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
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
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
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
Someone needs to be fired over the $42 million fire tenders. Seriously. The more I hear explanations from government officials and other interested parties, the more I am convinced that either someone was sleeping at the wheel or we the Zambians are being taken for fools. Someone goes into Parliamen
