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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)  January 9, 2026 What looks like a diplomatic retreat is shaping up to be a balance-sheet shock for vulnerable sovereigns. In a dramatic shift in U.S. […]

By Savior Mwambwa January 8, 2025 Zambia’s Ministry of Finance just released an important statement on the IMF programme. The headlines are since reading all sorts of manner including “Zambia ends IMF programme” , “Zamba abandons IMF programme” or something equally misleading. So hopefully this article will offer some clarity and context.What’s happening is more […]

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 31, 2025 Reflections on leadership, risk, humanity and reinvention in a volatile world Leadership Is Forged Under Pressure As 2025 draws to a close, […]

On Monday night, I watched Morocco dismantle my…OUR beloved Chipolopolo 3-0, and instead of blaming the referee like a normal person, I had an existential breakdown on my couch. I watched something disturbingly familiar unfold. After getting pummelled like nshima at matebeto, our boys scrambled for Hakimi’s jersey with the same enthusiasm they should’ve brought […]

There a lot of theories out there. Kenneth Kaunda died with the coordinates to where Zambia has oil fields and diamond deposits. Nkana FC is a football club. But none is more ridiculous than the one where you can deduce a man’s success simply by looking at his wife. Ati if you want to assess […]

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 […]

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 […]

[“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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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: […]

The US-DRC deal and Lobito Corridor represent a historic moment. Whether it becomes a turning point depends on choices African governments make now. By Savior Mwambwa  December 9, 2025 The ink on the US-DRC Strategic Partnership Agreement signed last week in Washington is barely dry, but its implications will reverberate across the continent for decades. […]

Written By: Mutisunge Zulu  Chief Risk Officer | Global Executive PhD Cand. Business Mgt, AI & Strategy at ESCP Business School | Global Executive MBA (Manchester) Copper’s breach above $11,000/MT didn’t just surprise markets, it invalidated the analytical architecture many of us have used for decades. What the industry long regarded as a cyclical industrial […]

By Dean N Onyambu For years, we have said, “Africa pays too much to borrow because the rating agencies are biased.” That anger is understandable. It is also incomplete. In sovereign markets, default is the crash. The spread is the cost of insurance. Investors are not only looking at who has crashed before. They are […]

By Savior Mwambwa Fitch Ratings (one of the world’s three major credit rating agencies) has upgraded Zambia’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘B-‘ from ‘RestrictedDefault’ (RD). This is according to Fitch’s own rating action commentary released on Friday 28th November 2025 titled: “Fitch Upgrades Zambia to ‘B-‘; Outlook Stable”Think of it like […]

We all go to the same war. Discover what we’re good at, get better at it, apply it somewhere to make enough money that we can save to help our family bury us with dignity. Ok, this opening was dark. Sorry about that.But the point I’m making is that while we’re all pursuing a respectable […]

Men tend to die first. That’s why they’re implored to have a will that determines the aftermath of their demise. This anomaly has us focused so much on how we should plan for our loved ones when we’re gone. Men never consider the alternative. The possibility that it is not us, but our partner, who […]

You just cant pull out of deals because you have 2nd thoughts! Same thing is going to happen with the Anglo coal assets. Anglo will also get another boost as they are going to plug higher LT coal prices in models now (and the stars aligning with the IEA coming back with scenarios of longer coal […]

Ceaser Siwale The Southern African Development Community (SADC) finds itself at the intersection of a global logistics crisis, a structural commodity boom, and an unprecedented push for sustainability compliance. For Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that form the essential support structure for the region’s vast mining sector, navigating this turbulent environment means recognising that auditable sustainability […]

You probably know by now that a man’s biggest milestones rarely announce themselves with trumpets and a man in a white rob descending from the shimmering sky above us. Frankly, that’s the only time it’s gonna be a big event. For everything else, life is a series of occasions that add up to the next […]

Sure, there are men among us that simply refuse to give up on Arsenal FC and that’s admirable but there’s something about how we handle pain that seems to be specific to men. The ability to endure sickness in silence is a rising problem. A man will stare into an empty fridge in a house […]

By Tshepo Magagane It is so difficult to explain to people outside the industry what the challenges are with copper supply are. Even if you assume just 35Mtpa by 2030 (see that I am not even talking about 50Mtpa) – give me a list of new projects out there that can produce just 200ktpa? 200ktpa […]

We all know a guy at ZESCO, someone in procurement, the husband to the CEO or the only mechanic in Lusaka who knows how to fix a Ferrari. There’s always someone we know for something and it is a mark of the well-connected man to have a powerful contact list in his phone. To be […]

There’s obviously nothing wrong with having a youthful disposition but there’s a time in any man’s life when he is called upon to be age-appropriate ranging from his decisions, dress sense and diet. It begs the question, are you age-appropriate? As a dashing young man about town, you’ve probably had a few wild nights where […]

Observed By Tshepo Magagane [USD1.5trn that openAI has committed to spend – oh, it is loss making] “extreme euphoria” “look at chart – double bottom – those are fundamentals” “numbers dont matter because this is changing the world” “I have seen this before” “flammable items not red flags” “enron = off balance sheet exposures – […]

Analysis By Tshepo Magagane – Executive A bids for C – what appears to be superior offer B comes in bidding – B has anti-trust concerns – so it promises to give a huge part of the price before the deal consumates or is approved (it will only retain economic rights – not voting rights) […]