The programme did not resolve PF’s leadership question, nor was it intended to. What it did was strip away the illusion that delay carries no cost.
Ibu Appeals for Dignity as Lungu Burial Delay Enters 7th Month
“My heart is in pain,” Mwamba said, noting that seven months had passed since President Lungu’s death without closure for his family or the nation.
COLLECTING TAXES IN YUAN IS GREAT. BUT THEN WHAT?
A country does not become prosperous by optimising how it collects a small share of someone else’s wealth. It becomes prosperous by owning the asset that generates the wealth in the first place.
ARCHBISHOP ALICK BANDA IS NOT JUST ANOTHER MAN. HE IS AN INSTITUTION.
A Commentary by Brian Matambo | 3rd January 2026 There are moments in a nation’s life when clarity is demanded, not diplomacy. This moment that Zambia finds herself in is one of them. To suggest that Archbishop Alick Banda is an “ordinary man” is not merely an error of judgment. It is a failure to understand history, vocation, and the...
CATHOLIC FAITHFUL PLEDGE TO ACCOMPANY ARCHBISHOP ALICK BANDA TO DEC
The statement also draws on Christian scripture, invoking the Golden Rule as recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, which instructs believers to treat others as they would wish to be treated themselves. Supporters say this principle should guide both the conduct of State institutions and the public discourse surrounding the Archbishop’s summons.
STEALING DEMOCRACY IN SILENCE
President Hichilema set up a Financial and Crimes Court targeting former Patriotic Front officials and gazetted a five-month period in which all prosecution must conclude( where the subjects should all be put in prison).
WHY IS PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA GOING AFTER ARCHBISHOP ALICK BANDA?
Zambia’s democracy was never meant to be a courtroom without conscience. It was meant to be a covenant between law, reason, and faith. When any one of these is crushed under the weight of ego, the nation begins to fracture.
MAKEBI ZULU CALLS FOR UNITY IN THE OPPOSITION
Presidential candidate Makebi Zulu addressed the nation today, 30 December 2025, calling on opposition political parties to come together ahead of the 2026 general election.
WHEN OBEDIENCE BECOMES COMPLICITY
If laws are used to discipline citizens rather than serve them, can compliance still be called virtue? Or does it become participation in injustice?
HAKAINDE HICHILEMA DOES NOT DESERVE CELEBRATION
For the last three years, Zambia has endured up to 20 hours of load shedding daily. This is not a temporary crisis. It is a sustained national failure. Entire livelihoods have been destroyed over a prolonged period