By CHATULA KANGALI – THE Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has increased road tax and traffic fees by about 50 per cent. The increase which was effected on Monday this week is in line...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA, MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA and CHATULA KANGALI – AS THE countrywide power load-shedding continues, traders selling alternative sources of energy are cashing in on the rising demand. There is an increase in demand and...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE recent increase in the prices of fuel will impact negatively on the country’s economy which is already faced with the effects of load-shedding. Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) president Crispin...

By CHARITY MOONGA – THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has pledged to remain the world’s most open market, importing up to 860 billion Euros worth of goods annually from developing countries. The EU will also come...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) executive vice president and chief executive officer Keiko Honda is expected to arrive in Zambia for a three-day visit. MIGA is the political risk insurance...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Zambia Consumer Association (ZACA) has advised bus operators against increasing bus fares following the rise in fuel pump prices. ZACA Information and publicity officer Juba Sakala said this in a...

APPROXIMATELY 227,000 smallholder farmers produce almost 95 per cent of Zambia’s cotton, utilising 254,000 hectares of land. The cotton industry has developed to be one of the country’s largest quasi-formal distribution networks with some smallholder...

TODAY we look at one of the vexing business concepts called return on investment (ROI) or return on capital (ROC). Or in short, what a business can pay the business owners for having taken the...

LOAD-SHEDDING can be described as the deliberate shutdown of electric power in part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of...

By CHARITY MOONGA – MAAMBA Collieries operations achieved a break even in 2014-15 with a total volume of 100,000 tonnes of high-grade coal earning about US$ 48 a tonne. ZCCM-IH owns 35 per cent of...