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Youth bulge: A demographic dividend or bomb?
EIGHBOURING Zambia at one time an emblem of democracy in the southern African region, provides the best example of transitioning with changes in governance having taken place since the historic unseat...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | 3 | by Ashton Bumhira
Zimbabwe-Zambia: There goes the puppies again!
OVER the past few months, the political temperature has been heating up as if the country's general elections are scheduled for next year.Watching developments from my poshto has been quite in...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:06hrs | 14 | by Retired Major Action Mandingo
In politics read the game & dynamics - A Big Monday With Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Politics is all about strategy and political grip otherwise you can be a BIG joke. It is very simple, simply put your ears on the ground before you make any advanced moves. In political ecology we tra...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Biti in Solidarity with Hakainde Hichilema in Lusaka
On Monday the 14th of August 2017 President Tendai Biti led a party delegation which attended the trial of United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema.Addressing ...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 11:51hrs | 1 | by PDP
Zambia goes to the polls amid democratic backsliding
Zambia, the former British colony, ruled by Kenneth Kaunda from 1964 until 1991 goes to the polls today amid democratic backsliding and economic turmoil. The frontrunners are Hakainde Hichilema of...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 09:50hrs | 1 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
'I would rather die than join Zanu-PF, says' Mutasa
Former Zanu-PF senior official Didymus Mutasa says he would "rather die than rejoin" President Robert Mugabe's warring governing party as has been "maliciously speculated" on social media and in some ...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF is a violent party'
Respected Zanu-PF elder Cephas Msipa has confirmed what the country's opposition has always complained bitterly about, that President Robert Mugabe's ruling party uses violence to win elections an...Published: 11 Apr 2016 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rubbishes Guy Scott's accusations
Zanu-PF has rubbished claims by former Zambian vice president Guy Scott that President Robert Mugabe's party uses political violence to remain in power.Commenting on Scott's statement, Zanu-PF...Published: 05 Apr 2016 at 14:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scott tells Zambian President to shun making country look like Zimbabwe
Former Zambia Vice President Guy Scott,has reportedly warned that country's president Edgar Lungu to avoid creating the Zimbabwean situation in that country by allowing violence to reign.Scott...Published: 04 Apr 2016 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zambia's Guy Scott endorses Hichilema
LUSAKA - Former Zambian vice president Guy Scott yesterday endorsed the candidature of main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema and claimed that incumbent President Edgar Lungu has lost direction....Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ranking Zambian Presidents: See where Lungu stands
Since 1964, our country has had six presidents. The first president Kenneth Kaunda suffered a qualitative declivity. The second president Frederick Chiluba was driven by a fateful sense of entitlement...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 07:14hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Zambia's Lungu fires his white vice president
LUSAKA - President Edgar Lungu has appointed republican vice president Inonge Wina as vice president of the Patriotic Front (PF) replacing Lusaka Central Member of Parliament (MP) Guy Scott....Published: 23 May 2015 at 17:08hrs | | by Lusaka Times
White Zambian President booted out
President Edgar Lungu, who was sworn in yesterday, has appointed Zambia's first female Vice-President Inonge Wina, replacing Lusaka Central MP Guy Scott.Wina was wife of deceased MMD chairman ...Published: 26 Jan 2015 at 17:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Acceptance speech by the 6th President of Zambia, Edgar Chagwa Lungu
LUSAKA -I greet you all in the name of our Lord and Saviour, the Sovereign King of our land Jesus Christ. It is with great humility and tremendous joy that I stand before you today. After months of lo...Published: 26 Jan 2015 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Edgar Chagwa Lungu
Mugabe meets Zambia's white President
As Zambians await the announcement of the final results for the 2015 presidential election tonight, Zambia's Acting President Guy Scott paid a courtesy call on President Robert Mugabe who is the curr...Published: 24 Jan 2015 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zambia goes to polls in tightly contested race
Johannesbur - Zambia goes to the polls on Tuesday in a tightly contested race to elect a president after a ruling party power struggle following the death of Michael Sata in office last year.T...Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
White Africa President rejects cabinet's call for resignation
Zambia's acting president Guy Scott rejected calls by cabinet ministers for him to resign on Wednesday as two sides within the ruling party intensified a power struggle ahead of an election next mont...Published: 18 Dec 2014 at 06:13hrs | | by Reuters
Zambia's cabinet pass a vote of no confidence in its white president
ZAMBIA'S cabinet passed a vote of no confidence in interim president Guy Scott on Wednesday and asked him to resign, intensifying a power struggle within the ruling party ahead of an election next mon...Published: 17 Dec 2014 at 21:33hrs | | by Reuters
ZRP salutes Edgar Lungu for scooping the patriotic front presidential race
As the Zambia Republican Party ZRP, we wish to congratulate the incoming sixth Zambian president for scooping the PF presidency. In fact as the REPUBLICANS like any right thinking Zambian we knew...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 16:42hrs | | by Wright Musoma
Zimbabwe, Zambia grapple with political turmoil
Ever since colonial cartographers drew their common frontier across the Zambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe have shared an uneasy destiny: landlocked nations, onetime adversaries and now mirror images ...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zambia's ruling party splits
A MAJOR split in Zambia's ruling Patriotic Front (PF) has seen two factions select rival candidates for presidential elections next month, raising the possibility that the opposition could snatch vict...Published: 02 Dec 2014 at 21:47hrs | | by AFP
Hunt for Successor: God has spoken
"God works in mysterious ways," is a trite so often uttered at the pulpit, and it is the one that precedes my article. I know there are many who will recoil with repulsion at my audacity to evoke God'...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Zambia's white President suspended
The Patriotic Front Central Committee has suspended Acting Party and Republican President Guy Scott from the party for sixty days with immediate effect.The Central Committee has also aske...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 14:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Michael Sata's widow joins succession race
Lusaka - The battle for Zambia's presidency became even more of a family affair on Wednesday with late leader Michael Sata's widow joining the race to become the ruling party's candidate....Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 12:20hrs | | by AFP
Zambia to hold presidential by-election January 20
Zambia's interim leader announced a presidential by-election on Jan. 20 and called for calm and tolerance amid concerns about a tense contest to succeed President Michael Sata, who died in office ...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 08:27hrs | | by Reuters
Too Early for Dr Kaseba Sata to Comment on National Issues
As ZRP we advise the former first lady Madam Kaseba not to be used by the cartel and indeed to start commenting on national issue which are thorn because we believe it's too early for her to make ...Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 14:27hrs | | by Wright Musoma ZRP President.
Zambia's white president to be deported?
Senior Patriotic Front officials are becoming more brutal in their power struggles with Chilubi Member of Parliament Obias Chisala saying acting President Guy Scott should be deported.Chisala ...Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Peter Adamu
ex-Zambian minister wants wants Scott to surrender power
Lusaka - The battle to succeed late Zambian president Michael Sata has entered the courts, with supporters of one contender claiming that his right to take over as interim president had been unlaw...Published: 13 Nov 2014 at 14:22hrs | 13 | by AFP
Michael Chilufya Sata: Hero or Villain
On the day President Michael Chilufya Sata died Reuters carried the headline "Zambia's President 'King Cobra' Sata dies." The New York Times of October 30, 2014 described him as an "acerbic leader...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe
Mugabe leaves for Sata burial
President Robert Mugabe will be among African leaders at the burial of Zambian leader, President Michael Sata who died two weeks ago.Mugabe has already arrived in the Zambian capital, Lusaka a...Published: 10 Nov 2014 at 19:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sata 'named his successor'
Cape Town - On his deathbed in a London hospital a couple of weeks ago, Zambian president Michael Sata is said to have dictated a note in which he named his preferred successor....Published: 09 Nov 2014 at 21:59hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Please African leaders, Die in your countries
Just a few days after Zambia celebrated her 50th independence anniversary last month, their president, Michael Sata, died in a London hospital, where he had been admitted with an unspecified illne...Published: 08 Nov 2014 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff Correspondence
Riots against Zambia's white acting President
Lusaka - Zambia's acting president on Tuesday rescinded his decision to dismiss the ruling party's chief in a bid to defuse a political conflict that triggered overnight riots.The reversal was...Published: 04 Nov 2014 at 15:42hrs | | by AP
Zambia's white President fires defence minister
ACTING Zambian leader Guy Scott dismissed a presidential front-runner as secretary-general of the ruling party on Monday, pointing to a fiercely contested election in the next three months to suc...Published: 04 Nov 2014 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Reuters
Michael Sata's son readies to become Zambia's president
LUSAKA - Mulenga Sata, the son of the late Zambian President Michael Sata says he is ready to succeed his father who mentored him not to shy away from challenges.Mulenga who is the Mayor o...Published: 03 Nov 2014 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Guy Scott must honor Sata by allowing Lungu to act as President
If indeed Vice president Dr Guy Scott cherishes his long friendship with the late President Michael Sata as he said, please let him then stop acting as president of Zambia and allow late Sata's prefer...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 14:12hrs | | by Wright Musoma
Mugabe wants to quit says Zambia's new president
Zambia's new president, Guy Scott insisted that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe wants to quit.Talking to the Guardian soon after Margaret Thatcher's funeral in 2013, he said of Mugabe: "I ...Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 20:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zambia returns to white rule
Zambia reverted to white rule on Wednesday when vice president Guy Scott of Scottish descent were elevated to the top job after the demise of President Michael Sata on Tuesday.The Cambridge e...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 17:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Messy struggle for Zambian presidency under way
Lusaka - The battle for Zambia's top job was already under way before long-ailing president Michael Sata died on Tuesday, but it looks set to become messier and more intense in his wake.When S...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 17:13hrs | | by AFP
Zambia to have a white President
Zambia's vice-president Guy Scott will become Africa's first white head of state since South Africa's FW de Klerk in 1994 following the death of Zambian President Michael Sata who died in London, wh...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 12:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Michael Sata's health fails
AILING Zambian President Michael Sata has not been seen in public for more than two months, prompting a behind-the-scenes power struggle to succeed him.Publicly at least, the government of thi...Published: 27 Aug 2014 at 15:43hrs | 1 | by AFP
Mugabe won't use Sadc chair to settle old scores
The incoming chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe moved at the weekend to quell down speculation that he would use his new position as Sad...Published: 17 Aug 2014 at 16:11hrs | 1 | by Ray Ndlovu
Zambians should keep Scott away from State house
The tremor in his right hand was incessant. Earlier when they had met, David had felt a little quiver in the handshake, more like an eel touch. As the interview progressed he kept sneaking a qu...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 08:26hrs | 2 | by Field Ruwe
'Sata out of the political equation' due to 'failing' health
Zambia - Opposition All People's Congress leader Nason Msoni has proposed that the ruling Patriotic Front PF government nominate a person from within cabinet to act as president while the country pre...Published: 10 Jul 2014 at 12:25hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Heartless Michael Sata
Not once did I picture the President Michael Sata in the presence of Shimon Peres seeping kosher wine and laughing in chivalry. Nor did I envision him and his wife enjoying the serenity and basking in...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 16:41hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Over 2 million Africans tell African leaders at AU Summit to Do Agric
African citizens join the continent's top musicians, hundreds of CSOs, and ONE.org to ask leaders to invest more and better in agriculture.JOHANNESBURG...Published: 27 Jun 2014 at 12:16hrs | 1 | by APO
'Africa should lead in global politics,' says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe returned home on Tuesday from Santa Cruz, Bolivia where he was attending the 50th Group of 77 developing countries and China summit held over the past weekend.He wa...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 16:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
I shed a tear for President Sata
With tear-bleared eyes I looked at the picture of the president. I know I am his critic, but I felt a touch of pity and choked, distraught at the sight of him. What heart could not bleed? I imagin...Published: 27 May 2014 at 14:57hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Zambia Hunts for Successor 58 - Cabinet Crisis: Time to defang and cure Sata
As the Honorable Minister shut the door to his official car, a sense of worthlessness threatened to overwhelm him. He closed his eyes and felt anger rising in tandem. "This is too much," ...Published: 14 May 2014 at 18:34hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe
Zambia's vice president is proof intelligence in humans is same
Vice President Guy Scott has proved wrong all white racists who in their sick effort to preserve White dominance claim that Africans have the lowest IQ (Intelligence Quotient). Over the years Sc...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 12:15hrs | 4 | by Field Ruwe
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