By ANDREW MULENGA – GOVERNMENT and key stakeholders are brainstorming over the mooted Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for Battery Electric Vehicles Value Chain in Zambia.They are having a two-day consultative meeting which started in Lusaka...

By CHATULA KANGALI – THE Zambia International Trade Fair (ZITF) Trust has introduced the Saturday markets at the ZITF grounds every two months to keep the facility running throughout the year.ZITF acting chief executive officer...

By KETRA KALUNGA – THE Oil Marketing Company Association of Zambia (OMCAZ) has welcomed Cabinet approval of Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) that are ready to start producing 99.9 per cent pure ethanol to undertake six-month...

IT was a sunny Friday afternoon, but almost the entire populace was eager to listen to the 2024 National Budget presentation by Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane.Despite the scorching heat, many were glued...

LAST week, we featured an article in which I justified the need for the agriculture sector to get a big share of the 2024 national budget.That was before Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane,...

DESCRIBED by many stakeholders as progressive, the 2024 National Budget will be anchored on stimulating economic growth to achieve improved livelihood as evidenced by the rise in allocations to key sectors of the economy.Finance and...

By CHATULA KANGALI and KETRA KALUNGA – ACCESS Bank Zambia has recommended that the proposed levy on mobile money transactions be implemented in a way that will not disadvantage local players.Managing director Lishala Situmbeko says...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – SOME marketeers at Kitwe’s Chisokone Market have described the decision by the Government to increase the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to a record K30.6 million as progressive.In a random interview yesterday,...

By ANDREW MULENGA – THE Bank of Zambia (BoZ) says the implementation of the Export Proceeds Tracking Framework (EPTF) in January 2024 as announced in the National Budget, will curb K1 billion annual leakages from...

By ANDREW MULENGA – THE proposed 2024 National Budget is a buildup of the ‘New Dawn’ government’s consistent economic blueprints which if well executed has the potential to unlock the economic potential of the country,...