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Zambia’s new president Edgar Lungu has a minority mandate. Less than half of the registered voters made their mark, and he faces new polls in 2016.
Zambia’s forthcoming presidential by-election is not cut and dried. Defence Minister Edgar Lungu is calling for a general conference.
Since Michael Sata’s death, the ruling party has witnessed an unprecedented fight for the presidency, which has also drawn in members of his family.
Mulenga, son of late Zambian president Michael Sata, has withdrawn his candidature for presidency of the Patriotic Front.
The story is not that Zambia now has a white acting president, the real and tragic story is why do Zambian presidents choose to die abroad?
A vital ‘SA-style’ facility for Lusaka is on hold while its pugnacious backer and the IDC squabble.
The oversight role of business figure and political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki is to come under new scrutiny at an insolvency hearing.
Moeletsi Mbeki’s former lover is fighting his attempt to evict her and her children from their R3-million home.
Shareholders of Finance Bank are contesting the legality of FNB’s doomed acquisition in 2011.
Former Zambian first lady Vera Tembo (formerly Chiluba) showed her resilience in last week’s general elections, winning a parliamentary seat for the Movement for Multi Party…
Martin Mubanga’s parents have changed his school twice this year because he was forced to share ‘overcrowded” classrooms with 14 other learners. ‘What’s the point of sending your…
In Zambia, the battle for equality between men and women is being waged on many fronts — not least concerning the sentences handed down by courts. Men who kill their wives in…
The festive season is traditionally a time of giving in Zambia, where the streets of the capital, Lusaka, are awash with people caught up in the buying frenzy that characterises…
The HIV pandemic has proved a divisive force in several African countries, not least Zambia. While the question of whether to make HIV tests mandatory has sparked fierce debate…
Voluntary testing or mandatory testing? That is the question Aids activists and government officials are grappling with in Zambia, where about one million people have already…
This month marks the second anniversary of a corruption task force set up by Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa to investigate the alleged improprieties of his predecessor,…
One step forward, three steps backwards: that’s how various Aids activists, parents and teachers in Zambia are describing government’s decision to ban the distribution of condoms…
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has had an uneasy relationship with civil society from the beginning of his term in office. However, matters worsened recently when he accused…
Zambia’s labour movement has declared February 18 a day of national protest against the government’s decision to increase taxes and freeze salaries of the more than 120 000…
Low wages and unemployment, coupled with high taxes, have forced thousands of qualified Zambians to flee the country in search of greener pastures — but President Levy Mwanawasa…
