By KENNEDY MUPESENI –  THE trend of selling school uniforms in learning places is making education expensive and the uniform industry uncompetitive.  Almost all the schools in the country upon admitting pupils ask parents to...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – HER dream after retirement was to settle down in Lusaka’s Chilenje Township, after having worked for one of the defunct parastal companies for almost 20 years. Idah Mwanza (not real name)...

As blindness continues to afflict more Zambians with each passing day, TERENCE MUSUKU takes a sympathetic look at the physically and mentally-challenging life of the blind. With exacting perfection, God created mankind with knowledge. That...

Continued from last week In a split second, I answered: “That field rank of major only, which is not junior and not so senior to be implicated in evil plans that give yield to wide...

By MARTIN NYIRENDA – Fanatics of condom distribution in Zambia’s prisons, no doubt, have their own agenda as much as such reformatory facilities should not be as ugly as sin. Make no gaffe, this piece...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – WITH only a year to go before the due date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in 2015, will the country beat this deadline. According to the 2013 MDG report for...

“What if” these are two very small words but possibly two of the most important words that an entrepreneur will use. Remember an entrepreneur is just a dreamer, the same as all of us, but...

THIS week we publish yet another conrtibution from Winston Muleba Jr who thought it wise to share something on the avoidance of lekages in exams. Cheating during examination is recurring almost every year, in various...

 By Neville Ravensdale – Accountability is perhaps one of the most pernicious problems facing Zambia, because the lack of it which results from carelessness and corruption and the cost of GRZ waste and corruption is...

By FLAVIOR CHISHALA – THE Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education has embarked on a nationwide sensitisation campaign on the revised curriculum dubbed ‘Let us read Zambia’. The campaign is meant to...