Four International Chess Grand Masters will take part in the 2019 Zambia Open International Chess Championship slated for June 28th at the Olympic Youth Development Center -OYDC- in Lusaka.Zambia Chess Federation -ZCF- President Mukubulo Chilufya says the annual tournament has attracted over Two hundred and 50 local participants with 50 international players expected to compete.Chilufya…
Three Chiefs in North Western Province have pledged to support and work with government to foster development in the region.Chief Ishim Sankenyi the fifth of the Lunda people of Zambezi District says the decision has been arrived at because the chiefdom has lagged in development.And the Chief’s spouse has asked Kasama Central Member of Parliament…
UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has asked the Patriotic Front and its government to start helping citizens and stop “looting public resources through corruption”. Hichilema also stated that there must be a well thought out strategy to create meaningful jobs for citizens, “particularly our young people and women”. “We are therefore directing the corrupt PF regime…
The opposition Socialist Party in Zambia has called for the dismissal of Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo whom they have accused of directing police officers to raid former Post Newspapers editor-in-chief and managing director Fred M’membe’s House in Mwika village in Shiwangandu. Police last Saturday raided Dr M’membe’s house in Mwika village while he was…
MMD faction president Nevers Mumba has called on President Edgar Lungu to “urgently intervene” in the ongoing Malawi impasse in his capacity as Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) chairperson on Security and Defense. He stated that Zambia and Malawi had so much in common politically, economically and socially and likened the two countries’ similarities to…
By Alexander Bwalya Chikwanda, former Minister of Finance. A country may be characterized or defined by a diversity of physical features such as mountains, rivers and peculiarities. All told, what constitutes a country is a community of people, homogenous or heterogeneous, who inhabit the territorial space or land. Thus inevitably, Zambia is a summation of…
By Alexander Bwalya Chikwanda, former Minister of Finance. A country may be characterized or defined by a diversity of physical features such as mountains, rivers and peculiarities. All told, what constitutes a country is a community of people, homogenous or heterogeneous, who inhabit the territorial space or land. Thus inevitably, Zambia is a summation of…
