By EMELDA MWITWA
WHEN I learnt of my tour of duty to the Netherlands, the first thing I did was to find out what season the people of that country were experiencing. I got a weeklong weather forecast which was indicating freezing temperatures as low as negative three and four.

By NEBERT MULENGA
FROM the time the Herve Renard-Clifford Mulenga fiasco first hit international headlines, I have been thinking long and hard about the course of action taken by our adored football personality.

By GEORGE CHOMBA
I HAD no interest in tax holiday wars involving Varun Beverages Zambia, the manufacturer of the Pepsi drink, until the personal events of last week.
There are problems in my personal State House and this is all because of an sms I was caught with on Valentine’s Day.

By NOAH HASSAN ABBAKER
WAR is the worst thing known by human beings to sort out differences since time immomeriol.

By LINDA NYONDO
“I REGEAT stealing a chicken because the horrific experience I had of sharing a cell as well as a bed with hard-core criminals still remains vivid in my mind,” says Richard Musumali (not real name).

Whose Human Rights, Anyway? by SAMUEL KASANKHA

THE Human Rights Commission (HRC) conducted a public hearing on violence against children, in Kasama, from Wednesday to Friday, 15 – 17 February.  The public were invited to make their submissions.