyambalesa It has now become clear that Comrade George Kunda is not competent enough in discharging his duties as our beloved country’s Vice...

President Banda Should Dissolve the NCC

Henry Kyambalesa The National Constitutional Conference (NCC) is a fraud. Among other things, it does not have any legitimacy in the eyes of the majority...

Does RB support Rapists?

By Madame Musonda As a Zambian woman I was greatly appalled to have read in your paper about an MMD youth Chairperson Chris Chalwe...

The Declaration of Zambia as a Christian Nation

By Elias Munshya wa Munshya This article seeks to respond to Henry Kyambalesa’s article “Zambia: the declaration of Zambia as a Christian Nation”...