KCM says current mining taxes are adequate
Konkola Copper Mines- KCM says that Windfall taxes have the capacity to distort the country’s economy and suffocate mining companies. KCM Board Member JACOB MWANZA says the taxes, if implemented, can only collect increased government revenue for a short period of time. Dr MWANZA says this revenue can distort the economy because it is money [...]
By Ann Danaiya Usher Sweden has withheld its pledge to the Global Fund because of concerns about the misuse of US$25 million in grants in four African countries. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.At the third pledging round of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in New York, Sweden’s AIDS Ambassador Anders Nordström surprised [...]
Continue reading …The Post newspaper reports that A WITNESS yesterday testified that former president Frederick Chiluba’s spokesperson Emmanuel Mwamba confessed to him that he had authored two contemptuous articles relating to the Mathew Mohan trial. In this case, Mwamba is alleged to have authored and published two contemptuous articles that circulated on the Zambian Watchdog web site [...]
Continue reading …Minister of Health Kapembwa Simbao has told Parliament that there were enough doctors and health personnel in the country and that there was no need for people in the country to worry. Simbao said that there were about 150 doctors on internship and 47 doctors doing masters programme in the field of health in high learning [...]
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