Vol 52 No 21 | ZAMBIA How Banda got bounced 21st October 2011 A party insider told us how the President’s team fouled up his expected election victory Ex-President Rupiah Banda seemed to have everything on his side before the 20 September elections. The economy was strong, buoyed by record copper and cobalt export prices, and his...
Vol 52 No 20 | ZAMBIA Troubled exit for Banda 7th October 2011 Sata owes victory to the fear of a return to rampant corruption; he must also thank those who persuaded Banda not to rig the election Rupiah Bwezani Banda was on the verge of declaring himself winner of the 20 September presidential poll after realising he had lost the elections to Michael Chilufya Sata’s Patriot...
Vol 52 No 19 | ZAMBIAUNITED STATES Too little, too late 23rd September 2011 The President’s promise to fight corruption after the elections seems to have convinced neither diplomats nor voters While publicly condemning corruption, President Rupiah Bwezani Banda gave United States diplomats various explanations of why he could do little about it, according to US State Dep...
Vol 52 No 16 | ZAMBIA A vote about money 5th August 2011 Largesse from the copper boom rather than good policies boosts the President’s chances in next month’s polls The main challenger to President Rupiah Bwezani Banda in the elections he has called for 20 September is his arch-rival Michael Chilufya Sata: both agree that money will prove crit...
Vol 52 No 16 | ZAMBIA Some Banda backers exit 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 ...
Vol 52 No 12 | ZAMBIA Banda brothers on the attack 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 President Rupiah Banda’s dismissal of his friend and campaign manager, Vernon Johnson Mwaanga, at the urging of his sons James and Henry, demonstrates their growing political weigh...
Vol 52 No 12 | ZAMBIA Sata rises in the west 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...
Vol 52 No 10 | ZAMBIAMINING Glencore connection 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...
Vol 52 No 6 | ZAMBIAMINING Taxing problems for Zambia 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...
Vol 52 No 2 | ZAMBIA Banda on the backfoot 21st January 2011 Despite a faster-growing economy, opposition parties are winning support by pushing nationalism Facing growing dissatisfaction, President Rupiah Bwezani Banda and the governing Movement for Multiparty Democracy have a fight on their hands to win this year’s national elections...
