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By Chanda Chisala (Republished from www.lusakatimes.com) We were all surprised when businesswoman and social media influencer Maria Zaloumis was not arrested by the police following the infamous incident in which a poor young man, Enoch Kasengele, who allegedly tried to attack her at her farm ended up dying at the hospital. Zaloumis was clearly in […]

By Chanda Chisala   Since Zambia is a Christian nation, a lot of controversial social debates often come down to “what’s the Christian thing to do?” Oftentimes, people still arrive at diametrically opposed answers to that question.   The Edgar Lungu burial impasse is one of those that have produced this theological impasse as different

By Chanda Chisala. Republished from Lusaka Times. The first time I read somewhere that the Attorney General of Zambia had submitted the “suspended benefits” argument to the High Court in Pretoria, I thought it was just fake news. There’s no way the Attorney General of Zambia with his entire team of lawyers can make such

By Chanda Chisala  (Republished from Lusaka Times at LusakaTimes.com) Many Zambian intellectuals seem to be lost about the direction Zambia should be taking in economic policy, especially after our disillusion with the policy regime under the tutelage of the IMF. Before Zambia moved to the privatisation and liberalisation policies of the MMD government, we had

By Chanda Chisala, Article published at LusakaTimes.com   Think about it. The biggest economy in the world, the USA, does not give universal free healthcare to its people because they say it’s too expensive for the economy to handle. As great as its economy is, there is not enough wealth to provide free healthcare without

By Chanda Chisala, republished from LusakaTimes.com Imagine we are at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the United States decides to donate vaccines and masks to Zambia, but half of these get stolen by people at the Ministry of Health so that they can sell them to the public secretly. Would it make sense

By Michael Chishala, In my opinion, the biggest single benefit of colonialism which is hardly discussed was the introduction of codified law with property rights, plus representative democracy with the 3 arms of modern governments. Before the colonialists, all land essentially belonged to the chief or king and he was the law. At a whim,

ONLINE INTERVIEW BETWEEN CHANDA CHISALA (ZAMBIA ONLINE) AND MICHAEL MEADOWCROFT (DELEGATION LEADER OF EUROPEAN UNION ELECTION MONITORING UNIT). (17th February 2002) Interview published on the EC Delegation Election Monitoring Website. Question 1. Can you tell us how long you’ve been working in the European Union, and how much experience you personally have in election monitoring?