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Open letter to the President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema
An Open Letter to the President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema: I will not be silenced until death or a better Zambia emerges, whichever comes firstDear President Hichilema,Yesterday, I...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 09:24hrs | 1113 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Hichilema is persecuting Bembas, Easterners
POLITICAL commentator Sishuwa Sishuwa has accused President Hakainde Hichilema of using the courts and police to persecute Bemba speakers and Zambians from Eastern Province. In an interview ye...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 10:18hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Zambian president capturing the Judiciary?
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has now sacked three top judges he previously suspended over alleged judicial misconduct, drawing further accusations of political interference in the judiciary....Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:56hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema alarmed by prospects of defeat and prosecution for corruption
When Zambia experienced democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021, the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to weaken opposition parties played a central role. Lawfare has been a constant theme of Za...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 17:08hrs | 2652 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema threatening to delay 2026 elections
On 13 September, Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema addressed parliament in fulfilment of the Constitution that requires the president to address the National Assembly every year and provide a repo...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 14:55hrs | 674 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Hichilema gears up to change Zambia's constitution
As President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia made his annual address to parliament on 13 September, he shocked many observers as he made a series of revealing off-the-cuff remarks on the topic of constit...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 13:36hrs | 359 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Hichilema suspends judges who ruled in favour of rival in Zambia
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has suspended three top judges over alleged judicial misconduct, prompting accusations of political interference in the judiciary.In 2016, the three Const...Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 11:15hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
A Zambian is jailed every month for insulting President Hichilema
I had a chat with Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa yesterday. He posed a few questions and said something that left me troubled. I asked him for permission to reproduce part of our conversation. Here is part of wha...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 20:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Honeymoon over for Zambian leader
Almost six months after the high expectations created by his historic landslide victory over Edgar Lungu and his promises of fundamental reform, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema's halo has begun s...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zambia hurtling towards contested elections
THERE is something to a name after all, it seems.The late "King Cobra", Michael Sata, broke away from the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) and formed his own party, the Patriotic Front...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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