Letters

Allow me to air my views on the welfare of my country. While I appreciate the advantages that come with democracy such as freedom of expression, I think ours in Zambia appears to have been blown out of proportion. What is worrying is that everyone these days wants to be a politician. For example some […]

LATELY we are seeing civil servants going on strike to press for their salaries and if my memory serves me better, this trend started in the late 2012 to date. In the past, when workers downed tools, it meant that they were pressing for the salary increment and NOT delayed salaries. My appeal to the […]

PLEASE allow me some space in your paper to commend the ZCTU for proposing to halt ZESCO from going ahead with its plans to increase tariffs. Now let me tell ZESCO that they should not take advantage of the monopoly they are enjoying for decades now in this sector to increase tariffs anytime they feel […]

PLEASE be our voice to talk on this matter to our caring Republican President Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, the champion of disability, not forgetting the First Lady Esther Lungu. Inform them that persons with disabilities working for Zambia Agency for Persons with Disabilities (ZAPD) are starving because the Ministry of Finance is not releasing their […]

That criminal gangs are on the rise in Lusaka is not a big surprise. The truth is that our police are too relaxed. To think that it is merely young boys born only yesterday that have turned into criminals, and which police have to deal with is simply mind-boggling and at worst, a national scandal. […]

CAN I take my emotional support Gorilla on a plane or train? I feel much safer as nobody picks on the little guy who has a Gorilla as a pet. The recent refusal of an airline to allow a peacock as an emotional support animal has highlighted the use of animals to aid humans. The […]

ALLOW me some space in your newly launched but widely read newspaper to say something on the above subject. Today our country is full of stories in the media about ‘experts’ talking about this and that, including the Church, while the country still seems to be stuck on the ground. When one hears an engineer, […]

wish to come in full support of tour author of the letter last Sunday on the opening times of most of shops in Zambia. While at least government offices open around 08.00 hours most of our shops including big chain stores cannot be bothered to open until well over 09.00 hours. I live in Matero […]

I would like to know whether our government is aware that mealie meal is the nation’s staple food. I am asking because it appears people in our country can do as they please probably they know that nothing can happen to them. These business cartels should be controlled, not only in the maize sector but […]

TIME has come for the actors in the agricultural sector to heed the wakeup call that comes with the impact of climate change.   Whether or not we like it, things have now changed tremendously compared to what we saw of agriculture ten years before.  If I remember very well farmers were initially visited individually […]