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TIZ 2019 review: Superficial fight against corruption an injustice to the poorThe PF administration under the leadership of President Edgar Lungu, reached the mid point of its five-year term in April 2019. In total, the Patriotic Front has been in power for 39 months out of […]
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What is eating me up and giving me sleepless nights A response to Sunday ChandaOrdinarily, I do not respond to reactions to my articles that make no attempt whatsoever to engage with the substance of my writing. I believe that ad hominems, however well presented, are not arguments. The […]
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AN ACUTELY SEPTIC SCEPTIC – A VERY UNSURE SISHUWAOne would have thought that by being an academician, UNZA don Sishuwa Sishuwa would be a person whose outlook would be guided by empirical evidence and objectivity. Far from it! The prejudice and cynicism in […]
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Lungu should cut his term of office, not the salaries of public officers. Here is why.A few days ago, President Edgar Lungu announced a 15 to 20 per cent reduction on his salary and the salaries of both cabinet ministers and the chief executives of parastatal companies. Lungu further directed […]
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Every Judgment Is a Lie: A Critique of the Bill 10 Judgment of the Constitutional CourtAlbie Sachs, the celebrated retired judge of the South African Constitutional Court, while delivering a lecture, once asserted that every judgment he wrote was a lie. By this he meant that the formality of every […]
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State of the Zambian Economy and its Ripple Effects on the Livestock Subsector in 2019The Zambian economy has faced challenges of constricting fiscal space and the devastating effects of climate change. Fiscal space is commonly defined as the budgetary room that allows a government to provide resources for public […]
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Against the Order of Nature? What about oral and anal sex between man, wife? Think Again!Two Zambian males were recently sentenced to a hefty 15 years in jail for committing a crime not against any person, but “against the order of nature”. Mr Daniel Foote, the American ambassador to Zambia […]
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Bill 10 – Is Zambia finally on the way to a durable constitution?The long march towards constitutional stability in Zambia continues. We are yet again at the precipice of possibly another failure at constitutional reforms. Bill No 10 was intended to be a process to address lacunae […]
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Some PF insiders want to get rid of President Lungu. And they have a plan.On 8 November 2019, President Edgar Lungu, speaking in his first press conference for four years, brought up Zambia’s elections scheduled for 2021 before declaring: “I am game”. Breaking with his usual practice of governing […]
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Current Status of Peri-Urban And Urban Livestock Keeping In Lusaka DistrictThe nation was recently engaged in a debate on the rearing of livestock in residential areas. This debate arose from reports that the mayor of the city of Lusaka was keeping Friesian cows at his […]
