NESLON CHANDA traces his life journey highlighting serious obstacles he had to surmount along the way, including being attacked, battered and robbed by criminals, before he achieved his life dreams. Read on… MY mother told...

Here is why Kenneth Kaunda’s speech on this year’s Africa Freedom Day is the most important Zambia has heard since October 1964: He is the only surviving founding head of state and government who has...

By LILLIAN  BANDA – THE declining capacity for countries like Zambia to create jobs for the youth has been a source of concern since the 1990s. It is for this reason that policy makers are...

By JOWIT SALUSEKI? – TEEN marriages have continued to haunt Zambia, which has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world with 42 per cent. Women aged between 20-24 years are married by...

THIS week, I am ruminating on matters of labour and employment from the resort district of Siavonga, in Southern Province, where I am part of a national workshop on domestic work. The two-day workshop, being...

COOPERATIVES play an important role in the development of any country as they contribute massively in alleviating poverty especially in rural areas. The afro centric systems highlights communal work and benefit from one’s sweat a...

ONE afternoon I took a drive to visit a white farmer within the Copperbelt with a success story in farming. He has been staying in Zambia for several years making thousands of dollars from simple...

I HAD last week deliberately started the discussion on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) because of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States- European Union (EU) Council of ministers meeting, which starts tomorrow in Belgium....

CONSUMER centricity is a hot topic in marketing circles. Organizations around the globe are trying to “get in touch” with the consumer through multiple methodologies. It is important to employ consumer audits, focus groups, in-house...

Today we continue with the article which started last week, looking at failed Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) which resulted in the owner committing suicide. In the article, a business that looked so promising at...