No lube, let’s go. Our tendency to absorb atrocities means we end up as the bad guy in the workplace, relationship, marriage, as a parent or any contentious situation. Societal encouragement to be strong and suffer in silence has us here today. Where nobody hears our side of the story. There are men who were […]
Zambia and SADC 2026 Outlook: The Green Metal Renaissance and the Path to Structural Recovery
By Pangaea Holdings | December 2025 As we approach 2026, the economic narrative for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Zambia, in particular, is shifting decisively. We are moving from the era of acute crisis management and debt restructuring into a period of strategic repositioning. While the global economy faces “multidimensional polarisation” and trade fragmentation, SADC finds itself […]
When the network drops, men suffer the most.
[“Can you hear me now?” Everyone’s complaining about dropped calls, network congestion, poor signal strength and interference among a glut of issues. This seems to affect everybody but no more than it does the average Zambian man. ] Over a lifetime, a man builds his own network. The childhood friends he grows up with in his […]
There’s a certain Zambian man who no longer exists.
There was a time a man would never leave the house without a handkerchief. He would also be at the table when it was time for the family to eat what he had worked hard to put on their plates. There were things that were non-negotiable for a certain type of man. A man, it […]
Sample si lema.
Ever noticed how doing something wrong is so easy? How heavily incentivized you are to not do the right thing? The life of a man has been modified to reward short cuts publicly and hard, diligent work privately. That’s why ‘sample si lema.’ You may not be familiar with street parlance so I’ll explain what […]
The Forgotten Half: Why the 2025 Exam Results Are a Wake-Up Call for the Boy Child
By Ceaser Siwale, Vice-Chair BCAZ Lusaka, Zambia — The release of the 2025 national examination results by Education Minister Douglas Syakalima was more than just an annual academic ritual; it was a siren. For the first time in recent memory, the government explicitly flagged a “shocking” trend: the Zambian Boy Child is significantly lagging. While we celebrate […]
“Commodities” – can you procure them as is conventional wisdom going forward?
Views By Tshepo Magagane “Commodities” – can you procure them as is conventional wisdom going forward? Conversations with the majority of people from the West will have you going “wtf is that” – not even angry, just “wtf was that”! [Actual strategic ownership includes the control of the offtake contracts coming from that mine, the […]
The Red Metal Renaissance: Navigating the Path to the $20,000 Tonne
Observations By Ceaser Siwale As we close the week with copper trading just shy of USD 12,000 per tonne, the market is sending a clear signal: the era of cheap copper is over. The global market has entered a period of definitive structural transformation, shedding its historical cyclicity to embrace a narrative of secular scarcity. […]
Copper on Steroids: Red Metal Charges Toward $12,000 on Supply Crunch and Fed Cut Hopes
Mutisunge Zulu Chief Risk Officer | Global Executive PhD Cand. Business Mgt, AI & Strategy at ESCP Business School | Global Executive MBA (Manchester) | Advanced Management Program (Harvard) | December 10, 2025 Copper’s surge toward $12,000 per ton is not just another chapter in commodity-market volatility – it is the clearest indication yet that […]
Africa 2025: When Politics Test Markets – And Markets Test Institutions
Mutisunge Zulu Chief Risk Officer | Global Executive PhD Cand. Business Mgt, AI & Strategy at ESCP Business School | Global Executive MBA (Manchester) | Advanced Management Program (Harvard) | December 11, 2025 Why Risk Premia Are Repricing Capacity, Not Headlines Markets have long priced political noise in Africa, but 2025 is forcing something deeper: […]