Business and Technology

Small-scale miners on the Copperbelt have welcomed the creation of the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises saying it will enhance the growth of the Small and medium businesses. Speaking in an interview with the media in Kitwe yesterday, Chapamo...

President Hakainde Hichilema has directed the Bank of Zambia and the Ministry of Finance to come up with a mechanism to reduce cash transactions. This follows an unprecedented rise in demand for cash country-wide, which the Bank of Zambia attributed...

Finance Minister Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane has held 2022 National Budget consultations with the Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM). During the consultative meeting held at the Ministry of Finance Headquarters, Dr Musokotwane reiterated the need for the industry to play an...

Zambia’s central bank governor Christopher Mvunga quit just over a year into the job, following opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema’s election victory last month. Hichilema named Francis Chipimo, the deputy governor, to act in the position, the presidency said in an...

Zamtel says it has continued with its ambitious plan of rolling out additional Customer Service Centres across the country. Zamtel Acting Chief Commercial Officer Keith Banda said the firm is implementing a programme to increase its retail footprint as a...

THE Bank of Zambia (BOZ) has said that the unprecedented rise in demand for Cash countrywide during the past few months has led to the shortage of banknotes and coins being experienced countrywide. In a statement made available to the...

The International Monetary Fund Resident Representative for Zambia Preya Sharma yesterday morning held a meeting with Finance Minister Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane. The bilateral engagement, held at the Ministry of Finance was the first between the IMF Resident Representative and Dr....

ZESCO management panics over ghost workers they employed during the PF era & begin auditing workers. In Other News – AKA UNDER FIRE AFTER SHARING N#DES – NELLI TEMBE’S DEATH BROUGHT UP Mzansi hip hop star AKA has given his fans a sneak...

Minister of Finance SITUMBEKO MUSOKOTWANE has disclosed that the 2022 National budget has already been prepared and should be ready for presentation in Parliament by October this year. Dr. MUSOKOTWANE says the United Party for National Development -UPND- Administration is...

Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane, the new Minister of Finance, is a leading regional Monetary Economist with several decades of experience in developing markets having served as Finance Minister, Secretary to the Treasury, Deputy Governor of the Zambian Central Bank, IMF...