By JAMES KUNDA- THE Government has allocated 300 hectares of land for the construction of tailing dams and the sinking of an underground shaft by NFCA Mining Plc in Mufulira which will create 5,000 jobs....

By BRIAN HATYOKA- TEN households living near Zambezi River in Namanjanga Village of Mwandi District in Western Province, have developed 10 fish ponds and stocked them with 2,000 fish limbs to empower themselves economically. The...

By JAMES KUNDA THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a total of US$31.1 million grant under the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP) to support the Zambian agricultural value chain development project. AfDB...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA, JUDITH NAMUTOWE  and JAMES KUNDA – THE ZAMBIA Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ZACCI) has prodded Government to apply maximum fiscal discipline in the management of the US$1 billion sovereign...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – JIHAI Agricultural Company is in the process of setting up an agro-technological park within the Lusaka East Multi-facility Economic Zone (LE-MFEZ). The park will be used for demonstration of agricultural techniques...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) will this year release about K400 million for onward lending to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), managing director Jacob Lushinga has said. Mr Lushinga said...

By JAMES KUNDA – LATEST market updates indicate that the Kwacha saw some marginal gains against the dollar in thin trading on Tuesday. Interbank dollar supply in the mid-morning session saw the Kwacha touch a...

A POOR credit culture is what characterises the Zambian society. This means that many people find it very hard to pay their debts. There is a high impetus to borrow or people literally live on...

THE issue of public debt is becoming more important in Zambia but the answer to the question of whether to borrow or not has remained the matter of balancing. There is always need to weigh...

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