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    Michael Chishala
    Michael Chishala
    Michael Chishala is a Zambian analyst, blogger, and ICT Specialist in web and database programming. He has interests in Philosophy, Economics, Politics and Art.Email: michael [at] zambia [dot] co [dot] zm.
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    • 18 Jan 2023
    • Michael Chishala

    The Zambian electric car “value chain” fantasy

    Have you seen how crazy we Zambians have gone over electric cars? Zambians are convinced that we can make some of the components that go into electric cars, mainly batteries and there is a gold rush to mine Lithium in rural areas. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it is a fantasy. Want to know...
    • 10 Jan 2023
    • Michael Chishala

    Team Red fails its first big test

    So, after all that braggadocio about ending load shedding, the "New Dawn" administration has failed to "fix it" and are doing damage control with lots of egg on their faces. They have been giving endless explanations for their failure to fix load shedding. Among the explanations, acts of God, it's the fault of PF, missing...
    • 21 Dec 2022
    • Michael Chishala

    Load shedding is an act of man (and how to fix the power problem)

    The government is making some rather laughable statements that the current load shedding which officially began on 15th December 2022 is beyond their control and an act of God. Well, God does not control the human made systems that allow electricity to flow into our homes and businesses. Perhaps what they mean is that the...
    • 6 May 2017
    • Michael Chishala

    David Wightman is wrong about death penalty

    Dear News Diggers Editor, The article in your esteemed publication entitled "Screw the Death Penalty" by David Julian Wightman on the 3rd of May 2017 cannot pass without comment as it has very poor arguments that I shall rebut with direct quotations from the author. "... capital punishment has no place in any society that...
    • 9 Mar 2017
    • Michael Chishala

    Vodafone’s Declining Service Delivery

    Vodafone have gone down the path of most Zambian companies providing data services in failing to maintain the high standards they set. Their service is now rather annoying, for a company dedicated to providing data only services to a small market such as Zambia with limited Internet penetration.
    • 1 Mar 2017
    • Michael Chishala

    My Money My Data: Why should Internet bundles expire?

    In the early days of the Cellphone industry, there was a practice by the mobile phone providers that whenever you bought talk time, it would expire after a designated number of days. It used to be very infuriating to say the least.
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