Zambia has moved to protect former Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Speakers from post-service economic insecurity. The harder question is how it pays for that protection without quietly building an unfunded political…
By The Zambian Economist Analyst Key takeaways The Constitutional Court has ordered Dr Ron Mwambwa to immediately cease acting as Auditor General and vacate the office, after the Law Association…
A Zambian economist goes looking for a tax philosophy in the Torah and returns with a provocative case for a 10 percent benchmark, transparent church reporting and welfare that graduates…
Zambia should establish a Government Accountability and Performance Forum to make public-sector delivery visible, measurable and accountable.
A decade after Anna Chifungula retired, the Auditor-General's office has had one substantive head, one arrest and one court-ordered vacancy. The transitions, mishandled from the start, explained.
The Constitutional Court has ordered Dr. Ron Mwambwa to leave the Auditor-General's office after finding his appointment unconstitutional on age grounds. The refund of his salaries was refused for lack…
The campaign ends on 13 August. The calendar does not. Five decisions with fixed dates that face whoever forms a government, and the tests to judge them by.
CDF has grown 25-fold since 2021 to K40 million per constituency. A plain-language guide to how the Auditor General audits Zambia's fastest-growing public fund.
The ECZ will run the 13 August polls on K2.2 billion. But the 70 new constituencies are permanent, and the CDF arithmetic they force is the bigger number.
Zambia's manifestos promise transformation. The 2026 Budget, the debt position and the revenue base set the limits. A four-test framework for pricing any campaign promise.
