Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:36:07 +0000 Dear Editor, When I compare the words of the Botswana Chamber of Mines (BCM) executive officer Charles Siwawa (“Botswana schools Zambia on mining governance”, Daily Nation, November 21, 2016), and those of both current and former Zambian ministers of finance during their annual budget presentations in parliament, it is not difficult to see why our motherland is in such a dire need of fiscal fitness in all directions. In his timely counsel, the BCM executive officer, shares lessons of history through a voice of rationality, offering clarity, frugality and solutions as well as good governance wisdom. Truly, Zambia can learn valuable lessons from Botswana on how it has utilised its vast mineral resources through good governance, low levels of corruption and value addition as well as the need to diversify the economy beyond the mining sector. Needless to say, for years, Botswana has been known economically as an African […]
