COMMERCE, Trade and Industry Minister Chipoka Mulenga says the investment pledges that the government is receiving are translating into realities. PF National Chairperson Davies Chama recently said it was pointless for President Hakainde Hichilema to boast about investment pledges that have not been actualised. He said the PF also received investment pledges, but only about 10 percent would be actualised. Chama was commenting on the President’s remarks that Zambia had attracted US$8.34 billion in foreign direct investment pledges in the first quarter of 2023. But in an interview, Mulenga said donors might have lacked confidence in the PF if only a few pledges were being actualised. “If you are talking about investments in form of pledges, when we talk about...

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