From addict to graduate
By Daniel Mbazima
I got expelled from two universities because of drugs & alcohol. The rate at which I was drinking & using drugs, would...
Purity: I love what I do
ALTHOUGH 32-year-old Purity Nimbwe Bwingi’s childhood dream was to become a nurse, turning out as a fuel attendant working for Lusaka’s Engen Filling Station...
Failed reconciliation spills streams of blood in Sinda
AFTER a thousand nights of sleeping alone and rolling from end-to-end of his makeshift bed with no warm body to cling to, a man...
Annah Mambwe Choongo becomes professional nurse at 57
IT is generally perceived that the elderly have difficulties in upgrading their education for them to learn new things.
But for Annah Mambwe
Choongo, 57,...
Zambia buries KK with wrong birthday
ZAMBIA’S first president Dr Kenneth Kaunda has been buried in Lusaka today, under the weight of a wrongly dated tombstone.
Dr Kaunda, an
out-and-out humanist, was...
‘We always knock off with a smile when we save lives’
BEING a nurse is not the easiest of things. You spend several hours standing while on duty, miss important events at home, and have...
I am in the streets for survival – UNZA graduate
AFTER four years of a fruitless job-hunt, 30-year-old University of Zambia graduate Bright Chaanga has resorted to selling tomatoes on the streets of Lusaka...
Inside death row at Mukobeko Maximum Security Prison
THE walls are massive and high……. Escape is not an option here.
You enter here, there
is no escape until you are discharged or until you...
Car gift for brainy 17 year old girl
PROUD couple of Lusaka has gifted their brainy 17-year old daughter with a motor vehicle.
Mashekwa Maunga of Chalala area and his wife Monica couldn't...
Brooms sweep away boy’s military dream
AS a little boy, 19-year-old Davies Tembo always looked forward to one day wearing the Zambia Army uniform as a serving soldier.
...