By KAIKO NAMUSA- MOPANI Copper Mines (MCM) has introduced a deliberate policy to empower local contractors through restructuring of mining rates, providing spare parts and fuel to them to ease the cost of conducting business...

By JAMES KUNDA- KANSANSHI Mining in Solwezi has stockpiled US$300-million worth of copper concentrates due to lack of in-country smelting capacity. First Quantum Minerals (FQM), the owner of Kansanshi said the amount of stockpiled copper...

ZAMBIA clocks 50 years of budgets this year and Lusaka-based economic analyst, DAVID PUNABANTU, observes in this two-part article that a certain pattern has existed among export revenue derived mainly from copper exports, government expenditure,...

AS I have previously pointed out, marketing has always been a dynamic discipline due to the fact that it relates to the needs of the consumers which are equally ever-changing. Having taken cognisance of this...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO FOR centuries, the tradition of disseminating information has largely been through print and broadcast but with the rise of Information and Communication Technologies, (ICTs) online media has taken over because of the...

NO doubt excess is one thing that is least appreciated by many people. When one hears the word excess usually what comes to mind is having more than enough or abundance but in insurance this...

IT IS good to be back after almost a month-long break from this column while on my short-lived annual vacation, which should have gone on up to October 3. It was, however, cut short after...

JAPAN has yet again shown its commitment to the enhancement of the movement in the region by financing the construction of the Kazungula Bridge. The joint project which has protracted will help to enhance the...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Government is actively pursuing investors to add value to the local timber endowment as a measure to curb illegal cutting and trading of the commodity. Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – INSURANCE companies last year paid out more than K400 million in claims to various businesses and individuals throughout the country. Insurers Association of Zambia (IAZ) chairperson Shipango Muteto said during a...