By Brian Matambo – 8th April, 2026 Honourable Given Lubinda, former Member of Parliament for Kabwata, former minister in the Patriotic Front government, and Patriotic Front Vice President, addressed the media today in Lusaka. Honourable Lubinda was speaking for the first time since the Patriotic Front held a no-name party convention in which late former President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s lawyer...
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THE MILES SAMPA MOU IS A SHAM
This kind of arrangement is something you would expect from external interference, similar to how certain international actors have influenced politics elsewhere, like the controversies that unfolded in Venezuela during the Trump era.
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GIVEN LUBINDA PROVES TO BE ABOVE BOARD IN PF POLITICS
By Brian Matambo – 8th April, 2026 Honourable Given Lubinda, former Member of Parliament for Kabwata, former minister in the...
THE MILES SAMPA MOU IS A SHAM
This kind of arrangement is something you would expect from external interference, similar to how certain international actors have influenced politics elsewhere, like the controversies that unfolded in Venezuela during the Trump era.
MILES SAMPA’S FAILED BID TO CAPTURE MAKEBI ZULU’S PRESIDENCY
In a press briefing held this afternoon, Miles Sampa moved to announce his own structure and named questionable figures such as Charity Katongo and Joseph Mudolo to the Central Committee, despite the leadership matter remaining hotly contested. He also purported to remove Hon. Raphael Nakacinda and replace him with PF Media Director Edwin Lifwekelo.
NAKACHINDA APPEALS HIGH COURT PF JUDGMENT IN THE COURT OF APPEAL
Patriotic Front Secretary General Raphael Mangani Nakachinda has appealed the High Court judgment in the PF leadership matter, taking the dispute to the Court of Appeal of Zambia. The appeal was filed on April 7, 2026. Court documents show that Nakachinda is challenging the decision delivered by Justice C. Chinyama Zulu
BREAKING THE CULT OF PERSONALITY: HOW PRAISE SINGERS AND ZAMBEZI REGIONAL SUPREMACISTS ARE SHAPING THE HICHILEMA PRESIDENCY
In this opinion piece, I focus on two sets of supporters of Hichilema and the UPND, namely “praise singers” and “Zambezi region nationalists” or, simply put, “supremacists”. By Zambezi region, I am referring to parts of Central and the three provinces that share the Zambezi River: Northwestern, Southern and Western.
DOES HICHILEMA WANT EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU’S BODY FOR RITUALS?
Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s death should have been the end of political conflict. It should have brought the matter to a silence. It should have closed a chapter. But instead, it has opened a whole new world of conflict. As some ably put it, to the UPND government, Edgar Lungu was easier to fight in life than in death.
MAKEBI ZULU IS THE LEGIT PF PRESIDENT-ELECTORAL COMMISSION
By Brian Matambo | Good Friday, April 3, 2026 The Patriotic Front Electoral Commission has declared that Makebi Zulu was...
MAKEBI ZULU SETS TONE FOR UNITY AND CALLS FOR ZAMBIA’S “SECOND INDEPENDENCE”
Makebi Zulu used his first interview not to boast about victory, but to define what it should mean for the Patriotic Front and for the country. He described his election as a journey of healing, a phrase that captured both the condition of the party and the task now before him.