Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:05:56 +0000 By ANNIE ZULU ZAMBIA is not ready to print the 2021 presidential and general ballot papers and other election materials, United Party for National Development (UPND) Spokesperson Charles Kakoma has said. Mr Kakoma said Zambia had no capacity to print election material locally. President Edgar Lungu on Wednesday announced that he would ensure that 2021 presidential and general ballot papers will be printed locally by Government Printers to save costs. Zambia has over the years procured ballot papers and other election materials from Dubai, South Africa, UK and as far as Israel. But Mr Kakoma told the Daily Nation in an interview that promises of printing ballot papers locally had been made in the past by the Patriotic Front (PF) government including other governments and that nothing had come out of them. He charged that Government Printers was in shambles and had no equipment to print election […]
UPND doubts Zambia’s ability to print ballot papers locally
