Opinion
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We hail Government’s assurance to traditional leaders that it will continue to involve them when relocating animals because they are chief heralds of sustainable growth. This follows a controversy that raged over the relocation of animals from North Luangwa national Park without engaging the local leadership, a situation which angered Chief Mukungule of Mpika district. […]
IN what can only be described as sheer madness, reports coming out of the Copperbelt suggest that a combined team of Kitwe City Council public health inspectors and the Zambia Police closed five premises that were operating as bars. The closed premises operated as bars against the Presidential directive to observe health guidelines in the […]
TWO Hundred and eighty two deaths related to Covid- 19 is 282 deaths too many. The deadly coronavirus made its presence known to Zambia in March 2020 and the first fatality was attributed to co-morbidity. A man of Kafue, living on his own with a history of hypertension. This pandemic has forced many ordinary citizens […]
THERE are many twisted minds living amongst us, as evidenced by the heinous defilement cases we continue to record. There have been cases of grandfathers defiling their own biological child – but worse still a three-year-old.Other reports are of a 9-year-old impregnated by an unknown man. And now out of Muchinga Province, the police disclosed […]
THERE is a Bible verse where the Lord Jesus declares “the poor will always be amongst us”, and so it is imperative for any society to keep in mind the most vulnerable members amongst us and offer some form of relief. Government, through the Ministry of Community Development has implemented the Social Cash Transfer programme […]
ZAMBIA has just jumped from 10,000 to over 11,000 laboratory confirmed Covid-19 cases in the space of a few days and this marks a worrisome escalation. Lusaka remains the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic but slowly but surely cases are rising in other provinces. It is sad to know that despite public awareness campaigns having […]
JUST the other week the media was awash with images of razed houses as various councils swung into action to bring down illegally constructed structures. Many urban residents are under the misplaced belief that construction is the safest way of securing ownership of land and unfortunately this skewed thinking has resulted in loss of resources […]
ONE of the basic principles of Christianity is to show love to one another and therefore the move by the Anglican church to uphold the dignity and humanity of every individual by fighting human trafficking is commendable. It has been reported that the Anglican Church plans to conduct a campaign against human trafficking. According to […]
AS if the Covid-19 pandemic was not enough of a burden, malaria has reared it’s ugly head and is posing a serious threat on the well-being of the general population. Malaria is a parasitic disease that is transmitted between humans through the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito. While there are four types of parasites […]
THE rise in cases of newly-born babies being dumped and discarded in the most horrific of places such as roadsides, drainage ditches, garbage heaps or worse still pit latrines have no justification whatsoever. Baby dumping is inhuman and unacceptable. Every child, regardless of circumstances surrounding their conception, has a right to life. Baby dumping is […]
