"The effects of corruption are more severe on our poor who cannot afford alternative public services other than those provided by government. Nor can they afford to pay extra costs associated with bribery, fraud and extortion and other corrupt vices..."Southern Province Minister Daniel Munkombwe echoing a point we have repeatedly made on this

Bankelele reports on AMGECO a ship repair company whose:Courtesy of AMGECO...dry dock ship repair facility,is one of its kind on the East Coast of Africa.The company has a long history in East Africa, and has gone through ownership and management changes over several decades, but the core investment is the Lloyd's certified giant facility & dry

Zambia Weekly - Week 35, Volume 1, 3 September 2010

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This week's book was what I just needed to up my reading momentum, after an hectic summer of competing demands. The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr puts forward the argument that the internet is changing us in ways we may not have realised before. Nicholas Carr is convinced that despite the wide benefits the internet has brought, it is also having

"The mines were privatized on certain binding agreements and from the time the government introduced the illegal tax regime new jobs are not being created because major expansion projects have been suspended....In order to retain and attract investors we must honour our agreements and also establish a stable, predictable and unambiguous tax regime"

I promised a series of post to summarise some of the horrors contained in the latest Report of the Auditor General on Accounts for 2008 on Parastatal Bodies.  There are 21 parastatals covered in the report, not sure how many exists, so expect short 21 random posts, and at times less coherent, in the next few weeks.
We start with Chambes...

[Update: I've decided to keep the survey running for a little longer to get the late comers. If enough fill it out, I'll republish the results.]
Out of curiosity I put out a survey to the Kenyan tech community 2 days ago. I’ve always wondered which schools in Kenya put out the most people who move into positions within tech companies,...

Zambia Weekly - Week 35, Volume 1, 3 September 2010

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Out of curiosity I put out a survey to the Kenyan tech community 2 days ago. I’ve always wondered which schools in Kenya put out the most people who move into positions within tech companies, or start their own. I now have 200 entries, which is a decent enough size sample, though I know if we did a true canvasing of the entire community tha

TED Fellow Dominec Muren of Humblefacture writes:...rather than throwing away the order that we have spent so much energy to impose on the matter in electronic devices, it would be better if we could somehow disintegrate and re-integrate these devices into new devices, with new, more useful functions. After all, in most cases, electronics are disca