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Asking Hichilema to honour campaign promises is now an offence in Zambia
This is Jason Mwanza (see image attached), a 28-year-old unemployed youth activist in Zambia. He has been in police detention without charge for almost two weeks now. His offence? Conducting a peacefu...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 17:02hrs | 1623 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Zambia suffers major power outage
Copper-rich Zambia suffered a major power outage affecting most parts of the country on Friday after a problem at an important hydropower station, and the state utility said it was working to restore ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu: A splendid traditional leader, cultural activist, nationalist
UGODLWAYO! Yithi! This is a familiar slogan in the Godlwayo Communal Land whenever people are gathered. Yesterday at around 01.00 hrs their Chief, Vezi Maduna Mafu passed away.Chief Maduna was...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Paramount Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu dies
ONE of the country's longest serving traditional leaders, Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu, has died.He was 86 years old.Chief Maduna was recovering from a stroke he suffered on 18 August 2019....Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Sables, Kenya to clash at Hartsfield
RUGBY lovers in Bulawayo are in for a treat when Zimbabwe's flagship rugby team, the Sables clash with Kenya in a Victoria Cup fixture at Hartsfield on Saturday. Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) pre...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa and Enock Sithole were not crocodile gang members'
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has refuted claims by one Enock Muteveri Sithole on Sunday Mail that he was one of the founding members of the popular crocodile gang. I...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 12:31hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Young Warriors storm into Cosafa final
Zimbabwe 2 -1 ZambiaThe Zimbabwe under 20 national soccer team, the Young Warriors are through to the final of the COSAFA Youth Championships after a 2-1 semi-final victory over hosts, Zambia in K...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 19:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Young Warriors thrash Lesotho
ZIMBABWE took a giant leap towards securing a semi-final berth at the on-going MOPANI Copa Mines COSAFA Under-20 Championships when they ran riot, dismissing Lesotho 4-0 at Shinde Stadium in Mufulira,...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Young Warriors beat Botswana in COSAFA
The Zimbabwe U-20 soccer team has shot to the top of Group C at the COSAFA Youth Championships following a 2-1 win over Botswana at the Nkana Stadium in Kitwe, Zambia today.The Young Warriors ...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 20:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Young Warriors coach confident
NATIONAL Under-20 team coach, Bekithemba "Super" Ndlovu is confident his charges will put up a better showing at the Mopani Copper Mines Cosafa Youth Championships in Zambia to make it past the group ...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chiyangwa flies out
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa left Harare yesterday for Morocco for a series of high-level Confederation of African Football meetings that will deliberate on the staging of the African Cup of ...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops get blind while trying to arrest prophet
Five Police Officers In Kitwe Zambia got Blind After Attempting To Arrest Prophet Mesala For Warning Edgar Lungu Against Arresting and opposition leader Hakahinde Hachileme.Media reports...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 08:15hrs | | by Online
It's time for young people to get political
Zambia's youngest mayor urges youth to get active in politics For many young people in Africa, a university deg...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 19:32hrs | | by Mwika Simbeye
Bosso unleash new stars
HIGHLANDERS fans have an opportunity to witness how their team will line up for the 2017 season when Bosso take on Zambian side Power Dynamos in an international friendly fixture at Luveve Stadium...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power Dynamos court Bosso, Chicken Inn and Bantu
ZAMBIAN topflight club Power Dynamos are hoping to play Highlanders and former champions Chicken Inn when they visit the City of Kings for a week-long training camp in March.Ricky Manfunda...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Students should stop cooking for boyfriends'
LUSAKA - Female students in higher learning institutions should stop cooking meals for their boyfriends because they are in school to learn. Minister of Higher Education Nkundu Luo is disappointed...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Saidi a journalistic giant among midgets
Yesterday a legend of newspaper journalism in Zambia and Zimbabwe was laid to rest in the city of Kitwe, in the Republic of Zambia, where he died two days into the New Year last week while visiting....Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:49hrs | | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Veteran Journalist Bill Saidi dies
A Zimbabwean Veteran journalist Bill Saidi has passed away.The sad news were revealed by the Zimbabwe National Editors Forum leader Njabulo Ncube through a Facebook post."Just received...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 19:22hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Girl fails to attend class to have sex with 29 year old man
A 15-YEAR-OLD girl of Kitwe’s Chimwemwe township narrated before the Buchi Local Court how a 29-year-old man made her abscond school as he allegedly had sex with her at his aunt’s place.Za...Published: 15 Mar 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Taxi driver jailed 18 years for defiling girl (13)
THE Kitwe High Court has sentenced a 35-year-old taxi driver of Chingola to 18-years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a 13-year-old girl whom he had offered a lift.Zambia Daily Mail repo...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man jailed for stealing slippers
Love for his daughter has landed a 26-year old street vendor in trouble with the courts sentencing him to six months imprisonment with hard labour after being found guilty of stealing children’s sli...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Killer sentenced to death for killing friend
THE Kitwe High Court has sentenced a 40-year-old man to death by hanging for murdering his friend.This is in a case in which Gift Sinkamba of Bulangililo township was facing one count of murder....Published: 07 Mar 2016 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Girlfriend killer to hang
A 35-YEAR-OLD man of Kalulushi, who killed his girlfriend, has been condemned to hang by the neck until pronounced dead by Kitwe High Court judge Isaac Kamwendo.Zambia Daily Mail reported that...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man sued for calling woman witch
A KITWE man has been sued for defamation after labelling a 56-year-old woman a witch.Zambia Daily Mail reported that Bravo Siame alleged that Rose Mayuka bewitched his son.In the Garneton Loca...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Drunkard wife piss off hubby
A HUSBAND of Kitwe has accused his wife of ten years of being a drunkard whose love for alcoholic beverages has resulted in her squandering their children’s school fees.Zambia Daily Mail reporte...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 12:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pastor freed on rape charges
A 28-YEAR-OLD pastor of Revival for All Nations Church in Kitwe has walked to freedom after the Kitwe High Court overturned the subordinate court's decision to convict him of rape.Zambia Daily...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Woman claim violant hubby insert objects in her privates
A Kitwe housewife who has been married for 13 years has begged the local court to dissolve the marriage because her husband is a violent man who punishes her by inserting objects in her private ...Published: 16 Feb 2016 at 12:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man sentenced to 20 yrs for defiling daughters
THE Kitwe High Court has sentenced a 50-year-old peasant of Chingola to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling his daughter's five-year-old friend.Justice Chilombo Phiri on Monday...Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman labels brother wizard
A KITWE woman has accused her brother of being a wizard, in a spooky incidence where a concoction caught fire and a buffaloe’s head appeared when the two were consulting a witchdoctor.Zambia...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sex starved man seek divorce
A SEXUALLY-STARVED husband of Kitwe has refused to continue in a sexless marriage after his wife started denying him his conjugal rights for the past one year.The Zambia Daily Mail reported th...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Husband shows wife pictures undressed lovers
A HOUSEWIFE of Kitwe has narrated how her husband of 26 years is in the habit of showing her undressed pictures of his lover on his mobile phone each time he returns home at night in order to humiliat...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:53hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zambia plans to import maize
Zambia which used to export maize to Zimbabwe is this year pondering on the measures to import the staple food as the drought seem to have hit most parts of Southern Africa.Zambia President Ed...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zim truck wheel kill Zambian
A FORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD woman has died after being hit by a tyre which came off a moving Zimbabwean truck on the Ndola-Kitwe Road.The woman was walking on the roadside when the tyre came off ...Published: 04 Jul 2015 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Intercape to service more Zimbabwean routes
A LEADING South African luxury coach operator, Intercape, has merged with a local firm Pathfinder, a partnership that will see the new brand serving more local and regional routes.The new ...Published: 21 Feb 2015 at 08:45hrs | | by Oliver Kazunga
Mwango: The lone Bemba in the voting booth
Proceed with anything but caution when reading this article. In a country where tribalism exhales an unpleasant whiff the above title is enough to accuse me of fanning tribal embers. Don't look at the...Published: 12 Jan 2015 at 07:12hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Charles Sibanda to join Dynamos
FORMER Highlanders midfielder Charles Sibanda is headed to Zambia side Power Dynamos after failing to agree terms with the Bulawayo giants for the 2015 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) season,...Published: 12 Jan 2015 at 06:56hrs | | by Sports reporter
Independence: African lazy day
I could go to prison just for the title; for dampening the spirit of commemoration, and yet I would gladly go. This is a title that befits the occasion. Google the world and see what I am talking ...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 08:51hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Barack Obama: White terror, Black tears
IT has always been a hard fact of life that in America as elsewhere in Europe, a black man only has condemned colour and a sorry history, nothing else. But the asce...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 20:57hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Dennis Lota Dies
Moroka Swallows assistant coach and former Orlando Pirates striker Dennis Lota has died. Lota was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital over the weekend after what initially looked like a min...Published: 04 Feb 2014 at 22:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Biography of President Michael Chilufya Sata
The "Africa Year Book and Who's Who" (1977) edition has President Michael Sata's date of birth as January 6, 1936. Aislinn Laing, the Telegraph reporter who interviewed Sata at State House in 2011...Published: 03 Feb 2014 at 05:20hrs | 2 | by Field Ruwe
Corpse refuses to be buried in Zimbabwe
In an incident reminiscent of scenes in African movies, the Siyamatenga family in Binga reportedly failed to bury their father for three consecutive days.The incident that sends shivers down...Published: 11 Feb 2013 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor forced to step down due to his involvement in Tsvangirai's love affairs
THE Gospel Assembly Church leadership has resolved that Pastor Lazarus Muriritirwa be forced to step down as leader of the Johannesburg Assembly Church in South Africa for his involvement in Prime Min...Published: 10 Jan 2013 at 23:43hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Pick n Pay officially opens second store in Zim
Pick n Pay officially opened its second branded store in Zimbabwe on Thursday, as the company intensifies its African expansion following the recent opening of another branded outlet in Kitwe, Zambia....Published: 13 Dec 2012 at 19:03hrs | | by Tawanda Karombo I Business Day
Zambian company sues Biti for $50 000
A Zambian company has sued Finance minister, Tendai Biti and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general, Gershem Pasi, after the revenue collector's employees destroyed its 30-tonne ...Published: 15 Jul 2012 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 die in Zambia Afcon victory celebrations
OVER five people died during celebrations following Zambia's victory in Sunday's Africa Cup of Nations final.In North Western Province, two people died on the spot in separate incidents after ...Published: 15 Feb 2012 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's Zipra guerillas invented toyi-toyi: Mantashe
In the aftermath of last week's assertions by ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe that Zanu-PF is influencing the thinking and actions of ANC youth leader Julius Malema, it may be useful to respond ...Published: 25 Sep 2011 at 06:41hrs | | by Editorial
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