SMALL and Medium Enterprise Development Minister Elias Mubanga says only 10,000 out of the 46,000 SMEs that accessed empowerment loans are paying them back. And Mubanga has dismissed allegations that those defaulting are UPND cadres, insisting that the loans are accessible to anyone with an entrepreneurial mind regardless of political affiliation. Speaking when he appeared on ZNBC’s Sunday Interview, Mubanga said the Ministry was now only giving loans to people with a proven entrepreneurial mindset. He added that anyone who wanted to access the loans must first undergo business development training. “Firstly we have empowered a number of our SMEs. We have actually given empowerment to about 46,000 SMEs in the country. These have been empowered, they have been given...