By Kunda Londa When you look at this makeshift car wash, you will think it’s one of the common hundreds you see everywhere you go around Zambia. Those where proprietors sing and shout as they wash your car. But this is a special one! None of the four owners mutters a word. You will find […]
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko has died after being shot near his home in Kiev, Ukrainian police say. Mr Babchenko, 41, was found bleeding at the entrance to his block of flats by his wife and died in an ambulance. After writing about a crashed Russian military plane in 2016, Mr Babchenko said he received death […]
British citizen Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, who was being held on death row in Ethiopia, has been freed. He has been greeted by jubilant relatives and supporters at his family home in the capital, Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian government had accused him of plotting a coup and he was sentenced to death in absentia in 2009. […]
“Africa is for black people. Period. We need our land back and we’re going to take it by force,” said a woman amongst an angry crowd trying to occupy a field on the north-eastern edge of Johannesburg in South Africa. She is wearing a red beret indicating her support for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), […]
By JOHN SAKALA The Chingola notorious Jerabo gang leader Victor Phiri popularly known as C4 had his hands chained from the back to prevent him from touching his private parts police sources have revealed. Police Officers who fished him out of Lusaka were tipped that C4 must never be allowed to touch his private parts […]
Chipolopolo stand-in coach Beston Chambeshi has named his final 20-member squad for the 2018 Cosafa Castle Cup tournament. Chambeshi has handed Kitwe United’s Emmanuel Chabula a place in the final team that also has Nakambala Leopards defender Martin Sikaonga, 2017 under-20 AFCON winners Shemmy Mayembe and Ngosa Sunzu in a blend of youth and experience. […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The notorious jerabo Victor Phiri popularly known as C4 has appeared before Chingola Magistrate facing one count of murder, two counts of rape and two counts of assaults. Appearing for mention before Magistrate Chilukwa Chiluba, C4 20, is charged together with four of his gang members among them his elder brother Martin […]
By Onishias Mamba in Petauke Police have retrieved the two girls abducted by the Nyau dancers in Chief Mafuta’s area. Eastern Province Deputy Commissioner of Police, Sharon Zulu confirmed this during a press briefing at her office this morning. Ms Zulu said Police moved in yesterday after receiving a report of abduction through Mugubudu Police […]
They are called small scale miners by politicians during the campaigns, they are called stone dealers by the women they prey and they call themselves jerabos in reference to illegal miners. But why sugar coat the name. These are simply thugs whose livelihood depends on stealing copper to survive.
By Staff Writer Patriotic Front (PF) members from seven constituencies in Lusaka have rebelled against four of their Members of Parliament for plotting to disrupt the planned intra-party elections. Leading the group at the Party Secretariat in Lusaka, Munali Constituency Chairperson, Forbes Mufwaya disclosed that Mandevu Member of Parliament Jean Kapata, Chawama Member of Parliament Lawrence Sichalwe, Kabwata […]
The Independent Observer
Alice Nachilembe
