Have you ever noticed how one of or a few of the guys you know are just … different? From childhood all the way to date, there’s always been something sneaky or uncertain about them. It starts early in your friendship but becomes more pronounced as life begins to happen. You know your circle by […]
Zambia has a new pension law.
Savior Mwambwa Africa’s Green Finance Agenda | IFI & MDB Reform | Sovereign Wealth Funds, Tax Justice & DRM | Programme Manager, Open Society Foundations | 23-Country Track Record- Global | Pan- Africa | Zambia | New York The President signed NAB 68 of 2026 into law on 4 June. It repeals and rewrites the […]
Reserves, Reality, and the Zambian Election-What the Debate Is Getting Wrong on Both Sides
Savior Mwambwa Africa’s Green Finance Agenda | IFI & MDB Reform | Sovereign Wealth Funds, Tax Justice & DRM There is a debate happening right now in Zambia, loudly, on social media and at campaign rallies, about the meaning of foreign exchange reserves. It has in many ways, become the central argument of the 2026 […]
A man with kaso will always be ugly.
A man who picks out the right clothes for an occasion, drives carefully on the road, speaks eloquently and can cook a decent meal? He’s usually celebrated as a catch. But when he budgets and plans for his money, it’s always a different story. You could be one of the most handsome men in the […]
Play with it a little bit.
Every man can pretend it doesn’t affect him or that he’s already experiencing it. But there comes a time, without good fortune for some in their early forties, where a man simply has to look at how nothing seems to move naturally unless he plays with it. Life does become mundane. Repetitive. Work, home, church. […]
Royalties v Shareholding
Royal Bafokeng’s secret sauce was converting Royalties into Equity By Tshepo Magagane At the very base, Equity gives you: 1. Strategic Input 2. Operational Influence 3. Most importantly CURRENCY – which enables the ability to transact 4. When it comes to the argument that NI can be manipulated by companies; that is the role of […]
What Separates Great Investment Bankers from Great Artificial Intelligence
Chabala Sunkutu Investment Banking Associate | Transaction Analysis, Valuations & Capital Markets Everyone is talking about how artificial intelligence is transforming investment banking. And they’re right, it is. But the conversation keeps missing the most important point. The biggest value an investment banker brings to a deal isn’t financial modeling. It isn’t combing through thousands […]
DRC 100m from US and UAE “Paramilitary”
….to protect the mines. By Tshepo Magagane A pantomime of the leopold-era for SNL. Sierra Leone first lady put it best “for every USD100m of minerals that leave the country, we get USD10,000”! Protecting the Congolese Minerals from the Congolese who own them. The DRC can never have peace until the Congolese have peace. This […]
Please Tell Your Fathers That We’re Tired …
There is a Zambian man who has become quite a common sight. You won’t find him dancing to amapiano at Dacapo, filming people on the streets and force-feeding them a dictionary or talking at every forum, masterclass and conference in town. You’ll find this man on radio, TV, social media and especially this year, in […]
Why the Zambian Man is Under Care and Maintenance …
There’s that tired scenario where a mine goes into “care and maintenance,” to indirectly ask a government to take it easy with planned tax hikes. It doesn’t mean the mine is closing. It simply keeps its assets in decent shape so everything doesn’t fall apart. Today’s Zambian man has good reason to place himself under […]