CABINET’S decision to approve a 24-hour economy for Zambia and allow business houses, markets and bus stations to operate overnight is a game changer. It is actually long-overdue for a country like ours that desperately needs to ramp up productivity. Soon, we will look back and wonder what took us so long and how it made sense for economic life to shut down so early across the country. What the UPND government has done is a serious transformative shift in the way this country thinks about trade, mobility, services and work. The moment supermarkets, ordinary markets, bus stations and other business places are allowed and encouraged to operate around the clock, government is essentially saying the economy must stop behaving...




