Opinion
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OVER 400,000 small-holder farmers are linked to agribusinesses through more or less vertically integrated value chains. In return for assuring their supplies of raw produce, these agribusinesses provide farmers with varying amounts of inputs and services, including not only marketing services but crop management knowledge and skills. Smallholders are among the major beneficiaries in commercial […]
BARELY 24 hours after talking about the rising scourge of road traffic accidents attributed to excessive speed, has Zambia yet again witnessed another road horror. The fact that victims of a road traffic accident remain unknown due to the extent of fire damage to the three vehicles is saddening. Chirundu as a border town with […]
ZAMBIA’S private sector last month showed signs of recovery despite the persistent contraction to record the highest Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) reading since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak in March. This is despite the sector recording further reductions in output, new orders, and employment for the sixth successive month while input costs rose for […]
DESPITE the warnings and clear examples of fatalities across the globe, Zambia continues to record dangerously high numbers of coronavirus infections, but worse still is the apparent disregard that people continue to have towards limiting the spread of the disease. The Ministry of Health continues to give daily updates that tells the heart-breaking tale of […]
REVELATIONS that that some miscreant Zambians in collaboration with foreign nationals are indulged in smuggling of Government’s subsidized grain into neighboring countries call for urgent action and solutions to stop the scourge. Smuggling of maize and other natural resources is a problem, and has been a problem which leads to not only loss of customs duty revenue […]
REPORTS from Pemba district highlight a disturbing trend my many rural dwellers who have opted to focus their energies on illegal charcoal burning instead of other productive money making activities. The demand for charcoal in urban centres is as a direct result of alternative fuel for cooking due to the sporadic electricity supply, which ironically […]
LAST week Zambia crossed the 7,000 mark of laboratory confirmed coronavirus cases and worse still over 200 corona related deaths. These deaths were related to co-morbidities that also marked a spike in brought in dead cases, where the infected individuals sought help at a health facility too late. The Ministry of Health then disclosed that […]
THE rise in cases of newly-born babies being dumped and discarded in the most horrific of places or worse still in 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 one of the most abhorent forms […]
DESPITE the warnings and clear examples of fatalities across the globe, Zambia continues to record dangerously high numbers of coronavirus infections, but worse still is the apparent disregard that people continue to have towards limiting the spread of the disease. The Ministry of Health continues to give daily updates that tells the heart-breaking tale of […]
Reports that a 19-year-old Zambian girl was allegedly gang-raped by four men at Grootfontein in Namibia in the early hours of Sunday makes sad reading. The rising incidences of rape cases in Zambia, and neighboring countries is worrying and we are calling for stiffer penalties against rapists as a deterrent warning to would-be offenders. According […]
