By CHRISTINE MWAABA – “I did not know that losing my sight would make me gain a vision to become one of the most potent entrepreneurs in my village.” This is a powerful statement from...

A VIBRANT capital market is an essential driver of economic growth as it assists in mobilising resources and efficiently directing them to their most productive uses. Capital markets also provide long-term and cheaper financing for...

SHORT term insurance business is ordinarily transient in nature. The period of cover usually runs up to a maximum of 12 months ceteris paribus followed by a renewal process.?Under the renewal process neither party is...

LAST week we looked at the amended Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Value added Tax (VAT) Rule number 18. In essence, the amendment narrows down to how the Government will get lower taxes from the mining...

THIS week I have once again been compiled to tackle the subject of poor customer service in most commercial organisations. Sometime last year I looked at the same topic but a friend of mine who...

Zambia Revenue Athority (ZRA) tax online bearing fruit. IT is now 14 months since the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) introduced tax online technology and it is slowly bearing fruit. The aim of these tax reforms...

By SAMUEL NGOMA – TO avoid an off-the-radar mentality after the just-ended Presidential poll, one had to take a midnight drive around Lusaka on January 24, 2015. That is, to make a proper pre-2016 “reading...

We had a friend at  school who snored terribly almost every night. This was not so bad, as the fact that he denied it completely. Sometimes thinking we had the evidence at hand we would...

By JOWIT SALUSEKI – MARY Silavwe Mulenga  is among the minority that have resorted to women activism besides her demanding job.She is an ambitious woman who dreams of  becoming a parliamentarian one day. Her involvement...

By LAWRENCE KABUTU     – Bretton Woods Institutions have accelerated agriculture development in Zambia through various projects aimed at addressing poverty in rural households. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have made...