By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA? – STANDARD Chartered Bank Zambia has pledged to help build the capacity, raise awareness and enhance the quality of business reporting in Zambia. The bank hosted a workshop on financial and global...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE? – THE Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has said the feasibility study on the Batoka Hydropower Station has been reviewed. ZRA chief executive officer Munyaradzi Munodawafa said in an interview yesterday that the...

By JAMES KUNDA? – THE Chamber of Mines of Zambia (CMZ) has proposed that Government?revokes Statutory Instrument (SI) number 89 of 2010 that provides for?tax to be charged on exports of mineral concentrates. In the...

INTERNAL customers are just as important as external ones and this week I have decided to look at this area of marketing that is so critical and yet has been relegated to the backseat of...

ON SME Corner today, we look at women entrepreneurship as my colleague HELEN ZULU tackles the issue in the following article:?Entrepreneurship has a lot of benefits which can be broken down at national, society and...

MEDICAL insurance, just like any other form of insurance, is a risk?transfer mechanism whereby the insured transfers risk to the insurer?and the insurer accepts the risk in consideration of a fair and?equitable premium. The insured...

TODAY, I have decided to feature an abridged version of the Chamber of?Mines of Zambia (CMZ) submission on the mining sector Budget proposals?for the 2015 Budget and 2015-2017 Medium Term Expenditure?Framework (MTEF). The document reads:?Following...

THE issue of the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) – Value Added Tax (VAT) Rule Number 18 has been blown out of proportion, at the expense of other equally important matters. Briefcase feels that enough has...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Zambia National Building Society (ZNBS) is set to increase the mortgage portfolio to over K500 million in its 2014/15. ZNBS public relations officer Chanda Mubanga said in response to a...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE World Bank has committed more than US$569 million to Zambia for 11 active projects. World Bank country director Kundahvi Kadiresani said there are 11 active projects with net commitment of...