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By Sishuwa Sishuwa In the 2019 national budget, the Minister of Finance proposed a few changes to Zambia’s mining tax regime. As well as introducing a 1.5 per cent increase in mineral royalty rates, Margaret Mwanakatwe also imposed a 5 per cent import duty on...

By Henry Kanyanta Sosala PART II Consequences of Cultural Genocide Culture which I like to refer to within the current African context as "the effort to try to find one’s real self.’" It has been rightly said, ‘’Anyone who has a quarrel with the past, loses the...

By Sishuwa Sishuwa Across 2018, Zambia experienced no shortage of disappointments and setbacks. Yet there are some individuals whose courage and principles made them inspiring figures in the political landscape. In this and the next article, I list two sets of citizens of 2018: those...

….Mines’ threat of mass layoffs upsets government and Zambians…… By Kalima Nkonde Story Highlights The bottom line is that illicit financial flows leads to a loss of resources on the part of the government, and the resources are actually lost into foreign hands. Our call as...

By Henry Kanyanta Sosala PART I Preamble. In the first place, I would be remiss if I don’t tell a little bit about myself. I am a free-thinker and a free-thinker is supposed to be audacious i.e., to be extremely bold, daring, recklessly brave and fearless. Aristotle...

By Linda Kasonde I recently came across the story of a young African-American man, Charles Johnson IV, who is fighting for legislation to increase the quality of health care to reduce maternal mortality among African-American women. His own wife died after delivering a healthy baby...

Patriotism (Love And Duty To The Country) Is An Inescapable And Compelling Moral Imperative For All Citizens By A. B. Chikwanda 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...

Summary Analysis of the Constitutional Court Decision That the Presidential Tenure From 25 January, 2015-13 September, 2016 Did Not Constitute a Full Term By Elias C. Chipimo Origin of the Three Year Partial Term Rule Under Zambia's Republican Constitution, the rule about a presidential term not qualifying...

By Sishuwa Sishuwa Zambians were recently surprised to learn of the commencement of a secretive dialogue process between President Edgar Lungu and Hakainde Hichilema, leader of the main opposition United Party for National Development (UPND), aimed at introducing institutional reforms on electoral law, judicial...

By Hon. Mumbi Phiri Dear reader, As the nation joins the rest of the world in observing 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence (GBV) – a period which also coincides with the World Aids Day and Human rights day, it provides us with...

By Peter Sinkamba GREGORY CIFIRE IMPRISONMENT: FROM THE LENS OF THE GREEN PARTY Following the sentencing of Anti-Corruption and human rights activist Gregory Cifire to six years simple imprisonment by the Supreme Court last week on Friday last week, I have received calls from various media...

Herryman Moono, Economist On Friday 28th September 2018 during her budget speech, the Minister of Finance, Hon. Margaret Mwanakatwe said: “Mr. Speaker, in 2019 Government will undertake an exercise to rebase the Gross Domestic Product, an exercise last conducted in 2012. The rebasing of the Gross...

On Friday, October 19, 2018, the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) publicly released the results of its 2017-2018 Legal Practitioners’ Qualifying Examinations (LPQ Examinations). Due to the grave misinformation circulating on various media platforms about the performance of the University of Zambia...

By Dickson JERE, ACIArb, LLB, LLM, MIP, AHCZ, Dip.Journalism Out of the 384 students that sat for the Legal Practitioners Qualification Examinations (LPQE) for 2018 at the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) only 4 cleared all the ten courses. Of the four, non...

Herryman Moono - Economist I have heard and read statements attributed to some of my learned seniors in the economics profession calling for the regulation of the economics profession in Zambia. They are sickened at the plethora of voices on economic matters in the country...