Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:32:35 +0000 ZAMBIA’s mining skill base has steadily continued to grow owing to technical investment as well as skills development, making it a competitive strength in the sector, the Mining for Zambia report has said. The report said that since the year 2000, the newly privatised skills industry had built on a solid foundation by investing massively in skills development which in turn made the Zambian mining industry acquainted with the current mining technology. The 24-year nationalisation period (1973-1997), during which Zambia’s mining industry was in Government hands, left a noteworthy legacy – a reservoir of high-level mining skills that has served the country well. “More than 40 years after the first wave of Zambia’s mining engineering students started graduating, the industry’s skill base has grown steadily. Today, it is one of the country’s competitive strengths,” reads the report. The report attributed the strength of skills development to theUniversity of Zambia’s […]
