MWILA AND MWITWA FACE COURT OVER ALLEGED K102 MILLION PF MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME. Davies Mwila, former Secretary General of the Patriotic Front (PF), and Annie Mwitwa, former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, are currently on trial in Lusaka Magistrate Court. They are accused of possessing property believed to be proceeds of crime, amounting
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LATE GEN SHIKAPWASHA HAD FIVE CHILDREN OUTSIDE WEDLOCK, COURT HEARS LATE Reverend Lieutenant General Ronald Shikapwasha had fathered more than five children outside wedlock in his 46-year-long marriage to murder accused, Jane Lusengo, the Lusaka High Court heard yesterday. This is in a matter Lusengo, 73, is accused of killing her husband, former Zambia Air
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WHY THEY ARE ON GOVT PAYROLL NOW IN a move designed to honor and utilise the experience of Zambia’s political veterans, President Hakainde Hichilema has appointed all six living former vice presidents as presidential envoys. The distinguished appointees include former Prime Minister Malimba Masheke, Godfrey Miyanda, Enock Kavindele, Nevers Mumba, Guy Scott, and Inonge Wina.
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YOUTHS ARE ANGRY WITH YOU, YOUTHS TELL HH A letter to the president Hakainde Hichilema [Langson Phiri] [May 15, 2024] His Excellency, President Hakainde Hichilema State House Lusaka, Zambia Dear Mr. President, We, the unhappy generation, are writing to express our deep frustration and concern about the unsustainable cost of living in Zambia. As young
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Harder economic times recipe for political instability – Mundubile THE hard and excruciating economic times Zambians are being subjected to under the UPND administration is raising people’s emotions and if not quickly addressed, could easily trigger political instability, Brian Mundubile has warned. Mr Mundoubile has advised Zambians to brace themselves for even harder times ahead
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Stop harassing ECL – Nakachinda THE narrative the UPND administration want to champion, suggesting that the movement and any activities that the former President Edgar Lungu is to engage in require permission is a form of harassment and must be stopped, PF Secretary General Raphael Nakachinda has said. Mr Nakachinda said, the former head of
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Opposing MP Munir’s ‘more CDF to villagers’: after all M’membe tells HH to return to Bweengwa village By Austin mbozi I differ with Lumezi MP Munir Zulu who suggested that rural constituencies like his must get more CDF than urban ones (The Mast editorial, 15 April 2024). After all, the opposition can resist ‘Go-back-to-the-land policies,
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America’s gravest secret Continued from last week By Prof Munyonzwe Hamalengwa 6 pm, March 24, 2017: Trump calls Obama Trump: Obama, I have been looking for you. You son of a gun, where have you been? Playing golf now that you have joined the millionaires’ club with your latest book deal of 60 million? It
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HH shouldn’t emulate failures of his predecessors, urges Harrington By Thomas Ngala PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema should not emulate failures of his predecessors, urges William Harrington. He says there is need for President Hichilema to take up the challenge made by Barotse National Freedom Alliance (BNFA) France-based international lawyers to append his signature to the Permanent
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COURT GRANTS DIVORCE TO MAN AFTER TESTIMONY OF WIFE’S VIOLENCE Byta FM Zambia Court Beat Journalist reports that the Mazabuka Local Court has granted a divorce to Royd Nawa, a 54-year-old man from Mazabuka’s Makalanguzu area, from his wife Gift Nanyangwe, 43, after being married since 1993. Nawa testified that his wife’s violent behavior and
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