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Government has directed local authorities countrywide not to issue trading licenses for next year  to business houses which have failed to work in compliance to the Keep Zambia Clean and Health programme. Local Government and Housing Minister, Sylvia Masebo said...

Justice Minister George Kunda says government's position on the national constitution conference is irreversible and will go ahead with the process of the holding the conference. Mr. Kunda says the act is now law and its implementation has commenced and...

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has warned the opposition and civic groups that they will face treason charges if they reject his government's plans to amend the constitution, state media reported on Wednesday."President Mwanawasa says people daring his government over...

A LUSAKA magistrate's court has heard that former State House aide Richard Sakala allegedly instructed the Zambia Privatisation Agency (ZPA) to transfer all parastatal houses to the Presidential Housing Initiative (PHI). Former Indeco Estates managing director, Kalumyana Silumesi 56,...

VICE President Rupiah Banda has paid glowing tribute to organisations and individuals that have risen above personal interests to be part of the Constitution-making process via the National Constitution Conference (NCC). Mr Banda said in Lusaka yesterday that even as...

Zinc Kabwe Ltd., a unit of South African miner Metorex has received the green light to build facilities for processing 10,000 tonnes of finished copper per year, officials said on Monday. But plans by Chinese firm to construct a...

Government is determined to enact a new constitution or make substantial amendments to the current one on the basis of what the National Constitutional Conference (NCC) will decide, Minister of Justice George Kunda has assured. “The conference will also decide...

At least 15 persons were tragically killed and 13 more left with multiple injuries after the bus in which they were travelling from the Zambian copper mining town of Chingola was involved in a head-on crash with a freight...

A clergyman in Lusaka says the National Constitution Conference (NCC) is a catalyst to unity in the nation as opposed to dividing it. Zambia Hope International president, Adamson Musonda, says bickering on the mode of enacting the new constitution will...

Defence minister, George Mpombo has called for an end to political differences among politicians in Mazabuka in Southern Province to foster development. The minister said political differences have  frustrated development because politicians spent their energies on attacking each other instead of...