Ministerial Statement on ZRL Board and Clive Chirwa
Minister for Transport Yamfwa Mukanga MP earlier this week delivered a ministerial statement on the dissolution of the Zambia Railways Limited Board and the recent retirement of Managing Director Clive...
View ArticleBank of Zambia (Monitoring of Balance of Payments) Regulations, 2013
Government has issued Statutory Instrument 55 of the Bank of Zambia (Monitoring of Balance of Payments) Regulations, 2013. This was issued this week and revokes and replaces Statutory Instrument 32 of...
View ArticleZambia National Budget and Planning Policy
Government yesterday launched the consultative process on the Planning and Budget Policy which will culminate into the development of the Planning and Budgeting Bill. The policy and ensuing Act is...
View ArticleRandom Thoughts
The Government has so far spent $20m on the Constitutional process - most of it in the pockets of Technical Committee and their various "experts". And we are only at the beginning. Cabinet and...
View ArticleMinisterial Statement on Zambia Agriculture Subsidies
An important ministerial statement by Agriculture Minister Bob Sichinga on the recent removal of the consumptions subsidies and the proposed adjustment to the production subsidy. The statement can also...
View ArticleAnother Nationalisation
Government has nationalised Munda Wanga Botanical Gardens in Chilanga. The South African investors have been given a six-month notice before ZAWA finally takes over the running of the institution....
View ArticleLet urbanisation flourish!
A strange statement from Emeldah Chola (Lusaka Province PS) recently caught my attention. He said, “the creation of new districts will also help curb the problem of rural-urban migration because...
View ArticleRandom Thoughts, 2nd Edition
Neo Simutanyi recently said that Zambia is less democratic today than it has ever been over the last two decades : “We thought we were heading somewhere as a nation and boom! The PF arrived and took...
View ArticleZambia Sugar is Sweet!
Zambia Sugar Plc is growing significantly. It recently announced that that production exceeded 400,000 tonnes for the first time, for the financial year ended 31 March 2013. It increased its domestic...
View ArticleExpensive Search for Jobs
Government announced last month that it was planning to launch an online job portal at a cost of KR7 million (US$1.4m) before the end of June to allegedly "promote job creation". Labour Minister...
View ArticlePrice Controls or Label Control?
Luapula Minister Benson Kapaya recently said that Government plans to re-introduce price controllers to prevent "exploitation of Zambian citizens by the business community". Kapaya says shops and other...
View ArticleInvestment Pledges
Ministry of Commerce revealed last month that Zambia recorded Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) inflows estimated at US$1.6 billion in 2012 up from the US$1.1 billion recorded in 2011 (Source: Times of...
View ArticleInvitation of Proposals for Budget 2014
The Ministry of Finance invites members of the public to submit proposals for tax and non-tax revenue for the 2014 National Budget and the 2014 to 2016 Medium Term Expenditure Framework [MTEF].The...
View ArticleAnother day, another party, 12th Edition
George Mpombo recently formed a new party. It will be called the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Mr Mpombo says this will be "be broad-based national party, a truly one Zambia one Nation party...that...
View ArticleCalling all rural dwellers!
GRZ recently announced plans to employ more than 4,000 people to work as conservation officers under the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) in all the 10 provinces. Tourism PS George Zulu says the new...
View ArticleMinisterial Statement on the Fuel Subsidy
A recent ministerial statement by Energy Minister Christopher Yaluma on the recent removal of the fuel subsidy. The statement can also be found at the National Assembly website. According to this...
View ArticleThe Opposition Challenge
NAREP's Elias Chipimo on the opposition's greatest challenge :The big challenge for the opposition is being able to muster the right level of resources, especially for an opposition like Narep....
View ArticleMinisterial Statement on the Constitution Process
Ministerial Statement by Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba on the Constitutional Making Process delivered to the National Assembly earlier this week. The main point in the statement is that the Technical...
View ArticleIs the opposition dying?
Yes. According to Goodson Banda (PF Lusaka Province Chairman) :“By 2016, the opposition will be no more. Zambians have demonstrated that they don’t need opposition parties anymore, what Zambians want...
View ArticleLand Administration in Zambia
A recent parliamentary report provides a good assessment of the state of land administration in Zambia. A big conclusion is that the country is desperately in need of a national policy on land. But...
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