Vol 53 No 13 | ZAMBIA Mutembo's targets 22nd June 2012 The Director of Public Prosecutions, Mutembo Nchito, has his sights on Henry Banda, son of ex-President Rupiah Banda, over his role in the US$257 million sale of most of the Zamtel...
Vol 53 No 10 | ZAMBIA Sata’s health and other scares 11th May 2012 Question marks are multiplying about Sata’s judgement, his choice of regional friends and his well-being Even before his famous victory in last year’s presidential election, Zambians heard rumours about Michael Sata being unwell. When he unexpectedly flew to India in March for medical...
Vol 53 No 10 | ZAMBIA Discontent over Wynter 11th May 2012 The growing influence of the Patriotic Front Secretary General, Wynter Kabimba, constitutes the starkest example of the PF’s statist tendencies. He has been a source of controversy...
Vol 53 No 7 | ZAMBIA Sata stumbles 30th March 2012 The promise of a clean sweep of corruption is unfulfilled and the commitment to open politics undermined Six months after their sweeping election victory, President Michael Chilufya Sata and his Patriotic Front (PF) are struggling to live up to their promises. They are in danger of lo...
Vol 53 No 7 | ZAMBIA Soothing the investors 30th March 2012 Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda and President Michael Sata spent the first two months of 2012 meeting key shareholders in foreign-owned mining companies to reassure them that ...
Vol 53 No 5 | ZAMBIA Lusaka restarts the anti-corruption campaign 2nd March 2012 President Sata starts to deliver on promises of cleaner government President Michael Sata is cheering donors and his supporters by relaunching the fight against corruption begun under the late President Levy Mwanawasa but curtailed under President...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 | ZAMBIACHINA Careless communication costs lives 3rd September 2012 Confusion about the new minimum wage law and tensions between workers and management lie behind the death of a Chinese mining boss in August The killing of Wu Shenzai on 4 August and the wounding of his two compatriots by Zambian mine workers demanding the implementation of the newly revised minimum wage were widely con...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 | ZAMBIACHINA Investment relations 3rd September 2012 Despite the travails in Zambia's relations with China and fears that changes in mining regulation and taxation would scare off Asian companies, the flow of investment continues. Of...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 | ZAMBIA Alexander Chikwanda 31st July 2012 Finance Minister, Zambia In the 29 June listing of China Nonferrous Metal Mining Corporation (CNMC) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Zambia’s Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda saw ‘a legitimate cause fo...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 8 | ZAMBIA Given Lubinda 1st June 2012 Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism, Zambia Zambian President Michael Chilufya Sata (aka ‘King Cobra’) used anti-Chinese rhetoric to whip up populist sentiment and win power in 2011, since when he has changed his tone.