Bombasa Fyapena: Why We Must Not Blame the Law When Our Politics Go Berserk
By Munshya wa Munshya Over the issue of the lifting of Rupiah’s immunity, we are conflating too many issues and I am afraid it is becoming confusing for me. I have not said that what parliament did was...
View ArticleWith Forked Tongues: Why Chibesakunda’s Majority Ruling in Attorney General...
Zambia’s Acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda – 2013 By E. Munshya wa Munshya It should not calm any nerves to realize that an analysis of the majority ruling in Attorney General v Mutuna, Kajimanga...
View ArticleDora’s Catch 22: Why ECZ is Right About S.22 of the Electoral Act 2006
By E. Munshya wa Munshya Petitions After Zambia’s elections of 2011, the party that won the elections, the Patriotic Front (PF) decided to petition dozens of seats won by the opposition parties. Among...
View ArticleWhen a Cobra Spits at Crocodiles: Why President Sata Shouldn’t Fight the...
By E. Munshya wa Munshya President Michael Chilufya Sata – The King Cobra President Michael Sata in May 2013 used his powers as President of the Republic of Zambia to withdraw government recognition of...
View ArticleDora Siliya & Others v. Attorney General in .jpg Format
Filed under: Zambian Law Tagged: Acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda, Dora Siliya, Justice Mungeni Siwale Mulenga
View ArticleWhat We Can Take-Away from Justice M.S Mulenga’s Ruling in the Dora Siliya Case
By E. Munshya wa Munshya On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 Justice Mungeni Siwale Mulenga ruled in the case in which Dora Siliya and others had sued the Attorney General and the Electoral Commission of...
View ArticleOne Bemba, One Nation: Politics of Tribe From Kenneth David Kaunda to Michael...
By Munshya wa Munshya Fighting for his political survival, Hon. Wynter Kabimba, made a very significant comment that his party has a clique of Bemba political hegemonists. Even Guy Scott has supported...
View ArticleZambia Institute of Advanced Legal Extinction: ZIALE, Lawyers & Access to...
Munshya wa Munshya Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education results are out. And they are pathetic. Out of over 200 candidates only 6 managed to pass the legal practice exams. Another six of...
View ArticleZambia At 49: Reimagining the Myths of Our Nation
Munshya wa Munshya Reimagining The Myths of Our Nation Myths are powerful. Not only do they create nations, but they also perpetuate them. No nation can last, for a day, without some story justifying...
View ArticleAn Attorney Goes Rogue: Why Mumba Malila Is Wrong To Challenge the Masebo...
Munshya wa Munshya William Harrington, a private citizen of Zambia wrote the Chief Justice of Zambia requesting that a tribunal be instituted to probe the activities of a cabinet minister. Hon. Sylvia...
View ArticleCopy of Zambian High Court Decision in Austin Liato v The People (HCZ, 2013)
Copy of the High Court Judgment of Austin Liato v The People (HCZ, 2013). Click on this link and let us know what you think about the reasoning employed by Judges Siavwapa, Mchenga and Sharpe-Phiri....
View ArticlePeople and Events That Will Shape Zambia’s 2014
By E. Munshya, LLB (Hons), MA, MDiv. The New Year is finally here. We should all be relieved that the year 2013 has come to an end. Each New Year brings to us a fresh perspective on life. And for...
View ArticleZambia’s New Draft Constitution
Please find attached Zambia’s new draft constitution. This is the Silungwe constitution draft. CONSTITUTION-OF-ZAMBIA-TECHNICAL-COMMITTEE-AUGUST-2013-3 DISCLAIMER: This website makes no...
View ArticleBeyond “House, Money, Car”: Why Ms. Kay Figo Deserved Compensation
By E. Munshya, LLB (Hons), M.Div. Zambia should change laws that unfairly disadvantage women – Munshya The facts of the 2012 case of one Ms. Kay Figo and her lover Mr. Van are very well defined. Around...
View ArticleMore Pollution in Our Pockets: Absurdity of an Open-Pit Mine in the Lower...
E. Munshya, LLB (Hons), M.Div. Many have undertaken to write on the appropriateness and inappropriateness of Hon Harry Kalaba’s decision to overrule Zambia’s environmental body. Kalaba has permitted a...
View ArticlePolitics of Chigololo: President Sata, HH and the slurring of fatherless...
By E. Munshya, LLB (Hons), M.Div. Instead of being a father to the fatherless, President Sata has become a scoffer of the fatherless. Instead of being a father of the nation, President Sata has chosen...
View ArticleGood Guy, Bad Skin: Is President Sata discriminating against a “muzungu”...
By E. Munshya, LLB (Hons), M.Div. Agony is having someone serve as your vice-president and yet never give him the opportunity to act as president when you are not around. It is quite absurd that...
View ArticleAleisa, Aleisa: Challenges and Opportunities for Hakainde Hichilema
E. Munshya, LLB (Hons), Mdiv. We make no error by stating, unequivocally, that Hakainde Hichilema was the big winner from the by-elections held in February. Things are looking pretty good for HH. The...
View ArticleA Nation on “Tamanga”: Zambia’s Curse of Futile Quick Fixes
E. Munshya, LLB (Hons), M.Div. Munshya wa Munshya We are a nation of “tamanga.” We are the generation epitomising the notion of “ifintu ni bwangu”. In everything we do, “musanga musanga” has come to...
View ArticleIs Stella Shooting at Shadows?: Hichilema, Police IG Libongani &“Amayendele”
E. Munshya, LLB (Hons), M.Div. Munshya wa Munshya In our democracy, there should be no reason why the police command should be wasting taxpayers’ bullets and teargas to chase Hakainde Hichilema (HH)...
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