ALEX and Estella Chama of Lusaka West got married on August 8, over 40 years ago, aged 26 and 22 years old respectively. Last week, four decades and six children later, they had a rousing matebeto.

BRIGHTON Sinkala, the Lusaka-based comedian, during Comedy Calabash show in Kitwe put women’s beauty in three categories: “Extremely beautiful – in all aspects, physical appearance, colour and general morphology; Where beauty is a matter of one's opinion; and where it depends on the beer-holder - where to approach one, one had to be drunk".

CONDEMNED serial killer Gilbert Benson Chilala says Zambians should forgive him for all the wrongs he has done.

TEENAGE female golfer Chola Oka of Livingstone is keeping pace with the competition while defying the odds in her still very brief amateur career.

JIBAYA, the Kaonde traditional dress, is of a unique make. Jibaya can be a paradox: depending on the finishing applied, it would appear as if it were a rough assembly of sack cloth - the sisal type - dipped in dirty brownish water but dried out or it would show a class of clothing with style and sensation fit to grace Gucci or Versace fashion houses.

ZAMBIA has a cultural wealth that cuts across political and religious affiliation. It is this cultural diversity that contributes to unity among the 73 ethnic groupings scattered around the country.

GEORGE compound, one of the bustling areas of Lusaka, never goes to sleep. It has not been spared from the good and bad parts of city life – poverty, crime and disease are some of the tales that do not seem to have left it since its creation.

THE wedding ceremony of Chimwemwe Sichinga and Chilufya Sata could have hardly passed unnoticed. The colourful ceremony that joined the Sata and Sichinga families not only brought two prominent families together but two striking personalities.