By DALIYA MANDA – NOTHING will ever put a smile on the face of Isaac Mtonga, a carpenter at Chipata’s Kapata Market, than having shelter of his own. Having been in the carpentry trade for...

By Dixon Bwalya- WALKING around streets with a spirit level does not constitute a prima facie case of competence in the construction industry and yet this is all a number of developers look for when...

By NANCY HANDABILE – ANIMALS are getting too close; three human deaths in two weeks have once more brought the human-animal conflict into public focus. A nine-year-old boy of Simoonga village in Livingstone was recently...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – GONE to the land of his ancestors in the year he could have been commemorating his diamond jubilee-75 years in October this year. Wila Mung’omba, born in Mbala on October 18,...

By SAM PHIRI – SEVENTY-four-year-old Fostina Bwalya sits weary in the early hours of a Wednesday morning outside her slapdash house in the busy and highly populated Misisi Township of Lusaka. Less than five metres...

By MICHELO HIMAAMBO – FROM a mere glance, one would not see the agonising pain this woman has lived with for the past seven years as her tummy swelled making her look like she is...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – LUSAKA-BASED obstetrics and gynecology consultant Gertrude Tshuma has said the need to reduce maternal deaths through safe abortions, should not in the long-term lead to an increase in HIV infections. In...

BY CHARLES KACHIKOTI – SPEAKING of sex-change surgical operations that people undergo to improve their appearance, Dr Breiner has written: “At this point in the process, I, along with other psychoanalyst colleagues, must tell the...

THE use of a file picture during news bulletins is the most innovative way to make up for lack of a current picture to go with a story. It is, however, an injustice if a...

THE day was Monday February 10, in the afternoon. The radio station, Icengelo, and the presenter was Constance Mulenga Kitungu. Constance was test-transmitting Radio Icengelo to Chingola and Chililabombwe on 102.9 FM when, out of...