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Open Letter to Minister of Higher Education, Prof Nkandu LuoDear Minister Luo, On 29 April 2019, News Diggers published the most recent public comments you have made on the continued closure of the Copperbelt University (CBU). In the published story, you were quoted by […]
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China, Confucius institutes and the capture of Africa’s futureThe first building that one comes across when entering the University of Zambia, which sits on the terraces of a busy motorway to and from the country’s main international airport, is an imposing and massive […]
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He is their leader: why Edgar Lungu cannot stop the violent behaviour of PF cadresThe thuggery of ruling Patriotic Front (PF) cadres never seems to cease and appears to grow more frequent as time passes. Media reports on their latest antics can be read or heard almost every week […]
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We have created and earned him: why Lungu remains Zambia’s presidentFor a long time now, many of us have complained, sometimes with very persuasive arguments, that Zambia is where it is today because of bad leadership at the national level. We explain our country’s deepening […]
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Brenda Muntemba: vivid in death as she was in public lifeOn 19 March 2019, the heart of Brenda Muntemba, 49, ceased to beat, cutting short a soaring career in public service that was so distinguished that few would match it even if they were given […]
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Zambia is a dream in ruins. Can we rescue it?On 5 March 1988, Shem Michael Mlevhu, commonly known as Keith Mlevhu, a multitalented artist and upstanding citizen of our country ceased to breathe. Born in the mining town of Chingola 37 years earlier, on […]
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The real reasons why Nkandu Luo is taking students’ meals off the tableOn 6 February 2019, Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo announced that her ministry had with immediate effect stopped disbursing the stipend, popularly known as ‘meal’ allowance, paid to government-sponsored students in public universities […]
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Bad losers losing badly: Lessons from SeshekeLast Tuesday, the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) scooped the Sesheke parliamentary by-election after defeating the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and two other opposition parties, namely, the United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) […]
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The real reasons why Lungu won’t fire ChitotelaLast week, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested Minister of Infrastructure and Housing Development Ronald Kaoma Chitotela on suspicion of corruption. Chitotela, 46, was subsequently charged with two counts of concealing property suspected of being proceeds […]
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Let the looting continue! Explaining the response to Congo’s chaotic electionOn 30 December 2018, voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) went to the polls to choose a successor to President Joseph Kabila who had been in power since 2001. The election featured 21 […]
