Letters

IT IS time to work together as One Zambia One Nation to get out of this mess. This will include painfully calling on of some of you PF members, to work with other political parties. President Edgar Chagwa Lungu should with immediate effect suspend all international travels and let foreign missions represent GRZ at various […]

TODAY’S spot price for copper is $6,220 per tonne and multiply that by 400,000 tonnes per year and you are talking $2.488 billion in revenue. Today’s spot price for cobalt is $34,011 per tonne and multiply that by 210,000 tonnes per year and you are talking $7.142 Billion in revenue. And yet, everyone is thinking […]

I learnt with shock the sudden death of Mr. Mwamba Kalenga. He was a passionate sports administrator and as his vice chairperson that worked closely with him at National Sports Council of Zambia, I learnt a number of things on his promotion of good governance. The nation has lost a gallant and devoted sports administrator. […]

This is where we, most Zambians are at fault by showing desperation too much. KCM no doubt has been making billions of dollars and most of it, if not all, finds itself not in Government treasury but to some offshore accounts. This has been going on for far too long leaving the mining towns ghost […]

I wish to express my displeasure how the Zambian economy faring of late. From October, 1964 to 1980 Zambian economy was marvelous. It was K1 equivalent to 1 pound but from 1984  the Zambia economy started going down. The point here is that we had more industries and we were exporting a lot to other countries […]

I TOTALLY agree with our General Education Minister David Mabumba that provision of quality education will make Africa including Zambia better and stronger. This is because there is nothing that can replace education as we all know every profession in the world today started with education from primary, secondary to tertiary education. I mean to […]

THROUGH the columns of your reputed Newspaper, I wish to bring to the attention of the public the urgent need for a change of mind-set. Some people are stranded because they programmed their mind that the government is responsible for making their lives better. Living a life waiting for a day the government will come […]

THOSE who have been to some of our government hospitals and clinics will agree with me that the situation with regard to provision of drugs still remains pathetic. It has become a common practice to give sick people prescriptions to buy medicines even after being made to wait for hours in long queues. I recently […]

Allow me to say something about our hard working NDF and say a few things. First I am total against some of its proposes such as bringing back deputy ministers, jailing for 2 years people who do not sing national anthem, stop voting for mayors,ect? For me I think this is pure madness and I […]

Many of our so-called investors come to this country with pledges of millions of dollars in various sectors of the economy. They then externalize millions of dollars in profits from some of these illicit undertakings. Do we as a country have a foolproof way of ascertaining the exact quanta of funds brought in either as […]