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By Steven Mbangu Zambia’s next development challenge is not simply how to finance enterprises, but how to mobilise the savings of its own citizens into productive capital and…
Steven Mbangu proposes EGS-UP, a system that would connect guarantees, productivity support and markets around one test: whether viable Zambian firms move to the next commercial level.
The debt-service train is coming. Zambia's answer must be millions of productive, income-earning small businesses, argues Steven M. Mbangu.
About 20 makeshift trading structures were destroyed at Kamwala Trading Area on 18 August. Police point to a brazier left burning at a makeshift restaurant.
Zambia's businesses, and especially SMEs, are navigating a tense final stretch of the 2026 election. Here is what the uncertainty means and how to manage it.
Founded in 2023, SouthGrid Engineering Consultants has designed a 52 metre bridge and contributed to over 127km of Zambian roads, entirely as a sub consultant inside larger joint…
At lunchtime, Longacres Market becomes a busy open-air kitchen where food, convenience and enterprise meet over charcoal fires.
Election Day may create demand for food, water and hot drinks, but young traders must manage uncertain turnout, location rules, food safety and the risk of unsold stock.
