Government needs to lift the prolonged ban of the movement of livestock in some areas around the country because the status quo is suicidal for farmers who have no alternative viable source of income, says […]

Government must urgently review the 2019 mining fiscal regime to ensure that growth in the sector is sustained and tax revenues to the Treasury are maintained, insists the Zambia Chamber of Mines. But Mines Minister […]

Interest rates on loan facilities offered by commercial banks will hit a nominal average of 25 per cent following the Bank of Zambia’s (BoZ) increased Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), says the Bankers’ Association of Zambia […]

Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) Plc has so far only produced 860 metric tonnes of copper against a target of 12,500 in June. And management of Konkola Copper Mines in liquidation has announced the appointment of […]

Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has announced a fatal incident at its Nchanga smelter in Chingola that occurred Thursday evening involving a 42-year-old contracted worker. In a statement, Friday, KCM public relations & communications manager Shapi […]

The Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa (BMIA) announced the expansion of its Financial Journalism Training (FJT) programme to five African countries following the success of the programme in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, where 568 delegates […]

President Edgar Lungu, the Judiciary and all MPs must freeze their salaries for the next two years if government will free up much-needed funds to reinvigorate the struggling local economy, says former Commerce Minister Dipak […]

Euronext, minority shareholders of ZCCM-IH, says government’s move to arbitrarily liquidate Vedanta Resources’ Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) Plc was hastily done without preparation. But the minority shareholders insist that government did well to proceed with […]

Barclays Bank UK says China is unlikely to give the Zambian government comprehensive debt relief as there is little incentive to do so. And Barclays Bank UK says Zambia could default on some of its […]

The impending Sales Tax will subject Zambians to even worse economic hardships than what is being experienced now, the Zambia Tax Platform (ZTP) has warned. In an analysis of the proposed Goods and Services Tax […]