Depending on which side of the fence one sits, mining is either a massive contributor to employment and economic growth, or it is not contributing enough and needs to be reformed.
This difference was of opinion was evident right at...
Zambia is often referred to as a landlocked country. In terms of trade, this has always been seen as a weakness because the cost of international trade rises with no direct access to the sea.
However, one of the messages...
A worrying development emerged last week at this year’s ZIMEC conference in Lusaka, which, if not addressed, could well result in the failure of Zambia’s plans for diversification.
Mukula Makasa, Director of Enterprise Development at the Zambia Development Agency, told...
A picture is worth a thousand words, as the CEO of a major African rail company demonstrated powerfully at the Africa Rail 2018 conference in Johannesburg in June 2018.
To illustrate his point, he put up a slide showing dismantled...
Why does Africa import so much food, when it could grow its own? Despite fertile soils, abundant rain and large tracts of land available for planting, the continent is not realising its agricultural potential. Farmers lack access to markets...
In 1963, Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, and one of Africa’s leading lights in the fight against colonialism, lamented the fact that African countries did not trade with each other, but rather sold raw materials to the...
Zambia’s position in the latest Fraser Index has plummeted. The country’s placing in the index, which measures how a country is seen as a mining investment destination, has fallen from 30 to 58 – a very big drop.
You may...
by Maya Forstater (originally posted on LinkedIn)
On Monday it was widely reported that an $8billion “tax scam” by an unnamed prominent mining company had been discovered. On Tuesday First Quantum Minerals (FQM) gave a short statement: "The Company unequivocally refutes this assessment which does...
An interesting interview in which Proflight’s chief pilot, Gerald Tembo, tells the story of how he fell in love with flying as a child, why his favourite plane is the Boeing 777 and how Proflight’s traffic to N.W. Province...
For an economy to thrive, goods must be transported easily and cheaply in and out of a country. Just as veins and arteries carry blood and oxygen around your body to keep it alive, road and rail infrastructure carry...
