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COVID 19: Prepare for Intra-Party and 2021 Elections Under the ‘New Normal’
By Parkie Mbozi
Two things have come to characterize President Edgar Lungu’s fortnightly address to the nation on the COVID 19 situation in the...
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Civil Society Working Group calls for enhanced cyber security during the COVID-19 response
The Working Group on Cyber Laws and Digital Security in Zambia, a consortium of Civil Society actors advocating for human rights-based internet legislation in...
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Zambia Was Not a Socialist State and It has Never been One
By Faston Mwale
Recently, there has been a growing debate contending that the UNIP government ran a socialist state which failed and ultimately led to...
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Open letter to Power Tools on the increasing Poor Road Safety Record
The Zambia Road Safety Trust (ZRST) is the Nation’s leading road safety charity, which was founded in 2014 and has over 1,000 members and...
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A mother’s appeal: Please DO NOT open schools in June
I am a mother to two grade 12s. I would like to appeal on the recent announcement to open exam classes in June.
The Minister...
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Why a Marshall Plan for Africa might be Dead Aid too
By Caesar Cheelo, Senior Researcher-Macroeconomics at ZIPAR
Recently, world-renowned author and Zambian economist Dambisa Felicia Moyo wrote an article in the Economist on a “Marshall...
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We are a rhetoric people and that is what Lucy Sichone was not
By Sishuwa Sishuwa
‘Day by day, we seem to be left with a people who are embryos of themselves; people who never grow out of...
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Dambisa Moyo on a “Marshall Plan” for Africa
BY DAMBISA MOYO
THE PANDEMIC’S scale and virulence means it is destroying economies as much as it is claiming lives.
Poor countries look as if they...