ALL seems set for the presentation of the 2024 National Budget.Finance and National Planning minister Situmbeko Musokotwane is, for the third consecutive year, expected to present the budget to Parliament on Friday this week.Therefore, I...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI and CHATULA KANGALI – AS Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane prepares to present the 2024 national budget on Friday, stakeholders are highly expectant about changes in key sectors of the economy to facilitate...

SO, Zambia and China have designated 2024 as the Year of Business Cooperation! This is in line with the observance of 2024 as the 60th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between the two friendly countries.It...

By Ketra Kalunga – THE soya beans farming has a huge potential in Zambia but remained unexploited for various reasons.The soya beans potential in terms of its contribution to the national economy has remained dormant...

WHILE pondering on what to focus on this week, I was inundated with so many possible ideas which could have made the day.This is because there has been a lot of economic developments this past...

THERE has always been a belief that the mining sector can offer more in terms of contribution to the local economy that it is currently doing.This is through stronger participation of local people in the...

By KETRA KALUNGA – THE United Party for National Development (UPND) administration has recognised the private sector as a key driver of economic growth and has, in the last two years, introduced measures for the...

•PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema with International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva at State House early this year.AS President Hakainde Hichilema was being declared a winner in the 2021 general elections, exactly two years ago today,...

AS Zambia observes the declaration of President Hakainde Hichilema as the winner of 2021 general elections two years ago today, it is important to look back at major developments and reforms in the mining industry.In...

AMERICAN credit rating agency, Fitch, in September 2020 downgraded Zambia’s credit rating to near junk.Thanks to the United Party for National Development (UPND) for securing victory in the polls the following year, the country could...