Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Columns

Why is there Post-Election Depression in America?

By Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D. Professor of Sociology Why has this American Presidential election result caused so much wide-spread angst, anxiety, fear, anger, crying,...

President Lungu must assemble a cross-cutting team to look at whole Constitution

By Isaac Mwanza As I said before, I have never held a view that any country's Constitution is cast in stone and not amenable to...

Zambia’s 2017 Budget: Will it restore fiscal fitness?

By Gregory Smith-Senior Economist at World Bank Group After 5 elections in 10 years, the government has –following constitutional changes- the prospect of a full...

The Deadly Dinner – Political Cannibalism in the PF

The ugly scenes that greeted the Vice President on her arrival at the Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport recently are unfortunate and deplorable. The...

Stemming the illegal land development quagmire

Illegality in land allocation has been in the news lately with the Vice President expressing concern about the rampant encroachment on land on the...

Felix Mutati’s budget is wrong and contradictory-Charles Kakoma

UPND Spokesman Charles Kakoma has described the 2017 national budget presented last Friday by Finance Minister Felix Mutati as wrong and contradictory. Mr Kakoma said...

FDD’s Reaction to the National Budget

NEW BUDGET, SAME OLD STORY Hon Felix Mutati and his drafters of the budget tried very hard to sound convincing and forward looking in their...

Ministers flying in first class is immoral

I note with sadness and concern the continued extravagant lifestyles our government officials continue living. The government used tax payers’ money to fly the...