Tag Archive: Zambia 2016 elections

Zambia Referendum Fails As Less Than 50% Of Voters Show Up

Zambia has failed to pass several progressive human rights amendments to its constitution following the failure by voters to reach the 50% threshold needed...

Zambia Re-Elects Lungu in Disputed Polls

Zambians beat their own record on Thursday 11th August, 2016 when they turned up in large numbers and braved the scorching sun in long...

How Will Zambians Remember Patriotic Front?

Should the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) succeed to lose tomorrow’s election, what memories will Zambians hold of a party many loved for its pro-poor...

Zambia Election and the Promise of Free Education

A heated debate on the feasibility of free education has ensued on the Zambian political scene ahead of the 11th August general elections. Education...

Elections and Political Communication

Having spent nearly a fortnight in Berlin Germany at the invitation of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Media Program on a political bloggers study...

Zambia’s Main Parties Launch Their Election Campaigns On Saturday

Dubbed a Saturday by those so passionate about this year’s campaigns, 21st May is a day when the ‘Big Boys’ get to the people,...

Zambia: Towards a Fully Inclusive Electoral Process

Zambia goes to the general elections in August this year under a new constitution that has significantly altered the electoral environment. The amended constitution...

Zambia: Tribal Talk Backfires on Ruling Party

An effort to use tribalism and regionalism tactics and antics to disadvantage the opposition in upcoming general elections has terribly backfired on Zambia’s ruling...

Zambian Politicians Panic as School Qualification Requirement is Enforced

It came as surprise to the nation but it wasn’t so to the 158 Members of Parliament (MP) who sit in the Zambian legislature....

Zambians Divided Over Constitutional Amendments Ahead of 2016 polls

On January 5, 2016 Zambia’s sixth President Edgar Chagwa Lungu appended his signature to the most comprehensive and far reaching amendments of the country’s...