By BUUMBA CHIMBULUTHE current shortage of clear beer in Lusaka has been triggered by the shutdown of production owing to the installation of new equipment at Zambian Breweries.Zambian Breweries Corporate Affairs Director, Ezekiel Sekele, said the installation of new equipment would take the next 10 days.He said normal supply would resume next week before another shut down for a similar exercise next month.Mr Sekele explained in an interview yesterday that the plant in Ndola was also recently shut down for 10 days for the capacity expansion programme.He said the capacity expansion programme was delayed by a year due to Covid-19 as the company was unable to bring in engineers to install the new equipment imported from China.The exercise, he said, was supposed to be done in April last year.Mr Sekele however stressed that the shortage was temporal and that stable and normal supply was expected starting July going into September as the company would equate […]
BEER SHORTAGE HITS LUSAKA
