She came to the UK just a few months ago, hoping for a better life. But when marauding yobs set her street on fire, Monika Konczyk had to fight for her very survival. The image of her jumping from her first floor flat as flames tore through the building became an iconic image of the […]
Immediate past PF Member of parliament For Munali, Mumbi Phiri has reaffirmed her support and has declared her allegiance to PF and has urged people to vote for Sata and Professor Nkandu Luo in her former constituency. She says she can not defect to any political party as PF is the only party that can […]
Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata has successfully filed in his presidential nominations for the 2011 elections after he almost brought business to a stand still in town as hundreds of opposition Patriotic Front sympathisers completely blocked Independence Avenue as they waited for him to file in his presidential nomination papers. The PF leader who arrived […]
The Patriotic Front says it will appeal to the Supreme Court following the high court’s decision to dismiss the case in which it was seeking to stop president Rupiah Banda from contesting this year’s elections over his parentage. Party secretary general Wynter Kabimba has told journalists that the court misdirected itself on the matter by […]
Violence has broken out for a third consecutive day in London, with riot police deployed and firefighters tackling blazes across the capital. Shops were looted and buildings, among them a furniture store in Croydon, set alight as police clashed with youths. Trouble first flared on Saturday after a peaceful protest in Tottenham over the fatal […]
DORA Siliya and Peter Daka may end up in jail if there is change of government, says Lameck Mangani. Reacting to Siliya and Daka’s attacks on him and PF leader Michael Sata during the MMD youth rally at Nadalitsika Basic School on Saturday, Mangani, a former deputy minister of works and supply who also served […]
United party for national development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema has pledged not to betray the trust and confidence the people of Zambia that have entrusted in the UPND and the Real Change program. Mr. Hichilema made his pledge after successfully filing in his nomination papers before chief Justice Ernest Sakala sitting as Presidential Returning Officer […]
An aircraft engineer killed after he was sucked into a plane engine at Woodbourne Airbase near Blenheim has been named. He was Miles Hunter, aged 51, of Renwick. Hunter worked for Safe Air, which runs a maintenance service for the military at the site and is a subsidiary of Air New Zealand. He had been […]
Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy SEALs unit that killed Osama bin Laden, as well as seven Afghan commandos, U.S. officials said Saturday. It was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war. The […]
Bishop John Mambo says the number of political parties intending to take part in the forthcoming elections goes against the aspirations of the people of Zambia as expressed in the Mun’gomba draft constitution. He wonders why certain political parties are contesting the elections when they know very well that they do not have followers. He […]