A POOR credit culture is what characterises the Zambian society, it is reported. This means many people find it hard to pay their debts both at individual and corporate levels. There is a high impetus...

LAST week in our business discussion, I looked at the smallest business entity in the chain of our Small and Medium business entities, today I want to focus my own business organisation and take a...

IN this week’s column, I have decided to pay tribute to the late? prospecting University of Zambia student, Musanka Makwamba who sadly? took her life about three weeks ago, as a result of not having...

ALTHOUGH the 2015 Budget has been presented to Parliament the budgeting processing is not over yet. Stakeholders, who strongly feel their proposals have not been attended to, still have a chance to lobby the Government...

PICK n Pay stores is offering price reductions on selected items under the shop and save promotion valid until October 19, 2014. Foodstuffs such as eggs, cereal, meat and beverages have had their prices slashed...

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...