- Vol 52 No 16
- 5th August 2011
In the last two months, some high-profile Movement for Multiparty Democracy personalities, including close friends of President Rupiah Banda’s, have crossed over to Michael Sata’s Patriotic Front (PF).
- Vol 52 No 12
- 10th June 2011
President Banda remains favourite to win the elections but the ructions caused by his sons’ activism are chipping away at that margin of victory
- Vol 52 No 12
- 10th June 2011
The electoral fortunes of Michael Sata are improving, in what has become a two-horse presidential race. The conventional wisdom had been that Sata could not defeat President Rupiah Banda unless he was the joint nominee of his Patriotic Front (PF) and the ...
- Vol 52 No 10
- 13th May 2011
The serenity of Glencore’s Initial Public Offering on the Hong Kong and London Stock Exchanges remains undisturbed by revelations of inflated costs and transfer-pricing by Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines. MCM is 73% owned by the Swiss mining and trading gian...
- Vol 52 No 6
- 18th March 2011
Some US$66 million in tax revenue owed to the Treasury are missing, according to the mid-February report on Zambia published under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). The report showed that the mining companies had paid $463 mn. to t...
- Vol 52 No 2
- 21st January 2011
Despite a faster-growing economy, opposition parties are winning
support by pushing nationalism
- Vol 52 No 1
- 7th January 2011
President Rupiah Banda is facing an increasingly strong challenge in the upcoming elections since Michael Sata’s Patriotic Front (PF) made common cause with the United Party for National Development (UPND) of Hakainde Hichilema. It remains to be seen, how...
- Vol 51 No 23
- 19th November 2010
Firebrand politician Michael Sata’s anti-Chinese rhetoric is helping the opposition’s campaign ahead of next year’s elections
- Vol 51 No 23
- 19th November 2010
President Rupiah Banda and his Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) are struggling to control the mass media before next year’s general elections. The private media, especially the popular newspaper The Post, are thriving, riding high on the declining ...
- Vol 51 No 17
- 27th August 2010
Booming mines and farms, and a government beset by talk of corruption and strange legal decisions