Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Feature Column

Zambia’s response to its debt hole is to keep digging

Zambia mortgages the future by taking over Glencore copper debt State-owned Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited (ZCCM) this week agreed to take on $1.5bn of...

WILL ZAMBIA FINALLY CLINCH THE IMF DEAL?

By Chibamba Kanyama The IMF Director of African Department Abebe Aemro Selassie has indicated the application by Zambia for funding will be assessed soon. This...

Lesson 3 from America: With a bit more loyalty, Nevers Mumba might have ruled Zambia

By Dr Parkie Mbozi ONE OLD adage says, “Patience pays”. I would add another one, “Loyalty pays more.” A third one goes, “A vulture...

China’s trade with Africa is not helping the continent in value addition, not even South Africa exports manufactured goods

By Edward Chisanga and Caesar Cheelo On 5th May 2020, The Economist published an article by Dambisa Moyo, our Zambian compatriot reading, “Marshall Plan for...

What is the real opportunity cost of the $13 million Kafue Flyover Bridge?

By Anthony Bwalya - UPND Member Today is the day the Patriotic Front (PF) regime and President Edgar Lungu will once again parade the media...

What is Zambia’s COVID 19 Strategy Kanshi?

By Parkie Mbozi ON 23RD MARCH 2020, precisely five days after 18 March when Zambia reported a twin case of the Coronavirus (code-named COVID-19)...

Without Power Dynamos, a part of us is lost

By Ponga Liwewe Wisdom Chansa, ever immaculate, despite playing for ninety minutes, and hardly appearing to have broken a sweat, holds aloft the CAF...

Is it Bally will fix it, or Bally will fix us?

"The slogan Bally will fix it," suggests HH and UPND will change Zambia's sociopolitical and economic culture. But this assumption ignores the historical basis...