01 Mar 10 | Index Index, minipost, Uncategorized
The Media Institute of Southern Africa and the Africa Freedom of Information Centre have urged the Zambian president to include access to information in the country’s first ever constitution. The not-for-profit groups made the plea to Rupiah Banda after the National Constitutional Conference of Zambia deleted the clause in a draft document. This decision is in direct contradiction to article nine of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, which the country has ratified.
27 Jan 10 | Index Index, Uncategorized
A Zambian MP allegedly stormed a television studio and threatened student union leaders at gunpoint. It is claimed Chishimba Kambwili and fellow Patriotic Front (PF) sympathisers menaced University of Zambia Student’s Union leaders, Antonio Mwanza and Stanford Kabwata who were appearing as guests on a MUVI TV programme on 19 January 2010. Police in Lusaka opened an investigation after MUVI management made a complaint and recorded a ‘warn and caution statement’ by the minister on 25 January. In a statement, the TV station said that they are “in possession of footage of Mr. Kambwili’s aggressive and unruly conduct against the two defenceless guests.”
01 Sep 09 | minipost, News and features
Editor-in-chief, Fred M’membe and the entire editorial staff of Zambia’s The Post have been summoned to appear in the dock after they published an article critical of the “pornography” charges brought against their colleague, news-editor Chansa Kabwela. Local magistrate, Charles Kafunda has charged the group with contempt of court and ordered that they appear before him on Wednesday.
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05 Aug 09 | Index Index, minipost
Chansa Kabwela, Editor of Zambia’s largest newspaper, the Post, is on trial over supposed distribution of “pornographic” images. Kabwela sent two images of women giving birth on hospital grounds without medical assistance to Zambian vice-president, George Kunda. Kabwela was hoping to highlight the negative consequences of a recent nurses strike, however, her supporters believe that the current charges may be politically motivated as the Post has in the past exposed a great deal of government corruption.
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