The United Nations recently voted to recommend that the world maps that should mostly be used are the ones that show the correct relative sizes of continents. This was supposedly …

If Westerners truly cared for Gaza, maybe they should back Israel to eliminate every Hamas militant and live with the collateral damage of the so-called “innocent Palestinians” who are despised even among Arab Muslims that do not want them in their countries and have expelled them multiple times in history (Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, etc).

Cab drivers under the Yango taxi hailing app have protested against what they say is “slave” income due to fares that are too cheap. Are their complaints reasonable or is …

Have you seen how crazy we Zambians have gone over electric cars? Zambians are convinced that we can make some of the components that go into electric cars, mainly batteries and there is a gold rush to mine Lithium in rural areas. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it is a fantasy. Want to know why? Li

So, after all that braggadocio about ending load shedding, the “New Dawn” administration has failed to “fix it” and are doing damage control with lots of egg on their faces. They have been giving endless explanations for their failure to fix load shedding. Among the explanations, acts of God, it’s t

The government is making some rather laughable statements that the current load shedding which officially began on 15th December 2022 is beyond their control and an act of God. Well, God does not control the human made systems that allow electricity to flow into our homes and businesses. Perhaps wha

I have heard some very impressive speeches by our new President Mr Hakainde Hichilema on many different topics. This is a rare time I feel very proud as a Zambian that we kicked out the corrupt PF Kakistocracy with a very large boot! The President has strongly stressed that rule of law shall be foll

Dear Sir, I trust that you are well and preparing to take on the huge challenge of restoring Zambia on the path of prosperity. I write again to you sir and hope that my concerns shall be favourably considered this time around. As an ordinary concerned citizen who voted a few days ago, the following

Imagine it is 2014 and Dr Guy Scott is acting as President of the Republic of Zambia after the death of President Michael Sata. He somehow manages to get the Zambia Constitution Amendment Act of 2016 passed in Parliament and signed into law during the 90 days he is acting. He then calls the Attorney

For the month of July 2019, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) wins the award for the most useless public institution. It was a very closely fought battle with the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA), but ACC found some extra reserves in their tank over the last kilo

Having read the entire 25 page South African Arbitration Court judgment in the case of the Zambian government versus Vedanta, I am of the view that the SA court is on firm ground in granting an interim injunction halting the liquidation of KCM until the substantive dispute is heard. The salient poin

More than a year ago, I wrote an article in which I expressed strong concerns that the main opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) was making itself irrelevant by being fixated on their dead election petition and their “right to be heard” court case. Many others since then have bega

At twenty minutes past 14 hours, I am sitting in the main hall at the Patents And Company Registration Agency (PACRA). There are nine counters split into two sets; six and three. Of the six counters which do initial company registration processing, there is only one agent and also one on the other t

It seems to me that the government response to the latest cholera outbreak in Lusaka is mostly wrong, treating symptoms rather than causes. The epidemic started last year around October and has claimed the lives of more than 50 people and infected over 2,200 people with as high as 100 new cases in 2

I was recently reading the story of how an orphaned baby elephant was rescued in South Luangwa National park from certain death by a team of people who went as far as chartering a whole plane to fly it almost 600km to Lilayi Elephant nursery in Lusaka. The story was heartwarming to most people, but

Zambians are an interesting lot. A bunch of Chinese guys are appointed as police reserves and they erupt with outrage, prompting a reversal of the decision. A cute cop has a photo of her posted online and it goes viral with endless analysis on the length of her skirt. Yet the government is about to

Zambia is a really mad country, politically. How do you have a situation where one day the president stands up and tells the whole nation that he is only going to govern up to 2021 and a few days later, his party Secretary General says the opposite and tells the nation that his own president and bos

When I observe the situation unfolding in Zimbabwe, I cannot help but feel that the ending of this movie will not be a good one. Decades of observing political shenanigans all over Africa have made me very skeptical about African leaders and African democracies. My skepticism is now almost at the cy

Taiwan is less than 5% the size of Zambia but has far more usable roads than Zambia. It has a 42,520km road network of which 99% is paved. Compare to 40,454 km of the Zambian Core Road Network (CRN) of which 9,751km is paved (24%). Zambia has 67,671km total gazetted roads plus another about 10,000km

The explanations to justify spending $42 million on 42 fire trucks have continued and they are becoming more absurd by the day. We now have people being paraded on TV to lecture us that the fire trucks are really worth a million Dollars each. Rather than refute point by point the obviously poor and

PROLOGUE According to the Bible in Genesis Chapter 6, there was a worldwide flood of epic proportions about 4,000 years ago. Sometime back, I began thinking about the story a little bit more and inconsistencies began to emerge that suggested it should not perhaps be taken too literally or as factual