| Type | Daily newspaper available daily |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Post Newspapers Ltd. |
| Editor | Fred M'membe |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Political alignment | Left wing |
| Headquarters | Lusaka |
| Official website | www.postzambia.com |
The Post Zambia is a tabloid independent Zambian newspaper. It is one of the three primary newspapers of the country. The newspaper was set up in 1991[1]. The Sunday edition of the post newspaper is called the Sunday Post and contains a special section focusing on education called Educational Post[2]. The post is seeing to be the most popular and biggest selling newspaper in zambia according to BBC.
The post newspaper was founded in 1991 as a weekly Lusaka newspaper . It soon started publishing countrywide. by 1996, it had started publishing Monday to Friday[3]. By 2000, the newspaper was publishing daily and had become the most politically outspoken newspaper. It is believed to have helped stop the then president Chiluba from changing the constitution to enable him run for a third .
In recent years, the post newspaper had become a voice of the people. Many Zambian have expressed views about the government which they wouldn't have expressed in the Zambian-government owned medias. Notable critical writings includes:
The post newspaper has also been involved in wrangles against the Zambian government. In 2001, Fred M'membe was arrested for calling the then president, Chiluba a thief[10]. This case was disposed off by President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa in 2002. In 2005, Fred M'membe was again arrested for defamation charges "following an editorial in which he wrote that Mwanawasa was a man of “foolishness, stupidity, and lack of humility"[11]. In 2009, Fred M'membe has been indicated for contempt for publishing an article by a United States' University of Cornell Professor of Law, Muna Ndulo article, titled "The Chansa Kabwela case: a comedy of errors "[12][13].