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Anyhow in Zambia, the gazetted minimum wage is K260, 000.00 per month but Barclays Bank Zambia, which has just been chosen as the Bank of the Year, will ask you to pay an extra K200,000 per-month if you want to bank with them as a Prestige Customer. They call it Club Membership, the same term the Afrikaners were using just after apartheid was abolished in South Africa to deny a Black African entrance to some pubs, claiming it to be a members pub only.

Infant baboons look very different from adult baboons and in some ways resemble human infants. For example, instead of being covered with fur, their...

Business Values for our Time is an over 300 paged book authored by consultant and entrepreneur Chibamba Kanyama. It has four parts spread across twenty-one chapters. Part one of the book focuses on Zambian tribal cultures as well as Indian and Jewish cultural ethics. In part two, the book deals with mainly mechanics and dynamics of investments, loans, borrowing culture and most interestingly chapter nine deals with the question of managing relatives. In part three, the book takes the stories of various Zambian entrepreneurs and derives various theories and values that have made them successful. In part four, Mr. Kanyama discusses various issues to do with attributes and culture for the business entrepreneur.

Friendship in humans is complex and multi-dimension, making friendship hard to define but a number of qualities are often used to distinguish friendship. These...

By Daimone Siulapwa The ruling party, the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) seems to be celebrating the happenings in the PF-UPND Pact. Well, understandable. The...

By Henry Kyambalesa In an article entitled “Give Us Time to Finish Projects,” which appeared in the Times of Zambia of 4th October 2010, President...

The author of the book, It’s How We End That Matters: Leadership Lessons from an African President, Martin Kalungu-Banda is not new to Zambia. He has been a lecturer at UNZA, worked for BP Zambia, OXFAM and famously had a stint at State House from 2005 to 2008. At State House he served in an ambiguous role as President Mwanawasa’s leadership consultant or unpaid Chief of Staff as the case may be. The greater nation of Zambia got introduced to Martin Kalungu-Banda by President Mwanawasa himself who praised his effort of making personal sacrifices to try and help the top Zambian government workers improve their leadership. He is currently a leadership consultant and this book is his second. A third book is still in the works.

By Wesley Ngwenya I have been privileged to have previously participated in the Population and Housing Census of 1990. I was only grade eleven by...